Things better left unsaid

Streep, Kline, Lewis, Pendleton, Weller Star in COURAGE IN CONCERT: October 19

by BWW News Desk

The Public Theater, Tony Kushner and Jeanine Tesori will produce COURAGE IN CONCERT, a one-night-only benefit concert reuniting Kevin Kline, Jenifer Lewis, Austin Pendleton, Meryl Streep and Frederick Weller for an evening of songs from the Public Theater's 2006 Shakespeare in the Park production of Brecht's masterpiece, Mother Courage and Her Children. Translated by Tony Kushner with music by Jeanine Tesori and originally directed by George C. Wolfe, COURAGE IN CONCERT will be performed at the Public Theater on Monday, October 19 at 8:00 PM with all proceeds benefiting American Jewish World Service and Partners In Health. The cast of HAIR along with special guests will complete the evening. Tickets go on sale on Thursday, September 17.

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Meryl Streep, Debra Monk and More Set for Reading of A Good Smoke

By Andrew Gans
May 19, 2009

Academy Award winner Meryl Streep will take part in an upcoming by-invitation-only reading of Don Cummings' A Good Smoke.

Hare/Deux Productions will present the June 14 reading at the Public Theater. Show time is 7 PM.

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Streep leaves no 'Doubt' with 'tooth and nail' acting

By Mairi Mackay

LONDON, England (CNN) -- If you had to describe one Hollywood actress as "heavyweight" Meryl Streep would be a pretty strong contender for the title.

Over 30 years in the movie business the actress has pulled no punches, receiving an incredible 15 Oscar nominations, and winning twice, for "Sophie's Choice" in 1982 and "Kramer Vs. Kramer" in 1979.

Even so, "Doubt" director John Patrick Shanley says was knocked sideways by Streep's "tooth and nail" performance in his Oscar-nominated drama, "Doubt," describing himself as "quite astonished."

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So, Youtube in a fit of pique or whatever decided to clean house on a lot of stuff, including some of the promotional material from Miramax for the movie: Doubt. I don't believe in having the material available at one website only to see it deleted on another... and since I'll never remember where the original website is, I've collected everything back together from the Miramax site and loaded it.

Doubt [Folder]
http://www.sendspace.com/folder/x6urqs

Amy Adams and John Patrick Shanley at the Apple Store [folder]
http://www.sendspace.com/folder/l5kxsh

Charlie Rose (PBS) Interview (mp4) [folder]
http://www.sendspace.com/folder/gx0lk3

Clips (video clips) [folder]
http://www.sendspace.com/folder/nrkf67

Images (jpg) [folder]
http://www.sendspace.com/folder/r0jxlz

Q&A with Larry Kasdan [folder]
http://www.sendspace.com/folder/km4vis

Soundbites [folder]
http://www.sendspace.com/folder/fmpnkg

The BWW interview with Amy Adams - http://www.sendspace.com/file/7psjr1

The BWW interview with Meryl Streep - http://www.sendspace.com/file/75o3vu

The BWW interview with Viola Davis - http://www.sendspace.com/file/uk6kp6

The Doubt trailer - http://www.sendspace.com/file/obj6ej

The Doubt Folder - http://www.sendspace.com/folder/x6urqs

STAGE TO SCREENS: "Doubt"-ers Streep, Hoffman, Shanley, Davis, Adams; Plus Michael Sheen
By Michael Buckley
December 14, 2008

We talk about "Doubt" with Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams, Viola Davis and John Patrick Shanley. Michael Sheen discusses "Frost/Nixon."

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December 7, 2008

'Doubt' and Doubts of a Workingman

By DAVID CARR
WHEN John Patrick Shanley steps into a Midtown Manhattan hangout known for its theater clientele, few would guess how much he belonged.

There is little about his sure gait, workingman hands or no-nonsense affect that flicks at the artist within, let alone a playwright, often the more delicately wrought of the species. Only the eyes, weakened by glaucoma but working, suggest anything other than a tough guy from the Bronx. And in that gaze he is constantly calibrating everything around him, seeing a great deal and concluding not much.

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