• Opening Night

    Opening Night

    Backstage, before curtain, it felt as if there were at least 250 opening-night gifts floating around.

  • King of the Kids

    King of the Kids

    "I think of Prince Chulalongkorn as the Justin Bieber of Siam.”

  • Diane Lane is Back in the Building

    Diane Lane is Back in the Building

    In February, 1977, when Diane Lane was 12 years old, she appeared in THE CHERRY ORCHARD, directed by Andrei Serban, on LCT’s largest stage, the Vivian Beaumont.

  • Working with Good Material

    Had not Rodgers and Hammerstein called their musical THE KING AND I, they could have titled it SILK.

  • The First Preview

    The First Preview

    Sitting in the Vivian Beaumont Theater before curtain, and glancing around at the more than one thousand patrons, I could feel palpable excitement.

  • How Tony Shalhoub Got Started

    How Tony Shalhoub Got Started

    "It was a dress rehearsal, but there were 30 or 40 people there. I burst into tears, but the audience laughed. Somehow that laugh infected me. It’s been one humiliation after another ever since."

  • The Actors Meet the Orchestra

    Sitzprobe is the German term, used in opera and musical theater, to describe the first time the entire cast and orchestra sit down together to do the show’s music.