Month: March 2009

AH, THE JOY OF GETTING NOTES

Does it seem weird that I like having our writer/director, Moises Kaufman, see the play and give me notes even though we opened March 9th? I find it comforting. People have been really enjoying the pl...

March 25

Diane Von Furstenberg came backstage after the show, very moved, enthusiastic and generous about the play. Moises was here tonight, too. It’s been 2 weeks since he’s seen the play. He felt...

March 25

Last night Kerry Washington saw the play and came back. She loved it. We will be making a film together later in the year and are good friends. She was so happy for me, seeing me in such an exciting, ...

DREAMING ABOUT THE PLAY

I have been dreaming about the play all along, since the beginning, going through scenes, coming up with ideas. Nothing huge, just little ideas. Many times I will wake up and have forgotten what I dre...

HERE’S TO YOU MRS ROBINSON

So here is what I dreamed last night: I invited Mrs Robinson, Michele Obama’s mother, and her granddaughters, Sasha and Malia Obama, to White Castle where I introduced them all to the tasty mini...

JAMES EARL JONES

James Earl Jones saw the show tonight with his wife and they came backstage after. I had not seen them since 1994 in Moscow where we were for the CNN/TBS (Ted Turner’s vision) Goodwill Games. He...

CECILE RICHARDS

Last night Cecile Richards and her daughter Lily came to see the show. Cecile is the daughter of former Texas Governor, the amazing, indominable Ann Richards who died of cancer two years ago. Cecile a...

Tulea’s Tent

A nice man named Dick Mueller from Omaha, Nebraska, read in his local paper that Tulea had come out on stage one night during out curtain call so he sent her a pink “tent” with black feath...

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