Listen to Shakina Nayfack s Play on Trans Sisterhood in Thailand February 19 2021 6:49 AM EST
Live theater is on hold for now, but thanks to Audible’s collaboration with the Williamstown Theatre Festival, Shakina Nayfack’s play,
, which features several transgender luminaries, is available for your listening pleasure.
The play was intended for an in-person premiere before live theater was sidelined with shelter-in-place orders last March. But the collaboration with Audible offers the thoughtful, uplifting piece a platform to reach an even wider audience. In it, Nayfack (
Transparent, Difficult People) tells the story of “a vibrant, international group of transgender women [who] band together at a hotel in Thailand to confront the challenges and joys of gender confirmation surgery,” according to the Audible Originals’ synopsis.
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The star-studded concert lineup included performances by Bobbie Eakes, Melissa Claire Egan, Vincent Irizarry, Eva La Rue, Susan Lucci, Cameron Mathison, Tonya Pinkins, Eden Riegel, Chrishell Stause and Walt Willey from All My Children; Kristen Alderson, Melissa Archer, Kathy Brier, Kassie DePaiva, BethAnn Fuenmayor, David Gregory, Renée Elise Goldsberry, Catherine Hickland, Mark Lawson, Hillary B. Smith, Jason Tam, Brittany Underwood and Bree Williamson from One Life To Live; and Bradford Anderson, Brandon Barash, Steve Burton, Anthony Geary, Finola Hughes and Laura Wright from General Hospital. This event is truly one of a kind, Broadway Cares Executive Director Tom Viola said. We are so thankful to the stars from ABC Daytime for joining us again as we relive moments from this delightful tradition, while helping to provide lifesaving medication, healthy meals and emergency support to those struggling during this ongoing pandemic.
Director and choreographer Bob Avian has died aged 83.
Born in New York City on December 26, 1937, Avian received his BA from Boston University College of Fine Arts and also studied at the Boston Ballet School.
He danced in the original Broadway ensembles of
West Side Story (playing Indio),
Funny Girl (opposite Barbra Streisand), and
Henry, Sweet Henry.
Working with long-term collaborator Michael Bennett, he won his two Tonys for co-choreographing Bennett s productions of
A Chorus Line and
Ballroom.
Miss Saigon, which played at the Prince Edward Theatre.
He won an Olivier Award for his work on
Martin Guerre, with further West End work including major productions of
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The soap opera star performs for Broadway Cares Equity Fights AIDS.
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Stars from All My Children, One Life to Live and General Hospital are joining forces for a one-night only virtual streaming concert for charity. ABC Daytime: Back on Broadway, a special produced by and benefitting Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, airs Thursday, Feb. 11, at 8 p.m. ET. It can be streamed for free online, on Broadway Cares YouTube channel and on the Good Morning America Facebook page.
Written by Shakina Nayfack
Directed by Laura Savia
“There’s always going to be something you’re gonna wanna fix. Welcome to being a woman.”
Does anyone besides me remember the play “The Women” by Clare Boothe Luce? It first appeared on Broadway in 1936. It made a delicious film in 1939 with Norma Shearer, Rosalind Russell, Joan Crawford, and a bevy of characters played by the cream of the Hollywood crop. Ultimately, in this comedy about women, gossip, and divorce, the action moves from sophisticated urban New York City to a small dude ranch in Reno, Nev. There, where everyone is in some stage of divorcing their never-seen men (it’s an all-women cast), female intimacy brings out truths and removes the gossip. Reality becomes the tone of the day and honesty wins out over illusions. It’s a comedy.