By Robert Simonson
In 1992, the Bay Street Theatre in Sag Harbor, Long Island, opened its doors with the premiere production of Joe Pintauro's locally themed drama Men's Lives.
Now, as Bay Street begins its 20th anniversary summer season, it has revived Pintauro's work. Performances of the play, about the history of Long Island fishermen as they struggle to retain their way of life in the face of moneyed gentrification, began July 3.
The theatre has regularly attracted top-notch New York Theatre talent, and this production is no different. Harris Yulin directs the drama, based on the book by Peter Matthiessen. The cast features Mark Coffin, Rob DiSario, Deborah Hedwall, Scott Thomas Hinson, Brian Hutchison, Peter McRobbie, Victor Slezak and Myles Stokowski.
06 Jul 2012
Arthur Laurents
And you thought writer Arthur Laurents was done.
Even though the famed man of the theatre died on May 5, 2011, the notoriously opinionated librettist isn't finished talking.
Applause Books will publish "The Rest of the Story," a memoir chronicling the final years of the Tony-winning playwright. The book, which will be released this September, picks up where Laurents' autobiography, "Original Story By," left off. The first book was published in 2000, prior to the death of Laurents' partner Tom Hatcher, and before Laurents would return to direct a triumphant Broadway revival of Gypsy with Patti LuPone in 2008 and West Side Story in 2009.
Laurents completed the book just days before his death. Some writers just can't stop writing.
