Ben Brantley
Burstyn, Brantley to be Honored at Theatre Museum Awards
Ellen Burstyn, the co-president of The Actors Studio and the first woman president of Actors' Equity, will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2007 Theatre Museum Awards tonight at the National Arts Club in Gramercy Park. New York Times theatre critic Ben Brantley will receive the Theatre History Preservation Award. Jim Dale, who narrates the ABC show Pushing Daisies and the Harry Potter books on tape, will present the awards.
The awards pay tribute to individuals and organizations that have made contributions to theatre education and theatre history preservation.
Brantley on Pygmalion: A 'Misfired Revival'
The New York Times' Ben Brantley shares his thoughts on Claire Danes' "game, conscientious" portrayal of Eliza Doolittle and Jefferson Mays' version of Henry Higgins as a "squalling, solipsistic infant trapped inside a worldly man's body" in the Roundabout Theater Company's Pygmalion.
Perhaps the kindest way to think about David Grindley's misfired revival of ''Pygmalion,'' which opened last night at the American Airlines Theater, is that it was devised to soothe the restless spirit of the ever-contentious Shaw. For there is not a whisper of mutual attraction between this production's Eliza and Henry, played by Claire Danes and Jefferson Mays. As for the prospect of marriage: ''Not bloody likely,'' as Eliza would say. How can you imagine two people sharing a life when they don't even seem to share a stage?
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