Say Yes to this Prime Minister
Rating for Theater: Yes Prime Minister 5 Matthews, who has had a long, illustrious career as an actor in films, television, and theater, is also a playwright, director, scholar, and translator of 17th...
View ArticleTheater Reviews: Buyer and Cellar and Choir Boy
Buyer and Cellar (at the Barrow Street Theatre through October 13) Jonathan Tolins's multicharacter megalogue—starring the ticklishly talented, ...
View Article'Buyer & Cellar' review: Michael Urie is delightful
Galleries "I don't DO her," explains actor Michael Urie, pretending to be defensive about comparisons between his Barbra Streisand imitation in "Buyer & Cellar" and those by people who have made...
View ArticleBuyer and Cellar Sells It!
Rating for Buyer and Cellar 4 Michael Urie, as Alex Moore playing multiple roles, is simply adorable, likable and engaging. As he tells the story, you feel as if you are in your own living room and...
View ArticleThe diva of her domain
This whole thing is fake,” Michael Urie declares in the opening minutes of “Buyer & Cellar” at the Barrow Street Theatre. “I don’t exist. What does exist . . . is this book.” And with that, he...
View ArticleIt's All in the Family (Photos)
Rating for The Assembled Parties on Broadway 4 Memorable lines, witty dialogue and a fine ensemble cast are the sharp features of The Assembled Parties, the new play by Tony award winning playwright...
View ArticleThe Broadway Community and Pride
A variety of Broadway, cabaret and media people will participate, and audiences can expect to hear everything from pop hits to Broadway classics. American Idol and recording artist Kimberley Locke...
View Article‘Buyer & Cellar’ Moving to Larger Theater
Solo shows are having a mixed reception on Broadway, with the early closing of “Testament of Mary” (starring Fiona Shaw) on Sunday and the shut-outs of “I’ll Eat You Last” (Bette Midler) and “Macbeth”...
View ArticleIt was a revelation when I heard the correct lyrics to 'The Way We Were'
Finally I know the words to “The Way We Were” the way they are. It only took 40 years to get them right. The well overdue wakeup call, which struck me like a bolt last month, came courtesy of a...
View ArticleEx-’Ugly Betty’ star Michael Urie on his 1-man show, drinking water onstage...
NEW YORK — Michael Urie recently shared his stage with a noisy visitor and was not amused. He was rehearsing his one-man show and the buzzing fly around his face was grossing him out. “No,” he told...
View ArticleShopping for Ideas in a Star’s Basement
“Have you heard from Barbra?” Multimedia In Performance: Michael Urie In Performance: Michael Urie Close Video See More Videos » Related Theater Review | ‘Buyer & Cellar': An Underground Passion...
View ArticlePeople Who Need Famous People
When the weather turns hot, Americans crave celebrity. Not for themselves, necessarily. Who wants to work hard at anything, even becoming famous, in July and August? But there’s something about the...
View ArticleMadoff Type Sociopath Ruins Lives; Barbra’s Mall: Review
David Morse has played his share of creeps and losers but none with such power and dark conviction as the title role in “The Unavoidable Disappearance of Tom Durnin.” You’re going to hate Tom, a...
View ArticleIn Performance: Michael Urie of ‘Buyer & Cellar’
In Jonathan Tolins’s one-man play “Buyer & Cellar,” Michael Urie plays Alex More, a struggling gay actor who is hired to work in Barbra Streisand’s Malibu basement. In this scene, Alex’s boyfriend...
View Article“Buyer & Cellar” – an ode to Babs
Rating for Buyer & Cellar 4 But what’s missing when the famous Ms. S makes her way down below? Why, someone to tend the mall? Jonathan Tolins (“The Twilight of the Golds”) has written a belly...
View Article'Good job, you!'—Michael Urie on his 1-man show
Click photo to enlarge This theater image released by Richard Kornberg & Associates shows Michael Urie during a performance of "Buyer & Cellar," in New York. The Juilliard-trained Urie plays a...
View Article>'Good job, you!' — Michael Urie on his 1-man show
NEW YORK (AP) — Michael Urie recently shared his stage with a noisy visitor and was not amused. He was rehearsing his one-man show and the buzzing fly around his face was grossing him out. "No," he...
View Article'Good job, you!' — Michael Urie on his 1-man show
NEW YORK (AP) — Michael Urie recently shared his stage with a noisy visitor and was not amused. He was rehearsing his one-man show and the buzzing fly around his face was grossing him out. "No," he...
View Article'Good job, you!' _ Michael Urie on his 1-man show
NEW YORK Michael Urie recently shared his stage with a noisy visitor and was not amused. He was rehearsing his one-man show and the buzzing fly around his face was grossing him out. "No," he told the...
View ArticleMichael Urie takes jabs at Babs as he reprises role of hapless actor Alex...
Michael Urie is back as Alex More, a hapless Los Angeles actor who finds himself working for Barbra Streisand — in her own basement. It’s all part of the irresistible comedy written by Jonathan...
View ArticleReview: Michael Urie is superb in charming and often whacky Jonathan Tolins’...
NEW YORK — The hero in the new play “Buyer & Cellar” is offered a key piece of advice before starting his first day of work at a California mall: “Just remember, the customer is always right.”...
View Article‘Buyer & Cellar’ - theater review
“Buyer & Cellar” is a bracingly bright, one-man fantasia about truth, celebrity and the pursuit of utopia. Factor in a delectable star turn by “Ugly Betty” alum Michael Urie and this play deserves...
View Article'Buyer & Cellar' is a triumph for Michael Urie
Rating for Buyer & Cellar 5 Playwright Jonathan Tolins was reading Barbra Streisand’s coffee table book, My Passion for Design, and as he perused the chapter featuring the mall of shops she...
View Article>Michael Urie superb in charming 'Buyer & Cellar'
NEW YORK (AP) — The hero in the new play "Buyer & Cellar" is offered a key piece of advice before starting his first day of work at a California mall: "Just remember, the customer is always...
View ArticleMichael Urie superb in charming 'Buyer & Cellar'
NEW YORK The hero in the new play "Buyer & Cellar" is offered a key piece of advice before starting his first day of work at a California mall: "Just remember, the customer is always right." That...
View ArticleAisle View: Barbra's Basement
This past spring saw not one but four solo shows, three of them Broadway vehicles for major star ladies and one unassuming off-Broadway effort with a skinny guy you probably never heard off. Buyer...
View ArticleMichael Urie conjures a 'taste' of Streisand in 'Buyer and Cellar'
NEW YORK — Michael Urie sits in a West Village restaurant making a few subtle gestures. A flutter of the hands and you imagine the fingernails. A squint of the eyes and the famously furrowed...
View ArticleAn Off Broadway Rarity: ‘Buyer & Cellar’ Turns a Quick Profit
The critically acclaimed play “Buyer & Cellar,” an Off Broadway show starring Michael Urie (“Ugly Betty”) as a struggling actor who goes to work for Barbra Streisand, recouped its $500,000...
View ArticleJonathan Tolins, the Weird and Wonderful Playwright Who Transformed Barbra's...
I'm a funny lady, which means I arrive at all touted-as-sidesplitting events with a chip on the shoulder of my funny bone. The only test for admission into my personal comedy pantheon is to make me...
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