Scott Heller

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Theater Editor, New York Times

New York
Joined September 2009
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    Nov 23

    Count me officially excited for this: Saheem Ali is directing another audio Shakespeare play for in March, this time a Spanish translation of "Romeo and Juliet" with as Juliet. 🎭

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    Nov 23

    “Shakespeare in a Divided America,” by James Shapiro Shaprio takes two huge cultural hyper-objects — Shakespeare and America — and dissects the effects of their collision.

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  3. Nov 23

    Watching Best of 2020 announcement and two Shakespeare-adjacent picks so far: "Hamnet" by Maggie O'Farrell (fiction) and "Shakespeare in a Divided America" (nonfiction).

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    Nov 20

    Here's what an ER doc told me about Thanksgiving when I asked yesterday:

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    Nov 18

    So a big inspiration of mine is and he has a new memoir called This is Not My Memoir. I think you should read it. When I was a kid his film w/ Wallace Shawn “My Dinner with Andre” -just based on the poster - looked like the most boring thing to ever exist...

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    Nov 18

    remember when popular accordionists covered showtunes? let's bring that back.

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  7. Nov 17

    Both Baker and Jacobs-Jenkins will direct their own plays.

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  8. Nov 17

    And new play by will be "On the Uses of Pain for Life." She cites Elaine Scarry's "The Body in Pain" and talks about how much she hated 99 percent of the illness narratives she has read for research.

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  9. Nov 17

    News of 2020-21 season from : "A Case for the Existence of God" by Samuel D. Hunter; "Grass" by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins. Both are two-handers, though Jacobs-Jenkins promises "lots of Adele music" and a narrator called History.

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  10. Nov 17

    "Told he should start his own regional theater, Gregory does so in three different cities, where he tries out shock tactics like experimenting with the smell of rotting flesh, and reaps the provocateur’s reward: fired from all three."

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  11. Nov 16

    “The Baker’s Wife” featured songs by the composer of “Pippin” and “Godspell,” and a young Patti LuPone in the title role. When it closed out of town, she recalls, “the entire company erupted in tears of joy.”

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  12. Nov 16

    Stephen Sondheim and other members of the dream team behind “West Side Story” had a left-field idea for a follow-up: A political fable by Brecht, set to music. Guess how that went?

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  13. Nov 16

    “Scratch” might have been Bob Dylan’s Broadway debut as a songwriter. When it finally opened, there were no songs to be heard.

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  14. Nov 16

    “Face Value” tried to find comedy in the brouhaha over casting a white actor as the lead in “Miss Saigon.” It closed after 8 previews.

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  15. Nov 16

    “Lone Star Love” aimed to bring a Texas twang to Shakespeare. But it imploded in Seattle, with Randy Quaid, its star, thrown out of the actors’ union for his behavior.

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  16. Nov 16

    During election week we told the dishy stories of five shows that closed (or disappeared) before they ever opened on Broadway. ICYMI, here they are:

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  17. Nov 12

    More on the Ryan Murphy/"Chorus Line" plan

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    Nov 12

    Ryan Murphy has announced that he is working on a Netflix miniseries adaptation of the musical , which centers on seventeen Broadway dancers auditioning for spots on a chorus line. (Source: )

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    Nov 11

    Currently obsessed with Leta Powell Drake, the greatest interviewer of all time.

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    Nov 10

    You may have not known you needed Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin dressed up as each other’s roles in Evita, but here you go.

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