For better or worse, a theatre tip from NYC... after all, it's not every day that W&M alumnus gets a major feature article in the NY Times Magazine. And this time it's not about Jon Stewart hosting the Oscars. William Ivey Long '69 explains his creative process in a slideshow of his production studio.

My friend Amanda Hunt was recently lauded in the NYTimes review of her rock opera Soul Searching... quite an honor for an off-off-Broadway! An excerpt:

"Brenda, a nice Jewish girl, gamely played by Amanda Hunt, watches as her three best friends get married, each to a different Jewish stereotype, and promptly try to fix her up with embodiments of each stereotype (the conservative religious Torah reader, the New Age spiritualist and the materialistic entrepreneur)..."

My old small group leader at Haven, Tony Hale, was interviewed for MSN Entertainment about his experience on the Fox hit series Arrested Development (we'll miss you, Buster...) with his co-star Jessica Walter. Together, they discuss their characters, the rehearsal process, how they landed the roles, and what's coming next (for Tony, it's baby-time... Martel is expecting in two months!)