In his 12-season run as Sheldon Cooper on the hit sitcom “The Big Bang Theory,” Jim Parsons displayed a knack for dry humor and an awkward onscreen persona that seemed oblivious to social norms. It’s ...

For his final production as director, SpeakEasy Stage Company founder and Producing Artistic Director Paul Daigneault has aptly chosen the musical “A Man of No Importance,” a 1960s Dublin-set story of ...

Sentimentality can be a bore, but the warm wash of feeling in the musical "A Man of No Importance" http://www.keegantheatre.com/20092010/AManofNoImportance/index_E ...

“A Man of No Importance,” an off-Broadway musical based on the 1994 film that starred Albert Finney as a Dublin bus conductor with an obsession for Oscar Wilde and a yen for amateur theatricals, was a ...

Paul Daigneault, artistic director of SpeakEasy Stage Company, has chosen a fitting farewell play. His final production — after helming the company for more than thirty years — is a vibrant, hilarious ...

Billy Meleady, Sam Simahk, Aimee Doherty, Kerry A. Dowling and Ronan Green at rehearsal for "A Man of No Importance." (Courtesy Nile Scott Studios) When Paul Daigneault was deciding on his last ...

Happily, that doesn’t happen in the current Keegan Theatre production of the musical, directed intelligently by Christina Coakley and Mark Rhea, who make sure that that all those disparate elements ...

Equity actors for roles in A MAN OF NO IMPORTANCE (see breakdown). For pre-cast roles, auditioning performers will be considered as possible (emergency) replacements, should any become necessary.

Phoenix Stage Company, Oakville: How easy it is today to take our acceptance of homosexuality for granted. Whether actors or NFL players now announce their homosexuality it is taken in stride. There ...

Over the past two decades, the Scottish director John Doyle has made a specialty of distilling beloved musicals in often stark but exhilarating productions — from “Oklahoma” to “The Color Purple,” ...

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A.J. Shively and Jim Parsons in "A Man of No Importance" (Photo: Julieta Cervantes) In his 12-season run as Sheldon Cooper on the hit sitcom “The Big Bang Theory,” Jim Parsons displayed a knack for ...