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ALAN ALDA

Alan Alda and his wife Arlene (photo: Michael Rudd) Alan Alda is in the audience tonight with his wife Arlene. I will be very happy to see them after the show. I got to know him when we did Neil Simon...

CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE LOVING KIND

Itzhak Perlman, the great violinist, has come to the show. I will go out into the house after the rest of the audience leaves to greet him. He contracted polio at age four and is on a motorized scoote...

FRIENDS–NEW AND OLD

Rosario Dawson is coming tonight. She and I both sit on the board of V-Day: Until the Violence Stops, the global effort started by Eve Ensler to end violence against women. I also appeared briefly in ...

What a combo in my dressing room tonight

What a combo in my dressing room tonight–Kathy Griffin (who was hysterical) and Carol Gilligan who wrote the iconic book “In a Different Voice” that changed my life in 2000. Carol ca...

AN AUDIENCE TO DIE FOR

Today’s matinee audience was to die for. I wanted to hug them all. Standing and cheering at the end. There was even applause at the end of the first scene. That never happened before! I learned ...

MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY

Grand children left yesterday after a visit to the Museum of Natural History. How lucky we are to have such a magnificent place for people to learn about the natural world and other indigenous culture...

From Emma Willard to Lee Strasberg All in One Night

Having the grandkids here is tiring but fun. Today I showed them all around the set, explained the story (which they will see at tomorrow’s 3pm show) the props, showed them my dressing room. The...

JAMES TAYLOR AND FRIENDS

I should have thought up an April Fools joke to play on somebody but I forgot to bring my calendar home last night and so I was sound asleep when I was awakened by a frantic call at 10:30 reminding me...

SURROUNDED BY FRIENDS

Wow. I knew Ted was out there, Ted Turner (photo by Michael Rudd) and Paula Weinstein Paula Weinstein, and Paula’s daughter (and Jane’s goddaughter) Hannah (photo by Michael Rudd) and Jane...

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