Mark Linn-Baker

Last updated
Mark Linn-Baker
Mark Linn-Baker 1987 (cropped).jpg
Linn-Baker at the 39th Primetime Emmy Awards buffet in 1987
Born
Mark Linn Baker

(1954-06-17) June 17, 1954 (age 70)
Education Yale University (BA, MFA)
Occupations
  • Actor
  • director
Years active1978–present
Spouses
(m. 1995;div. 2009)
Christa Justus
(m. 2012)
[1]
Children1

Mark Linn-Baker (born Mark Linn Baker; June 17, 1954) is an American actor and director who played Benjy Stone in the film My Favorite Year and Larry Appleton in the television sitcom Perfect Strangers .

Contents

Early life and education

Mark Linn-Baker was born with the given names Mark Linn and the surname Baker in St. Louis, Missouri. He later changed his surname to a compound surname by hyphenating his middle name Linn with his surname Baker, producing Linn-Baker. His mother, Joan (née Sparks), of Jewish ancestry, was a dancer, and his father, William Nelson Baker, co-founded the Open Stage Theater in Hartford. His parents were both active in theatre and participated in civil rights activism. [2] [3] [4] He graduated from Wethersfield High School in Wethersfield, Connecticut, in 1972, and from Yale University in 1976. He then attended the Yale School of Drama, receiving a MFA in Drama in 1979, and following that, found most of his early roles on stage.

Career

He developed and performed in a two-man comedy show, The Laundry Hour, with Lewis Black, in the early 1980s.

He appeared in the 1983 Broadway version of the Doonesbury comic strip. He appeared in Laughter on the 23rd Floor in 1993; the 1996 revival of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum ; the 1998 Roundabout Theatre Company production of A Flea in Her Ear ; the 2003 musical A Year with Frog and Toad ; and the 2006 comedy Losing Louie .

His film debut was a small part in Woody Allen's 1979 film Manhattan . The majority of Linn-Baker's scenes were cut from the film. Three years later, he landed a far more memorable film role partly inspired by Allen himself, playing Benjy Stone in the 1982 comedy film My Favorite Year alongside Peter O'Toole. In a manner similar to his future role in Perfect Strangers, Linn-Baker played the straight man to O'Toole's outrageous character, Alan Swann.

Having attained success on stage and the big screen, Linn-Baker began to turn his sights toward television. In 1983, he appeared in an unsold detective show pilot called O'Malley. The following year saw a role on the television movie, The Ghost Writer, and in the summer series, The Comedy Zone. Soon, Linn-Baker was appearing in several high-profile television shows. He guest-starred on a 1984 episode of Miami Vice as Bonzo Barry and portrayed hapless office worker Phil West on a 1985 episode of Moonlighting titled "Atlas Belched". Linn-Baker starred with Charles Kimbrough in the 1985 CBS pilot The Recovery Room, a sitcom about a bar located across from a major city hospital and its inhabitants. Airing as a special that summer, the pilot did not lead to a regular series. Between parts, Linn-Baker also appeared during this time in television commercials pitching products ranging from Kellogg's Nutri-Grain to Kraft's Life Savers.

Linn-Baker starred in the ABC series Perfect Strangers as Larry Appleton, a young man living on his own for the first time in Chicago. Larry's world was disrupted when a distant cousin from the (fictional) Mediterranean island of Mypos, Balki Bartokomous (Bronson Pinchot), showed up on his doorstep. Storylines revolved around Larry's attempts to show Balki the ways of American culture, although the neurotic Larry frequently proved to be just as naive as Balki. The series ran for eight seasons. Later, he appeared in Peter Bogdanovich's 1992 film Noises Off .

In 2005, he was a regular cast member on the WB Network sitcom Twins , which was canceled after a single season. He also appeared in the 2010 film How Do You Know as Ron. In 2011, he starred in his sixth Broadway show Relatively Speaking in a one-act play by Woody Allen. He previously appeared opposite Nathan Lane in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum . In 2016 he appeared off-Broadway as Sir Peter Teazle in The School for Scandal at the Lucille Lortel Theatre. [5] As of 2017 he is playing the role of Carlton Miller, aide to Mayor Margaret Dutton (Lorraine Bracco) on the CBS police procedural drama Blue Bloods .

In 2019, he played Mayor George Shinn in the Kennedy Center's production of The Music Man opposite Norm Lewis as Hill and Jessie Mueller as Marian. He reprised his role when he replaced Jefferson Mays in the 2022 Broadway revival, where he performed opposite Hugh Jackman as Hill and Sutton Foster as Marian.

Guest appearances

On a 1992 episode of Full House , Linn-Baker played Dick Donaldson, the wealthy, snobbish cousin of Becky Donaldson Katsopolis (Lori Loughlin). In 1997, he guest starred on Family Matters as the abusive boss of Harriette Winslow (Jo Marie Payton). Linn-Baker guested three times on Hangin' with Mr. Cooper as Larry Weeks. Additionally, he appeared on an episode of Law & Order as a strip club owner being extorted by the Mob. In a 1997 episode of Sesame Street , he had a guest role as a veterinarian examining a sick—and invisible—Barkley.

Linn-Baker also directed numerous episodes of Family Matters, Hangin' with Mr. Cooper, Step By Step and The Trouble with Larry . He appeared as a spokesperson for Peter Pan peanut butter in a series of commercials in the late 1980s and 1990s.

He also appeared in a Christmas episode of Ally McBeal as a man fired for seeing a unicorn.

On a 2003 episode of Law & Order: Criminal Intent , he guested as an insurance investigator named Wally Stevens who displays strong Asperger's Syndrome traits. He gets a degree of empathy from Det. Robert Goren and a number of behind-his-back snickers from Goren's partner Alexandra Eames. His character made a return cameo appearance in the season 6 episode "Endgame", where it was revealed Goren has kept in touch with the character through correspondence.[ citation needed ] In season 2, episode 14 ("Probability"), the last line spoken by Eames is "I'm sure he'd like a pen pal."

Linn-Baker provided the voice for one of a quartet of aardvarks in the 2002 Sandra Boynton album Philadelphia Chickens . The other three were voiced by Joe Grifasi, Michael Gross, and Devin McEwan. [6]

He joined his friend, fellow Yale Drama School graduate and former sidekick Lewis Black, on the audiobook version of Black's second book Me of Little Faith where he and Black recreate The Laundry Hour, an act they did in New York City in the early 1980s. He guest-starred in several episodes of the children's TV show The Electric Company in February–March 2009 as "Uncle Sigmund Scrambler".[ citation needed ]

In 2009, he appeared in an episode of the U.S. version of Life on Mars , playing a character who collected women's underwear that he later used for masturbation. In 2010, he appeared in an episode of Law & Order , "The Taxman Cometh", as Dr. Vincent Balicheck, a physician who used controversial therapies on cancer patients which resulted in their deaths. [7]

Linn-Baker and Perfect Strangers are referenced in the HBO TV series The Leftovers , which takes place after a fictional global event called the Sudden Departure, the inexplicable, simultaneous disappearance of 140 million people, 2% of the world's population. Within the show, the entire cast of Perfect Strangers has departed, except for Linn-Baker, who has faked his own departure and escaped to Mexico. [8] Linn-Baker appears, as a fictional version of himself, in the episodes "Axis Mundi" [9] and "Don't Be Ridiculous." [10]

In 2009, he had a recurring guest-starring role in the revival of The Electric Company , and in 2017, he started a recurring role on the CBS drama Blue Bloods as Deputy NYC mayor Carlton Miller. In 2019, he appeared as Josh's father Dave in the Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt episode "Kimmy is in a Love Square!" Also in 2019, he appeared in Season 6 (Episode 7) of The Blacklist as entomologist Dr. Jonathan Nikkila.

Personal life

In 1995, Linn-Baker married Adrianne Lobel, the daughter of children's book author Arnold Lobel, best known for his Frog and Toad series. [11] [ citation needed ] They divorced after having one daughter. [1] Linn-Baker helped adapt his father-in-law's stories into the Tony-nominated Broadway musical A Year with Frog and Toad , in which Linn-Baker played Toad and Jay Goede played Frog. On December 29, 2012, Linn-Baker married actress Christa Justus. [1]

Filmography

Television

YearTitleRoleNotes
1978All's Well That Ends WellBertramTelevision film
1982Alice at the PalaceVariousTelevision film
1983O'MalleyPublic DefenderTelevision film
1984 American Playhouse Nathan Zuckerman1 episode
1984Comedy ZoneVarious2 episodes
1985 Miami Vice 'Bonzo' Barry Gold1 episode
1985 The Equalizer Ronnie1 episode
1985 Moonlighting Phil West1 episode
1986–1993 Perfect Strangers Larry AppletonLead role; 150 episodes
1989 The Hogan Family Stan Forrest1 episode
1991 Bare Essentials Gordon PerkinsTelevision film
1992 Ghostwriter Police Officer1 episode
1992 Full House Dick Donaldson1 episode
1993The General Motors Playwrights TheaterThe Student1 episode
1994–1996 Hangin' with Mr. Cooper Larry Weeks /

Basketball Player with Glasses

3 episodes (1 uncredited)
1997 Spin City Dr. Benjamin1 episode
1997 Family Matters Mr. Benner1 episode
1997 Soul Man Gumdrop1 episode
1998 Ally McBeal Sheldon Maxwell1 episode
1999, 2010 Law & Order Dr. Vincent Balicheck /

Tom Wilder

2 episodes
2001 Laughter on the 23rd Floor Val SkotskyTelevision film
2003, 2007 Law & Order: Criminal Intent Wally Stevens2 episodes
2005–2006 Twins Alan Arnold18 episodes
2009 Life on Mars Lincoln Hart1 episode
2009–2010 The Electric Company Sigmund Scrambler4 episodes
2012 The Good Wife Judge Don Linden1 episode
2015, 2017 The Leftovers Himself2 episodes
2016 Red Oaks Rabbi Ken4 episodes
2017 The Good Fight Judge Don Linden1 episode
2017–2018 Blue Bloods Carlton Miller9 episodes
2019 Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt Dave Hoffman1 episode
2019 The Blacklist Dr. Jonathan Nikkila1 episode
2019–2021 Succession Maxim Pierce2 episodes
2020 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Dr. Paul Capezio1 episode
2021 Younger Clive Wexler1 episode
2021 Ghosts Henry2 episodes
2022 She-Hulk: Attorney at Law Morris Walters Disney+ series; 4 episodes

Film

YearTitleRoleNotes
1979 Manhattan Shakespearean ActorScenes deleted
1981The End of AugustVictor LeBrum
1982 My Favorite Year Benjy Stone
1988 Me and Him Him
1988Going to the ChapelNorman Brinkmann
1992 Noises Off Tim Allgood
2005 12 and Holding Mr. Farmer
2009 Adam Sam Klieber
2010 How Do You Know Ron
2018AccommodationsEugene Beltzer

Stage

As actor

YearTitleRole(s)VenueNotesRef.
1978Sganarelle: An Evening of Molière FarcesIn The Flying Doctor : Sganarelle

In The Forced Marriage  [ fr ]: Marphurius, understudy Alcidas
In Sganarelle : Valère, understudy Sganarelle

Yale Repertory Theatre [12]
1978 All's Well That Ends Well Bertram New York Shakespeare Festival [13] [14]
1979 Othello Othello's orderly New York Shakespeare Festival [15]
1980Alice in Concertperformer The Public Theater [16]
1981The Laundry Hourperformer The Public Theater [17]
1982Maybe I'm Doing It Wrongperformer Astor Place Theater [18]
1982The Death of von Richthofen as Witnessed From EarthWilliam Evans The Public Theater [19]
1982 Waiting for Godot Vladimir American Repertory Theater [20] [21]
1983 Doonesbury Mark Biltmore Theater Broadway debut [22] [23]
1984 The Miss Firecracker Contest Delmount Williams Manhattan Theater Club [24]
1990SignatureMaxwell T-Thorp New York Stage and Film [25] [26]
1993 Face Value Bernard Sugarman Cort Theatre [27] [28]
1993 Laughter on the 23rd Floor Val Richard Rodgers Theater [29]
1996 A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum Hysterium St. James Theater [30]
1998 A Flea in Her Ear Victor Chandebise, Dodo Laura Pels Theater [31]
1999 As You Like It Touchstone Williamstown Theatre Festival [32] [33]
1999ChesapeakeKerr Second Stage Theater Drama Desk Award nomination [34]
2002 The Pajama Game Hines New York City Center [35]
2002 A Year with Frog and Toad Toad Children's Theatre Company [36]
2003 A Year with Frog and Toad Toad Cort Theater [37]
2006 Losing Louie Tony Biltmore Theater [38]
2007Romantic PoetryJilly Brilla, Carl Wartel Theater [39]
2008 Almost an Evening In Waiting: McMartin

In Debate: God Who Loves

Atlantic Stage 2 [40]
2008Romantic PoetryCarl New York City Center [41]
2011One Slight HitchDoc Coleman Williamstown Theatre Festival [42]
2011 Relatively Speaking In Honeymoon Motel: Sam Roth Brooks Atkinson Theater [43]
2012One Slight HitchDoc George Street Playhouse [44]
2014 You Can't Take It With You Paul Sycamore Longacre Theater [45]
2015 On the Twentieth Century Oliver Webb American Airlines Theatre [46]
2016 The School for Scandal Sir Peter Teazle Lucille Lortel Theatre [47]
2016 The Music Man Mayor Shinn The Muny [48]
2017 A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum Senex The Muny [49]
2018Good For OttoTimothy Signature Theatre Company [50]
2019 The Music Man Mayor Shinn Kennedy Center [51]
2019Fern HillBilly 59E59 Theaters [52]
2022 The Music Man Mayor Shinn Winter Garden Theatre [53]

As director

YearTitleVenueNotesRef.
1985 Savage in Limbo 47th Street Theater [54]
1986L.A. FreewheelingHartley House Theatre [55]
1988Zero Positive The Public Theater direction by Kenneth Elliott, original direction by Mark Linn-Baker [56]
1998Black Humor Cherry Lane Theatre [57]
2001 Once Around the City Second Stage Theater [58]

As author

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Jason Alexander</span> American actor (born 1959)

Jay Scott Greenspan, known professionally as Jason Alexander, is an American actor and comedian. Over the course of his career he has received an Emmy Award and a Tony Award as well as nominations for four Golden Globe Awards. He gained stardom for his role as George Costanza in the NBC sitcom Seinfeld (1989–1998), for which he won a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series and was nominated for seven consecutive Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series and four Golden Globe Awards for Best Supporting Actor in Television.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Nathan Lane</span> American actor (born 1956)

Nathan Lane is an American actor. Since 1975, he has been seen on stage and screen in both comedic and dramatic roles. Lane has received numerous awards, including three Tony Awards, seven Drama Desk Awards, a Laurence Olivier Award, three Emmy Awards, and a Screen Actors Guild Award. Lane received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2006 and was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 2008. In 2010, The New York Times hailed Lane as "the greatest stage entertainer of the decade".

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Bronson Pinchot</span> American actor (b. 1959)

Bronson Alcott Pinchot is an American actor. He is best known for playing Balki Bartokomous on the ABC sitcom Perfect Strangers (1986–1993). He also performed in films, such as Risky Business (1983), Beverly Hills Cop (1984), After Hours (1985), True Romance (1993), Beverly Hills Cop III (1994), Stephen King's The Langoliers (1995), It's My Party (1996), Courage Under Fire (1996), The First Wives Club (1996) and Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F (2024), and in television series, such as Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, Meego and Chilling Adventures of Sabrina. In 2012, he starred in his own reality series, The Bronson Pinchot Project on the DIY Network.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Larry Storch</span> American actor (1923–2022)

Lawrence Samuel Storch was an American actor and comedian known for his comic television roles, including voice-over work for cartoon shows such as Mr. Whoopee on Tennessee Tuxedo and His Tales and his live-action role of the bumbling Corporal Randolph Agarn on F Troop which won a nomination for Emmy Award in 1967.

Michael Frank Park is an American actor, best known for his roles as Jack Snyder on As the World Turns, Larry Murphy in the original Broadway cast of Dear Evan Hansen (2016), and reporter Tom Holloway in the third season of the Netflix series Stranger Things (2019).

Arvid Laurence Bryggman is an American actor. He is known for playing the role of Dr. John Dixon on the CBS Daytime soap opera As the World Turns. He won the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series for his work on As the World Turns in 1984 and 1987. He received six other Daytime Emmy Award nominations. He has had roles in many theatrical productions, including Ulysses in Nighttown (1974), The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel (1977), Prelude to a Kiss (1990), Picnic (1994), Proof (2000), Romance (2005), Festen (2006), and Harvey (2012). He has received two Tony Award nominations and won two Obie Awards. He has also appeared in the films ...And Justice for All (1979), Hanky Panky (1982), Die Hard with a Vengeance (1995) and Spy Game (2001).

Jerome Herbert "Chip" Zien is an American actor. He is best known for originating the lead role of the Baker in the original Broadway production of the musical Into the Woods by Stephen Sondheim. He appeared in all of the "Marvin Trilogy" musicals by William Finn: In Trousers, March of the Falsettos, Falsettoland and Falsettos. In 2023, he returned to Broadway to critical acclaim in the lead role of Rabbi Josef Roman Cycowski in Barry Manilow and Bruce Sussman’s Harmony.

<i>Perfect Strangers</i> (TV series) American television sitcom (1986–1993)

Perfect Strangers is an American sitcom that ran for eight seasons, from March 25, 1986, to August 6, 1993, on the ABC television network. Created by Dale McRaven, the series chronicles the rocky coexistence of midwestern American Larry Appleton and his distant cousin from eastern Mediterranean Europe, Balki Bartokomous.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Balki Bartokomous</span> Fictional character

Balki Bartokomous is a fictional character played by Bronson Pinchot in the television sitcom Perfect Strangers. He is from the fictional Mediterranean island of Mypos, supposedly near Greece.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Raphael Sbarge</span> American actor

Raphael Sbarge is an American actor and filmmaker. He is perhaps best known for his roles as Jake Straka on The Guardian (2001–04), Jiminy Cricket / Dr. Archibald Hopper on Once Upon a Time (2011–18) and Inspector David Molk on the TNT series Murder in the First (2014–16). He is also known for voicing Carth Onasi in Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic (2003), RC-1262 / "Scorch" in Star Wars: Republic Commando (2005) and Kaidan Alenko in the Mass Effect trilogy (2007–12).

<i>Laughter on the 23rd Floor</i> Play by Neil Simon

Laughter on the 23rd Floor is a 1993 play by Neil Simon. It focuses on the star and writers of a TV comedy-variety show in the 1950s, inspired by Simon's own early career experience as a junior writer for Your Show of Shows and Caesar's Hour.

<i>A Year with Frog and Toad</i> Musical

A Year With Frog and Toad is a musical written by brothers Robert (music) and Willie Reale, based on the Frog and Toad children's stories written and illustrated by Arnold Lobel. The musical follows the woodland adventures of two amphibious friends, a worrywart toad and a perky frog, with their assorted colorful hopping, crawling and flying companions, over the course of a year. The show broke new ground by bringing professional children's theatre to Broadway, sparking the interest of the age 3-to-10 set.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Skylar Astin</span> American actor (born 1987)

Skylar Astin is an American actor. He became known for portraying Jesse Swanson in the musical films Pitch Perfect (2012) and Pitch Perfect 2 (2015). He originated the role of Georg in the Broadway musical Spring Awakening, and has since appeared in films such as Hamlet 2 (2008), Taking Woodstock (2009), Cavemen (2013), and 21 & Over (2013). He played the role of Greg Serrano on the last season of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, a role originally played by Santino Fontana, and Max in the musical dramedy Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist (2020). He played the titular role of Todd in the television drama So Help Me Todd, which premiered in September 2022 and concluded on May 16, 2024.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Children's Theatre Company</span> Regional theater in Minneapolis, Minnesota

The Children's Theatre Company (CTC) is a regional theater established in 1965 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, specializing in plays for families, young audiences and the very young. The theater is the largest theater for multigenerational audiences in the United States and is the recipient of 2003 Tony Award for Outstanding Regional Theatre. The November 2, 2004, edition of Time magazine named the company as the top theater for children in the U.S.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Jim Parsons</span> American actor (born 1973)

James Joseph Parsons is an American actor. From 2007 to 2019, Parsons played Sheldon Cooper in the CBS sitcom The Big Bang Theory. He has received various awards, including four Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Television Series Musical or Comedy. From 2015 to 2018, Forbes named him the world's highest-paid television actor.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Peter Friedman</span> American actor (born 1949)

Peter Friedman is an American stage, film, and television actor. He made his Broadway debut in the Eugene O'Neill play The Great God Brown in 1972. His other Broadway credits include roles in The Rules of the Game (1974), Piaf (1981), The Heidi Chronicles (1989), and Twelve Angry Men (2004). He earned a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical nomination for his role as Tateh in Ragtime (1998).

Adrianne Lobel is an American scenic designer and producer for theatre, opera, and dance known for her "very daring and creative sets."

<span class="mw-page-title-main">King Donovan</span> American actor and director

Francis King Donovan was an American film, stage, and television actor, as well as a film and television director.

"Don't Be Ridiculous" is the second episode of the third season of the HBO drama television series The Leftovers, and the 22nd overall. The episode was written by showrunners Tom Perrotta and Damon Lindelof and directed by Keith Gordon. It aired in the United States on April 23, 2017.

Michael McGuire is a retired American film, television, and theatre actor.

References

  1. 1 2 3 Shattuck, Kathryn (11 January 2013). "Vows: Christa Justus and Mark Linn-Baker". The New York Times. Archived from the original on January 16, 2013. Retrieved January 13, 2013.
  2. "Perfect Strangers Online – Mark Linn-Baker Articles – Men's Look – 8/87". Perfectstrangers.tv. Archived from the original on 2013-06-23. Retrieved 2013-04-22.
  3. "Perfect Strangers Online – Episode Guide – Episode 5: Check This". Perfectstrangers.tv. 1986-04-22. Archived from the original on 2013-06-23. Retrieved 2013-04-22.
  4. Patricia Seremet; Courant Columnist (1996-12-02). "What Now, Hartford, After The Debate?". Hartford Courant . Archived from the original on 2014-04-23. Retrieved 2013-04-22.
  5. The School for Scandal review Archived 2017-04-24 at the Wayback Machine by Shani R. Friedman, Theatre Is Easy, April 30, 2016
  6. Philadelphia Chickens. Workman. 14 October 2002. ISBN   9780761126362. Archived from the original on 27 August 2022. Retrieved August 28, 2011.
  7. "The Taxman Cometh". Archived from the original on June 1, 2010. Retrieved June 1, 2010.
  8. Sepinwall, Alan. "The Leftovers co-creator explains crazy season 3 opening & Perfect Strangers gag: Why the TGIF show of all shows? And where did the idea come from for that prologue?" Archived 2016-05-11 at the Wayback Machine HitFix (October 5, 2015).
  9. "Axis Mundi" Archived 2017-05-06 at the Wayback Machine directed by Mimi Lede; written by Damon Lindelof and Jacqueline Hoyt (aired October 4, 2015).
  10. "Don't Be Ridiculous" Archived 2017-06-23 at the Wayback Machine directed by Keith Gordon; written by Damon Lindelof and Tom Perrotta (aired April 23, 2017).
  11. Jane Holahan (April 11, 2013). "Frog and Toad's long friendship turns musical". Intelligencer Journal/Lancaster New Era. Archived from the original on June 23, 2013.
  12. Savitt, Jane (Spring 1978). "Yale Repertory Theatre program". p. 12. Retrieved 14 January 2024.
  13. Berkvist, Robert (30 June 1978). "All's WellWith Shakespeare in the Park". New York Times. Retrieved 14 January 2024.
  14. "All's Well That Ends Well (TV Movie 1978)". Internet Movie Database. Retrieved 14 January 2024.
  15. Gussow, Mel (9 August 1978). "Stage: Raul Julia Portrays Othello". New York Times. Retrieved 14 January 2024.
  16. Rich, Frank (8 January 1981). "THE STAGE: MERYL STREEP SINGS IN 'ALICE IN CONCERT'". New York Times. Retrieved 14 January 2024.
  17. 1 2 Gussow, Mel (5 August 1981). "THEATER: 'THE LAUNDRY HOUR,' A 2 MAN CABARET-TYPE SHOW". New York Times. Retrieved 14 January 2024.
  18. Gussow, Mel (15 March 1982). "THEATER: A REVUE BUILT FROM NEWMAN'S MUSIC". New York Times. Retrieved 14 January 2024.
  19. Rich, Frank (30 July 1982). "MUSICAL: MCANUFF'S 'RICHTHOFEN' ARRIVES AT PUBLIC". New York Times. Retrieved 14 January 2024.
  20. "Waiting for Godot (1983)". American Repertory Theater. Retrieved 14 January 2024.
  21. Grossman, lev (11 January 2012). "I Was a Teenage Samuel Beckett: Or, My Literary Biography Problem". Time. Retrieved 14 January 2024.
  22. Rich, Frank (22 November 1983). "STAGE: 'DOONESBURY'". New York Times. Retrieved 14 January 2024.
  23. "Mark Linn-Baker – Broadway Cast & Staff". Internet Broadway Database. The Broadway League. Retrieved 14 January 2024.
  24. Rich, Frank (28 May 1984). "THEATER: 'FIRECRACKER,' A BETH HENLEY COMEDY". New York Times. Retrieved 14 January 2024.
  25. Nemy, Enid (15 June 1990). "On Stage". New York Times. Retrieved 14 January 2024.
  26. Henley, Beth (2002). Signature. New York: Dramatists Play Service. p. 4. ISBN   9780822218760 . Retrieved 14 January 2024.
  27. Soloski, Alexis (4 November 2020). "David Henry Hwang's 'M. Butterfly' Followup: 'M. Turkey'". New York Times. Retrieved 14 January 2024.
  28. "Face Value – Broadway Play – Original". Internet Broadway Database. The Broadway League. Retrieved 14 January 2024.
  29. Gerard, Jeremy (22 November 1993). "Laughter on the 23rd Floor". Variety. Retrieved 14 January 2024.
  30. Gerard, Jeremy (19 April 1996). "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum". Variety. Retrieved 14 January 2024.
  31. Simon, John (16 March 1998). "In Brief: 'A Flea in Her Ear'". New York Magazine. Retrieved 14 January 2024.
  32. "As You Like It - Williamstown Theatre Festival". Williamstown Theatre Festival. Retrieved 14 January 2024.
  33. Simonson, Robert (28 June 1999). "Linn-Baker and Cumpsty Join Paltrow in WTF As You Like It, Aug. 4-15". Playbill. Retrieved 14 January 2024.
  34. Isherwood, Charles (18 October 1999). "Chesapeake". Variety. Retrieved 14 January 2024.
  35. Brantley, Ben (4 May 2002). "THEATER REVIEW; A Test of Love for Labor and Management". New York Times. Retrieved 14 January 2024.
  36. Ritter, Peter (26 September 2002). "A Year With Frog and Toad". Variety. Retrieved 14 January 2024.
  37. Brantley, Ben (14 April 2003). "THEATER REVIEW; Woodland Creatures Sing, Act and Dress Well". New York Times. Retrieved 14 January 2024.
  38. Rooney, David (12 October 2006). "Losing Louie". Variety. Retrieved 14 January 2024.
  39. Cotter, James F. (25 July 2007). "Play review: 'Romantic Poetry'". Times Herald-Record. Retrieved 14 January 2024.
  40. Brantley, Ben (23 Jan 2008). "A World Right Around the Corner From Hell". New York TImes. Retrieved 14 January 2024.
  41. Suskin, Steven (28 October 2008). "Romantic Poetry". Variety. Retrieved 14 January 2024.
  42. "Theater review: 'One Slight Hitch' a delightful farce". The Daily Gazette. 12 July 2011. Retrieved 14 January 2024.
  43. Isherwood, Charles (20 Oct 2011). "Each Family, Tortured in Its Own Way". New York Times. Retrieved 14 January 2024.
  44. Gates, Anita (19 Oct 2012). "Panic in Suburbia on a Daughter's Wedding Day". New York Times. Retrieved 14 January 2024.
  45. Stasio, Marilyn (28 September 2014). "Broadway Review: 'You Can't Take It With You' with Rose Byrne, James Earl Jones". Variety. Retrieved 14 January 2024.
  46. Stasio, Marilyn (15 March 2015). "Broadway Review: 'On the 20th Century' with Kristin Chenoweth, Peter Gallagher". Variety. Retrieved 14 January 2024.
  47. Shaw, Helen (25 April 2016). "The School for Scandal". Time Out. Retrieved 14 January 2024.
  48. Farmer, Tina (2016). "Pleasing and familiar, 'The Music Man' entertains, though it feels a bit off key". KDHX. Retrieved 14 January 2024.
  49. Przybylski, Katy (7 July 2017). "The Muny's "Forum" is filled with hilarity—and surprises". St. Louis Magazine. Retrieved 14 January 2024.
  50. Reed, Rex (8 March 2018). "Ed Harris Stars in 'Good For Otto,' a Long Play Where No One Is Named Otto". The Observer. Retrieved 14 January 2024.
  51. Marks, Peter (8 February 2019). "Trouble? Ya got none in Kennedy Center's revival of 'The Music Man.'". Washington Post. Retrieved 14 January 2024.
  52. Scheck, Frank (19 September 2019). "'Fern Hill': Theater Review". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 14 January 2024.
  53. "The Music Man – Broadway Musical – 2022 Revival". Internet Broadway Database. The Broadway League. Retrieved 14 January 2024.
  54. Bruckner, D.J.R. (24 September 1985). "THE STAGE: 'LUNIN: THEATER OF DEATH'". New York Times. Retrieved 14 January 2024.
  55. "Theater: Off-Off Broadway". New York Magazine. 9 June 1986. p. 154. Retrieved 14 January 2024.
  56. Rich, Frank (2 June 1988). "Review/Theater; In 'Zero Positive,' Tragedy of AIDS Keeps Buckling Into Farce". New York Times. Retrieved 14 January 2024.
  57. Lefkowitz, David (5 March 1998). "NYC's Black Humor To Stop Laughing, Mar. 8". Playbill. Retrieved 14 January 2024.
  58. Hofler, Robert (11 July 2001). "Once Around the City". Variety. Retrieved 14 January 2024.