Topic: Alice Ripley

Alice Ripley is Next to Normal

By Alison Broverman. . Alice Ripley loves roller coasters. The Tony Award-winning actress is in Toronto for two weeks with the musical Next to...

Making the role her own

0 . Alice Ripley couldn't have known it at the time, but when she was fused at the hip to Emily Skinner in "Side Show," the short-lived 1997...

'Next to Normal'

0 . . . Next to Normal: Musical drama. Book and lyrics by Brian Yorkey. Music by Tom Kitt. Directed by Michael Greif. Through Feb. 20. Curran...

The Bay Area stage in 2011

0 . Berkeley Repertory Theatre Hip monologist Mike Daisey opens the year with a double-header, a South Pacific tale, "The Last Cargo Cult" (begins...
'Next to Normal' to end Broadway run Jan. 16; tour with Alice Ripley starts this monthThe Tony Award-winning show "Next to Normal" will play its final Broadway performance Jan. 16.Producers of the musical, which won the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Drama ...
Dancap announced its 2011 season today featuring five new musicals from Broadway including 9 to 5: The Musical and The Addams Family, and the...

Second look

To the noble Marin Mazzie falls the unenviable task of replacing Alice Ripley in Next to Normal, and she rises to the challenge: The succession is a success. Ripley's star turn was one of those rare, perfect matches of actor and ...
Since my last visit to "Next to Normal", it has won Tonys and a Pulitzer, and two-thirds of the cast are replacements. A hallmark of a great...

Next to Normal

As Diana in the surprising and moving Next to Normal, Alice Ripley has a voice like steel wool: There is nothing glamorous or camp about this unlikely musical-theater heroine, and Ripley is riveting.. In its trial mounting at Second Stage last year ...

Bipolar Disorder on Broadway?

One family is about to meet the music. this groundbreaking new musical explores how one suburban household copes with crisis. The very interesting twist is that the mother Diana, played by Alice Ripley, is a mother apparently careworn and possibly struggling with ...