There are eight "For Colored Girls" portraits, one for each of the film's principal actresses.
The two principal actresses, both suave and surprising performers in the past, have never been worse.
The principal actresses — including Ms. Pinkins, Ms. Connolly and Caitlin O'Connell (in two roles) — are more assured than their male counterparts here (though I enjoyed Dakin Matthews's acerbic statesman and David Manis's Andy Devine-like clown).
The three principal actresses give remarkably open performances; their faces (which, given Iranian standards of propriety, are all they have to work with) are alive with emotions that compensate for the gaps in the story.
IT is 7 45 p.m. on a steamy Friday in Manhattan, and the doors to the trailers that shelter the principal actresses of HBO's bed-hopping hit, "Sex and the City," are snapping shut like mechanical jaws: time for the lunch break on the East 19th Street set.
Nor can anyone in this sad, lonely tale of broken dreams, exquisitely rendered by the three principal actresses.
But nominators clearly liked the show, giving it three other acting nominations (to the three principal actresses, including eleventh-hour replacement LaTanya Richardson Jackson).
Neeli Rana, one of the principal trans actresses in Teesri Dhun, saw the play as a lifeline.
The interview was to have been with the actress-turned-playwright Carol Burnett, the director Harold Prince and the actress Linda Lavin, principals of the Broadway-bound "Hollywood Arms".
In this giggle-, landhter- applause-inducingcing exhibition of his virtuosity, Mr. Thiérrée, a son of Victoria Chaplin and Jean Baptist Thiérrée, has as his principal collaborators the mischievously comic actress and soprano Uma Ysamat; the alluring and graceful contortionist, acrobat and trapeze artist Raphaëlle Boitel, and the rubber-bodied acrobat and actor Magnus Jakobsson.
