One of the Remains Theater productions, The Actor Retires is available to download as an audiobook.
Synopsis
A hilarious comedy about an actor, who decides to throw out his headshots, fire his agent and change careers from performing to making furniture.
Billy’s character appears around the 40 minute mark.
The play is available to download from the following links. Many thanks to our LJ members ufgator1977 and CR1 for posting the links at our LJ Community.
Our DVD/Promo Multimedia Section has been updated with a recent interview with Billy regarding CSI. (Thanks E).
The Gallery has also been updated with a larger image of the Endgame promo photo, as well as two replacement images from the Sheila Kar Fundraiser last month (without the blue bars).
Speaking of Endgame, if you are attending the show on 21st April, do check out the Endgame Wine Tasting Event held at Steppenwolf, as well as Martha Lavey’s blog post : Frank & Me.
Steppenwolf’s 2010 Gala on May 8th will be featuring an exclusive showcase of Endgame, details available on the Steppenwolf website.
As per our tweet yesterday (we do recommend you follow us on Twitter because we usually post news there first) the new Richard Christian Theater at Victory Gardens opened. Billy was at the opening ceremony and gave a speech.
The actor William Petersen followed with an equally moving and self-effacing speech, remarking on how generously Christiansen treated the famous opening-night fiasco of David Mamet’s “Glengarry Glen Ross” when the great Joe Mantegna went up on his lines. Petersen had a similar story to Cleveland’s. Christiansen told him, in print, that he was a great actor. And from that point, he believed it himself.
The full article is available via the Chicago Tribune : Now open for business: The Richard Christiansen Theater
Those of you following ourselves and several other fansites on Twitter would have seen Jorja Fox: Online’s great experience of attending the Spotlight Humane: Chicago event this past Saturday.
The JFO webmistress was invited to the event by Jorja herself and has kindly shared her story, images and a video with everyone, we highly recommend you check them out. Billy was also in attendance at the event.
Image copyright Jorja Fox: Online
Billy attended the Sheila Kar Health Foundation Charity Fundraiser last week in Los Angeles and we have a couple of photos from the event in The Gallery.
Also, today Billy celebrates his 57th birthday, Happy Birthday Billy!
We invite our visitors to leave a birthday message by commenting on this post.
As per our Tweet yesterday, Billy has written a wonderful tribute to Chicago Theater Critic, Richard Christiansen. In our February 5th update we mentioned that Victory Gardens Theater are naming their new theater after the very well respected Mr Christiansen. Below is a snippet, but you can read Billy’s full tribute here.
I’ll never forget his review of In the Belly of the Beast at Wisdom Bridge Theatre in 1983. He wrote in the review that he was so moved he had to “pull over to collect himself”. That review became famous among us actors. When a review would run, we’d ask, “was it a pull-over review”. That play was a powerful. It was a hard piece. The next day I read all the reviews by Glenna Syse, and Rick Kogan and Richard’s. I read Richard’s twice. I was so touched and moved. Richard got it.
