Michael Urie’s run with ‘The Tempermentals’ is going extremely well – they even moved to a bigger hall earlier this summer. 
Recently, Urie’s Ugly Betty co-star America Ferrera came to see the show, and we’ve got a couple of backstage pics!

What a beautiful pair!
It’s great that Ferrera is back in town after filming the comedy Family Wedding in Los Angeles with Forest Whitaker, Carlos Mencia, and Lance Gross.  Not only is she back for Ugly Betty filming, but it allowed the opportunity for her to come see Urie’s well-reviewed (can I say acclaimed?) work, and give him some Ugly …read more

Michael Urie isn’t the only Ugly Betty cast member starring in a stage production this summer.  Judith Light, who plays the show’s matriarch Claire, is currently starring in A.R. Gurney’s “Children, and the Boston Globe has a very enlightening article about it.
Apparently, in the late 90’s, Light had fallen into a kind of rut, pretty much only working TV pilots and movies of the week.  She had turned down part in a play that she felt she wasn’t a right fit for, and her longtime manager, Herb Hamsher, challenged her about it and accused her of running scared from …read more

I think Ugly Betty’s Michael Urie can be proud of this one.  He is currently starring in the off-Broadway production ‘The Tempermentals’.  I first told you about it in this post.
Well, the reviews are coming in, and if this one from Variety is any clue, we can say they are quite favorable.  The review is worth a read if only for this passage:
Since we enter the play in medias res, it’s hard to know exactly what to make of Harry [Hay – played by Thomas Jay Ryan] and Rudi Gernreich (Michael Urie) when we first …read more