Broadway Games: One Word Musicals        What's in a name? A lot, when it's doing the heavy lifting of being the title of a big Broadway (or off-Broadway) show! DIRECTIONS: Match the titles with the …

 5 Best Musicals That Need Their First Revival Believe it or not, this edition of F5 was actually brought about by the announcement of yet another revival of Glengarry Glen Ross, which feels like it comes aro…

I am a sucker for movies about Broadway and those who spend their lives in the theatre. Of course the crown jewel of the genre is the Oscar winning All About Eve, but there are so many others including 1933’s…

Review of the Wednesday, March 27, 2024 matinee performance at the Hudson Theatre in New York City. Starring Jonathan Groff, Daniel Radcliffe and Lindsay Mendez, with Krystal Joy Brown, Katie Rose Clarke, Brady…

An uproarious 1950’s show business spoof with plentiful “All About Eve” references that is performed by a dynamic cast; a Broadway diva is a man in drag. The post Deadly Stages appeared first on Theater…

Luke Bayer stars in the solo musical from Alexander Sage Oyen and Nora Brigid Monahan.

Hollywood may be on strike, but movies are ever-present on New York stages. True, it wasn’t until 1970 that a Broadway show based on a movie won the Tony for best musical — fittingly, the musical was “App…

Kristin Scott Thomas (Electra, Darkest Hour) and Lily James (All About Eve, Pam & Tommy) will star in the world premiere of Lyonesse, a searingly funny and passionate new play by Penelope Skinner (T…

Review of the evening preview performance on Saturday, June 3, 2023 at the Marquis Theatre in New York City. Starring Briga Heelan, Justin Guarini, Jennifer Simard, Adam Godley, Brook Dillman, Aisha Jackson, Am…

The first Broadway musical made out of a movie was probably the 1942 film “My Sister Eileen” with Rosalind Russell, which became the 1953 Broadway musical ‘Wonderful Town.” Other vintage examples: “Th…

Critically acclaimed, award-winning writer/director/producer Steve Silverman’s work has been called ‘Sly’ by the Los Angeles Times, which is his all-time favorite single-word review. Theatre includes All …

The whodunnit starring Saoirse Ronan is a fun spoof but tinkers with history and never captures the unique way Agatha Christie’s play fascinated audiences in the 50s The smell of greasepaint has always pervad…

Turbine theatre, LondonLuke Bayer single-handedly plays a classroom of feuding high school drama students in this unmissable take on All About Eve A musical with a classroom full of feuding high school drama so…

Everybody seemed to have a colorful anecdote  about Tallulah Bankhead. She was said to have inspired the characters of Margo Channing in the film “All About Eve,” Blanche DuBois in Tennessee Williams’ p…

Charles Strouse and Lee Adams’ “The Telephone Hour” from “Bye, Bye Birdie” (1960).Composer Charles Strouse was born on this date ninety-four years ago. His more than thirty stage musicals, including …

Vintage Tony Award, prior to its eventual pedestal.Okay, there was never any such thing as a 1944 Tonys. But the awards junkie in me had this thought and decided, for the fun of it, to attempt a peer into the c…

FREE ADMISSION with online ticket Sunday March 6 at noon (Doors Open 11 a.m.)  – Fasten your seatbelts! MOVIES AT THE UNITED PALACE returns in grand fashion with the Oscar-winning 1950 classic, All About Ev…

Gena Rowlands plays an actor frustrated with her character in a backstage drama that kicks off our series on the ways cinema depicts theatre One of many tantalising theatre shows cancelled last year by the pand…

I have always been fascinated by legendary Bette Davis. Ever since I saw F/X’s Feud: Bette and Joan, I became even more captivated by her. Everything about Jessica Sherr’s Bette Davis Ain’t For Sissies, i…

Karen Richards (Celeste Holm) the playwright’s wife: A part in a play. You’d do all that for a part in a play? Eve Harrington (Anne Baxter) conniving actress: I’d do much more for a part that good.     …

The magical kingdom of Broadway is shuttered, but our critic returned to it — or rather a version of it that opened his eyes, Bette Davis wide, to New York theater.

New year, new feature! Starting this month, we will feature a Broadway Show of the Month, with weekly installments covering such things as the plot, its origins, the show's stats, cast, creative team and cast r…

Saw a little less shows than last year, and added a few concerts that I've included in the final tally. So 2019 I saw 153 different shows but 173 times (basically I did 20 repeats this year alone). (The full li…

Emory would not be pleased. As Michael tells us in THE BOYS IN THE BAND, his friend Emory can “recite...Continue Reading The post All About ALL ABOUT EVE in London appeared first on BroadwaySelect.

Peter Filichia, James Marino, and Michael Portantiere review King Lear, Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus, The Ferryman, 42nd Street on BroadwayHD, Cirque du Soliel, and Florida State University Senior Showcas…

Network, All About Eve, West Side Story – a really good day’s Netflix queue as well as the latest entries on the resume of Belgian-born theater director Ivo van Hove. Tony-nominated for his direction of Bro…

Gillian Anderson’s haunted, drawn face is the mesmerizing center of Ivo van Hove’s staging of “All About Eve,” a production currently blazing in London’s West End (at the Noel Coward Theatre through M…

On April 12 Invada Records in conjunction with Lakeshore Records will release All About Eve-Original Soundtrack, composed by double Mercury Music Prize-winner PJ Harvey. The 12-track album contains 10 original …

The winners of this year's Laurence Oliver Awards were announced at the Royal Albert Hall yesterday evening in a ceremony hosted by Jason Manford. Big-name celebrities in attendance included Camilla Duchess of…

One week before the NT Live broadcast of All About Eve, Sonia Friedman Productions and Fox Stage Productions have today announced that the Olivier Award-nominated production has broken box office records at the…

The award-winning actor and writer on All About Eve, celebrity culture and the perils of not actually being Welsh Monica Dolan is a Bafta-winning actor and writer. Born in Middlesbrough, her roles include Jerem…

LONDON — Following Network,  Ivo van Hove’s disappointing star vehicle now packing them in on Broadway, the writer/director is back in peak form with his adaptation of All About Eve  in the West End. A t…

Ivo van Hove's production and stage adaptation of the film All About Eve is trademark van Hove and that is a good and bad thing.

Nominations for the 2019 Olivier Awards were unveiled this afternoon in London with Marianne Elliott's gender-switched production of Stephen Sondheim’s Company tying Broadway transfer Come From Away to lead t…

Gillian Anderson has returned to the stage in All About Eve, at the Noel Coward Theatre in London.

By Mark Ludmon Mark Ludmon reviews Ivo van Hove’s stage adaptation of All About Eve starring Gillian Anderson and Lily James This post REVIEW: All About Eve, Noël Coward Theatre, London ✭✭✭✭ first ap…

Actually, this time the ride could be bumpier. In describing Ivo van Hove‘s fascinating stage adaptation of the classic 1950 backstage drama All About Eve, it’s possibly helpful to start by defining what it…

All About Eve and When We Have Sufficiently Tortured Each Other were two of London’s most anticipated plays of 2019, but when it comes

Review: All About Eve, Noël Coward Theatre5.0starsAll About Eve is, somewhat predictably, all about Eve. Eve Harrington (Lily James), in particular – a down and out war widow with a love of theatre. She …

Pure artifice: Ava Wong Davies writes on Ivo van Hove's stylish, performative recasting of the backstage movie. The post Review: All About Eve at Noël Coward Theatre appeared first on Exeunt Magazine.

Noël Coward; Old Vic; Royal Court, LondonGillian Anderson is the steely centre of Ivo van Hove’s glitzy adaptation of All About Eve, while Nicôle Lecky’s Superhoe storms the Royal CourtMy worry was that A…

Love London Love Culture’s Kirsty Herrington paid a visit to the Noel Coward Theatre to see Ivo van Hove’s production of All About Eve, based on the Oscar-winning film.

Something of a dream team has been assembled for this stage adaptation of Joseph Mankiewicz’s 1950 black-and-white classic film about a Broadway

Listen: A Bumpy Night for “All About Eve,” “Frozen 2” Teaser Released, Scott and Butz to Lead 54 Below Concerts “Today on Broadway” is a daily, Monday through Friday, podcast…

Gillian Anderson and a superb Lily James headline Ivo van Hove's latest celluloid deconstructionWomen spend a lot of time gazing at themselves in the mirror in the Belgian auteur director Ivo van Hove's la…

Below, check out more photos of Gillian Anderson and Lily James in the world premiere of Ivo van Hove's highly anticipated stage adaptation of the 1950 Twentieth Century Fox film All About Eve.

Fascinating All About Eve is, engaging perhaps not always. But anyone hoping for the same level of emotional payoff that Anderson’s other stage roles have demonstrated will likely end up frustrated with Eve.

This London adaptation of the Oscar-winning satire, starring a misused Gillian Anderson and Lily James, is like a horror movie without a pulse.

Ivo van HovedirectsGillian AndersonandLily Jamesin his new adaptation ofAll About Eve, a razor-sharp, unsettling expose of the eternal obsession at the heart of show-business. Let's see what the critics had to …

Ivo van Hove's stage adaptation of the Hollywood classic opened in the West End February 12.

Anderson plays the star usurped by Lily James’s Eve in Ivo van Hove’s video-heavy production

The supporting cast are hit-and-miss, but Anderson and Lily James deliver strong performances in production of Joseph Mankiewicz's 1950 masterpiece

Ivo van Hove’s take on All About Eve ticks all my boxes at the Noël Coward Theatre, great work from Gillian Anderson, Lily James and a stellar Monica Dolan.

Gillian Anderson and Lily James give fine performances but this version of the 1950 film might be a little too clever for its own goodThis is a show that reeks of chic. It stars Gillian Anderson and Lily James.…

Fasten your seatbelts Ivo van Hove has taken on the ultimate quotable backstage melodrama Joseph L. Mankiewicz's 1950 Oscar-winning film about a celebrated actress and her young wannabe assistant. And the moder…

As a film, All About Eve is pretty close to perfect. Written and directed by Joseph L Mankiewicz in 1950, it’s also one

This All About Eve is something quite different, same story deliberately new frame with staging that pushes at the boundaries of theatre and film.

All About Eve – Noel Coward Theatre, London Gillian Anderson plays the magnificent Margo Channing opposite Lily James’ manipulative, would-be star Eve in Ivo

By Douglas Mayo First production images have been released from Ivo Van Hove’s new adaptation of All About Eve starring Gillian Anderson and Lily James at London’s Noel Coward Theatre. Enjoy Jan Ver…

In London performing arts this week, “Leave to Remain” and “Cost of Living” have both opened to some strong reviews. The revival of the acclaimed “Home, I’m Darling” and the final show in the stel…

Ivo van Hove directs the London stage adaptation of the 1950 film.

The highly anticipated Ivo van Hove adaptation of Academy Award-winning classic film begins previews February 2.

Over at the Noël Coward Theatre, it's All About Eve. And Gillian Anderson, Lily James, director Ivo van Hove, and the rest of the star-studded cast too. The post First All About Eve photos released with Gilli…

To mark the world premiere of Ivo van Hove's highly anticipated stage adaptation of the 1950 Twentieth Century Fox film All About Eve, Sonia Friedman Productions and Fox Stage Productions have today given a fir…

The Emmy-winning star reveals his All About Eve moment that put him on the path to acting.

It might be heresy for a theater critic to admit, but Hollywood has done a better job of skewering the theater than the theater has done skewering Hollywood. Give me "All About Eve" over "Once in a Lifetime" an…

'Fasten your seatbelts, it's going to be a bumpy night!'

The star, who returns to the London stage in Ivo van Hove’s production of All About Eve, began her professional theatre career in the early 90s, before rising to fame as X-Files agent Scully Continue reading.…

Julian Ovenden’s lustrous singing voice has graced many a musical and concert performance both sides of the Atlantic. In recent years, though, the actor has turned his attention to plays, from the superla…

Here's a quick roundup of stories you might have missed today. FX's Fosse/Verdon Gets a Premiere Date Fosse/Verdon, the limited series about the professional and romantic relationship of Gwen Verdon a…

National Theatre Live brings the West End production to cinemas in April.

With rehearsals for All About Eveunderway, Monica Dolan shares her excitement for taking on a similar role of direct addressplaying both Karen and a narrator. She also gives an insight into working with Ivo van…

All About Eve, starring Gillian Anderson and Lily James, will be broadcast live to cinemas during its West End run. The thriller,

Plans have been announced to broadcast Ivo van Hove's All About Eve, starring Gillian Anderson and Lily James, to cinemas across the UK and internationally. The post All About Eve to be broadcast in cinemas app…

Sonia Friedman Productions and Fox Stage Productions have today announced a live cinema broadcast for All About Eve. The world premiere of Ivo van Hove's highly anticipated stage adaptation of the 1950 Twentiet…

The Ivo van Hove-helmed production is set to begin performances in London February 2.

With just under three weeks until previews commence at the Noel Coward Theatre,the cast is hard at work inrehearsals for the world premiere ofAll About Eve.Get a first glimpse ofIvo van Hove's highly anticipate…

Anderson returns to the London stage in an adaptation of the Oscar winner All About Eve. Here’s a look behind the scenes of Ivo van Hove’s production Continue reading...

It’s not just All About Eve in these behind-the-scenes photos, as the all-star cast rehearses for opening night in just a few weeks.A stage adaptation of the classic film, this highly anticipated revival has…