Monday, January 27, 2014
MADRID — It was a short story, then a Hollywood movie, and now the tragic tale of two cowboys in love is being reinvented as “Brokeback Mountain” — the opera....
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:02PMMADRID — It was a short story, then a Hollywood movie. Now the tragic tale of two cowboys in love is being reinvented again as "Brokeback Mountain" — the opera.Ahead of its world premie…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 09:29AMNEW YORK — The Holocaust play "The Soap Myth" was last seen in New York two years ago in a small off-Broadway theater. But its director decided it had to have another life and filmed it.No…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 02:16AMTuesday, January 21, 2014
NEW YORK — The musical of legendary blues and soul singer Janis Joplin is leaving Broadway but promises to hang around the city.Producers said Wednesday that "A Night With Janis Joplin" wi…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 07:36PMSunday, December 29, 2013
NEW YORK — "Call Me Maybe" singer Carly Rae Jepsen has had her calls returned by Broadway.Producers of "Rodgers + Hammerstein's Cinderella" said Sunday that the Canadian singer-songwriter…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 07:12PMTuesday, December 24, 2013
NEW YORK — It's not yet Christmas, but Debbie Allen has already gotten a nice present — the Goldstar National Nutcracker Award.The ticket discounter has declared the director and choreog…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 11:25AMFriday, December 20, 2013
LONDON — Harry Potter has traveled from page to screen — and now to stage. J.K. Rowling said Friday she is working on a play about the boy wizard’s life...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 09:34AMWednesday, December 18, 2013
NEW YORK — Nathan Lane and Brian Dennehy will star in a revival of Eugene O'Neill's "The Iceman Cometh" in Brooklyn in 2015.The Brooklyn Academy of Music said Tuesday the pair of stars, w…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 08:38AMTuesday, December 10, 2013
NEW YORK — Before there was "Mean Girls," there was "Heathers." Now that dark comedy is ready to bully its way into New York as a musical.The 1988 film starring Winona Ryder, Shannen Dohe…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 06:55PMNEW YORK — A few years ago, Kyle Riabko found himself in the most intimidating of places on Earth for a young singer-songwriter.First, he was in the home of Burt Bacharach, a songwriter wh…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 08:49AMMonday, December 9, 2013
NEW YORK — The daughter of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and granddaughter of Robert F. Kennedy will be making her New York stage debut next month in the Greek tragedy "Antigone."Kick Kennedy wil…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 12:57PMTuesday, November 26, 2013
NEW YORK — U2 frontman Bono feels optimistic that his musical, "Spider-man: Turn Off the Dark" will continue to thrive after the show turns the lights out on Broadway early next year."Whe…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 08:13AMNEW YORK — James Franco and Chris O'Dowd will make their Broadway debuts next year as unlikely friends in a stage adaptation of "Of Mice and Men."Producer David Binder said Tuesday that "…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 06:14AMTuesday, November 19, 2013
Producers are turning the lights off forever on the Spider-Man musical on Broadway early next year, the final chapter in the story of most expensive theatrical show ever that shook...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 01:21AMWednesday, November 13, 2013
LONDON — Another much-loved film is getting the screen-to-stage treatment. Producers say a theatrical adaptation of "Shakespeare in Love" is coming to London's West End next year.The scrip…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 01:39PMFriday, November 8, 2013
If Alanis Morissette gets her wish, Broadway will swallow a jagged little pill. The singer-songwriter said Friday she hopes to adapt her 1995 breakthrough album “Jagged Little PillR…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 07:49PMWednesday, October 30, 2013
NEW YORK — If you're overwhelmed by the laundry piling up and the sheer amount of stuff that needs sewing, consider what faces Alyce Gilbert every week.Dozens of her dresses need checking …
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 09:48AMFriday, October 18, 2013
“The Lion King” has more reason to roar — it’s on pace to end the week as the first Broadway show to earn $1 billion. According to The Broadway League,...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 09:19PMTuesday, October 15, 2013
LONDON — Britain's National Theatre on Tuesday named stage director and former actor Rufus Norris as its next chief. He is the first actor since Laurence Olivier to lead Britain's biggest …
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 09:15AMTuesday, October 8, 2013
PARIS — Patrice Chereau, a celebrated French actor and director in film, theater and opera who was renowned for cutting-edge productions, has died, officials said Tuesday. He was 68.Chere…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 08:33AMThursday, September 26, 2013
New York City Opera could be sounding its final note this weekend — at least for a while.
The company says it likely will fail in its goal to raise $7 million by Monday, the deadline it se…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 11:20PMWednesday, September 25, 2013
NEW YORK — Don't be fooled by how mild-mannered Ben West seems. He's the musical theater world's Sherlock Holmes and Victor Frankenstein rolled into one.As artistic director of the nonprof…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 09:23AMTuesday, September 24, 2013
NEW YORK — Few people get to meet a U.S. president. Dule Hill has met four — one fake and three real ones. And now he's gotten to strut his stuff in front of a sitting one.The actor and…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 11:05AMMonday, September 16, 2013
NEW YORK — Reeve Carney, the actor who played the hero in "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" for three years on Broadway, returned to his dressing room to clean it out Monday, a day after bi…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 06:01PMSunday, September 15, 2013
WASHINGTON — Phylicia Rashad is best known for starring roles on stage and television, but as a director she decided to commemorate a historic moment that helped spur the civil rights mov…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 06:57PMTuesday, September 10, 2013
PITTSBURGH — Franco Harris is going from Super Bowl champ to "Champion of Champions."The Pittsburgh Opera says the Steelers' Hall of Famer will be featured in its season-opening productio…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 04:51PMMonday, September 9, 2013
NEW YORK — Fresh off his success with "Kinky Boots," Harvey Fierstein will be offering his first play in almost 30 years — and there's plenty of kink.The Manhattan Theatre Club said Mon…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 03:40PMWednesday, September 4, 2013
WASHINGTON — Julie Andrews, Tony Bennett, Tina Fey and Amy Poehler will honor Carol Burnett as she receives the nation's top humor prize in Washington.The Kennedy Center for the Performin…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 11:04AMWednesday, August 28, 2013
NEW YORK — There's Denzel Washington and Billy Crystal, plenty of Shakespeare and a nice dash of Harold Pinter. There's even a musical of the boxing classic "Rocky" and the much anticipat…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 11:20AMFriday, August 16, 2013
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SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 01:37PM 
