Two-part plays have held sway over producers for decades, promising accolades and speaking to a higher calling of bringing the production to the masses. And yet, when these shows come to B…
SOURCE: Broadway News at 07:00AMFrom the Jonathan Larson Grant to the Andrew Lloyd Webber Initiative, financial assistance programs look to level the playing field for the next theatre greats.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:00AMWhen the Tony-winning revival of “Angels in America” ends its Broadway run, it will be Andrew Garfield, as Prior Walter, who will say the last lines: “You are fabulous. Each and every …
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 09:06AMOne of the most disturbing and memorable images in theatrical history came in 2006 when a body pushed its way up through the felt of a billiard table in Gregory Burke’s “Black Watch.” …
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 02:03PMThe aspiring artists touched by the American Theatre Wing’s Andrew Lloyd Webber Initiative speak out about the gift from the Tony-winning composer-lyricist.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMBefore being seduced into theater, Ethan Slater was a high school and college wrestler — the sport a source of discipline, work ethic and body awareness. “I knew where my body was at all…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:00AMIt’s little wonder that “Casablanca” is among the all-time favorite films of Summer Shelton. After all, the 37-year-old film producer is drawn to stories about people who don’t expec…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 09:32PMPut a star in a limited engagement on Broadway and you’ve got a set-up for a hot ticket and premium price exorbitance. Think of Bruce Springsteen, Bette Midler (“Hello, Dolly!”), Uma T…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 03:02PMBe sure that your wallet is full of Hamiltons if you plan on walking away from Lin-Manuel Miranda’s musical with merchandise to commemorate the day. At the pop-up store in the Paramount Ho…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:00AMThe producers of the new revival of Stephen Sondheim’s “Sunday in the Park with George,” starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Annaleigh Ashford, recently announced that the show would not be c…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 06:30PMThere was a sense of déjà vu on Broadway when the Oscar nominations were announced, especially when it came to the four nods for “Fences”: Best Picture, Best Actor (Denzel Washington),…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 03:19PMMary Tyler Moore, who died on Wednesday at age 80, has been mourned as one of the most beloved actors of her time, celebrated particularly for her long runs on TV’s “Dick Van Dyke Show�…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 03:26PMDonald Trump’s surprise victory in the electoral college was seen by some pundits as a repudiation of the liberal bastions of Hollywood and Broadway. After all, Hillary Clinton was support…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 03:03PMWhen Debbie Reynolds called her daughter, Carrie, she would invariably announce over the phone, “Carrie, this is Debbie Reynolds, your mother.”With the sardonic, eye-rolling flippancy th…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 02:25PMGarth Drabinsky, one of Broadway’s most flamboyant — some would say notorious — producers of the 1990s, is staging a comeback with “Sousatzka,” a new Broadway-bound musical now gea…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 06:25PMNothing like a boycott promoted by conservative Republicans to send the Broadway grosses soaring. The boycott of “Hamilton,” Lin-Manual Miranda’s mega-smash, was started, you’l…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 04:26PMIn the Spring of 1985, the actor and playwright Calvin Levels was taking in Jean-Michel Basquiat’s exhibition at the Mary Boone Gallery when he spied the artist, who had lately become huge…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 03:19PMAs everyone who's been awake this week knows, a Twitter tempest was set off when the cast of “Hamilton,” at the curtain call of last Saturday evening’s performance, addressed a patron …
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 12:40PMCharity Valentine, the indomitable dance hall hostess is back, and in the parlance of classic movie ads, the New Group has got her. Now in its 20th year, the non-profit off-Broadway company,…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 05:25PMThe legal salvos flying over the program billing in “The Great Comet of 1812” were happily resolved just before that Broadway musical opened to very strong notices. But then just o…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 04:55PMWhen the diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky — written in 1919 just before he was committed to a Zurich sanatorium — were first published in 1936, the writer Henry Miller praised them as “a com…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 05:49PMAs part of research into her new show “Sell/ Buy/ Date,” about prostitution, Sarah Jones enticed johns from a window in the red light district of Amsterdam, recalled how she felt when L.…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 10:27PMNBC-TV, the network which has turned live broadcasts of Broadway musicals into a bonanza, recently announced that Jennifer Lopez would be starring in “Bye, Bye, Birdie,” its 2017 holiday…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 02:23PMIn the brilliant new revival of “Les Liaisons Dangereuses,” the protagonists, French aristocrats played superbly by Liev Schreiber and Janet McTeer, face off over dueling agendas. …
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 08:29AMThere’ll be few rear-view glances when, at 83, Chita Rivera makes her Carnegie Hall debut on Monday, November 7. The show is titled “Nowadays,” after the song written for her and Gwen …
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 03:08PMOne of the most heartening developments for those who yearn for a bolder commercial theater has been the success of “Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812.” The innovative musica…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 03:23PMWhenever Broadway has a hot ticket—and in recent history no ticket has been hotter than “Hamilton”—there is always the temptation to indulge in what Donald Trump has called “truthf…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 01:25PMBrandon Uranowitz quickly cops to the fact that Mendel, the psychiatrist he plays in the new Broadway revival of “Falsettos,” is wildly inappropriate. His conduct is little short of inde…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 04:44PMA star-studded roster of Broadway performers has given a hand to Hillary Clinton’s campaign while giving the finger to Donald Trump. Headlined by Billy Crystal, the fundraiser “Str…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 02:55PMThere wasn’t a lot of Burt Bacharach on the jukebox in Bud’s on Broadway, a blues bar in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, a favorite hangout of local Kyle Riabko, a musician who gravitated to Er…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 05:13PMChristine Ebersole admits that when she was young, she wanted to be famous. The blond beauty now describes herself as daughter, mother, wife, and animal lover. In that order.Talk about under…
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