Monday, March 10, 2014
LONDON " Screen stars Jude Law, Tom Hiddleston and Judi Dench saw their stage work rewarded Monday with nominations for Britain's Laurence Olivier theater awards.Law is a best-actor contend…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 09:45AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 5, 2014
Randi Zuckerberg, a sister of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, is turning to an old medium " the stage
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 02:40PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 26, 2014
NEW YORK " A close friend of Philip Seymour Hoffman has settled a libel lawsuit against The National Enquirer by creating a playwriting foundation to be initially funded by the tabloid.In a …
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 10:02AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 25, 2014
LONDON " It's curtains for Andrew Lloyd Webber's latest musical in London's West End.Producers say "Stephen Ward," a tale of sex and scandal based on a real Cold War episode, will close Marc…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 03:04PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 12, 2014
NEW YORK " Singer-songwriter Sting's new musical "The Last Ship" has found a nice berth on Broadway.Producer Jeffrey Seller said Wednesday that the show " inspired by Sting's memories of gr…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 01:48PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 11, 2014
NEW YORK " Neil Patrick Harris has given way to Hugh Jackman at the Tony Awards.Producers of the annual telecast celebrating the best of Broadway said Tuesday that Jackman will once again t…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 02:48PM[SHARE]NEW YORK " Maggie Gyllenhaal will make her Broadway debut this fall opposite Ewan McGregor in "The Real Thing."Roundabout Theatre Company said Tuesday that Gyllenhaal and McGregor will play…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 12:30PM[SHARE]Monday, February 3, 2014
Super Bowl week turned into mostly a super bust for Broadway. Box-office grosses declined $2.4 million and ticket buyers fell by more than 15,000 for the week ending Sunday, according...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:22PM[SHARE]NEW YORK " Broadway theaters will dim their marquee lights Wednesday night in memory of Philip Seymour Hoffman, the movie and theater star who earned three Tony Award nominations.The Broadw…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 01:32PM[SHARE]NEW YORK " Fran Drescher recently turned a corner in her life. She's gotten a new pet, a new man and a new job " on Broadway.The Emmy Award-nominated former star of "The Nanny" is making her…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 11:44AM[SHARE]Monday, January 27, 2014
The new musical for children features the legendary Caribbean reggae artist's songs and tells the story of Ziggy, a shy Jamaican child who finally learns to face his fears and enjoy life.A s…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 10:35PM[SHARE]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 06:02PM[SHARE]MADRID " 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 premiere T…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 09:29AM[SHARE]NEW 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.Now …
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 02:16AM[SHARE]Tuesday, 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" with…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 07:36PM[SHARE]Sunday, 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 w…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 07:12PM[SHARE]Tuesday, 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 choreograph…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 11:25AM[SHARE]Friday, 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 09:34AM[SHARE]Wednesday, 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, who…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 08:38AM[SHARE]Tuesday, 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 Dohert…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 06:55PM[SHARE]NEW 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 who …
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 08:49AM[SHARE]Monday, 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 will …
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 12:57PM[SHARE]Tuesday, 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."When …
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 08:13AM[SHARE]NEW 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 "Mi…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 06:14AM[SHARE]Tuesday, 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 01:21AM[SHARE]Wednesday, 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 script …
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 01:39PM[SHARE]Friday, 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 07:49PM[SHARE]Wednesday, 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 or…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 09:48AM[SHARE]Friday, 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 09:19PM[SHARE]Tuesday, 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 an…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 09:15AM[SHARE] 
