Friday, April 20, 2012
The West End production of "The King's Speech," written by David Seidler, the Academy Award-winning screenwriter of the film, opened to positive reviews in March and was to run through July …
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“Nice Fish,” written by Mark Rylance and Louis Jenkins, will make its debut at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis next year.
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Christian Borle, an actor in NBC’s “Smash,” is also keeping a foot in the theater, playing a pirate in “Peter and the Starcatcher,” opening Sunday on Broadway.
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A musical version of "The Nutty Professor," adapted from Jerry Lewis's hit 1963 and starring Michael Andrew as Julius Kelp and directed by Mr. Lewis, will make its debut in July at the James…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:46PMThe month-long program, running from April 27 through May 27 at the Museum of the Moving Image, will honor the innovative character skits and comedy pieces of Ernie Kovacs and Edie Adams and…
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Jason Reitman, the director of "Juno," "Young Adult" and "Up in the Air," will present a live reading of the screenplay for Billy Wilder's "The Apartment" featuring a cast of contemporary ac…
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In a post on his blog Mike Daisey, the writer and performer of the disputed one-man show "The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs," wrote, "When I said onstage that I had personally experien…
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Barry Humphries, the actor and comedian who has played Dame Edna Everage in various incarnations for more than half a century, says that a coming stage show called "Eat Pray Laugh!" will be …
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Steve Martin — who, when he is not writing, acting or tweeting, is also an accomplished banjo player — will write new music to be performed by a live bluegrass band for the Shakespeare i…
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"Animal House: The Musical," based on the hit 1978 college comedy, will feature a new score by the band Barenaked Ladies and will be directed and choreographed by Casey Nicholaw, a Tony Awar…
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David Hyde Pierce explains the production of "The Importance of Being Earnest" that he is directing for this summer's Williamstown Theater Festival, stemming from his belief that the languag…
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The creators of the influential art-house movies “My Dinner With André” and “Vanya on 42nd Street” are planning a filmed version of Ibsen’s “Master Builder.”
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Al Pacino, the Academy and Tony Award-winning actor, was recognized along with Will Barnet, Rita Dove and Mel Tillis, among other honorees, as the National Medals of Arts and the National Hu…
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Live performances of the play, with a cast that features Phylicia Rashad and Leslie Uggams and directed by Ruben Santiago-Hudson, will be recorded for a planned national broadcast in Septemb…
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The Intiman Theater, which has been under financial duress for a year, said that it had raised over $1 million in pledges and would present a four-play season in the summer.
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Monday, January 23, 2012
Tim Rice, the "Jesus Christ Superstar" lyricist and one-time collaborator of Mr. Lloyd Webber, said that a reality series to cast a new production of the musical was "tasteless" and "tacky."
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Cate Blanchett and her husband, Andrew Upton, will end their tenure with the Australian theater company for which she starred in an acclaimed production of "A Streetcar Named Desire."
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For the third year in a row the Poe Toaster has failed to make an annual birthday visit to the Baltimore grave of Edgar Allan Poe and the organizers of a vigil say they will no longer stake …
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The "Star Trek" actor's one-man show, called "Shatner's World: We Just Live in It," will begin performances next month and will be his first Broadway production in more than 50 years.
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Paramount said it had acquired the distribution rights to "Cirque du Soleil Worlds Away," a 3D movie written and directed by Andrew Adamson (of the "Shrek" and "Narnia" franchises) and whose…
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The coming Broadway transfer of that Andrew Lloyd Webber/Tim Rice musical will retain many of the performers from its widely praised runs at the La Jolla Playhouse and the Straford Shakespea…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:23AMIn an interview with Jimmy Fallon, Louis C. K. said that from the money he has made from his online comedy special "Live at the Beacon Theater," he would give $250,000 in bonuses to people w…
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Ms. Ricci will play the diminutive but excitable Hermia in the production, which previously announced Ms. Neuwirth to star as the fairy queen, Titania. Think of it as the coming together of …
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The Brooklyn theater said that it had signed a three-year lease on a new 19,000-square-foot home at 29 Jay Street in Brooklyn, near its current base of operations at 38 Water Street.
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Mr. Cumming, the "Good Wife" and "Cabaret" star, will play every single role in a new production of the Shakespeare tragedy, including the regicidal schemer of its title and his devious, spo…
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The concept of a stage production based on Mr. Bowie's songs is unlikely to be realized unless the singer ch-ch-ch-ch-changes his mind.
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The West End production of the Agatha Christie mystery was first performed on Nov. 25, 1952, and a new British tour and other events were announced to mark the anniversary.
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The first-ever theatrical production of "The Sound of Music" in the city where the von Trapp family lived - and fled from - has made audiences come alive with approval, even as it invokes un…
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Three decades after they made their names in “Evita,” Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin are returning to Broadway together.
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Ms. Silverman, the coarse, candid comedian, surprises with her performances from "Man of La Mancha," "Annie," "Company" and "Les Miserables" on Seth Rudetsky's SiriusXM radio show.
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