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Monday, December 9, 2013

Leighton Meester to make Broadway debut next year by Mark Kennedy

NEW YORK (AP) -- Former "Gossip Girl" star Leighton Meester will make her Broadway debut next year as a beautiful temptress in the revival of "Of Mice and Men."...

SOURCE: Associated Press at 02:16AM
Thursday, December 5, 2013

TV Review: Broadway wins in live 'Sound of Music' by Mark Kennedy

NEW YORK (AP) -- Whew, that was nerve-wracking, right? All those kids and staircases, pillow fights, candles and dancing. But somehow the cast and crew of NBC's three-hour live telecast …

SOURCE: Associated Press at 11:59PM

Marin Mazzie joins 'Bullets Over Broadway' cast by Mark Kennedy

NEW YORK (AP) -- Marin Mazzie will get to play an aging diva in the Broadway musical based on Woody Allen's crime caper "Bullets Over Broadway."...

SOURCE: Associated Press at 02:32PM
Monday, December 2, 2013

Broadway's 'Pippin' recoups $8.5M investment by Mark Kennedy

NEW YORK (AP) -- The current revival of "Pippin" has proved magical at the box office and now comes proof: The show has recouped its $8.5 million costs....

SOURCE: Associated Press at 01:48PM
Tuesday, November 26, 2013

Michael McKean, Brandon J. Dirden join Cranston by Mark Kennedy

NEW YORK (AP) -- The Broadway-bound play about President Lyndon B. Johnson starring Bryan Cranston has named its Martin Luther King Jr. and its J. Edgar Hoover....

SOURCE: Associated Press at 03:05PM

'Sleep No More' adds a restaurant and intrigue by Mark Kennedy

NEW YORK (AP) -- A new restaurant opening this week in New York has more than just good food on the menu....

SOURCE: Associated Press at 06:43AM

Franco to star in Broadway's 'Of Mice and Men' by Mark Kennedy

NEW YORK (AP) -- 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."...

SOURCE: Associated Press at 06:14AM
Monday, November 25, 2013

Game show 'Jeopardy!' gives Broadway a boost by Mark Kennedy

NEW YORK (AP) -- Answer: It's the TV show that's spreading the word about Broadway. Question: What is "Jeopardy!"...

SOURCE: Associated Press at 04:58PM

Sutton Foster to return to Broadway in 'Violet' by Mark Kennedy

NEW YORK (AP) -- One of Broadway's biggest stars is coming back: Sutton Foster....

SOURCE: Associated Press at 12:03AM
Sunday, November 24, 2013

Review: McKellen, Stewart shine in Beckett, Pinter by Mark Kennedy

NEW YORK (AP) -- For those who crave more than a single dose of ennui onstage, rejoice: The theater gods have given you two inscrutably postmodern classics this season. They've also been…

SOURCE: Associated Press at 08:02PM
Tuesday, November 19, 2013

Spider-Man musical to end Broadway run, decamp to Las Vegas stage after dismal fall box office results by Mark Kennedy

Producers are turning the lights off forever on the Spider-Man musical on Broadway early next year, as the show is now scheduled to limp away to Las Vegas

SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 11:55AM

'Spider-Man' show to close on Broadway; Vegas next by Mark Kennedy

NEW YORK (AP) -- 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…

SOURCE: Associated Press at 12:23AM
Wednesday, November 13, 2013

Review: Billy Crystal's '700 Sundays' still moving by Mark Kennedy

NEW YORK (AP) -- If you're lucky, at the end of Billy Crystal's moving one-man show "700 Sundays," you'll get to watch the actor really move. He does a cartwheel across the Imperial Thea…

SOURCE: Associated Press at 08:09PM
Monday, November 11, 2013

'The Princess Bride' being adapted for the stage by Mark Kennedy

NEW YORK (AP) -- It's not completely inconceivable - "The Princess Bride" is coming to the stage....

SOURCE: Associated Press at 02:16PM
Sunday, November 10, 2013

Review: Mark Rylance shines in 2 Shakespeare parts by Mark Kennedy

NEW YORK (AP) -- Mark Rylance will have you pealing with laughter as he plays a repressed noblewoman in William Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night." He'll also, rather astonishingly, do the sa…

SOURCE: Associated Press at 10:02PM
Saturday, November 9, 2013

Cast of 'Porgy and Bess' excited for national tour by Mark Kennedy

NEW YORK (AP) -- Nathaniel Stampley ached to make the role of Porgy his own in the celebrated 2012 Broadway revival of "Porgy and Bess." Instead, he kept dying....

SOURCE: Associated Press at 11:17AM
Friday, November 8, 2013

The backstage ballet at 'A Gentleman's Guide' by Mark Kennedy

NEW YORK (AP) -- Deep in the first act of the new Broadway musical "A Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder," the actor Jefferson Mays slips offstage dressed as a man. He will return a …

SOURCE: Associated Press at 09:27AM
Sunday, November 3, 2013

Review: 'After Midnight' celebrates thrilling jazz by Mark Kennedy

NEW YORK (AP) -- There are few things that bring smiles to even the most jaded faces - balloons, blaring trumpets and tap dancers. A new Broadway revue has two - no, make that all three …

SOURCE: Associated Press at 08:02PM
Friday, November 1, 2013

'Spider-Man' musical co-writer spills the beans by Mark Kennedy

NEW YORK (AP) -- This summer, out of the blue, playwright Glen Berger got a call from director Julie Taymor....

SOURCE: Associated Press at 09:28AM
Thursday, October 31, 2013

Ewan McGregor to star on Broadway next year by Mark Kennedy

NEW YORK (AP) -- "Star Wars" and "Trainspotting" star Ewan McGregor will make his Broadway debut next year in a revival of Tom Stoppard's "The Real Thing."...

SOURCE: Associated Press at 04:18PM
Wednesday, October 30, 2013

The wardrobe wizard of 'Wicked' is revealed by Mark Kennedy

NEW YORK (AP) -- 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....

SOURCE: Associated Press at 09:09AM
Sunday, October 27, 2013

Review: Revival of Pinter's 'Betrayal' is stunning by Mark Kennedy

NEW YORK (AP) -- If revenge is a dish best served cold, betrayal is one apparently lubricated by plenty of booze....

SOURCE: Associated Press at 09:02PM
Friday, October 25, 2013

Orlando Bloom and Miranda Kerr announce split by Mark Kennedy

NEW YORK (AP) -- The marriage of actor Orlando Bloom and model Miranda Kerr has ended - even as Bloom tackles one of the most romantic roles in history, Romeo....

SOURCE: Associated Press at 02:41PM

Broadway's 'Mamma Mia!' moves, reaches milestone by Mark Kennedy

NEW YORK (AP) -- During one of her last visits to the Winter Garden Theatre, Judy Craymer took in the empty seats, the elegant gilding and the ghost light quietly burning onstage....

SOURCE: Associated Press at 08:55AM
Tuesday, October 22, 2013

Playwright contest winner named _ next stop B'way by Mark Kennedy

NEW YORK (AP) -- A sophomore from New York University has emerged from a frazzling and frenzied two-day playwriting boot camp to win a shot at penning a short play for Broadway....

SOURCE: Associated Press at 02:20PM

Mayor helps new theater dedication in Brooklyn by Mark Kennedy

NEW YORK (AP) -- New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, director Julie Taymor and actor Mark Rylance gathered Tuesday in Brooklyn to help cut the ribbon for a jewel box-sized, shiny new theat…

SOURCE: Associated Press at 12:53PM
Monday, October 21, 2013

Doctor makes stage-door visits on Broadway by Mark Kennedy

NEW YORK (AP) -- Outside a dressing room one recent afternoon in the Walter Kerr Theatre, a line of people waited to roll up their sleeves....

SOURCE: Associated Press at 06:57AM
Sunday, October 20, 2013

Review: 'A Time to Kill' is not worth killing time by Mark Kennedy

NEW YORK (AP) -- A paperback copy of John Grisham's novel "A Time to Kill" will set you back less than $10. The DVD of the film will cost a few bucks more. The new adaptation on Broadway…

SOURCE: Associated Press at 09:04PM
Friday, October 18, 2013

'The Lion King' to set new milestone on Broadway by Mark Kennedy

NEW YORK (AP) -- "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....

SOURCE: Associated Press at 10:42AM
Thursday, October 17, 2013

Review: 'The Winslow Boy' _ tonic for the stubborn by Mark Kennedy

NEW YORK (AP) -- So many things onstage these days champion the notion that change is good - open your mind, learn to love what you fear, embrace the unknown. So it's refreshing to have …

SOURCE: Associated Press at 09:24PM

Musical of 'An American in Paris' eyes Broadway by Mark Kennedy

NEW YORK (AP) -- A stage musical based on the film "An American in Paris" with music by George and Ira Gershwin is aiming for Broadway in 2015 after a stop in - where else? - Paris next …

SOURCE: Associated Press at 05:14PM

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