Tuesday, June 2, 2015
NEW YORK (AP) -- Sam Gold was still in college when he did something most people only dream about: He made his Broadway acting debut. But he quickly realized he was probably on the wrong…
SOURCE: Associated Press at 01:04PMMonday, June 1, 2015
NEW YORK (AP) -- If Chita Rivera ever wants a quick reminder of her past, she only needs to walk down a hall and knock on Michelle Veintimilla's Broadway dressing room....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 10:16AMFriday, May 29, 2015
NEW YORK (AP) -- Latecomers, be warned: Miss the start of the new show at the Studio 54 theater this summer and you will be heckled by no less than God Almighty....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 07:41AMNEW YORK (AP) -- If you missed the production of "Show Boat" in San Francisco last summer, you missed something big - 65 singers, actors and dancers onstage and some 47 musicians in the …
SOURCE: Associated Press at 07:41AMWednesday, May 27, 2015
NEW YORK (AP) -- Like so many other aspiring actresses, Olivia Washington is paying her dues at a small, off-Broadway theater. Unlike so many other aspiring actresses, she's not relying …
SOURCE: Associated Press at 03:00PMNEW YORK (AP) -- Actress Danielle Brooks is going from orange to purple - jumping from "Orange Is the New Black" on TV to a Broadway stage in the upcoming "The Color Purple" revival....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 03:00PMNEW YORK (AP) -- If the Tony Award for best director was handed out on quantity alone, Jeremy Herrin would easily be the winner....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 09:17AMTuesday, May 26, 2015
NEW YORK (AP) -- Jessica Lange will return to Broadway next spring in a production of "Long Day's Journey Into Night," playing the same role she did 15 years ago in London....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 04:18PMMonday, May 25, 2015
When you're attempting to explain the history of the world, it helps to have some back-up. Colin Quinn has his in no less a master jokester than Jerry Seinfeld.
SOURCE: Google at 05:58PMYou haven't really arrived on Broadway until an image of your grinning face goes up on a massive billboard. It is a joy Jordin Sparks has yet to savor.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMLuck has had something to do with the success of Ken Davenport's production company, but so has a keen business savvy. And that's significant when his latest plan is considered.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMWhen Cherry Jones met Doug Hughes several months ago, Hughes wanted to lure Jones back to Broadway with his version of the George Bernard Shaw play "Mrs. Warren's Profession."
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMThere's naturally much to get done before the costly and complicated show opens on Dec. 21, but a recent visit by AP revealed a methodical and remarkably calm production.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PM"I always was really, really, really against doing anything in front of a live audience," Christina Ricci says. "So the idea of doing a play for years was just like, 'Are you kidding?'"
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMThe first indication that things might get a little weird at "Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson" is the sight before the show begins of a large ...
SOURCE: Google at 05:58PMBroadway return of 'La Bete,' with Mark Rylance and David Hyde Pierce, may leave you speechless
SOURCE: ABC News at 05:58PM"I have no secrets," the 85-year-old Broadway legend says by way of introduction as she sits at a makeup table getting her eyes done before a performance of "A Little Night Music."
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMMoved by a recent spate of suicides by teens who were believed to be victims of anti-gay bullying, members of the theater community have lent their support with what they do best: messages f…
SOURCE: news.yahoo.com at 05:58PMIt's not a bait-and-switch, exactly, but there's more here for the non-football fan than might be expected.
SOURCE: news.yahoo.com at 05:58PMThe Secret Word today is: Comeback. Pee-wee has returned from exile.
SOURCE: news.yahoo.com at 05:58PMAs confounding as this all sounds, what has emerged is an absolute marvel. The creators — including director and choreographer Susan Stroman and book writer David Thompson — walk…
SOURCE: news.yahoo.com at 05:58PMJerry Bock, who composed the music to some of the most memorable shows in Broadway history, including the melodies for "Fiorello!" and "Fiddler on the Roof," has died. He was 81.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMJesse L. Martin has achieved a fair amount of fame from roles in Broadway's "Rent" and TV's "Law & Order" but he is still awed around Al Pacino. And that includes Al Pacino's lunch.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMAlex Timbers is directing a run-through of "The Pee-wee Herman Show" and that means he's in charge of 20 puppets and eight puppeteers. So a run-through gets a little hard.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMThe script is, of course, littered with hopelessly out-of-date references — younger audience members may have no idea what an answerphone is in the age of Skype — but the charm o…
SOURCE: news.yahoo.com at 05:58PM"Everything you need to know as far as preparation, whether you're doing Shakespeare or a contemporary piece, should all be right here," Brendan Frasersays, pointing to Simon Bent's script.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMThe story of two recently released mental patients bunking together in an apartment in Oslo doesn't sound like perfect fodder for a Broadway comedy. But there's something relentlessly charmi…
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