Monday, May 25, 2015
A web of marketing readies for the opening of the Spider-Man musical on Broadway
SOURCE: ABC News at 05:58PM"Easier than we could ever have imagined. Harder than we ever thought," says Bono, resting at a Times Square hotel near where "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" is readying its first preview.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMT.R. Knight, Brendan Fraser, Patrick Stewart, David Hyde Pierce and Mark Rylance are among the high-profile actors whose Broadway season has ended rather abruptly.Those are the early casualt…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMFor Peter Filichia, a theater critic for The Star Ledger in Newark, N.J., the long delays getting the project to the stage and the problems now that it is finally being performed bode poorly.
SOURCE: news.yahoo.com at 05:58PMBillie Joe Armstrong apparently liked his Broadway debut in "American Idiot" — he's signed on to return for 50 performances.Producers said Tuesday the Green Day frontman will reprise t…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMWill Swenson went from very hairy to virtually hairless in a matter of weeks.
SOURCE: news.yahoo.com at 05:58PMThomas Kail is having lunch in the theater district when his iPhone resting in the middle of the restaurant table starts buzzing. He casually looks down to check who’s calling.
SOURCE: news.yahoo.com at 05:58PMDespite her famous name, Jemma Redgrave insists she's no prima donna.
SOURCE: news.yahoo.com at 05:58PMThe frenetic musical biography of Nigerian musician and activist Fela Anikulapo Kuti will be broadcast across the globe this week from London.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMThe sure sign of a good actress is that you forget, over the course of two hours, that the woman you are seeing is, in fact, a man.
SOURCE: news.yahoo.com at 05:58PMPatrick Page says he's 'having a ball' as the Green Goblin in 'Spider-Man' musical on Broadway
SOURCE: ABC News at 05:58PMDirector David Cromer says negotiations are under way to get James Franco to join Nicole Kidman in a Broadway production later this year of "Sweet Bird of Youth."Says Cromer: "It looks like …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMDirector David Cromer says negotiations are under way to get James Franco to join Nicole Kidman in a Broadway production later this year of "Sweet Bird of Youth."
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMKurt Weill's musical 'Lost in the Stars' is rediscovered and makes for a powerful evening
SOURCE: ABC News at 05:58PMThe reviews are in for "Spider-Man: Turn off the Dark" — and that could be a bit of a problem. Not because of what they say, but that they exist at all.
SOURCE: news.yahoo.com at 05:58PMSome theater critics are weighing in on the $65 million musical even though it doesn't officially open until March 15, violating the time-honored agreement between producers and journalists.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMJackson clearly has an excellent ear for dialogue and does not fall into the trap of overreaching, but it sometimes feels as though he hasn't reached enough. While setting a play on death ro…
SOURCE: news.yahoo.com at 05:58PMEric Simonson is working on "Magic/Bird," a new play that will chronicle the lives of basketball Hall of Famers Earvin "Magic" Johnson and Larry Bird.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMKelsey Grammer married 29-year-old Kayte Walsh on Friday at Broadway's Longacre Theatre -- the same place where the actor had been headlining "La Cage aux Folles."
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMNine life-sized puppets and their controllers are being put through their paces to prepare for the U.S. premiere of "War Horse," a play about horses sent to the battlefields during World W…
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMJacqueline Arnold, one of three Divas in Broadway's "Priscilla Queen of the Desert, The Musical," says she found the silvery stuff all over a shirt while unpacking on vacation.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMThe actor badly hurt at the Broadway musical "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" plans to go back to the show this week — as a spectator.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMThursday, May 21, 2015
NEW YORK (AP) -- You can tell a lot about a person by the way they treat waiters. So it's refreshing to see Megan Hilty smile and warmly greet each of the men busily setting up dinner se…
SOURCE: Associated Press at 08:29AMTuesday, May 19, 2015
NEW YORK (AP) -- Many theater owners like to say they offer an intimate show but only one really means it....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 10:50AMNEW YORK (AP) -- Carol Channing's toothy grin. The Marx Brothers hamming it up. The cast of "Rent" performing a frenetic ensemble number....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 08:33AMMonday, May 18, 2015
NEW YORK (AP) -- Taye Diggs is about to get a little freaky onstage - as the next transsexual singer Hedwig....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 02:00PMWednesday, May 13, 2015
NEW YORK (AP) -- "Tuck Everlasting" wants to live forever on Broadway....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 01:11PMTuesday, May 12, 2015
NEW YORK (AP) -- Before hitting a Broadway stage, she has to remember not to let her butt stick out. Her co-star, meanwhile, can't forget to swivel his shoulders back....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 08:42AM 
