Tuesday, December 18, 2012
In anticipation of the second season of HBO's Girls, show star and creator Lena Dunham sat down for a round of drinks with her male co-stars including Broadway vets Andrew Rann…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:12PMEddie Redmayne’s career is about to take off into outer space. The English actor, who will earn the hearts of audiences everywhere as Marius in Les Misérables, is in talks to co…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:57AMGood news for the critically acclaimed off-Broadway production of My Name is Asher Lev. The stage adaptation of Chaim Potok’s classic coming-of-age novel has extended at the Westside T…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:24AMMonday, December 17, 2012
Michael Puzzo’s Spirits of Exit Eleven will make its world premiere at off-Broadway's Lion Theatre at Theatre Row. The show will run from January 10, 2013 through February 2, with …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:18PMNBC has decided to up the airing of the first episode of 1600 Penn, the White House-set political sitcom co-created by (and starring) former The Book of Mormon star Josh Gad. The series will…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:23AMFriday, December 14, 2012
You’re never too old to learn something new, and that’s most definitely the case this week, as we found out a ton of surprising new life lessons over these past seven days. We le…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:04PMWe didn’t need another reason to love the adorably bearded bundle of fuzzies that is Mandy Patinkin, but now we have one! The Homeland star and Broadway vet eschewed conversation about…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:54PMCan you smell that? It’s the U.K. premiere of Sweet Smell of Success, the 2002 Broadway musical about a gossip columnist who sets out to ruin his sister’s unsuitable relationship…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:23PMFull casting has been announced for Mark Ravenhill’s new translation of Bertolt Brecht’s A Life of Galileo, which runs at the Swan Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon from January 31,…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:24AMThe epic musical Giant, which is nearing the end of its run at off-Broadway's Public Theater, will be preserved with an original cast album featuring the show’s sweeping score by M…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:14AMTV Land’s sophomore comedy Retired At 35, which stars George Segal, Jessica Walter and Tony winner Marissa Jaret Winokur, has turned in early. Deadline reports that the network decided…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:24AMRoundabout Theatre Company’s revival of Picnic, William Inge’s Pulitzer Prize-winning comedy about two feuding families in small-town Kansas, begins performances on December 14. …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 09:51AMThursday, December 13, 2012
Oscar winner Holly Hunter has dropped out of Hamish Linklater’s world premiere play The Vandal, which she was set to lead at Off-Broadway's Flea Theater, due to scheduling con…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:37PMThere’s a decidedly non-cheery bit of news this holiday season for Ben Sprecher, the lead producer of the ill-fated musical Rebecca, which was scrapped after a long debacle with fraudu…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:20PMVenice, a new musical with a book by Eric Rosen, music by Matt Sax and lyrics by Sax and Rosen, has been added to the Public Theater’s 2013 LAB season. Rosen will also direct the produ…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:59PMTalk about a complete turnaround! Jessica Chastain plays a sheltered homebody in Broadway’s The Heiress, a stark contrast to the role of a CIA analyst she takes on in the new awards da…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:28PMBroadway legend Mandy Patinkin may play a terrorist-fighting teddy bear on Homeland, but the velvety vocalist was decidedly less cuddly when he appeared on The Colbert Report on December 12.…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:25AMWednesday, December 12, 2012
Tom Hanks will get by with a little help from his friends—or more appropriately, his buddy—when he makes his Broadway debut in Nora Ephron’s Lucky Guy. Hanks’ former&…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:01PMAnne Hathaway is certainly making the rounds to promote the upcoming movie-musical Les Misérables, and the latest stop on the press tour is the desk of late night host Jimmy Fallon. I…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:28AM“You basically have to live like a monk,” Amanda Seyfried said of her intense self-health regimen during the shooting of Les Misérables. Seyfried took to The Late Show wit…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:27AMKristin Chenoweth had a few hilarious surprises up her tiny sleeve when she served as host for this year's American Country Awards. Clad in a bright pink dress and blonde curls, Che…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:24AMTuesday, December 11, 2012
One of the most exciting tasks for any Broadway company is stepping into the recording studio and preserve their show for posterity! That’s exactly what the talented cast of The Myster…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:10PMEight years after coming in second place to Carrie Underwood on the fourth season of American Idol, Bo Bice will make his Broadway debut! The singer will lead the six-person ensemble of…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:02PMLucky Jack O’Brien! The veteran Broadway director had quite the stunning date on his arm—the spectacular Katie Holmes—for the Broadway Dreams Foundation Champagne and Carol…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:30AMLike fruitcake and family arguments, Glee’s Christmas episodes are becoming a holiday staple. In this week’s festive installment (a Love, Actually tribute titled “Glee, Act…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:06AMRoundabout Theatre Company’s revival of The Big Knife, which will star Tony nominee and Emmy-winning actor Bobby Cannavale, has set an opening night date for April 16, 2013 at the Amer…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:00AMThe chameleonic Helena Bonham Carter will be honored for her extensive film resume when the veteran actress receives the Dilys Powell Award for Excellence in Film at the London Critics Circl…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:28AMMonday, December 10, 2012
Cheyenne Jackson has tapped Tony Award winner Nina Arianda to join him as a special guest for his New Year’s Eve celebration Cheyenne Jackson… Music of the Mad Men Era, whi…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:28PMCharl Brown (Jersey Boys, Sister Act) will star as Smokey Robinson in Motown: The Musical, the new bio musical about the life of iconic Motown founder Berry Gordy. Brown joins previously-ann…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:29PMSmash is almost back on TV—and with some spicy new energy in the form of Jennifer Hudson, Jeremy Jordan and a slew of other familiar theater faces ready to inject NBC’s Broadway …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:28PMWith the release of Les Misérables only two weeks away, all eyes are on uber-producer Cameron Mackintosh—who, according to The Philippine Star, is already looking ahead to …
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