Wednesday, May 1, 2024
Director Rupert Goold discusses Putin’s rise to power in Peter Morgan’s acclaimed Broadway drama, now on stage at Ethel Barrymore Theatre. At a climactic moment in “Patriots,” the Ru…
SOURCE: www.allarts.org at 09:22AMThursday, February 1, 2024
Journalist Patrick Pacheco, who collaborated with Rivera on her memoir, shares stories from their decades-long partnership.
SOURCE: Broadway News Subscription at 08:00AMWednesday, November 15, 2023
Writers Qui Nguyen, Jocelyn Bioh and Rebekah Greer Melocik on their rise through nonprofit spaces and the impact of the shifting landscape. Until 2015, Qui Nguyen was struggling to support h…
SOURCE: www.allarts.org at 07:26PMMonday, September 18, 2023
In “The Shark Is Broken,” Ian Shaw becomes his father during the troubled filming of Steven Spielberg’s blockbuster “Jaws.” In 1978, the acclaimed British stage and movie star Robe…
SOURCE: www.allarts.org at 05:49PMWednesday, August 9, 2023
Countries, by and large, adopt women as their allegorical figurehead. There is America’s Lady Liberty, Mother Russia and France’s Marianne. In the Philippines, between 1965 and 1986, Fir…
SOURCE: www.allarts.org at 02:48PMThursday, March 23, 2023
Musical theater has always been a generator of romance, optimism and joy. And there’s no lack of that in the shows slated to open prior to April 27, the Tony Award deadline for considerati…
SOURCE: www.allarts.org at 10:07AMFriday, March 10, 2023
Talk of recession? What recession? Broadway producers have apparently yet to get the memo. No less than nine plays are slated to open before the 2022-2023 season comes to a close on April 27…
SOURCE: www.allarts.org at 04:13PMTuesday, October 18, 2022
“Daddy” is the first word of “Shy: The Alarmingly Outspoken Memoirs of Mary Rodgers,” a frank admission on two counts: that the contours of her life were significantly shaped as the …
SOURCE: www.allarts.org at 05:16PMThursday, December 9, 2021
Just before director Steven Spielberg began filming “West Side Story,” Rachel Zegler, one of the new production’s stars, had a crisis of confidence. After a sleepless night, she texted…
SOURCE: www.allarts.org at 08:26PMWednesday, May 26, 2021
With Broadway on the cusp of reopening after a long shutdown, four artists — a director-choreographer, an actor, a playwright and a designer — reflect on what one of them has called a �…
SOURCE: www.allarts.org at 11:28AMThursday, December 19, 2019
Two-part plays have held sway over producers for decades, promising accolades and speaking to a higher calling of bringing the production to the masses. And yet, when these shows come to B…
SOURCE: Broadway News Subscription at 07:00AMSunday, June 30, 2019
From the Jonathan Larson Grant to the Andrew Lloyd Webber Initiative, financial assistance programs look to level the playing field for the next theatre greats.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:00AMWednesday, July 11, 2018
When the Tony-winning revival of “Angels in America” ends its Broadway run, it will be Andrew Garfield, as Prior Walter, who will say the last lines: “You are fabulous. Each and every …
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 09:06AMTuesday, June 26, 2018
One of the most disturbing and memorable images in theatrical history came in 2006 when a body pushed its way up through the felt of a billiard table in Gregory Burke’s “Black Watch.” …
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 02:03PMSaturday, June 9, 2018
The aspiring artists touched by the American Theatre Wing’s Andrew Lloyd Webber Initiative speak out about the gift from the Tony-winning composer-lyricist.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThursday, June 7, 2018
Before being seduced into theater, Ethan Slater was a high school and college wrestler — the sport a source of discipline, work ethic and body awareness. “I knew where my body was at all…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:00AMThursday, May 3, 2018
It’s little wonder that “Casablanca” is among the all-time favorite films of Summer Shelton. After all, the 37-year-old film producer is drawn to stories about people who don’t expec…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 09:32PMSaturday, January 27, 2018
Put a star in a limited engagement on Broadway and you’ve got a set-up for a hot ticket and premium price exorbitance. Think of Bruce Springsteen, Bette Midler (“Hello, Dolly!”), Uma T…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 03:02PMThursday, August 10, 2017
Be sure that your wallet is full of Hamiltons if you plan on walking away from Lin-Manuel Miranda’s musical with merchandise to commemorate the day. At the pop-up store in the Paramount Ho…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:00AMWednesday, February 8, 2017
The producers of the new revival of Stephen Sondheim’s “Sunday in the Park with George,” starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Annaleigh Ashford, recently announced that the show would not be c…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 06:30PMMonday, February 6, 2017
There was a sense of déjà vu on Broadway when the Oscar nominations were announced, especially when it came to the four nods for “Fences”: Best Picture, Best Actor (Denzel Washington),…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 03:19PMThursday, January 26, 2017
Mary Tyler Moore, who died on Wednesday at age 80, has been mourned as one of the most beloved actors of her time, celebrated particularly for her long runs on TV’s “Dick Van Dyke Show�…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 03:26PMMonday, January 9, 2017
Donald Trump’s surprise victory in the electoral college was seen by some pundits as a repudiation of the liberal bastions of Hollywood and Broadway. After all, Hillary Clinton was support…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 03:03PMThursday, December 29, 2016
When Debbie Reynolds called her daughter, Carrie, she would invariably announce over the phone, “Carrie, this is Debbie Reynolds, your mother.”With the sardonic, eye-rolling flippancy th…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 02:25PMTuesday, December 20, 2016
Garth Drabinsky, one of Broadway’s most flamboyant — some would say notorious — producers of the 1990s, is staging a comeback with “Sousatzka,” a new Broadway-bound musical now gea…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 06:25PMTuesday, December 6, 2016
Nothing like a boycott promoted by conservative Republicans to send the Broadway grosses soaring. The boycott of “Hamilton,” Lin-Manual Miranda’s mega-smash, was started, you’l…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 04:26PMIn the Spring of 1985, the actor and playwright Calvin Levels was taking in Jean-Michel Basquiat’s exhibition at the Mary Boone Gallery when he spied the artist, who had lately become huge…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 03:19PMTuesday, November 22, 2016
As everyone who's been awake this week knows, a Twitter tempest was set off when the cast of “Hamilton,” at the curtain call of last Saturday evening’s performance, addressed a patron …
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 12:40PMSunday, November 20, 2016
Charity Valentine, the indomitable dance hall hostess is back, and in the parlance of classic movie ads, the New Group has got her. Now in its 20th year, the non-profit off-Broadway company,…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 05:25PMThe legal salvos flying over the program billing in “The Great Comet of 1812” were happily resolved just before that Broadway musical opened to very strong notices. But then just o…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 04:55PMThursday, November 10, 2016
When the diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky — written in 1919 just before he was committed to a Zurich sanatorium — were first published in 1936, the writer Henry Miller praised them as “a com…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 05:49PM 
