Thursday, 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 05:49PMFriday, November 4, 2016
As part of research into her new show “Sell/ Buy/ Date,” about prostitution, Sarah Jones enticed johns from a window in the red light district of Amsterdam, recalled how she felt when L.…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 10:27PMWednesday, November 2, 2016
NBC-TV, the network which has turned live broadcasts of Broadway musicals into a bonanza, recently announced that Jennifer Lopez would be starring in “Bye, Bye, Birdie,” its 2017 holiday…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 02:23PMTuesday, November 1, 2016
In the brilliant new revival of “Les Liaisons Dangereuses,” the protagonists, French aristocrats played superbly by Liev Schreiber and Janet McTeer, face off over dueling agendas. …
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 08:29AMFriday, October 28, 2016
There’ll be few rear-view glances when, at 83, Chita Rivera makes her Carnegie Hall debut on Monday, November 7. The show is titled “Nowadays,” after the song written for her and Gwen …
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 03:08PMMonday, October 24, 2016
One of the most heartening developments for those who yearn for a bolder commercial theater has been the success of “Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812.” The innovative musica…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 03:23PMFriday, October 21, 2016
Whenever Broadway has a hot ticket—and in recent history no ticket has been hotter than “Hamilton”—there is always the temptation to indulge in what Donald Trump has called “truthf…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 01:25PMWednesday, October 19, 2016
Brandon Uranowitz quickly cops to the fact that Mendel, the psychiatrist he plays in the new Broadway revival of “Falsettos,” is wildly inappropriate. His conduct is little short of inde…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 04:44PMA star-studded roster of Broadway performers has given a hand to Hillary Clinton’s campaign while giving the finger to Donald Trump. Headlined by Billy Crystal, the fundraiser “Str…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 02:55PMTuesday, October 11, 2016
There wasn’t a lot of Burt Bacharach on the jukebox in Bud’s on Broadway, a blues bar in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, a favorite hangout of local Kyle Riabko, a musician who gravitated to Er…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 05:13PMFriday, October 7, 2016
Christine Ebersole admits that when she was young, she wanted to be famous. The blond beauty now describes herself as daughter, mother, wife, and animal lover. In that order.Talk about under…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 10:49PMMonday, October 3, 2016
From 2002 to 2012, director Michael Grandage was the head of London’s Donmar Warehouse. The position he inherited from Sam Mendes was long on prestige, artistic achievement, and honors. Bu…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 11:57AMFriday, September 30, 2016
Kevin Kline, one of the most gifted stage actors of his generation, is notorious for being choosy about his roles. However, the actor who long ago earned the nickname of “Kevin Decline” …
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 03:00PMFriday, September 23, 2016
One of the rock world’s great unknowns is the huge influence that Sister Rosetta Tharpe, an African-American gospel singer and guitarist, had on Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Ray Charles, Ch…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 10:57AMMonday, September 19, 2016
Sitting down with Edward Albee for a chat was as stimulating, provocative and entertaining as experiencing one of the many plays which made him one of the greatest artists of the 20th centur…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 01:14PMFriday, September 16, 2016
There will probably be at least ten new musicals unveiled on Broadway in the course of next season. But all anybody is talking about this Spring’s revival of “Hello, Dolly!,” starring …
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 12:58PMThursday, September 15, 2016
In 1979, at the age of 28, Jack Hofsiss was the youngest director to ever win the Tony Award for his brilliant direction of Bernard Pomerance’s “The Elephant Man.” Handsome, talented a…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 05:17PMWednesday, September 14, 2016
The recent and lamentable passing of Gene Wilder, one of the most beloved actors of his generation, precipitated a re-cap of his career, including his performances in “The Producers,” �…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 03:50PMMonday, September 12, 2016
Those Aussies are at it again. No sooner did Carmen Pavlovic, the CEO of Global Creatures, announce that the company had acquired the rights to “Moulin Rouge!”, Baz Luhrmann’s 20…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 04:42PMThursday, September 8, 2016
What’ll we do without the four goombahs of “Jersey Boys” lighting up Broadway with their doo-wop melodies and falsetto trills on such hits as “Big Girls Don’t Cry,” “Oh, What a…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 11:24AMWednesday, September 7, 2016
After a long period of successive flops, Andrew Lloyd Webber found salvation in “School of Rock,” a popular sweet-natured Jack Black film, about a slacker corralling cute kids into a ban…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 03:12PMThursday, September 1, 2016
The 2002 Best Picture Oscar for “Chicago,” ended a long dry period for the movie musical, which had once dominated Hollywood. Such expensive bombs as “Hello, Dolly!,” “Star,” and…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 06:51PMTuesday, August 30, 2016
Years before Gene Wilder became a beloved comic actor through such films as “The Producers,” “Blazing Saddles,” “Young Frankenstein” and “Stir Crazy,” he was an eager student…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 11:44AMFriday, August 26, 2016
Jennifer Holliday, who won a Tony Award for creating the role of Effie White in the original 1982 production of “Dreamgirls,” is going into the current Broadway revival of “The Color P…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 07:41AMOff-Broadway’s status as stepchild to Broadway is diminishing fast, given how often its fare transfers uptown. Who wouldn’t have wanted to get the jump on “Hamilton” when it was off-…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 07:27AMThursday, August 25, 2016
To paraphrase Howard Beale in the movie “Network,” the producers of “Hamilton” and “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child” are mad as hell and they’re not going to take it any more…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 11:30AMTuesday, August 23, 2016
In 1998, Nicole Kidman’s stage debut in David Hare’s “The Blue Room” was, as Newsweek put it, “one of the hottest tickets for a play in Broadway history.” In preparing a poster f…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 04:28PMMonday, August 22, 2016
When a one-time theater agent was recently arrested for fraud — he allegedly bilked gullible investors of $165,000 for a non-existent play — the parallels to Mel Brooks’s “The Produc…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 04:41PMFriday, August 19, 2016
When playwright Bess Wohl was invited by a friend to an holistic retreat in upstate New York, she brought along snacks and wine and thought it would be a good time to catch up. Instead she w…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 12:38PMWednesday, August 17, 2016
The creators of the new musical “Groundhog Day” wouldn’t mind repeating August 16 over and over again. That was the day they awoke to some of the best London reviews for a show in a de…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 01:50PMMonday, August 15, 2016
One is already a dramatic blockbuster in London; the other is a musical blockbuster in the making. There are no sure bets in the theater, but the stage adaptations of “Harry Potter” and …
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 04:30PM 
