Monday, 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 04:30PMThursday, August 11, 2016
The advent of premium ticket pricing and the cachet of adding Broadway to the resume have resulted in a plethora of marquee names braving the boards in recent years. The new season is no exc…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 11:08AMMonday, August 8, 2016
When Glenn Close sang “As If We Never Said Goodbye” in the revival of “Sunset Boulevard” at the London Coliseum last April, it was as if 21 years had been a mere ellipsis in her care…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 07:36PMFriday, August 5, 2016
A couple of years ago, playwright Naomi Wallace was meeting with James Houghton, the artistic director of the Signature Theatre, one of the most prestigious of the off-Broadway non-profits. …
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 03:43PMWednesday, August 3, 2016
Last Spring, Garry Marshall told Vanity Fair that he would be in “a home for old directors” by the time “Pretty Woman,” the musical stage adaptation of his 1990 movie smash, arrived …
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 02:43PMFriday, July 29, 2016
Just weeks after “Motown, The Musical” began its return engagement on Broadway, the show’s producers announced that it would be closing on July 31, a serious foreshortening of its inte…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 02:17PMFriday, July 22, 2016
The casting is intriguing, to say the least. Jake Gyllenhaal was recently announced as the lead in the Broadway revival of Lanford Wilson’s tempestuous 1980s drama “Burn This,” slated …
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 10:14AMTuesday, July 19, 2016
Two years ago, Leslie Odom Jr. had few impressive credits on his résumé. He was largely known for a couple of short-lived TV shows (“Vanished,” “Smash” ) and a Broadway musical flo…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 11:13AMMonday, July 18, 2016
Barbara Cook once observed, “The challenge of performing is to show to an audience what life has done to you.”Just how steep the toll has been is divulged in “Then & Now,” Cook�…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 03:00AMWednesday, July 13, 2016
In the tradition of Spalding Gray, Mike Daisey is a monologist who deftly intertwines personal narratives with socio-political issues coursing through the country. In “The Last Cargo Cult,…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 03:49AMTuesday, July 12, 2016
Those who are familiar with Joe Morton as the villainous and conniving father of Kerry Washington in the hit television series “Scandal” might be somewhat surprised at his newest role: M…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 11:25AMFriday, July 8, 2016
When the producers of “Hamilton” announced that Lin-Manuel Miranda’s final performance would take place on Saturday evening, July 9, the price of an orchestra seat in the secondary mar…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 03:20PMThursday, June 30, 2016
On Thursday, June 30, Broadway reaches an historic first when “She Loves Me,” the Roundabout’s hit revival at Studio 54, will be live streamed on Broadway HD in a cooperative venture w…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 02:34PMTuesday, June 28, 2016
The precipitous closing of the $12 million musical “Shuffle Along” brought the red tide engulfing the Broadway season even higher, joining such high-profile and expensive flops as “Ame…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 03:36PMFriday, June 24, 2016
Shows that are grossing nearly a million dollars a week and playing at over 99% capacity — as “Shuffle Along” did recently — don’t usually close precipitously. But the curtain will…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 01:22PMThursday, June 23, 2016
The Tony Award-winning musical “Fun Home” will close on September 10, but it leaves in its wake a number of encouraging and positive signs for Broadway. Namely, a modest musi…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 12:03PMTuesday, June 21, 2016
For a play about a family struggling through loss, Stephen Karam’s “The Humans” is a winner. Riding on its Tony Award victories, including one for Best Play, the drama is now a virtual…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 04:01PMWednesday, June 15, 2016
The post-Tony Awards fallout has claimed “Bright Star,” the charming and winsome bluegrass musical that marked the Broadway debuts of star Carmen Cusack and the writing team of Steve Mar…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 01:04PMMonday, June 13, 2016
The enormity of the mass murders in Orlando at a bar frequented by LBGTQ community — “a cornerstone of the theater” as someone described them — cast a shadow over the Tony Awards on …
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 01:52PMSaturday, June 11, 2016
One of the few directives that Lin-Manuel Miranda gave to designer Paul Tazewell about his costume for Alexander Hamilton was that he be represented in green - because "green is the color of…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:55PMFriday, June 10, 2016
According to the pundits, the Tony Award for best actor in a musical will go to “Hamilton” when Broadway’s highest honors are announced on June 12. Indeed, most of the special, hosted …
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 02:03PMThursday, June 9, 2016
Tony voters like to make history. They did so in 2001 when they garlanded “The Producers” with a record-breaking twelve awards. They did so again in 2014 when they gave a sixth Tony Awar…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 06:58AMMonday, June 6, 2016
When “Buck White,” a musical by Oscar Brown, Jr. and produced by Zev Buffman, opened on Broadway in December of 1969, there were picketers protesting outside the theater while the mood i…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 03:17PMFriday, June 3, 2016
Barbra Streisand just signed on to present an award at the Tony Awards ceremony, to be televised on CBS on June 12, and you can bet the category won’t be best lighting design. Though it wa…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 01:34PMTuesday, May 31, 2016
James Cain’s “The Postman Always Rings Twice” has never been bettered as a noir tale of murder and lust. So much so that there have been seven film adaptations of the 1930s novel, as w…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 12:58PMFriday, May 27, 2016
Graced with only two Tony nominations (for lighting and sets), “American Psycho” will be one of the most high-profiled flops of the 2015-2016 Broadway season. The stylish $14-milli…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 12:29PMThursday, May 26, 2016
Powered by the thrust engines of a rocket known as “Hamilton,” Broadway ended the current season on an all-time high in attendance and ticket sales. According to figures released by the …
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 02:37PMWednesday, May 25, 2016
The theater season is now awash in awards, some silly and some significant. Among the latter are the Obies, created in 1955 by the Village Voice, to honor Off-Broadway. They were announced o…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 01:33PMTuesday, May 24, 2016
After half-century on Broadway, Frank Langella has received his seventh Tony nomination for a heartrending performance as a man disintegrating into senility in “The Father,” while the Br…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 02:21PMMonday, May 23, 2016
Despite the perpetual success of “Hamilton,” a name you will hear a lot when the Tony Awards are doled out on June 12, there will still be more than enough suspense in the tightly compet…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 10:50AMWhen “She Loves Me” originally bowed in the spring of 1963, the musical received bouquets from critics and shrugs from the general public. The show, about bickering shop clerks by day an…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 06:17AM 
