Monday, October 22, 2012
There are several stories that intertwine through “The Exonerated,” a play reading that took root ten years ago at the Culture Project on Bleecker Street. Now the people and thei…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 01:21AMThursday, October 11, 2012
I feel like deja vu all over again. I’ve written this before, but today they sent out the official release about Tom Hanks in the play “Lucky Guy.” This was Nora EphronR…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 01:27PMTuesday, October 2, 2012
Little Steven van Zandt is doing the impossible! He’s reuniting the Rascals, the original Rascals, for a theatrical show. “Once Upon A Dream” will happen December 13, 14, a…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 12:44PMMonday, October 1, 2012
Exclusive: throw another film title into the Broadway mix. I’m told that Focus Features is dabbling in its first Broadway musical. They’re turning “Miss Pettigrew Lives for…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 11:44PMWednesday, September 26, 2012
Great story in the New York Times: Broadway producer Ben Sprecher is still looking for $4.5 million to put his musical, “Rebecca,” on Broadway. It turns out his major backer disa…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 11:56PMFriday, September 21, 2012
Helen Mirren won the Oscar for playing Queen Elizabeth in “The Queen,” written by Peter Morgan. Now Baz Bamigboye reports from London in today’s Daily Mail that Mirren and …
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 10:00AMSaturday, September 15, 2012
You’d think after every bad thing this country did to Charlie Chaplin we could leave him alone. Apparently not. A version of his life story, poorly and inadequately told, is now on Bro…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 09:46AMMonday, August 20, 2012
Casting directors don’t get Oscars, Tonys, or Emmys. So they have their own awards–called Artios. They’re given out on October 29th. COMPLETE LIST OF NOMINEES FOLLOWS 2012 …
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 05:49PMFriday, August 17, 2012
Paul Thomas Anderson’s “The Master” screened in Chicago on Thursday night for a large,paying audience. Tickets were $10 for a film charity, and The Weinstein Company says t…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 10:45PMFriday, August 3, 2012
“Diner,” the musical version of Barry Levinson’s classic 1983 movie, is downsizing. Producers announced that the show, with music by Sheryl Crowe, is cancelling its fall ru…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 04:51PMThursday, August 2, 2012
The late wonderful, astounding Dusty Springfield is finally coming to near-Broadway. Writer-performer-producer Kirsten Holly Smith will play her in a show at New World Stages this fall calle…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 03:22PMThursday, July 19, 2012
Katie Holmes has not let one minute pass since her quickie divorce. She’s already lined up a Broadway play. Jack O’Brien is set to direct her in “Dead Accounts,” a ne…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 07:48PMThursday, July 12, 2012
Did you know that Stephen King and John Mellencamp teamed up for a musical recently? It’s called “Ghost Brothers of Darkland County,” and it opened last spring in Atlanta t…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 10:04AMThursday, June 28, 2012
Cyndi Lauper’s Broadway musical–the movie “Kinky Boots” on stage–has gotten a cast. Stark Sands, of “American Idiot,” will co-star with Billy Porter…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 12:43PMExclusive: Add Sigourney Weaver’s name to the list of movie stars heading to off or or on Broadway shortly (Alec Baldwin and Jake Gyllenhaal have been in recent announcements). I sort …
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 10:11AMJohn Travolta came to the theater and took pictures, but he was a conspicuous no-show for the after party in New York for “Savages.” So was co-star Blake Lively, who came to the …
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 01:04AMTuesday, June 26, 2012
Nora Ephron has died at age 71 from myeloid leukemia. Here’s the New York Times obituary: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/27/movies/nora-ephron-essayist-screenwriter-and-director-dies-a…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 06:05PMFriday, June 22, 2012
Lily Rabe stole the show last night as Rosalind in “As You Like It,” the 50th anniversary production of New York’s Shakespeare in the Park. Joe Papp was smiling from heaven…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 09:55AMWednesday, June 20, 2012
God is not having a good run on Broadway. It’s just been announced that within weeks of each of other, the three Broadway musicals with religious themes are shutting down for lack of b…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 07:05PMFriday, June 15, 2012
One of the great headlines from last night’s Songwriters Hall of Fame: Meat Loaf’s famous 1977 album “Bat out of Hell” is headed to Broadway. Apparently the songs wri…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 07:09AMWednesday, June 13, 2012
Woody Harrelson and his buddy Frankie Hyman have written their first off Broadway play. The comedy, called “Bullet for Adolf,” will open at New World Stages next month with Woody…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 04:11PMMonday, June 11, 2012
The Tony Awards were great, and all the people who won are no doubt grateful. But many of them are leaving before the audience can see them. “Death of A Salesman” has already clo…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 11:17AMThis year’s Tony Awards seemed to be as much about showcasing the future of Broadway as rewarding the people who long deserved some kudos. I’m thinking of Judith Light, who went …
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 02:03AMSunday, June 10, 2012
Tonight’s Tony Awards on CBS may turn out to be a big ratings winner. For once, the Tonys have clear sailing all night with very little real competition on the regular broadcast networ…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 10:47AMFriday, June 8, 2012
Sunday night is going to be a fight for the remote control and the DVR in certain demographic households. At 8pm the Tony Awards will begin on CBS. At 9pm “True Blood” will retur…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 04:52PMWednesday, June 6, 2012
“The Book of Mormon”–still the biggest hit on Broadway–is going to be featured on this year’s Tony Awards. (This Sunday, CBS.) A little weird since “Mormo…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 10:23AMIt does seem like Christian Borle, star of “Peter and the Starcatcher,” is leaving the kooky musical soon after Sunday’s Tony Awards. A casting call has gone out for his ch…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 09:50AMDebra Winger is going to make her Broadway debut this fall. She’s signed on to a David Mamet two hander (that’s two actors) called “The Anarchist.” Broadway legend Pa…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 08:58AMSaturday, May 12, 2012
You can catch one more performance tonight, Saturday, at 45 Bleecker Street Theatre of Chekhov’s “The Seagull” as adapted by famed British director Max Stafford-Clark. It&#…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 01:43AMThursday, April 26, 2012
It’s over. The big race from March 1st — when the spring season begins– to April 26th, cut off date for eligibility for the Tony Awards. It ended tonight with a thud. I saw…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 11:32PMWednesday, April 25, 2012
“Spider Man: Turn off the Dark”–litigious, controversial, but you know what? It’s making money every week. And now it’s picked up some nominations from the Oute…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 06:43PM 
