Thursday, November 29, 2012
Freedom from her past constraints means Katie Holmes gets to kiss a guy for real on stage in “Dead Accounts.” The guy she kisses is Josh Hamilton, and you can tell she has a good…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 12:38AMSunday, November 25, 2012
Cheers and a standing ovation this afternoon at the first screening of the film version of “Les Miserables.” Tom Hooper, Oscar winner for The King’s Speech, has made a thrilling, sensa…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 10:20AMTuesday, November 20, 2012
“Scandalous,” the musical co-written and labored over by Kathie Lee Gifford for a dozen years, is barely holding on. Despite bravura performances by Carolee Carmello and Roz Ryan…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 01:35PMMonday, November 19, 2012
Number 1 on Broadway this week: “The Lion King.” Number 1 five years ago: “The Lion King.” Ten years ago: “The Lion King.” 15 Years ago; yup. “The L…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 01:15AMThursday, November 15, 2012
Kathie Lee Gifford worked for 12 years on “Scandalous,” her Broadway musical about feminist evangelist pill popper and trailblazer Aimee Semple McPherson. Joy Philbin was telling…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 04:30PMFriday, November 2, 2012
Broadway: the show must go on, and it did last night when “The Heiress” opened on Broadway with up and coming movie star Jessica Chastain, veteran actor and former Oscar nominee …
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 10:44AMFriday, October 26, 2012
Katie Holmes made a public appearance last night for the new Broadway play in which she will shortly open, called “Dead Accounts.” Katie, playwright Theresa Rebeck and director J…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 12:35AMThursday, October 25, 2012
“Motown: The Musical” is wending its way toward us inexorably. A couple of weeks ago the producers of the show invited group theater bookers and advertisers to come see a little …
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 11:06AMWednesday, October 24, 2012
EXCLUSIVE Anne Hathaway’s recent wedding to Adam Shulman got a lot of write-ups in various tabloids. The wedding took place in the woods on sacred Indian ground near Big Sur on the ver…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 01:14AMMonday, 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 11:17AM 
