240 stories by "Matt Blank"
A Broadway revival of Jason Miller’s Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning 1972 drama That Championship Season begins performances at the Jacobs Theatre Feb. 9.According to producers, ̶…
Tony Award winner Sutton Foster will soon return to Broadway as Reno Sweeney in Roundabout’s 2011 revival of Anything Goes.Reno wishes all of her fans a Happy Holiday with this photo.F…
Green Day songwriter and front man Billie Joe Armstrong and his American Idiot director Michael Mayer took part in a discussion with producer Jordan Roth at the 92nd Street Y Sept. 19. The e…
Dan Lauria plays the title role in Eric Simonson’s new work Lombardi, which begins previews Sept. 23 at Circle in the Square.Set over a week in 1965 — five years before football …
The new musical Baby It’s You! will begin previews March 26 at the Broadhurst Theatre.Baby It’s You!, which tells the true-life story of a New Jersey housewife who discovered the…
Lincoln Center Theater’s world premiere of John Guare’s sprawling drama A Free Man of Color begins previews at the Vivian Beaumont Theater Oct. 21.According to LCT, “A Fre…
Hall of Fame former football player Paul Hornung, who is portrayed in Broadway’s Lombardi by Bill Dawes, took in the production the afternoon of Dec. 12 and stopped to meet the cast ba…
Actress and singer Shari Belafonte paid a visit to Daniel Beaty’s Through the Night at the Union Square Theatre the evening of Oct. 6. Belafonte, who released solo albums in the 1980s …
The cast of Cirque du Soleil’s holiday family show Wintuk, currently playing its final season at the Theater at Madison Square Garden, appeared on “The Rachael Ray Show” t…
Sister Act The Musical will begin previews March 24 at the Broadway Theatre.According to producers, “When disco diva Deloris Van Cartier witnesses a murder, she is put in protective cu…
Bryce Ryness and James Snyder, currently starring in the world premiere of Dangerous Beauty at Pasadena Playhouse, will perform an evening of original acoustic music at Los Angeles’ Sh…
Supermodel Christie Brinkley will make her Broadway debut as Roxie Hart in the long-running revival of Chicago at the Ambassador Theatre beginning April 4.Brinkley made her acting debut in 1…
Bestselling author Kathryn Stockett (”The Help”) took part in the final Driving Miss Daisy talkback on Feb. 23. She was joined by Columbia professor Jonathan Schorsch and CBS New…
The new Frank Wildhorn-Gregory Boyd-Jack Murphy musical Wonderland - A New Alice. A New Musical begins performances March 21 at the Marquis Theatre. Here is an early look at cover of the Bro…
The Roundabout Theatre Company’s production of The Importance of Being Earnest begins performances at the American Airlines Theatre Dec. 17.According to Roundabout notes, “The Im…
The new Roundabout revival of Cole Porter’s Anything Goes begins previews at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre March 10.Directed by Kathleen Marshall, the production stars Sutton Foster as …
Driving Miss Daisy's talkback series, celebrating Black History Month, continued Feb. 16 with a visit from former United States congressman and frequent “Morning Joe” contributor…
The League of Professional Theatre Women presented Tony Award winner Chita Rivera with its 2010 Lifetime Achievement Award at the League's Awards Luncheon, held Dec. 9 at Sardi’s.The a…
With so much of the media buzzing about Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark, conservative radio and TV host Glenn Beck has thrown his hat into the ring. After attending a recent performance, the of…
Internationally-known Australian musical theatre star Anthony Warlow will soon make his return to the stage in the new musical Dr. Zhivago, directed by Des McAnuff.The work, previously seen …
The new holiday musical Elf, based on the 2003 film about one of Santa’s oversized helpers, will begin previews at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre Nov. 2.According to producers, “Elf i…
A Broadway revival of Tom Stoppard's Arcadia begins performances at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre Feb. 26. Here is an early look at the cover of the Playbill for the production.Arcadia, accord…
Twisted Sister frontman Dee Snider, currently making his Broadway debut in Rock of Ages, also hosts the first in a series of “Rock Senate Hearings” talkbacks Oct. 19 following th…
New York Jets owner Woody Johnson visited the Broadway production of Lombardi the evening of Feb. 22.Johnson hosted an onstage talkback following the show and headed backstage to meet with t…
On Jan. 7 the Irish government announced details of a large financial investment aimed at presenting Irish arts in New York City and the United States in 2011.The government is investing $5.…
