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"I like the title 'Spamalot,'" Python member Eric Idle said Thursday in a statement. "But I was thinking it might be smart to ask audiences on my upcoming U.S. tour if they liked it as much …
It won't help to say much about the plot of "The Nuclear Family," because it's always changing. What you do need to know is that you'll probably laugh. A lot.
Mikey has issues — mostly to do with his father, but also with his eccentric Irish Catholic relatives who seem to make up the entire population in one small Massachusetts town.
They form the core of the action in Michael Isaac Connor's "Berkshire Village Idiot," a genial yet unsurprising theatrical family album now on view at off-Broadway's Zipper Theatre.
When it comes to "Taboo," Rosie O'Donnell has put her money where her mouth is. The former talk-show diva is the producer and sole investor in the $10 million Boy George musical, opening on Broadway Nov. 13.
"I always think: Go big or go home," O'Donnell said Wednesday during a news conference at a Times Square Internet cafe to kick off Web site ticket sales for the production, which begins preview performances Oct. 24 at the Plymouth Theatre.
Let us now sing the praises of Nathan Lane, serious actor.
PORTLAND, Ore. - When, five minutes before curtain call, one of the leading actors in Portland's Northwest Classical Theatre Company's production of "King Henry VI, Part 1" was arrested, his…
Now the U.S. PBS public television service is offering the two-hour "American Masters" documentary "Arthur Miller, Elia Kazan and the Blacklist: None Without Sin," airing Wednesday in the United States.
By coincidence, the following night marks the opening on a New York stage of "Trumbo," with Nathan Lane reading from the letters of Oscar-winning screenwriter Dalton Trumbo, a principal figure in the beginnings of the blacklist.
Call it "a couple of straight guys sitting around bonding." And, boy, do they bond and bond and bond.
That's much of the plot in "The Thing About Men," the generic, tedious new musical at off-Broadway's Promenade Theatre.
Musical theater may not be the most efficient vessel for historical knowledge. But if it keeps the audience engaged, then half the battle is won.
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - An appeals court has ruled that "Naked Boys Singing" can return to a city-run theater where it was twice canceled, but producers are following through with a backup p…
On Broadway, the show did not go on.
Twenty-two shows — 19 musicals and three plays — went dark Thursday, their normally blazing marquees unlit.
Lane had a committment to star in "Butley," a play by Simon Gray, for Boston's Huntington Theatre Company from Jan. 2 through Feb. 1.
The darkly comic story of a self-destructive English professor, the play has been rescheduled for Oct. 24-Nov. 30 with Lane still in the title role, the Huntington announced Thursday.
A very accurate headline... but how'd they find out what James pays us?
Oh, wait - those Broadway Stars. Never mind.
Stigma seems like a natural subject for two people who star in a hit musical that features an Internet porn pirate, a closeted homosexual and a song entitled "Everyone's a Little Bit Racist."
At the federal courthouse in downtown Las Vegas, Goulet sang an a cappella version of "God Bless America" during a naturalization ceremony for 53 new citizens — including his wife.
Planning to see a play — not a musical — on Broadway next month?
Your options are limited: "Take Me Out," "Take Me Out" or "Take Me Out."
OMAHA, Neb. - The red brick house was torn down Wednesday to make room for a 60-unit student housing complex for the University of Nebraska Medical Center.
A Russian dancer peels off a chiffon toga — and, seemingly, some of her skin.
Lane is committed to star in a revival at Boston's Huntington Theatre of "Butley," Simon Gray's play about a literary professor at loose ends. "Butley," according to the Huntington's Web site and its promotional material, is scheduled to play there from Jan. 2 through Feb. 1, 2004.
Yet Nicholas Martin, Huntington's artistic director, reached Wednesday in Boston, said, "I can't say anymore than that he (Lane) will do `Butley' here."
There are definite limits to Griffith's vocal and dance abilities (she won't be starring in "Gypsy" or "Movin' Out" anytime soon), but, for the most part, they don't get in the way of her pe…
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - They boasted a musical show with no set, no plot and no clothing. Now they have no theater.
Thanks to Terence for the link!
Now, it's on Broadway, where a scenically enhanced and slightly tweaked version of "Avenue Q" opened Thursday to what should be, if there is any justice, a rapturous reception.
