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Perpetual bickering can be exhausting - even when the combatants are portrayed by such dazzling performers as Swoosie Kurtz and Cherry Jones.
To paraphrase (sort of) from Charles Dickens: It was the best of shows, it was the worst of shows.
Two big, expensive musicals arrived this week on Broadway within a day of one another, and their receptions couldn't have been more different.
NEW YORK (Variety) - "La Boheme" is just the beginning. Having won over the Broadway critics with his opera production, Baz Luhrmann is now set to direct two more theater shows.
They have unleashed an expensive, more than $10 million musical of mind-numbing silliness, a show that wastes its performers, most notably Michael Crawford, and dazes audiences who have to s…
"La Boheme," in this enthusiastic interpretation by Luhrmann and company, blazes with a blinding light that rarely flickers all evening long.
Baz Luhrmann's new production of Puccini's "La Boheme" should be required viewing for all opera impresarios.
Sandra Bullock in a slinky black evening gown, edging past paparazzi. A throng of onlookers waiting in vain for the arrival of Leonardo DiCaprio (he sneaked in through a side entrance). Candice Bergen holding court with friends and fans in the lobby.
It wasn't a typical night at the opera.
Kidman is in negotiations with director Trevor Nunn to appear in Henrik Ibsen's "The Lady From the Sea" at the Almeida theater, theaterland sources say.
In other, lesser hands, this venerable show could sound a bit hoary and more than a little heavy-handed. Not so at the Martin Beck Theatre, where a new, surprisingly robust revival, resting …
NEW YORK (AP) - Does Mandy Patinkin realize he has an audience?
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Which is better, the stage version of "The Producers" or the original 1968 movie?
NEW YORK (Variety) - Broadway fans had no problem devouring leftover Thanksgiving box office records, including its second-best week ever at the box office.
NEW YORK (Variety) - Maybe they can rent the "Metamorphoses" pool.
After scoring with "The Producers," Nathan Lane and Susan Stroman are reteaming for a late January reading of Steven Sondheim's "The Frogs" at Lincoln Center Theater.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The buzz on Broadway is all about Baz.
PARIS (AP) - Actor Daniel Gelin, whose 60-year career in French theater, television and movies included playing a mysterious murder victim in Alfred Hitchcock's "The Man Who Knew Too Much," …
Murderous passion in ancient Greece with the ultimate high-strung wife and mother. Singing vampires in exotic Lower Belabartokovich. A fierce feud between two literary lionesses. Don Quixote tilting again at windmills.
All this, and Paul Newman, too.
LONDON (Reuters) - Theater critics on Friday tore into "X-Files" star Gillian Anderson, the latest in a string of Hollywood stars to hit the London stage.
Complete with a photo of Pamela Anderson! Well, at least it's not a photo of Dorothy Loudon...
"It's like a cold. It just has to run its course. Unfortunately, it causes vertigo," she told The Associated Press in a telephone interview Wednesday.
Complete with a photo of Dorothy... from 1979!
LONDON (Reuters) - The Queen and "The Mousetrap" get together tonight for a double celebration -- both have enjoyed half a century at the top in Britain.
LONDON (AP) - "The Mousetrap" has turned 50, which prompts the question not whodunnit but whydidit?
NEW YORK (Variety) - Take those mechanical bulls out of storage.
"Urban Cowboy," a musical based on the 1980 film starring John Travolta and Debra Winger, is coming to Broadway this winter. Rehearsals start in January, with an opening set for the following month, said Chase Mishkin, who will produce with Leonard Soloway.
Its official title is a mouthful — "Russell Simmons' Def Poetry Jam on Broadway" — but this lively and defiant celebration of rap, ranting and rhythm is pretty straightforward in its pre…
BOMBAY, India (Reuters) - Romeo, a Muslim in a leather jacket? And Juliet, a Hindu girl in a tank top?
