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Imitation of Life Musical in Development
By: David Sheward
June 30, 2023: A new musical based on Imitation of Life, the Fannie Hurst novel and the classic Hollywood film version and su…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 04:46PMMonday, June 26, 2023
Universal Theatrical Group (UTG) has announced that a musical, based on Fannie Hurst’s novel and subsequent Universal Picture films Imitation of Life, is in development. An industry readin…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:37PMWednesday, June 21, 2023
By Marcina Zaccaria . . . John Rubinstein remembers victory as the 34th President of the United States in Eisenhower: This Piece of Ground. Social unrest, race riots, and eventually the as…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 02:28AMFriday, February 24, 2023
Digital+Virtual+Hybrid Production: Michael Breslin, Patrick Foley, Ariel Sibert, Cat
Rodríguez and Rory Pelsue (Creators, Writers, Director) in collaboration with
David Bengali (Video Desig…
SOURCE: YouTube at 12:15PMTuesday, February 14, 2023
Barry Bostwick and Carole Demas, the first Broadway Danny and Sandy, in “Grease” (1972).February 14, 2023: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron Fassler
Fifty-one years ago, on Valentine…
SOURCE: ronfassler.medium.com at 08:52AMThursday, January 26, 2023
Haha, don’t worry she’s not dead, she’s only turning 65! The title of this post has more to do with the fact that Ellen ended her long-running talk show a few months ago, and the monst…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 11:14AMTuesday, January 10, 2023
January 10, 2023: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron Fassler
Though the Tony Awards have been handed out since 1948, the citing of nominees didn’t enter the mix until 1956. Since then, a…
SOURCE: ronfassler.medium.com at 09:28AMFriday, November 18, 2022
Dorking HallsPlayful material about Pascoe’s life on the celebrity B-list is eclipsed by a heartfelt second act focused on private truths about new motherhood
Sara Pascoe isn’t the first…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:36AMSaturday, September 24, 2022
“Cheek to Cheek,” an intelligent, entertaining musical revue that showcases two dozen of the songs that Irving Berlin wrote for movie musicals, makes no claims that his work in Hollywood…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:56PMWednesday, August 10, 2022
Lamont Dozier (1941-2022) had the bad luck to pass away on the same day as another music business legend, Olivia Newton-John, and as a result the news of his death was eclipsed (not unlike w…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 01:07PMTuesday, April 26, 2022
Join us for a special design workshop with Tony Award-winning Designers, Clint Ramos and David Zinn! Clint and David will speak with four MFA Scenic and Costume Design students as they parti…
SOURCE: YouTube at 02:18PMThursday, February 24, 2022
Julian Work's union stamp for 1948.
We in The New York Public Library's Music & Recorded Sound Division are doing what we can to uncover and bring attention to composers from underre…
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 07:18PMWednesday, February 2, 2022
Shakespeare in the Park will celebrate its 60 anniversary when it returns to the Delacorte Theater this summer. The season will feature Richard III, directed by Slave Play Tony nominee R…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:33PMFriday, November 12, 2021
The protagonists’ primary fear in Lungs -- bringing a child into an environmentally crumbling world and an economy in freefall – is secondary to the challenging script’s focus: examini…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:48PMThursday, November 4, 2021
BROADWAY IN A BOX CD REVIEW:
Gypsy (1959 OBCR)
At Christmas a few years ago, Jeff gave me a copy of Broadway in a Box: The Essential Broadway Musicals Collection. He has now given me the o…
SOURCE: www.jkstheatrescene.com at 07:06AMWednesday, October 6, 2021
When Stephen C. Byrd began producing on Broadway 16 years ago, he and his partner Alia Jones-Harvey were usually the only Black faces they saw in the business. “We would walk into marketin…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:00AMTuesday, May 18, 2021
Twenty-five years before the hard-bitten Hollywood tale Sunset Boulevard, Swanson played a small-town waitress with a dream to act
The stage on screen: more films about theatre
Gloria Swanso…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:06AMThursday, March 4, 2021
Here's a quick roundup of stories you might have missed recently.
Saycon Sengbloh Nabs Lead Role in The Wonder Years Reboot
Saycon Sengbloh, who garnered a 2016 Tony nomination for her perf…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:24PMThursday, February 18, 2021
Oscar winner and Tony nominee Lupita Nyong’o is bringing her children's book Sulwe to the small screen. Variety reports that the story will be adapted into an animated musical for Netflix…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:36AMTuesday, February 16, 2021
Our series on films about theatre continues with a British comedy in which variety acts face an existential threat when TV steals their audience
Theatres around the country are shutting thei…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:12AMFriday, November 27, 2020
Anne Nichols (1891-1966) is one of those figures whose own fame has been eclipsed by her greatest creation. We’ll get to her most famous play presently, but first some background. Nichols …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 12:06AMSaturday, October 31, 2020
The four-time Tony-nominated duo behind the all-Black Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Eclipsed, and more reveal their path to success.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:05AMThursday, October 15, 2020
A trove of lost photographs, taken by a junior teacher more than 30 years ago, revisits a country on the brink of social change and a landscape near eclipsed from history
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 11:55AMSunday, June 28, 2020
The first woman to win the UK’s biggest comedy prize has written a guide to the menopause. She discusses HRT, getting sacked and how much she liked her female comedy peers – until their …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12AMWednesday, June 10, 2020
Last week, we began The Broadway Top 40 Countdown of the best new Broadway songs of the last decade. If you missed it, you can check it out HERE. This week, we get up to the middle of our l…
SOURCE: www.jkstheatrescene.com at 08:18AMFriday, March 20, 2020
For the first time in Milwaukee Rep’s history, we have suspended our season for weeks. As our [...]
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 08:12PMWednesday, March 4, 2020
Actor-playwright Danai Gurira's play began performances March 3.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:46PMTuesday, February 25, 2020
As best explained in her EW Digital Cover story, actor and writer Danai Gurira has had a unique career in entertainment spanning more than her iconic turn as Michonne on The Walking Dead. Th…
SOURCE: Entertainment Weekly at 04:00PMFriday, January 31, 2020
Strange to contemplate a universe in which Peter Marshall is better remembered than his older sister Joanne Dru (Joan Letitia LaCock, 1922-1996), but that is the universe as we find it. Dru …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 08:24AMMonday, January 13, 2020
(Photo by Jejomar Erln Ysit)
MIRANDA HAYMON is a Princess Grace Award/Honoraria-winning writer, director and deviser of performance originally from Boston. Her recent projects include Mondo …
SOURCE: Visible Soul at 11:03PMFriday, January 10, 2020
A talented group of Broadway alums have been nominated for 2020 NAACP Image Awards. Winners will be revealed during a live TV broadcast on BET Networks on February 22 at 8:00pm.
Among the …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:54PMSunday, December 22, 2019
Royal Festival Hall, London
In a culture of special effects, it is the moments of connection, creativity and wonder that matter
Circus 1903 – in pictures
Playing its second year as an alte…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:54AMThursday, December 12, 2019
Nominations are here for the 26th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards, honoring the best acting work in television and on film. A slew of stage stars fill out the list of nominees for the awar…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:42AMSaturday, October 19, 2019
Six-time Tony winner Audra McDonald is among a slew of theater stars who have signed on to appear in the highly anticipated Aretha Franklin biopic Respect. The previously announced film, dir…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:04AMFriday, October 18, 2019
Six-time Tony winner Audra McDonald (Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune) is among a slew of theater stars who have signed on to appear in the highly anticipated Aretha Franklin biopic R…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:18PMWednesday, October 2, 2019
(Photo by Dior Lamar Mills)
Kylie M. Brown (Director) is a Brooklyn-based director of new work and literary manager for Normal Ave. She is currently curating the NAPseries of new work for No…
SOURCE: Visible Soul at 07:18PMWednesday, September 18, 2019
The Artistic Home gives Jason Hedrick's world premiere about a grim future a life-affirming production.
More postapocalyptic plays about staging Chekhov in peopl…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMFriday, September 13, 2019
The best-selling Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie novel will be turned into a TV series, bringing together the Black Panther and Eclipsed collaborators.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:52PMWednesday, June 5, 2019
The slate of presenters for the 2019 Tony Awards is getting starrier. More talent has been announced to hand out Tonys at the 73rd annual celebration of Broadway, scheduled for June 9 at R…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:54PM