Monday, February 5, 2024
She was a successful designer. But she was probably best known for being duped in a scheme that inspired the play “Six Degrees of Separation.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:24PMTuesday, September 5, 2023
(from StudyFinds, 9/5; via Drudge eport) RAMAT-GAN, Israel — Kevin Bacon, this study is for you! In an exciting breakthrough, researchers from multiple countries have unraveled the myster…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 06:46PMTuesday, January 31, 2023
The author of such landmarks as "Six Degrees of Separation" and "The House of Blue Leaves" recalls his long career, which started with two plays written at age 11.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 03:43PMTuesday, January 17, 2023
Frederick Weller is set to join the off-Broadway staging of Tennessee Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof as Big Daddy. Directed by Joe Rosario, the show returns to the Theatre at St. Clement’…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:05PMMonday, December 5, 2022
Anthony Rapp is a dad, as he and partner Ken Ithiphol have welcomed a baby son. The original Rent star shared the news on December 5. Rai Larson Ithiphol was born on December 2.
Ken &…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 07:03PMFriday, November 4, 2022
The 20th anniversary revival of Suzan-Lori Parks’ Pulitzer Prize-winning play, "Topdog/Underdog," is just as powerful and absorbing as before with its story of two African American brother…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:20PMTuesday, November 1, 2022
Original Rent cast member Anthony Rapp is returning to the New York stage. He will premiere Without You, a one-man musical adapted from his memoir, at New World Stages beginning on January …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:36PMFriday, August 26, 2022
A guide to 17 upcoming musicals and plays
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Broadway marks its one-year anniversary of reopening with an exciting and diverse slate of fall productions. There are starry play revivals (Sam…
SOURCE: TDF at 12:00AMSaturday, July 23, 2022
We challenged Tony Award Nominee Jenn Colella, who made her Broadway debut in 2003 in Urban Cowboy, to find the six degrees of separation between her Broadway debut and her current role in t…
SOURCE: YouTube at 01:07PMTuesday, June 14, 2022
Suzan Lori-Parks' Pulitzer Prize-winning Topdog/Underdog is returning to Broadway this fall for a 20th anniversary production. Tony winner Kenny Leon will direct the play, which will featu…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 08:33PMMonday, February 28, 2022
Stage and screen actor Ned Eisenberg died of cancer on February 27 at his home in New York, according to Deadline. He was 65.
Born in New York on January 13, 1957, Eisenberg began his acti…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 08:33PMThursday, October 7, 2021
Eighteen months after theaters around the country shut down, Jerry Zaks is back doing exactly what he was the moment things went dark: rehearsing his next big Broadway comedy. One of the ind…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:45PMThursday, August 26, 2021
Not unlike Benny in In the Heights, Corey Hawkins is makin' moves and makin' deals. The Tony nominee and In the Heights movie star is eyeing the role of Harpo in Warner Brothers' film retell…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:36PMTuesday, August 24, 2021
Obie-winning star of the stage and screen Anthony Rapp is not only an accomplished actor, he’s also a singer and writer, whose talent and sensitivity come shining through in everything he …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:01PMMonday, April 19, 2021
Hey, all you cool cats and kittens! Tony winner John Cameron Mitchell is set to star as Joe Exotic in an upcoming limited series, according to Variety. Based on the Wondery Podcast of the sa…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:24PMThis week's monologue was written by Felipe del Rosario, junior at Memorial High School’s Performing Arts Academy, New Jersey, performed by Colby Minifie.
To read more about the challenge…
SOURCE: YouTube at 12:32AMFriday, October 23, 2020
James Cusati-Moyer, who was Tony-nominated for his performance in Jeremy O. Harris’ Slave Play, has landed a recurring role on Shonda Rhimes’ Netflix series Inventing Anna. According to …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:24AMSunday, October 11, 2020
Broadway for Biden's weekly phone banking initiative continues tomorrow with Jimmy Award Winner Andrew Barth Feldman (Dear Evan Hansen), Lucille Lortel Award Winner Steven Boyer (Hand to God…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:12PMTuesday, October 6, 2020
New York actor and playwright Robert Galinsky's Off Broadway hit 'The Bench' has announced additional casting, including Monique Coleman (star of Disney's 'High School Musical' franchise), A…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:47PMWednesday, February 5, 2020
Just like our choice for Mr. Broadway this month, our Ms. Broadway is probably better known by the world at large for her TV and film work in such shows as Frasier, Sully, and every iteratio…
SOURCE: www.jkstheatrescene.com at 09:03AMTuesday, November 19, 2019
My first exposure to The Rink was, as I look back on it, indicative of my naivete and ignorance of Broadway theater back in early 1985. We were driving home after an evening show, and traff…
SOURCE: www.jkstheatrescene.com at 09:03AMMonday, November 11, 2019
Here's a quick roundup of stories you might have missed today.
To Days of Inspiration! Anthony Rapp & Ken Ithiphol Announce Engagement
Anthony Rapp, the beloved actor who originated th…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 07:33PMWednesday, October 30, 2019
John Benjamin Hickey is back on Broadway in a big way this season. A Tony winner for The Normal Heart, he has lent his talents to many seminal productions on Broadway, including his 1995 deb…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:54AMTuesday, August 13, 2019
Casting has been announced for the Broadway transfer of Jeremy O. Harris' acclaimed work Slave Play. The previously announced production, directed by Robert O'Hara, will begin previews on Se…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:42AMSunday, July 7, 2019
Hear what Tony Award-winner Karen Ziemba (CONTACT) has to say about music, dance, her first Broadway show, A CHORUS LINE, and of course, the North Carolina Theatre production of ANNIE.
Abo…
SOURCE: Beltline to Broadway at 09:00AMSunday, June 9, 2019
Hear what six-time Tony Award-winner Costume Designer William Ivey Long, has to say about his North Carolina beginnings, TOOTSIE, BEETLEJUICE, DIANA: THE MUSICAL, and the Pulitzer Prize-win…
SOURCE: Beltline to Broadway at 09:00AMThursday, April 25, 2019
John Cameron Mitchell is a Tony winner who has made his name known for being in Broadway's The Secret Garden, Six Degrees of Separation, Big River and of course, his acclaimed Hedwig and the…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:35PMTuesday, March 26, 2019
By: David Sheward
March 26, 2019: John Guare takes us on a wild romp through personal ups and downs, toxic pop culture, murder mystery tropes, literary and cinema allusions in his off-ki…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:31PMMonday, March 18, 2019
By Brian Scott Lipton Will you feel taken for a ride if you head to Lincoln Center’s Mitzi Newhouse Theater to take in John Guare’s “Nantucket Sleigh Ride”? Without question, t…
SOURCE: theaterpizzazz.com at 10:01PMMonday, March 4, 2019
Adam Bertocci is an award-winning writer and filmmaker. His work has been praised by Entertainment Weekly, USA Today, The New Republic, GQ, The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, Back Stage…
SOURCE: Visible Soul at 06:23PMThursday, February 28, 2019
The one and only Tony Walton, one of Broadway's most innovating and influential set designers, invites Rob and Kevin into his apartment to look back on his career which includes the Oscar, t…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:09PMTuesday, February 5, 2019
Back in December, we honored the wonderful Gideon Glick as our man of the month. Currently co-starring with Mr. December in To Kill a Mockingbird is Frederick Weller, who plays a w…
SOURCE: JK's TheatreScene at 12:48AMWednesday, January 30, 2019
Check one two three. Check one two three. The In the Heights film has found its Benny! Tony nominee Corey Hawkins has been selected to play the strong-voiced featured role in the highly anti…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:06PMThe Six Degrees of Separation and Straight Outta Compton actor will play Benny in the film adaptation of Lin-Manuel Miranda's musical.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:26PMSaturday, January 19, 2019
The play “Nantucket Sleigh Ride,” a journey filled with elements of fantasy and mysticism starts its previews from February 21, 2019 at LCT’s New Claire Theater. LCT’s website d…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 12:11PMMonday, January 14, 2019
From Freddie Mercury to Queen Anne, awards season is set to be dominated by queer characters played by non-LGBT performers. So is this sexuality’s equivalent of blackface – or is it simp…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:36AMWednesday, January 9, 2019
Jeremy Pope and members of the cast Photo credit: Matthew MurphyTarell Alvin McCraney's “Choir Boy” premiered at the Manhattan Theatre Club’s Stage II in 2013. It is now in revival wit…
SOURCE: simonsaltzman.blogspot.com at 09:24AMSaturday, October 27, 2018
By Isa Goldberg
October 27, 2018: Just the name of the actor, Stockard Channing, evokes images of a socialite, an elitist, in various forms. It’s an image she has created in numerous …
SOURCE: theaterlife at 11:16AMWednesday, October 24, 2018
Stockard Channing is back on the New York stage in Alexi Kaye Campbell's Apologia, which is running at the Laura Pels Theatre through December 16. Many fans first started to love Channin…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:36PMThursday, October 11, 2018
A talent-filled company of stage stars will align in 2019 for Nantucket Sleigh Ride, a new play by Tony winner John Guare (Six Degrees of Separation), arriving at Lincoln Center Theater…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:36PM 
