Monday, July 31, 2023
A Crisis in America’s Theaters made the front page this week: “There is less theater in America these days. Fewer venues. Fewer productions. Fewer performances,” Michael Paulson wrote…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:39AMSaturday, April 8, 2023
Michael Bennett (1943–1987).April 8, 2023: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron Fassler
Had he lived, today would mark Michael Bennett’s 80th birthday. He died in Tucson, Arizona in 1987…
SOURCE: ronfassler.medium.com at 10:35AMSaturday, December 10, 2022
As an inveterate theatergoer since the age of twelve, I’ve chronicled in these columns and elsewhere about the days when I saw shows on a weekly basis in the late 60s and early 70s. I’ve…
SOURCE: ronfassler.medium.com at 01:06PMTuesday, October 25, 2022
Nathan Lane, Danny Burstein and Zoë Wanamaker are returning to the Broadway stage next year. They will star in Pictures From Home, a new play based on the photo memoir by Larry Sultan and …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:03PMMonday, October 24, 2022
The show: “42nd Street” at Goodspeed opera House in East Haddam
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SOURCE: ShowRiz at 11:09AMMonday, October 3, 2022
Known for her turn as Candy Ferocity in the series Pose, Angelica Ross is now taking center stage as Roxie Hart in Chicago on Broadway and making history in the process. Ross, who is the …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:55PMTuesday, June 21, 2022
Self-portrait of Al Hirschfeld at his drafting table in his Koken barber chair.The artist Al Hirschfeld, a theatrical treasure of the highest order, was born 119 years ago today. Chroniclin…
SOURCE: ronfassler.medium.com at 11:56AMThursday, April 28, 2022
With her gripping sea-bound thriller Corinna, Corinna, playwright Chloë Moss shines a spotlight on the dangers faced by women working in the shipping industry
Playwright Chloë Moss grew up…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:42AMThursday, April 21, 2022
Morse, while appearing on Broadway in the revival of THE FRONT PAGE in 2016, appeared on THEATER TALK with co-stars Holland Taylor and Lewis J. Stadlen. The Broadway legend reminisced about …
SOURCE: YouTube at 08:06PMRobert Morse as J. Pierrepont Finch in “How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying” (1961).It’s with a heavy heart I attempt to put into words what Robert Morse meant to me as a…
SOURCE: ronfassler.medium.com at 01:45PMThursday, March 3, 2022
Tony Walton, the prolific Oscar and Tony Award-winning set and costume designer of Broadway shows, off-Broadway productions, film, television, ballet and opera, has died at the age of 87. Th…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:54PMThursday, February 24, 2022
Photograph by Milton Meltzer depicting Hilda Haynes as Millie, James McMahon as Al Manners, Stephanie Elliot as Judith Sears, and Charles Bettis as John Neville. NYPL Digital Collections, Im…
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 07:18PMSunday, January 16, 2022
Leeds PlayhouseDeveloped between teams in Leeds and Tokyo, this spectacular reimagining brings new complexity to JM Barrie’s story
Ella Hickson’s adaptation of JM Barrie’s world-famous…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:33AMMonday, December 13, 2021
Chaotic life, lots of sex, little sense of purpose … the Anglo-Aussie’s hilarious takedown of Fleabag and the booming ‘messy-woman genre’ was halted by Covid. Now, after a year and a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:24AMTuesday, November 16, 2021
Tony winner Michael McGrath has joined the cast of the world premiere of the Britney Spears musical Once Upon a One More Time. McGrath takes over the role of Narrator from the previously ann…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:18PMTuesday, June 22, 2021
Some top-tier Broadway stars have joined the cast of Disappointment Blvd. According to Deadline, Hereditary and Midsommar director and scribe Ari Aster's forthcoming A24 film will star Osca…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:12PMFriday, April 23, 2021
Halston, the Ryan Murphy-produced series that stars Ewan McGregor as the famed fashion designer, will arrive on Netflix on May 14. As previously announced, Broadway's Krysta Rodriguez plays…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:42PMMonday, February 8, 2021
Sherie's Broadway credits include The Front Page, Everyday Rapture, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle nominations; Drama League honor), The Little Mermaid, Elto…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:02AMWednesday, October 14, 2020
We started off this month's Musical of the Month, Hairspray with a look back at the origins and facts behind the original Broadway production. This week, we take a closer look at that cas…
SOURCE: www.jkstheatrescene.com at 06:12PMTwo time Tony winner Robert Morse, who most recently appeared in the play revival The Front Page, starred in the original Broadway cast of the Frank Loesser workplace musical How To Succeed …
SOURCE: BroadwayBox at 10:00AMMonday, August 10, 2020
Lily Savage, The League of Gentlemen, Fleabag and a host of telly sensations started out on tiny stages at the extravaganza. In its absence, who will be next?
Paul O’Grady’s first night …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:24AMThursday, March 26, 2020
Curtains was a unabashed old-fashioned Broadway musical. Big sets, lots of costumes, splashy production numbers and a large cast. The book boasted an impressive twelve principal roles and a …
SOURCE: www.jkstheatrescene.com at 08:03AMMonday, March 9, 2020
John Slattery had a moment after college where he was offered a great job in the hotel business and it was tempting - financial security, travel and lots of other perks. He sat down with…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:54AMFriday, February 21, 2020
Once again, I’m getting the chance to catch up with the award-winning singer/songwriter, Michele Brourman.
After a sold-out solo debut at Birdland Theatre in 2019, 2020 has started off wi…
SOURCE: Call Me Adam at 04:48PMTuesday, February 18, 2020
Producer Ryan Murphy has released the first look at his upcoming Halston series on Netflix, starring Ewan McGregor as the famed fashion designer who designed for Jackie Kennedy and who the…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:36PMMonday, February 17, 2020
The 38 Degrees petition is a response to a report on the front page of Rupert Murdoch-owned newspaper The Sunday Times, in which sources close to prime minister Boris Johnson set out a bluep…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:33PMTuesday, February 11, 2020
Broadway Update: Nathan Lane and Laurie Metcalf to Star in ‘Death of a Salesman’
By: David Sheward
February 11, 2020: Two of the biggest names on Broadway will headline one of th…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:21AMThursday, September 26, 2019
“The artist’s return to Belgrade after nearly a half-century has been an event. … On Saturday, the day the show opened, her face was on the front page of nearly every national newspape…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:12AMSunday, September 8, 2019
Predictable results of the homophobic censorship attempt (which was headed off by the judge as an issue of freedom of expression): “Copies of the comic book, Avengers: The Children’s Cru…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:33AMThursday, September 5, 2019
A foursome of Tony-winning stars have joined the upcoming main-stem production of Meredith Willson's The Music Man. Jefferson Mays will play Mayor Shinn, with Jayne Houdyshell as Eulalie Ma…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:06AMTuesday, September 3, 2019
Monday, August 19, 2019
Friday, August 16, 2019
What really makes this Front Page feel fresh is its social, gender, racial and character complications — things that a mainstream audience in 2019 is much more equipped and eager to invest…
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 04:58PMFriday, August 2, 2019
The Vineyard Theatre has announced the highly anticipated New York premiere of Dana H., a new work by Tony-nominated playwright Lucas Hnath (A Doll's House, Part 2), slated to appear at the …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:18PMWednesday, July 10, 2019
Casting is here for the highly anticipated Broadway revival of West Side Story from Tony-winning director Ivo van Hove and internationally acclaimed choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:06PMWednesday, June 19, 2019
The Shaw and Stratford festivals have been busy adapting the C.S. Lewis story and the Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur comedy for modern audiences, writes Carly Maga.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 07:00AMMonday, May 13, 2019
Emmy Award-winning actor Richard Thomas will play the role of Atticus Finch in the previously announced national tour of To Kill A Mockingbird, Aaron Sorkin’s new play, directed by Bartlet…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:24AMMonday, April 29, 2019
By: Paulanne Simmons
May 1, 2019: From Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur’s The Front Page to Nora Ephron’s Lucky Guy, the newsroom has proven to be fertile grounds for theater. James G…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 08:31PMFriday, April 26, 2019
In today’s Wall Street Journal I review the Broadway transfer of Ink. Here’s an excerpt. * * * The newspaper movie used to be an established genre in Hollywood, and a consistently …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:04AMThursday, April 25, 2019
These portraits are hot off the presses after James Graham's Ink's opening night on April 24 at Broadway's Samuel J. Friedman Theatre. Led by Jonny Lee Miller as Larry Lamb and Bertie Carvel…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:55PM