Variety reports that the Spiderman musical scheduled to hit Broadway in February -- directed by Julie Taymor, with a score by Bono and the Edte -- may be in financial trouble, according to rumors on the Great White Way. Say...
Only one real surprise tonight, as you can see from my Tony story -- Elton John snubbed again for his score for Billy Elliot. I'll admit it was perhaps the least distinctive element in the show, and I've never been...
Billy Elliot is definitely going to win a great many awards, though not quite sweep. (It lost the costume design prize to Shrek.) The most moving moment in the preliminary hour in which the design awards were handed out came...
We'll be here blogging about the Tony Awards as they are handed out tonight. Join us with your observations, beefs or WHAT-THE-HEYS....
Not much suspense as we build up to June 7's Tony Awards: Elton John's "Billy Elliott' swept another round of awards yesterday as it won 10 Drama Desk categories. This event wasn't much help in predicting which show will win...
A story in today's Variety reminds us how many big, big names got blanked in the Tony nominations that came out yesterday. In so doing, it reminds us just how star-studded the season just concluded was. A great many Oscar...
I wasn't at all surprised by the Tony Award nominations for the 2008-2009 Broadway season just announced in New York. Billy Elliott has seemed to me the obvious show to clean up at the awards this year, ever since I...
Susan Sarandon and pioneer of Absurdist theater Eugene Ionesco sound an improbable mix. But the Oscar-winning star is going on Broadway in the late French playwright's Enter the King March 7 through June 14. Her co-star, Geoffrey Rush (another Oscar...
Variety reports that the sit-down version of Wicked that just closed in Los Angeles grossed $145 million. Heck, that's more than some fairly successful movies gross -- and that's just in one city, not even on Broadway (where it continues...
If anyone is planning a Broadway trip over the holidays, this is truly a chance to catch 'em before they close. According to a story that ran in the The Daily Telegraph today, 15 Broadway shows are about to be...
Not much time left to see this Mel Brooks musical: NEW YORK (AP) -- Young Frankenstein is closing after nearly 500 Broadway performances. The decision was announced Sunday by producer Robert F.X. Sillerman. The Mel Brooks cinematic monster spoof will...
Hairspray will be the 19th longest-running show in Broadway history when it closes on Jan. 9 -- the date the producers announced yesterday. As a way to get all those seats filled in the interim, they are bringing back the...
Jaime Castaneda just won a Princess Grace award, which will enable him to spend the season that just started with the American Theater Company in Chicago. (He just directed a reading of a version of Blood Wedding he co-adapted there.)...
Earlier this afternoon I interviewed Grover Dale, an original Broadway cast member of West Side Story who is in Iriving to direct that show for Lyric Stage. He has an amazing history (he was Anthony Perkins' domestic partner and Anita...
Hunter Parrish, the 21-year-old actor who grew up in Plano, doesn't stick to his conservative suburban roots in the Showtime series Weeds, where he plays a pot dealer and indulges in a lot of (simulated) sex. Now he's undressing in...
Besides a live cast recording, already released, the Broadway critical hit Passing Strange will live on. No less exalted a filmmaker than Spike Lee filmed one of the final performances of the bio-musical by rocker Stew....
Those Jersey Boys boys will be moving back across the Hudson to Times Square. Variety reports that Des McAnuff will be directing a new revival of Guys and Dolls on Broadway next spring. Rumors have long circulated that the Donmar...
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