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Entries tagged with 'New York theater'Jaime Castaneda moves to New York...and takes Firestarter with himTCU grad Jaime Castaneda has been living a double life since finishing a graduate degree at UT-Austin. He has been living in the Dallas area, where he has continued to direct plays under the aegis of FireStarter Productions (his own... Kimberly Whalen to go into NYC "Fantasticks"After finishing up her wonderful performance in WaterTower Theatre' Grey Gardens in a few weeks, Kimberly Whalen will return to New York, where she's been living for about a year. I hear she's going right into the lead role in... Blind Lemon in New YorkAlan Govenar and Akin Babatunde's Blind Lemon Blues has had multiple runs in Dallas, New York and abroad. Its highest-profile Big Apple engagement, though, is now going on at the York Theatre. The AP review loved the piece -- especially... Dallas playwrights in New YorkTwo local playwrights, Barbara Macchia and Kurt Kleimann, have short plays in New York's Cringefest later this month. The series is subtitled "bad plays, bad musicals, bad films" -- but the press release assures us that these are really good... Dallasite Russ Jolly was in "Woody Guthrie's American Song" -- 20-odd years ago!Russ Jolly, the former Broadway actor now in business in Richardson, frequently has good stories about his days and connections in New York. (He was a prime source about Rent creator Jonathan Larson when I did a feature biography on... Neil Patrick Harris to host Tony AwardsTelevision star Neil Patrick Harris will host the Tony Awards, to be broadcast on CBS June 7. You might not identify the former Doogie Howser as a stage luminary, but he did star in the Broadway revival of Stephen Sondheim's... No big surprise: "Billy Elliott" pirouettes off with the Outer Critics Circle AwardsWinners of New York's Outer Critics Circle Awards were announced this morning. No big surprise that "Billy Elliott" waltzed off with the most, seven. Slightly more surprising, "Shrek the Musical" did pretty well too, with both top acting honors and... First thoughts on Tony nominationsI 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... Drama Desk touts "9 to 5"The Drama Desk Award nominations came out today. Much more than the Outer Critics Circle Awards, the new dramas nominated come from Off Broadway. One interesting surprise: The stage musical versino of "9 to 5," which hasn't officially opened yet,... Outer Critics Circle nominations announcedThe Outer Critics Circle Awards are the closest thing to a predictor for the Tony Awards that cap the Broadway season every year. (They're different, in that they include off-Broadway stuff, but that's mostly in separate categories.) To judge from... The Good Negro hits New YorkThe co-production of Tracey Scott Wilson's The Good Negro that the Dallas Theater Center debuted last fall had its New York premiere at the Public Theater last night. It got a favorable review from The New York Times, too. Note... Baylor off-BroadwayAmerican Actors Company, the Baylor University-based professional theater, took Craig Wright's The Unseen to New York's Cherry Lane Theatre this week. (The same production was one of the hits at last years Out of the Loop Festival at WaterTower Theatre,... Spidey coming to BroadwayGenius director Julie Taymor (The Lion King, Frieda) will be bringing another legend to the stage next season -- none other than Spider-Man himself. The songs will come from some pretty notable gents, too: U2's Bono and The Edge. Previews... TKTS booth in New York wins prizeThis may be a first: At least, I can't imagine that any prior box office has won an architectural award -- till now. The TKTS booth in Times Square, which has been under re-construction for a number of years, just... Tom Sime gets star powerFormer colleague Tom Sime has become writer in residence at New York's Bleecker Street Theatre. The first of nine staged readings he's producing Nine of Sime's plays will get staged readings on Monday nights this month and next. The first,... Simons trio to New Yorkip Pocket Theatre founder Johnny Simons joins his grown daughters Lake and Lorca (both now distinguished theatrical performers in their own rights) for three performances, Feb. 6-8, at New York's HERE Arts Center. They'll be doing Trio Molemo!, which... Pivens leaves Speed-the-Plow on BroadwayJeremy Pivens, the TV actor who's one of the three stars of the highly successful Broadway revival of David Mamet's Speed-the-Plow, missed Tuesday's performance and Wednesday's matinee and announced he's not returning to the show. He says his doctors have... Broadway Diary December 2008 - Saturday nightToday I saw the fall Broadway season's two biggest musicals, Shrek and Billy Elliot. Shrek is living proof that the decline and fall of Western civilization is now complete. We all know what word "flatulence" is euphemistic for. Is there... Broadway Diary December 2008 - Friday nightSeeing Horton Foote's Dviding the Estate, I was in a prime critic's seat. (The Texas playwright's show has already opened its limited Broadway run, but weekly and out-of-town reviewers are still attending en masse, as well as voters for end-of-season... Broadway Diary December 2008 - Thursday nightI don't think I ever flew so low over Flushing in Queens as landing at LaGuardia airport this afternoon in some truly nasty December weather -- sharp winds from the east, intermittent rain and near-freezing temperatures. Even my theater-going friend,... |
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