Tuesday, October 11, 2016
There wasn’t a lot of Burt Bacharach on the jukebox in Bud’s on Broadway, a blues bar in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, a favorite hangout of local Kyle Riabko, a musician who gravitated to Er…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 05:13PMFriday, October 7, 2016
Christine Ebersole admits that when she was young, she wanted to be famous. The blond beauty now describes herself as daughter, mother, wife, and animal lover. In that order.Talk about under…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 10:49PMMonday, October 3, 2016
From 2002 to 2012, director Michael Grandage was the head of London’s Donmar Warehouse. The position he inherited from Sam Mendes was long on prestige, artistic achievement, and honors. Bu…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 11:57AMFriday, September 30, 2016
Kevin Kline, one of the most gifted stage actors of his generation, is notorious for being choosy about his roles. However, the actor who long ago earned the nickname of “Kevin Decline” …
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 03:00PMFriday, September 23, 2016
One of the rock world’s great unknowns is the huge influence that Sister Rosetta Tharpe, an African-American gospel singer and guitarist, had on Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Ray Charles, Ch…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 10:57AMMonday, September 19, 2016
Sitting down with Edward Albee for a chat was as stimulating, provocative and entertaining as experiencing one of the many plays which made him one of the greatest artists of the 20th centur…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 01:14PMFriday, September 16, 2016
There will probably be at least ten new musicals unveiled on Broadway in the course of next season. But all anybody is talking about this Spring’s revival of “Hello, Dolly!,” starring …
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 12:58PMThursday, September 15, 2016
In 1979, at the age of 28, Jack Hofsiss was the youngest director to ever win the Tony Award for his brilliant direction of Bernard Pomerance’s “The Elephant Man.” Handsome, talented a…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 05:17PMWednesday, September 14, 2016
The recent and lamentable passing of Gene Wilder, one of the most beloved actors of his generation, precipitated a re-cap of his career, including his performances in “The Producers,” �…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 03:50PMMonday, September 12, 2016
Those Aussies are at it again. No sooner did Carmen Pavlovic, the CEO of Global Creatures, announce that the company had acquired the rights to “Moulin Rouge!”, Baz Luhrmann’s 20…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 04:42PMThursday, September 8, 2016
What’ll we do without the four goombahs of “Jersey Boys” lighting up Broadway with their doo-wop melodies and falsetto trills on such hits as “Big Girls Don’t Cry,” “Oh, What a…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 11:24AMWednesday, September 7, 2016
After a long period of successive flops, Andrew Lloyd Webber found salvation in “School of Rock,” a popular sweet-natured Jack Black film, about a slacker corralling cute kids into a ban…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 03:12PMThursday, September 1, 2016
The 2002 Best Picture Oscar for “Chicago,” ended a long dry period for the movie musical, which had once dominated Hollywood. Such expensive bombs as “Hello, Dolly!,” “Star,” and…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 06:51PMTuesday, August 30, 2016
Years before Gene Wilder became a beloved comic actor through such films as “The Producers,” “Blazing Saddles,” “Young Frankenstein” and “Stir Crazy,” he was an eager student…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 11:44AMFriday, August 26, 2016
Jennifer Holliday, who won a Tony Award for creating the role of Effie White in the original 1982 production of “Dreamgirls,” is going into the current Broadway revival of “The Color P…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 07:41AMOff-Broadway’s status as stepchild to Broadway is diminishing fast, given how often its fare transfers uptown. Who wouldn’t have wanted to get the jump on “Hamilton” when it was off-…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 07:27AMThursday, August 25, 2016
To paraphrase Howard Beale in the movie “Network,” the producers of “Hamilton” and “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child” are mad as hell and they’re not going to take it any more…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 11:30AMTuesday, August 23, 2016
In 1998, Nicole Kidman’s stage debut in David Hare’s “The Blue Room” was, as Newsweek put it, “one of the hottest tickets for a play in Broadway history.” In preparing a poster f…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 04:28PMMonday, August 22, 2016
When a one-time theater agent was recently arrested for fraud — he allegedly bilked gullible investors of $165,000 for a non-existent play — the parallels to Mel Brooks’s “The Produc…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 04:41PMFriday, August 19, 2016
When playwright Bess Wohl was invited by a friend to an holistic retreat in upstate New York, she brought along snacks and wine and thought it would be a good time to catch up. Instead she w…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 12:38PMWednesday, August 17, 2016
The creators of the new musical “Groundhog Day” wouldn’t mind repeating August 16 over and over again. That was the day they awoke to some of the best London reviews for a show in a de…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 01:50PMMonday, August 15, 2016
One is already a dramatic blockbuster in London; the other is a musical blockbuster in the making. There are no sure bets in the theater, but the stage adaptations of “Harry Potter” and …
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 04:30PMThursday, August 11, 2016
The advent of premium ticket pricing and the cachet of adding Broadway to the resume have resulted in a plethora of marquee names braving the boards in recent years. The new season is no exc…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 11:08AMMonday, August 8, 2016
When Glenn Close sang “As If We Never Said Goodbye” in the revival of “Sunset Boulevard” at the London Coliseum last April, it was as if 21 years had been a mere ellipsis in her care…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 07:36PMFriday, August 5, 2016
A couple of years ago, playwright Naomi Wallace was meeting with James Houghton, the artistic director of the Signature Theatre, one of the most prestigious of the off-Broadway non-profits. …
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 03:43PMWednesday, August 3, 2016
Last Spring, Garry Marshall told Vanity Fair that he would be in “a home for old directors” by the time “Pretty Woman,” the musical stage adaptation of his 1990 movie smash, arrived …
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 02:43PMFriday, July 29, 2016
Just weeks after “Motown, The Musical” began its return engagement on Broadway, the show’s producers announced that it would be closing on July 31, a serious foreshortening of its inte…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 02:17PMFriday, July 22, 2016
The casting is intriguing, to say the least. Jake Gyllenhaal was recently announced as the lead in the Broadway revival of Lanford Wilson’s tempestuous 1980s drama “Burn This,” slated …
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 10:14AMTuesday, July 19, 2016
Two years ago, Leslie Odom Jr. had few impressive credits on his résumé. He was largely known for a couple of short-lived TV shows (“Vanished,” “Smash” ) and a Broadway musical flo…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 11:13AMMonday, July 18, 2016
Barbara Cook once observed, “The challenge of performing is to show to an audience what life has done to you.”Just how steep the toll has been is divulged in “Then & Now,” Cook�…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 03:00AMWednesday, July 13, 2016
In the tradition of Spalding Gray, Mike Daisey is a monologist who deftly intertwines personal narratives with socio-political issues coursing through the country. In “The Last Cargo Cult,…
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