Wednesday, September 23, 2020
It’s rare if not unprecedented for me to use a late paragraph photo of a classic star, but this is how I always think of Walter Pidgeon (1897-1984). Pidgeon was in plenty of movies when I …
Linked From Trav S.D. at 09:32AMThursday, September 10, 2020
5 Best Shows Eligible for the 2020 Tony Awards
Written by: CK Anderson
September 10, 2020
As the old adage says, “The show must go on,” and that includes the Tony Awards. Here are f…
Linked From performerstuff.com at 01:04PMMonday, August 24, 2020
Three-time Tony winner James Lapine is releasing a book about his creative process on one of his most beloved musicals: Sunday in the Park with George! Putting It Together: How Stephen Sond…
Linked From Broadway.com at 04:02PMWednesday, August 12, 2020
(James P. Pinkerton’s article appeared on Breitbart, 8/12; Photo: Warren K. Leffler/Library of Congress.) Male Democrat presidential nominees don’t always do a good job of vetting their …
Linked From stagevoices.com at 08:13PMTuesday, August 4, 2020
DIGGING DEEPER: JOHN B. ROBERTS II ON THE 1984 REELECTION CAMPAIGN’S SECRET OPERATION AGAINST GERALDINE FERRARO, THINKING OUTSIDE THE BALLOT BOX, AND HIS NEW BOOK ON MORNING IN AMERICA…
Linked From stagevoices.com at 01:46PMFriday, July 31, 2020
Available onlineThere are a string of cartoonish events and a jangly slice of chart-topping indie pop in this play about missed opportunities
Hottest front-room seats: the best theatre and d…
Linked From The Guardian at 03:48PMCongratulations! You've made it through another week, in good health we hope. Here's our weekly game to bring you some theater related fun and stress relief. Today we bring back a favorite -…
Linked From www.jkstheatrescene.com at 02:03PMTuesday, July 28, 2020
Along with AMC and Cinemark, Regal closed down U.S. sites in mid-March due to the COVID-19 pandemic — which profoundly altered the spring and summer slate. “Wonder Woman 1984” was move…
Linked From ArtsJournal at 02:48PMMOB RULE: JOHN B. ROBERTS II ON THE 1984 REELECTION CAMPAIGN’S SECRET OPERATION AGAINST GERALDINE FERRARO, THINKING OUTSIDE THE BALLOT BOX, AND HIS NEW BOOK ON MORNING IN AMERICA: …
Linked From stagevoices.com at 12:01PMSunday, July 19, 2020
Historically, Amadeus is baloney. Theatrically, it’s a feast. Musically, the National Theatre’s 2016 production of Peter Shaffer’s 1979 play — a recording of which is being streamed…
Linked From DC Theatre Scene at 09:54PMTuesday, July 14, 2020
Arthur Laurents was best known for his work as librettist on Gypsy and West Side Story, but was also well known as a playwright, having won a Tony Award® for Hallelujah, Baby! in 1968. Lat…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 01:02AMSunday, July 12, 2020
Gina Prince-Bythewood, director of Love & Basketball (don’t @ us) and the also incredible, totally different Beyond the Lights, casually became the first Black woman to direct a superh…
Linked From ArtsJournal at 09:06AMWednesday, July 8, 2020
July 8th is Kevin Bacon's birthday. It doesn't take six degrees to make us immediately think of the 1998 Broadway musical adapted from his 1984 hit film Footloose.
Linked From BroadwayBox at 10:00AMMonday, June 22, 2020
(Michael Billington’s article appeared in the Guardian, 6/22.) This magnificently honest play about the Shelleys and Byron’s summer of sexual experimentation raises difficult questions a…
Linked From stagevoices.com at 05:04PMThis magnificently honest play about the Shelleys and Byron’s summer of sexual experimentation raises difficult questions about the cost of utopian aspirations
Howard Brenton’s output is…
Linked From The Guardian at 12:03PMSaturday, June 13, 2020
During the summer of 1984, young Edward Norton interviewed Columbia’s founder James W. Rouse for a teenage television program called “The Graffiti Show.” Jim Rouse looked directly into…
Linked From mdtheatreguide.com at 09:06PMThursday, June 11, 2020
The 1984 cult classic gets a musical makeover, now availalble for streaming on BroadwayHD featuring the West End production.
The post Redefining the Superhero: ‘The Toxic Avenger’ on Br…
Linked From The Broadway Blog at 01:32PMWednesday, June 3, 2020
Bruce Jay Friedman, an author, playwright and Oscar-nominated screenplay writer for Tom Hanks’s 1984 ilm Splash, died today in New York City. He was 90 and no cause of death was given by h…
Linked From Deadline at 09:04PMTuesday, June 2, 2020
A Presidential Election Year Is Like the Wild West . . . When rumors about Geraldine Ferraro–the first woman vice-presidential nominee by a major party in U.S history–reached First Lady …
Linked From stagevoices.com at 09:34PMSunday, May 17, 2020
His collaborations with Christopher Guest and Guest’s mockumentary ensemble were epic. “He played an Air Force colonel in This Is Spinal Tap (1984), then was travel agent/amateur actor…
Linked From ArtsJournal at 06:54PMThursday, May 14, 2020
Friday, May 8, 2020
To illustrate the vital importance of its illustrious history, Gem Spa is featured on the back cover of the first album by the New York Dolls. Poets Allen Ginsberg and Ted Berrigan both ment…
Linked From www.theaterscene.net at 02:27PMTuesday, May 5, 2020
The previously scheduled London transfer of Sunday in the Park with George, starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Annaleigh Ashford, has been postponed to 2021 as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. T…
Linked From Broadway.com at 11:54AMFriday, May 1, 2020
Tony nominee Melissa Errico recommends the cast album of the 1984 Sondheim musical.
Linked From Playbill at 01:00PMHercules will be the latest animated Disney film to get the live-action movie treatment, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Dave Callaham, the scribe behind The Expendables, Shang-Chi and …
Linked From Broadway.com at 05:12AMMonday, April 27, 2020
Take Me to the World: A Sondheim 90th Birthday Celebration was certainly a feast for the ears, what with stars like Meryl Streep, Audra McDonald, Mandy Patinkin, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Bernadet…
Linked From Broadway.com at 04:12PMSaturday, April 25, 2020
Don't you adore Mandy Patinkin? We do, and this makes us especially excited for the previously announced Take Me to the World: A Sondheim 90th Birthday Celebration on Sunday, April 26. The …
Linked From Broadway.com at 03:03PMWednesday, April 22, 2020
Color us excited for the previously announced Take Me to the World: A Sondheim 90th Birthday Celebration on Sunday, April 26! Legendary Broadway composer/lyricist Stephen Sondheim will be to…
Linked From Broadway.com at 05:03PMSaturday, April 18, 2020
Based on the George Orwell novel of the same name, Northern Ballet’s production of 1984 will change your perceptions of ballet.
Linked From AussieTheatre at 07:00PMFriday, April 3, 2020
In today’s Wall Street Journal I review a pay-per-view webcast performance by Houston’s Alley Theatre of a stage version of 1984. (This review was written before the death of my wife Hil…
Linked From ArtsJournal at 01:04AMWednesday, April 1, 2020
The medley at the 1984 Tony Awards offers something familiar, yet something very, very peculiar.
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