Thursday, February 23, 2012
The Oscar-winning 1994 crime caper will become the first of Woody Allen's films to get a screen-to-stage musical makeover.
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 03:31PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Lauper joins forces with writer Harvey Fierstein and director-choreographer Jerry Mitchell for a Chicago test run of their stage adaptation of the 2005 Miramax release.
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 02:10PM[SHARE]Friday, January 27, 2012
Cynthia Nixon's unsparing performance makes Margaret Edson's celebrated play a powerfully moving experience.
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 01:57AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Playwright Leslye Headland makes her debut as writer-director with this screen adaptation of her 2010 Off Broadway hit, starring Kirsten Dunst
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 07:27PM[SHARE]Thursday, January 19, 2012
Following successful tryout runs, Disney Theatrical Productions will add the two new shows to its Broadway roster this season.
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 05:29PM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 18, 2012
David Rooney The director and star of "American Beauty" team up for the Shakespeare play, the closing entry in the ambitious international classical theater undertaking, The Bridge Project.r…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 09:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 17, 2012
David Rooney Rosemary Harris, Carla Gugino and Jim Dale star in the first Broadway production of Athol Fugard's 1984 play, which kicks off the South African dramatist's 80th birthday celebra…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 09:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, January 12, 2012
Despite dynamic subject matter, prime archive material and insightful interviewees including Liza Minnelli, Whitney Sudler-Smith's intrusive presence onscreen somewhat trivializes his tribut…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 09:22PM[SHARE]Following "Bonnie & Clyde" and "Lysistrata Jones" as the third of the season's new musical productions to close swiftly, the departing show creates a vacancy for "Leap of Faith."
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 09:19PM[SHARE]David Rooney Audra McDonald, Norm Lewis and David Alan Grier head a superlative ensemble in this streamlined reinterpretation for Broadway of the 1935 Gershwin folk opera.read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 09:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, January 5, 2012
The U2 members crow about the history-making single-week performance of "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark," which grossed a staggering $2.9 million last week.
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 02:58PM[SHARE]Nominated for a Golden Globe for her role in "The Help" and an Independent Spirit Award for "Take Shelter," the Juilliard-trained actress will star in a major revival of the Henry James adap…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 01:27PM[SHARE]Nominated for a Golden Globe for her role in "The Help" and an Independent Spirit Award for "Take Shelter," the Juilliard-trained actress will star in a major revival of the Henry James adap…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 01:22PM[SHARE]Nominated for a Golden Globe for her role in "The Help" and an Independent Spirit Award for "Take Shelter," the Juilliard-trained actress will star in a Broadway revival of the Henry James…
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:34AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 3, 2012
The superhero musical grossed more than $2.9 million in a busy holiday session, placing it ahead of perennial top-earners "Wicked" and "The Lion King."
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 06:09PM[SHARE]Sunday, December 25, 2011
In a world where drag has gone mainstream, Lady Bunny brings a tonic sewer sensibility to her stand-up routine at La Escuelita Cabaret Theater.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:05PM[SHARE]Friday, December 23, 2011
Discerning theatergoers had plenty to chew on in 2011, even if the year's biggest news event also turned out to be its biggest critical non-event.
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 11:11PM[SHARE]Thursday, December 22, 2011
Critics and writers for The New York Times recall their favorite moments onstage in 2011, some of them happening in the smallest and most offbeat of places.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:25PM[SHARE]Monday, December 19, 2011
David Rooney David Hyde Pierce and Rosie Perez star in Molly Smith Metzler's Off Broadway premiere, which starts out promisingly but gets hijacked by a misjudged pivotal character who crushe…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 09:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, December 15, 2011
Wednesday, December 14, 2011
Douglas Carter Beane and Lewis Flinn's musical update on the Ancient Greek sex comedy has its bubbly charms, but it also demonstrates the challenges of transferring scrappy downtown stage su…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 09:09PM[SHARE]Monday, December 12, 2011
MOST failed auditions are quickly forgotten. Rarely does one generate a part that haunts an actor for three decades, lingering like an unresolved relationship that refuses to be eclipsed by …
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:26AM[SHARE]Sunday, December 11, 2011
Harry Connick Jr. and his castmates make magic with the melodious score, but despite an adventurous gender-switch, the problematic 1965 musical remains as over-complicated as ever in this ra…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 09:51PM[SHARE]Harry Connick Jr. and his castmates make magic with the melodious score, but despite an adventurous gender-switch, the problematic 1965 musical remains as over-complicated as ever in this ra…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 08:45PM[SHARE]Friday, December 9, 2011
Thursday, December 8, 2011
David Rooney Dulé Hill, Mekhi Phifer and Tracie Thoms star in Kenny Leon's production, which comes up short as both comedy and dysfunctional family drama but features a breakout performance…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 09:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 7, 2011
Los Angeles, prepare to be converted. The Tony-winning Broadway musical smash will make its West Coast debut at the Pantages Theatre next fall.
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 04:52PM[SHARE]In only half the time of other productions participating in the Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS fund drive, "Hugh Jackman, Back on Broadway" tops "How to Succeed in Business Without Really…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 02:02PM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 6, 2011
David Rooney Adapted for the stage from the 2007 feature film with Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová, the production makes intelligent decisions at every step.read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 08:30PM[SHARE]Monday, December 5, 2011
David Rooney The unbridled misanthropy found in the filmmaker's new trilogy of one-act plays is like an acid enema.read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 08:30PM[SHARE]Thursday, December 1, 2011
David Rooney The connection between crime and celebrity is hammered over and over again in director-choreographer Jeff Calhoun's production.read more
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