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Thursday, April 25, 2013

Broadway revival of 'Cabaret' is being considered by Mark Kennedy

NEW YORK (AP) -- The Roundabout Theatre Company is considering a new Broadway revival of "Cabaret," although the non-profit said Thursday no final decision has been made....

SOURCE: Associated Press at 03:59PM[SHARE]

Julianna Margulies and Paul Rudd to join onstage by Mark Kennedy

NEW YORK (AP) -- Julianna Margulies and Paul Rudd will team up for a one-night only benefit reading of Neil LaBute's play "The Mercy Seat."...

SOURCE: Associated Press at 03:40PM[SHARE]
Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Review: Bette Midler gets to make fun of Hollywood by Mark Kennedy

NEW YORK—Appearing on Broadway for the first time in 30 years, Bette Midler doesn't stand up to greet her audience.

SOURCE: Denver Post at 09:07PM[SHARE]

Review: Bette Midler gets to make fun of Hollywood by Mark Kennedy

NEW YORK (AP) -- Appearing on Broadway for the first time in 30 years, Bette Midler doesn't stand up to greet her audience. She chooses to remain reclined....

SOURCE: Associated Press at 08:43PM[SHARE]
Tuesday, April 23, 2013

Review: Tyson sublime in 'The Trip to Bountiful' by Mark Kennedy

NEW YORK (AP) -- Move over, you adorable scamps in "Annie." Settle down, weird girls in "Matilda." Broadway has a new unlikely heroine, a frail widow who hums hymns and has a bad heart..…

SOURCE: Associated Press at 08:04PM[SHARE]

Cuba Gooding Jr., onstage and in 'creative place' by Mark Kennedy

NEW YORK (AP) -- The other night at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre, Cuba Gooding Jr. came bounding onto the stage....

SOURCE: Associated Press at 09:13AM[SHARE]
Monday, April 22, 2013

Review: There's something (weird) about Mary by Mark Kennedy

NEW YORK (AP) -- If every mother secretly believes her son is a saint, you'd have to imagine the Virgin Mary would be positively insufferable....

SOURCE: Associated Press at 08:05PM[SHARE]

New lovers announced for Broadway's 'Once'—again by Mark Kennedy

NEW YORK—There will be two new star-crossed lovers at "Once" on Broadway—again. A little more than a month after announcing the replacements for Tony Award-winner Steve Kazee…

SOURCE: Denver Post at 01:43PM[SHARE]
Sunday, April 21, 2013

Review: Alan Cumming's 1-man 'Macbeth' stunning by Mark Kennedy

NEW YORK (AP) -- It's hard enough for a couple to simulate sex onstage in front of 1,000 people. Now put them in a Shakespeare tragedy. OK, now to make it really hard: Remove one of the …

SOURCE: Associated Press at 06:01PM[SHARE]
Friday, April 19, 2013

Musical of 'American Psycho' to debut in London by Mark Kennedy

NEW YORK (AP) -- A musical based on Bret Easton Ellis's novel "American Psycho" will first try to slay an audience in London....

SOURCE: Associated Press at 06:52PM[SHARE]
Thursday, April 18, 2013

'Mamma Mia!' musical moving to new B'way theater by Mark Kennedy

NEW YORK (AP) -- The Broadway musical "Mamma Mia!" will be dancing to a slightly smaller theater in Times Square later this year....

SOURCE: Associated Press at 08:04PM[SHARE]

Review: 'Jekyll & Hyde' overwrought, in a good way by Mark Kennedy

NEW YORK (AP) -- Yes, it is bombastic and overwrought. It's true that there's enough smoke to make three Whitesnake videos. OK, it sometimes makes "The Phantom of the Opera" seem small a…

SOURCE: Associated Press at 07:34PM[SHARE]

Review: Broadway's 'Orphans' creates little light by Mark Kennedy

NEW YORK (AP) -- Lyle Kessler's play "The Orphans" is apparently the kind of thing movie stars fight to be in. But it's not always clear why we have to fight to get a ticket....

SOURCE: Associated Press at 07:33PM[SHARE]

Broadway play altered following marathon blasts by Mark Kennedy

NEW YORK (AP) -- Playwright Richard Greenberg has edited parts of his new play "The Assembled Parties" following the bombings at the Boston Marathon to cut an unflattering reference to t…

SOURCE: Associated Press at 04:24PM[SHARE]

Play in a truck trailer highlights immigrant peril by Mark Kennedy

NEW YORK (AP) -- The air inside the theater gets heavy. It gets hot, too, and the seats are not comfortable at all. By the time the show is over, you walk out thankful for a breeze and s…

SOURCE: Associated Press at 01:05AM[SHARE]
Wednesday, April 17, 2013

Review: 'The Assembled Parties' a terrific drama by Mark Kennedy

NEW YORK (AP) -- The intermission at "The Assembled Parties" takes 20 years. No, really: The first act begins and ends in a Manhattan apartment on Christmas Day in 1980, and the second o…

SOURCE: Associated Press at 08:14PM[SHARE]
Tuesday, April 16, 2013

Review: Fame cuts both ways in 'The Big Knife' by Mark Kennedy

NEW YORK (AP) -- The darker side of mid-20th-century Hollywood glamour found movie stars struggling to retain their identities and souls despite the iron grip of the all-powerful studio …

SOURCE: Associated Press at 09:04PM[SHARE]

Review: The Rascals find a fountain of youth by Mark Kennedy

NEW YORK (AP) -- In the 40 years since The Rascals disbanded, the band's name has sort of grown a paunch. These days, it's more associated with a brand of motorized wheelchair than a pio…

SOURCE: Associated Press at 08:30PM[SHARE]

John Guare to act in his new off-Broadway play by Mark Kennedy

NEW YORK (AP) -- John Guare isn't merely ready to unveil his new play - he'll also be onstage in it....

SOURCE: Associated Press at 03:00PM[SHARE]
Monday, April 15, 2013

Review: Nathan Lane shines in 'The Nance' by Mark Kennedy

NEW YORK (AP) -- Douglas Carter Beane's new play "The Nance" opens with Nathan Lane hungrily looking around an automat. It is 1937 in New York and he's not there for the food....

SOURCE: Associated Press at 07:01PM[SHARE]

Broadway's 'Breakfast at Tiffany's' closes Sunday by Mark Kennedy

NEW YORK—There'll be no more breakfast on Broadway. Producers of the latest stage adaptation of Truman Capote's classic 1958 story "Breakfast at Tiffany's" said Monday they will cl…

SOURCE: Denver Post at 02:34PM[SHARE]
Sunday, April 14, 2013

Review: 'Motown' musical big on songs, light story by Mark Kennedy

NEW YORK (AP) -- There are 36 songs in the new Broadway show "Motown: The Musical." Actually, that's just in the first act - 36 songs, not including a reprise of "You're Nobody `til Some…

SOURCE: Associated Press at 08:14PM[SHARE]
Friday, April 12, 2013

Fiona Shaw plays the Virgin Mary with 'no agenda' by Mark Kennedy

NEW YORK (AP) -- Fiona Shaw's small Broadway dressing room had the look of a makeshift bar. There were more than a dozen bottles of wine stashed on a high shelf....

SOURCE: Associated Press at 09:00AM[SHARE]
Thursday, April 11, 2013

Review: Broadway's 'Matilda' is blast of nasty fun by Mark Kennedy

NEW YORK (AP) -- The last Broadway performance of "Mary Poppins" - that sugary-sweet ode to good children and even better caregivers - was delivered March 3. Twenty-four hours later, the…

SOURCE: Associated Press at 08:19PM[SHARE]
Wednesday, April 10, 2013

Mary-Louise Parker to return to Broadway this fall by Mark Kennedy

NEW YORK—Mary-Louise Parker is coming back to Broadway in the world premiere of Sharr White's "The Snow Geese.

SOURCE: Denver Post at 02:05PM[SHARE]

Mary-Louise Parker to return to Broadway this fall by Mark Kennedy

NEW YORK (AP) -- Mary-Louise Parker is coming back to Broadway in the world premiere of Sharr White's "The Snow Geese."...

SOURCE: Associated Press at 02:05PM[SHARE]

Harry Potter play parody plans to return to NYC by Mark Kennedy

NEW YORK—The Harry Potter play parody "Potted Potter" is magically returning to New York City. Producers said Wednesday that off-Broadway's Little Shubert Theatre will once again h…

SOURCE: Denver Post at 01:53PM[SHARE]

Settlement reached in 'Spider-Man' B'way musical by Mark Kennedy

NEW YORK—A settlement has been reached between the producers of "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" and its fired director, Julie Taymor, ending a bitter legal fight over what has become B…

SOURCE: Denver Post at 12:27PM[SHARE]
Tuesday, April 9, 2013

Deborah Cox loves the 'beginning of a new chapter' by Mark Kennedy

NEW YORK (AP) -- Every performer has a special routine before hitting the stage. For the last few months, you may have found Deborah Cox singing into a computer....

SOURCE: Associated Press at 08:54AM[SHARE]
Friday, April 5, 2013

Craig, Weisz to star in 'Betrayal' on Broadway by Mark Kennedy

NEW YORK—Real-life husband and wife Daniel Craig and Rachel Weisz are to play an adulterous stage couple in a Broadway production this fall of Harold Pinter's "Betrayal," the latest bl…

SOURCE: Denver Post at 03:17PM[SHARE]

Elaine Stritch: A moving goodbye to New York by Mark Kennedy

Friday April 5, 2013 NEW YORK -- Broadway legend Elaine Stritch kicked off a final series of concerts to bid farewell to New York, but

SOURCE: The Berkshire Eagle at 12:15AM[SHARE]

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