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"Secondhand Lions," the 2003 New Line Cinema pic that inspired the stage musical now getting its world premiere from Seattle's 5th Avenue Theater, got knocked by critics for being schmaltzy …
Come aboard: They're expecting you. "The Love Boats," a stage musical version of the book that inspired the long-running TV skein, is charting a course for Las Vegas, where a team of produce…
Let’s be honest: Nobody in the theater industry wants to sit through another production of Tennessee Williams’ “The Glass Menagerie.” And for a long time, that includ…
A commercial transfer of the American Repertory Theater’s revival of Tennessee Williams’ “The Glass Menagerie,” which premiered earlier this year Cambridge, Mass., op…
Fans of Main Stem musical romance probably watch the Food Network. Own an espresso machine? You're a lot more likely to be a Broadway ticketbuyer than someone who doesn't.
“August: Osage County” will play one of the two centerpiece slots at this year’s Hamptons Intl. Film Festival, joining a lineup of buzzy festival-circuit alums including op…
Estelle Parsons is the spitting, shouting "Â but by no means cursing "Â image of irascibility in "The Velocity of Autumn," a tender-hearted dramedy by playwright Eric Coble ("Bright Idea…
Big Block Theatrical, a new legit arm of VFX firm Big Block, will revive 1999 musical "Inappropriate" in an L.A. workshop staging this fall, with an eye toward returning the Off Broadway alu…
Broadway began the slow process of picking itself up out of the fall doldrums last week as a bit of sales momentum returned to the box office " even as the head count of total theaterg…
The conflict of a divided soul "Â personal, political and national "Â sears onstage in A.R.T.'s sprawling, heady and thoroughly gripping drama "All the Way," starring Bryan Cranston ("Br…
"Much Ado About Nothing" is the blueprint for rom-coms, but what makes it fascinatingly unique is that it's both comedy and tragedy. Except that in the Old Vic's ill-conceived, witless, i…
Take a look at Broadway's 2013-14 slate, and one thing's clear: Spring 2014 sure is crowded with notable new musicals.
Orlando Bloom said it best, just after his opening night performance Sept. 19 in the Broadway revival of “Romeo and Juliet.” “It’s really hard not to sound pretentiou…
The kids are all right. That’s the takeaway from “Romeo and Juliet,” with movie heartthrob Orlando Bloom and ingenue stunner Condola Rashad as Shakespeare’s star-…
Despite Bottom, the lovers, Oberon and Titania, "A Midsummer Night's Dream" has either no leads or too many. No single character-line drives the action and everyone comes from different worl…
"The Last Ship," the new Broadway musical with songs by Sting, has filled in its production timeline, with a Chicago tryout set for this summer prior to a fall bow on the Main Stem. Set agai…
Michael Barra, until recently the senior veep of Daryl Roth Theatrical Licensing, has struck out on his own to form Stageworks Media, a new production company that will focus on adapting con…
Beth Williams, currently CEO of Key Brand Entertainment’s theater division, will hang out her own shingle, launching a new production company called Grove Entertainment starting next y…
The Gotham Independent Film Awards have named indie stalwart Richard Linklater as the recipient of the kudos' annual director tribute. Filmmaker will be honored alongside Katherine Oliver, t…
It was the same old song of September at the Broadway box office last week "Â pretty much the same verse as the prior frame, as Rialto sales held generally steady with minor upticks at sev…
Jonathan Freeman, the actor who portrayed the villain Jafar in Disney’s 1992 animated pic “Aladdin,” will reprise his role onstage in the Broadway-bound legit adaptation of…
“Mr. Burns, a Post-Electric Play,” an ambitious new work penned by Anne Washburn and developed with The Civilians, is a refreshingly original take on the fast-growing genre of th…
Dennis Kelly, Tony-winning bookwriter of the musical "Matilda," is second only to Caryl Churchill as the U.K.'s most ambitious and iconoclastic dramatist. "The Ritual Slaughter of Gorge Mast…
Going to a Horton Foote play is like catching up with good friends and friendly enemies at a family reunion. His posthumous debut “The Old Friends" is only now having its world premier…
With a West End revival bowing in May and a smaller-scale, stand-alone production now running at the D.C. area's Signature Theater, the 1989 mega musical, often mentioned in the same breath …
