306 stories by "Jesse North"
Kathryn Stockett does not want her best-selling novel The Help to be adapted for Broadway. She shot down the notion during a post-show talkback at Driving Miss Daisy Wednesday night, citing …
Talking points: Emotions run high at The Merchant of Venice opening Catch Me If You Can announces cast Next to Normal to close January 16 2011 Tony Awards will be held at the Beacon Theatre …
In Lee Hall's drama The Pitmen Painters, Christopher Connel plays the key member of a group of British miners who gain the art world's attention with their paintings. Although Connel's Olive…
Talking points: Happy Halloween! Broadway theaters to participate in trick or treat Stage manager of The 39 Steps Matthew Shiner tells tales from the wings In The Heights to close in January…
The sharpest eye in a theater belongs to the production stage manager. Sequestered to the stage's wings, these vigilant crew members order every lighting and technical cue of a show into act…
Talking points: Part 2 of Ensemble Watch with The Lion King's Ray Mercer and Jean Michelle Grier. Ray talks about his giraffe, Gus, and how he mounts the 14-foot puppet. At This Performance …
At first glance, Lombardi runs the risk of traveling into cheesy TV biopic territory. Led by two televisions stars who haven’t been relevant to pop culture since the 80s, the play focu…
The new Broadway season swoops in with quite a homecoming when it takes over the area it inhabits. During the annual Broadway on Broadway concert, Broadway the art takes full control of Broa…
Talking points: The one-two punch of interviewing Tony Kushner and Michael Greif for Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide Michael Greif spills details on this summer’s off-Broadway rev…
Tony Kushner, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright of Angels In America, can’t seem to get enough of director Michael Greif. Or is it vice versa? The two paired for the revival of Ang…
Talking points: New play about Chris Farley, The Fatman Cometh, has Broadway/off-Broadway potential Who is the best man in That Championship Season Julie Taymor is out of Spider-Man. Why we …
Playing former mental hospital patients, Denis O'Hare and Brendan Fraser are friends and roommates attempting to make their way in a society where they do not feel comfortable. O'Hare as Ell…
Talking points: Thank you for making 30 episodes of SRTV possible! Winning the American Idiot ticket lottery and getting a detailed view of the show Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson cast rocks t…
For 13 years, the on-stage spectacle of The Lion King has been flooring audience members, even bringing tears to the eyes of adults, and selling out performances (even to this day). From an …
Torn between comedy and drama, this play that creates a modern-day Scopes Monkey Trial never finds its footing.
Hunter Ryan Herdlicka is preparing for the closing of A Little Night Music—for real this time. Last June, the cast of the acclaimed production was given a second life when Bernadette P…
Rain didn't stop the cast of Fela! from providing fans with a free concert Monday night in DUMBO, where Sahr Ngaujah (and his abs) rocked the crowd.
Talking points: SRTV celebrates 40 episodes—thank you! Hunter Ryan Herdlicka's star-filled show at Feinstein's Colin Quinn: Long Story Short and other non-traditional Broadway fare Bro…
Talking points: Jeremy Woodard and Andre Ward of Rock of Ages sit down for Ensemble Watch The Scottsboro Boys offers discounted tickets to its first preview performance Trust is difficult to…
Andre Ward and Jeremy Woodard--the guy rockers in the ensemble of Rock of Ages--talk about backstage life at the Brooks Atkinson, knee-bleeding audition tales, and bonding through cable TV i…
Talking points: Part 2 of Ensemble Watch with The Lion King's Ray Mercer and Jean Michelle Grier. Ray talks about his giraffe, Gus, and how he mounts the 14-foot puppet. At This Performance …
While enjoying the best time of his career, the Tony winner and ubiquitous commercial actor juggles a family in LA and his career in New York.
Andre Ward and Jeremy Woodard give Rock of Ages fitness tips and talk about being a part of a rewarding ensemble.
There's a lot happening on stage at Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, but unfortunately, not enough of the right things. This new David Yazbek and Jeffrey Lane musical is jam-packed…
Talking points: Phantom understudy Jeremy Stolle co-hosts this special 50th episode of SRTV! Finding the positives of Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark Idina Menzel in concert at Lincoln Center …