Review: Look! It's 'The Making of King Kong'! (No, Not That One.)
A new play mocks the gender and racial ickiness of the 1933 movie " on a one-paw budget.
A new play mocks the gender and racial ickiness of the 1933 movie " on a one-paw budget.
The Making of King Kong sets out to unpack the monstrosity of our current cultural moment via the monkey, simultaneously evoking a 1930s acting style (transatlantic accents abound) while com…
While I appreciate it as a landmark in both film making and scoring, I've otherwise never much understood the appeal of King Kong. Sure, there's incredibly cool stop-motion animation an…
King Kong may have the most talked-about puppet on the Great White Way, but a recent feature on CBS is breaking down just what makes this show so magical.
Eric William Morris sits Side by Side by Susan Blackwell to chat King Kong, his past survival job and more.
Christiani Pitts & Eric William Morrisin King Kong (Photo by Joan Marcus) Eric William Morris has been performing on the stage and screen for some time, appearing on the Great White Way as…
When Broadway’s King Kong opened earlier this month, critics did their best to one-up Beauty on how to kill a Beast. Big, hairy gloom might have settled over the cast following the sho…
We’ve got King Kong on the brain of late. We caught the new Broadway show on opening night, and several of our friends are appearing in Lisa Clair’s The Making of King Kong, open…
J.P. Morgan has shared its top picks on what's next in its just released NextList2019. Among the list includes Broadway selections. This year, J.P. Morgan has selected King Kong and Network
5 Reasons Why You Will Go Ape for King Kong By: Iris Wiener November 27, 2018:Â As a whole, King Kong is a musical disaster at its finest. Groan-worthy moments are endless with a score …
By no means is it perfect but the audience will not even care, as they are swept up by the amazing creature, who is brought to life by the hearts and souls of eleven human handlers, who enab…
Roar Watch King Kong perform on this morning's Thanksgiving Day Parade
Designed by Johnny Tilders, the puppet Kong is phenomenal, a 20-foot tall, 2,000 pound marionette operated by the ten-person King's Company, members of the cast assigned to operating the arm…
Casey Garvin talks about his incredibly memorable audition for Broadway's King Kong, being a theatre nerd at heart, and how he spends his days off.
King Kong is on its way to Broadway success. The thrilling new musical, which opened on November 8, just concluded its best-performing week, reporting a gross of $1,018,560.75 and filli…
As 'King Kong' breaks ground with its central character, we're looking back at some of the most innovative uses of puppets on Broadway.
The fab musical adaptation played in Boston this summer to sold-out houses and rave reviews.
"We tamed the beast"you and I"we brought him to this city," crows Carl Denham, the filmmaker and impresario in the new Broadway musical "King Kong." The production's beast tamer, as it were,…
This silver back gorilla has its eyes on success in New York but unfortunately for all its technological wonders the production falls way short
Remember the original Gong Show? Mid-70's TV fare? Where amateur talent might be stopped mid-act by the "striking of a large gong" putting an abrupt end to the dubious talent on view…
Broadway Theatre, New York, New York. November 14, 2018. The job of a critic is just as much an art as the work he's reviewing. His responsibility is to offer an assessment of a performa…
King Kong has announced that it will have a digital lottery