In the Carlyle Hotel’s Royal Suite, Tiffany’s iconic crack-of-dawn window-shopper was having her theatrical coming-out party. We’re talkin’ Broadway here—the belated stage bow of Breakfast at Tiffany’s—and Sean Mathias, the British director who’ll bring it to pass March 20 at the Cort, was holding forth.
“This will be like seeing a new play,” he promised Read More
Onetime Fox News host and current The Blaze proprietor has a flair for the theatrical–and he’s urging his followers to go see a Broadway show. Following in the footsteps of Rosie O’Donnell, the TV host is mobilizing his fans to support the Great White Way–in this case, the new show A Christmas Story, Read More
Bloomberg reports that Al Pacino is set to receive among the biggest paychecks ever for a Broadway star, with a minimum of $125,000 a week for the upcoming Glengarry Glen Ross revival. Read More
“I’ve been in this business 45 years, and I’ve done everything but porn,” Kathie Lee Gifford, the co-host of Today’s fourth hour, recently told The Observer over lunch, poking a fork into her onion soup and twisting the cheese around it purposefully.
“I doubt there’ll be an offer anytime soon,” she added with a laugh, Read More
Thank heaven for little girls.
Annie is storming back onto Broadway, and if history is any guide, the Depression-era rags-to-riches tale of a girl and her dog will make as much money, and as quickly, as did its lucky heroine: Read More
While the late playwright, novelist and essayist is celebrated at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre, where a revival of Gore Vidal’s The Best Man is currently running, friends, family and fans will have a chance to say goodbye to Mr. Vidal one last time on August 23rd, when the theater will host a public celebration of the accomplished writer. Read More
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In addition to an awesome cast, including Al Pacino in a different role from the one he played in the cinematic adaptation, the new Broadway production of Glengarry Glen Ross announced today that its latest salesman on the team would be none other than John C. McGinnley…better known to most of us as Dr. Cox from Scrubs. Read More
Alas, poor Richard Fleeshman, we knew thee not-quite-well. After only 136 performances, Ghost The Musical–based on the 1990 Patrick Swayze film about a Manhattan couple with a kinky clay fetish, trying to make their relationship work even if it means bringing in Whoopi Goldberg for a possessed threesome– will take its final Broadway bow Aug. 18. Read More
Tom Cruise’s last ex-wife, Nicole Kidman, rebounded quickly with an Oscar, but Katie Holmes may have her eye on Tony. She’s to return to Broadway in the Theresa Rebeck play Dead Accounts this fall. The Times reports Ms. Holmes is to play a Midwestern woman living with her parents and trying to “pull together Read More
It’ll be a hard-knock life for the Broadway cast of Annie, which were announced today to be headlined by 11-year-old Lilla Crawford. The team of precocious moppets, who were handpicked after over 5,000 auditions, will be opening at the Netherlander theater at a date T.B.D. Read More
