The Avengers actress you always forget has a Tony, Scarlett Johansson, is to make a Broadway comeback in a revival of Tennessee Williams’s Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, playing the iconic role of Maggie the Cat. Read More
When all else fails, bring back the works of Tennessee Williams. Celebrating his centennial birthday year across the globe in revivals large and small, they’re bringing back everything but his grocery list. It’s the kind of attention he would have loved, but I doubt if the world’s most famously tortured playwright would care for the Read More
The Glass Menagerie, which debuted on Broadway 55 years ago today, was Tennessee Williams’ first great success as a playwright. The excellent revival that opened Off Broadway on March 5 at the Laura Pels Theatre, starring Judith Ivey as a complex, human and haunting Amanda Wingfield, strips away all those intervening years of TV movies Read More
It’s amazing that choreographer Debbie Allen’s starry Broadway production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof—the first all-black version—can have so much plain wrong with it, yet still delight me. But consider this: No great playwright ever wrote so badly and so beautifully within the same play as Tennessee Williams (unless it was Eugene O’Neill). Read More
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Call him dad rock, but Billy Joel’s July 16 show, which was to be the last concert ever at Shea Stadium, Read More
After 12 years of negotiations and organization, the all-African-American revival of Tennessee Williams’ “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” will finally be staged on the Broadhurst Theater, starting in mid-February with an opening night set for March 6. Tony-nominated actor, choreographer and TV director Debbie Allen will direct.
Full release after the jump. Read More
It’s always tough to say farewell to great and cherished folks, but 2006 took an unusually high toll. My heart is heavy when I think of June Allyson, a legendary film star and my close personal buddy, who shared a few tears and a lot of hearty laughs with me through the years. Singing and Read More
Few things are left to give one a sense of constancy in this world, so it’s nice to know the Catholic Church’s willingness to make an ass of itself is one of them. These days, it’s Monsignor Angelo Amato, former No. 2 at the Vatican’s doctrinal office, suggesting that Catholics should take a page from Read More
Few things are left to give one a sense of constancy in this world, so it’s nice to know the Catholic Church’s willingness to make an ass of itself is one of them. These days, it’s Monsignor Angelo Amato, former No. 2 at the Vatican’s doctrinal office, suggesting that Catholics should take a page from Read More
Lincoln Center’s rediscovery of Clifford Odets’ Awake and Sing! is a great opportunity to see the 1935 play that transformed American theater. But whether the drama about a Jewish family struggling in the Bronx to survive the Depression lives up to its myth as a lost masterpiece is open to question.
I’ve no doubt that Read More
