Having taken a heavily European-influenced stance on recent programming, London’s Gate Theatre turns its attention across the Atlantic for its autumn season with two American pieces, including the first-ever musical to be produced at the venue.
Gate associate director Daniel Kramer (Woyzeck at the Gate, Through the Leaves at Southwark Playhouse and in the West End) […]
A reviewer would surely seem churlish to dislike a play in which a theater critic is: hit in the head with pasta; attacked by a producer’s dog; punched in the mouth by a playwright; and barred from a group hug because he isn’t really “in the theater.”
And he would have to actually be churlish to […]
WHEN Irvine Welsh’s Edinburgh-set novel, Trainspotting was published in 1993, it shocked the literary world, writes Emma Durdle.
His blunt warts-and-all tale about a group of young people whose lives were dominated by their addiction to heroin was a gritty subject presented with wry humour which became an unlikely bestseller.
The film adaptation came in 1996 and […]
Oliver!, the musical, is based on the classic novel Oliver Twist, by Charles Dickens. The novel was published in 1838 and has been a great favorite ever since. There have been a number of films based on this timeless story, most notably: the 1922 silent film starring Lon Chaney and Jackie Coogan; the 1948 film […]
The cast of the broadway musical, Little Women (based on Louisa May Alcott’s novel by the same name) has a Little Women Show Blog. As Blogway Baby points out this may be the first ever broadway cast blog. Little Women the Musical is now playing at Broadway’s Virginia Theatre.
Imagine there’s a musical biography of John Lennon with very little of the Beatles in it. You may say I’m a dreamer, but not only is that pretty much the case with “Lennon” — the Broadway-bound world premiere that opened Tuesday at the Orpheum Theatre in the Best of Broadway series — but it scarcely […]
Charlotte d’Amboise, who was playing the title character in Broadway’s Sweet Charity just two days ago, will return to the role of Roxie Hart in Chicago on April 18, according to a production spokesperson. Even though she is employed at the Ambassador Theatre, d’Amboise will continue to serve as Christina Applegate’s standby for Sweet Charity.
D’Amboise […]
The Broadway production of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast — based on the Oscar-nominated animated film — celebrates its 11th anniversary on The Great White Way April 18.
The musical, which is the sixth longest-running show in Broadway history, originally opened at the Palace Theatre — now the home of All Shook Up — April 18, […]
Passing along a note from Kyle, one of the stars of Chico Cabaret’s production of I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change (previously mentioned):
Hello everyone, first of all, thanks to everyone who came to see the show, “I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change.” I hope you had a fabulous time. I know […]
Spamalot is bringing a new group of consumers to Broadway — the “kinds of teenagers and 20-somethings who find jokes about fish, flatulence and the French absolutely sidesplitting and who normally wouldn’t be headed to the theater unless dragged by a girlfriend, school trip, or court order.”
Mike Nichols, Spamalot’s director, is quoted as saying “They […]
Once in a while, it is the chorus girl who gets the big break. “Thoroughly Modern Millie,” which tours to Salt Lake City’s Capitol Theatre this week, offers a couple of examples.
A little-known understudy named Sutton Foster took over the starring role of Millie during the show’s tryouts at La Jolla Theatre in San Diego […]