The neon green sign that read “McHale’s” looked like it could be on a small town bar anywhere in the country, but instead it illuminated the corner of 46th Street and 8th Avenue in the giant city of New York. Inside the establishment that it promoted a visitor found a suitably dark watering hole, […]
The veteran English director, Anthony Page, seems to be in the process of creating the theatrical equivalent of Mount Rushmore on Shaftesbury Avenue.
Already running at the Lyric, there’s his fine account of Tennessee Williams’ Night of the Iguana, starring Woody Harrelson. This has now been joined, next door at the Apollo, by the London […]
The creative team behind the upcoming West End production of Evita announced further plans for the new mounting, the first major London revival of the popular Andrew Lloyd Webber-Tim Rice musical, at a press conference in London on January 31. Evita will start performances at the Adelphi Theatre on June 2, with an opening set […]
Tickets for the pre-Broadway world premiere engagement of Lestat, the new Elton John-Bernie Taupin musical based on the vampire characters of Anne Rice are now on sale.
Tickets for the Dec. 17-Jan. 29, 2006, San Francisco run went on sale 10 AM Oct. 30. The production at the Curran Theatre is presented as part of the […]
Hot Feet, a new dance musical conceived by Maurice Hines, will make the jump to Broadway next year. Previews will begin on April 15, 2006 and officially open April 30th at a theater to be announced. Before coming to Broadway the musical will play Washington DC’s National Theatre from March 18th through April 9th.
Hot Feet […]
Princess Bride the musical:
Composer Adam Guettel and screenwriter William Goldman will collaborate on a musical version or the hit fairy tale film “The Princess Bride,” the New York Post reported.
The 1987 Rob Reiner-directed, Goldman-penned movie fits the teasing description Guettel gave for his next project, while speaking backstage at the 2005 Tony Awards. While hesitant […]
On Sunday evening, September 25 at 8:30 PM, the New York theatrical community will join forces in one of the most important evenings of the season. In an incredible demonstration of support and camaraderie, scores of Broadway performers will take the stage at the Gershwin Theatre (222 W. 51st St.) for Broadway’s Celebrity Benefit for […]
For the third year in a row, the League of American Theatres and Producers’ Touring Broadway Awards — formerly known as the National Broadway Theatre Awards — have declined to present any honors for performance. The awards, given annually to road shows, were to be distributed May 10 at the Hilton Hotel in New York […]
The two shows – one silly, one serious – each won four trophies Sunday from the Outer Critics Circle, a group of writers and critics covering the New York theatre scene for out-of-town publications and media.
The 55th annual Outer Critics Circle Awards will be presented at a ceremony in New York on May 26.
Spamalot, based […]
The Broadway revival of “La Cage aux Folles” is in an open-ended run at the Marquis Theatre, 1535 Broadway. Ticket and performance information: (212) 307-4100 or ticketmaster.com.
If any singer can wrap his voice around a glorious Jerry Herman melody, it’s Robert Goulet, one of the last booming baritones of Broadway’s Golden Age.
Goulet gets a chance […]
Gabriel Byrne will star in a revival of Eugene O’Neill’s A Touch of the Poet at Studio 54 in the fall. The production, directed by Doug Hughes, is scheduled to begin performances on November 11 and open on December 8.
Byrne began his acting career with the Focus Theatre in Dublin and subsequently became a […]