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 […]
The Buzz previewed Chico Cabaret’s Twist and Shout Sock Hop today:
Chico Cabaret’s newest production is not so much a play as it is a choreographed sock hop with dancing to a live four-piece band.
The production, which opens Friday, is a fundraiser for the Cabaret.
“Twist and Shout Sock Hop,” which opens Friday, features some 15 planned-out […]
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 […]
“The Foreigner,” written by Larry Shue, takes place in a back-road fishing lodge in Tilghman County, Ga. The show opens with pals Froggy LeSueur (M. Conan Duch) and Charlie Baker (Phil Ruttenburg), who are stopping by for a visit to Betty Meeks’ (Sue Ruttenburg) rustic establishment. Charlie has a troubled marriage and Froggy insists that […]
Chico Theatre Company’s production of Pippin premierees tonight, the show starts at 7:30.
Once upon a time, the young prince Pippin longed to discover the secret of true happiness and fulfillment. He sought it in the glories of the battlefield, the temptations of the flesh and the intrigues of political power (after disposing of his […]
The opening Sunday-evening performance of The Crippling Thoughts of Victor Bonesteel, Chico Cabaret’s new comedy night, was relaxed and informal. Without a program or a stage set, the actors (and writers) presented the collection of skits, parodies, commentaries and songs using nothing more than a few costume changes and a handful of props (fishing pole, […]
Dance is an awfully limiting word when applied to a performance by Milwaukee Dance Theatre.
The company’s Thursday evening premiere of “The Initial Urge to Suck,” a piece by Isabelle Kralj and Mark Anderson, is a captivating, entertaining and sometimes moving tapestry of spoken word, music, video, automatics and dance with its roots in an early-1990s […]
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 […]