Believe it or not, there was a time when Matthew Broderick wasn’t appearing in a Broadway play every other year. Actually, he is starring in Nice Work If You Can Get It after a nearly three-year absence from appearing on the New York stage which is Broderick’s first Broadway musical in over ten years (since the box office smash The Producers).
James says that while we’ll see Frank again this season, he doesn’t know if the character will return for season two, but confesses, “I sure hope so! I honestly don’t have any idea, but I’m lobbying hard for that to be the case. What’s a good Broadway show without a Chemistry teacher?”
Playing Bernard, the initially nebbish son of Loman’s neighbor Charley who grows into a successful lawyer, is Fran Kranz, best known for starring in most of Joss Whedon’s projects, including the upcoming The Cabin in the Woods.
The Actors Fund, an organization which provides health and social services to actors, has selected Seinfeld star Jason Alexander as this year’s recipient of the Julie Harris Award for Lifetime Achievement award.
Eugene Levy might have been appearing in comedy films since the early 1970s, but he really hit fame since the late 1990s starring as Jim’s Dad in the American Pie series.
When Chris Klein didn’t appear as Oz in the third American Pie movie, American Wedding, many assumed that he didn’t want to continue in the franchise.
The New York Mets aren’t the only New York institution celebrating its fiftieth anniversary in 2012. The annual free Shakespeare in the Park performance series is also celebrating its golden anniversary at Central Park’s Delacorte Theatre.
“I wanna do something fun, but I don’t want to do the ingenue again,” she says. So O’Hara is appearing on Broadway in Nice Work If You Can Get It, a new musical farce utilizing the Gershwin songbook with co-star Matthew Broderick.
Hate your job? Then you definitely shouldn’t have a conversation with Josh Radnor.
Kilmer was interested in playing Twain in a biopic, but as the project developed he realized that he didn’t quite have the character down yet.
Dafoe admits that he can’t believe the success he’s enjoyed over the last two decades.
The film, which was supposed to feature the villain from the first film, played by Dieter Laser, and the villain from the second film, played by Laurence Harvey, in some sort of final super-centipede plot.
U.S. District Court Judge Marsha Pechman has ruled that the age discrimination lawsuit filed by actress Huang Hoang against IMDb for posting her actual date of birth on the internet’s most popular movie website can proceed,
Losing the script of a film you’re working on is bad enough. But losing a script to one of the most anticipated sequels of all time, which also happens to be directed by one of the most tight-lipped filmmakers Christopher Nolan? That’s a potential for disaster that could make a lot of very powerful people very disappointed in you.
Judging by the comments from our original post about West End actor Michael Sheldon, who was rejected as a passport cosigner because “acting is not a proper job,” many of you found a lot of humor in the situation.
So Will & Grace star Eric McCormack is meeting his agent about taking a part in the Broadway revival of Gore Vidal’s The Best Man alongside James Earl Jones, John Larroquette, Candice Bergen, Kerry Butler, Jefferson Mays, Michael McKean and Angela Lansbury. McCormack says, “My manager was reading the list of names and I said, ‘Stop. You had me at Earl.'”
Youthful-looking actress Nicole Bilderback is best known for appearing in 1990s teen classics Clueless, Can’t Hardly Wait, and Bring It On as well as appearing in shows like Dawson’s Creek and Dark Angel.
But would you expect outrage — and outright racism — from fans of a novel when an African-American actor is cast in the role of an African-American character?
Despite the movie’s misfortune, Kitsch says he has “absolutely no regrets” about his film debut, even adding, “I would do John Carter again tomorrow. I’m very proud of John Carter. Box office doesn’t validate me as a person, or as an actor.”
The internet has dramatically changed most aspects of communication and entertainment over the last two decades. Even theater, which has remained remarkably loyal to its Greek origins over the last few thousand years, is now being changed by the internet, especially when it comes to New Paradise Laboratories, a Philadelphia-based theater company that is using the internet and social media to present its plays.
