For Broadway audiences, there might not be anything more disappointing than an announcement that one of the main cast members of the show you’re seeing has been replaced for the performance you are seeing. It’s particularly frustrating when the cast member being replaced is the major star that convinced you to buy the ticket in the first place.
Here are the first photos of Emilia Clarke (Calisi from HBO’s Game of Thrones) as ‘Holly Golightly.’
Bosom Buddies Reunion! Ok, not exactly but if you’re a fan of the sitcom that starred Tom Hanks and Peter Scolari, this is as close as we’ll get. Additional casting has been announced for the Lucky Guy, the show that will mark Hanks Broadway debut. The new play, by the
It was announced yesterday that the 2012 Tony Award-nominated production of Evita, starring Ricky Martin (Che), Elena Roger (Eva) and Tony Award-winner Michael Cerveris (Perón), will play its final performance on Saturday, January 26th.
Shia LaBeouf will make his Broadway debut this spring in Orphans. Directed by Daniel Sullivan, LaBeouf will star alongside Alec Baldwin in the Lyle Kessler play.
San Diego’s The Old Globe Theatre will open its 2013-14 Season with the world premiere of The Honeymooners, a new musical based on the legendary CBS television series.
After getting some awful reviews, producers announced last night that The Anarchist, the new play written and directed by David Mamet, will give its final performance on Sunday, December 16th.
Lots of pretty solid news for Broadway in the Broadway League’s annual “Demographics of Broadway” report for the 2011-2012 season.
Dead Accounts, the new Broadway play by Theresa Rebeck, isn’t getting the best reviews but there is one thing most of the critics have agreed on: Judy Greer is pretty great as Jenny, Norbert Leo Butz’s ex-wife who comes on the scene with a huge secret.
Once again, The Playbill Broadway Year
Yvonne Strahovski is used to playing some odd characters—including an ass-kicking spy on Chuck and a serial killer’s girlfriend on Dexter but it’s her new role on Broadway, in the revival of Clifford Odets’ Golden Boy, that has the actress a little nervous.
Though Paul Rudd is likely gearing up for the release of This is Forty, his latest film with frequent collaborator writer/director Judd Apatow, audiences can see him on stage in New York in Grace.
I imagine that about six or seven times a day somebody comes up to Wayne Knight and says, “Hello, Newman” in an annoyed voice. So perhaps he’s lucky that in his latest role that face of his that became famous on Seinfeld is hidden behind a long white beard. That’s because Knight is playing Santa Claus in Elf, the holiday musical based on the Will Ferrell movie which is returning to New York after a one-year hiatus
Amber Tamblyn will make her Broadway debut in Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Beth Henley’s revival of The Miss Firecracker Contest.
Good ‘ole Billy Ray has decided to play Flynn with his soul patch and five o’clock shadow because in Billy Ray’s 1920’s, razors weren’t yet invented.
Native New Yorker Laura Linney may have been acting in Hollywood films since the early 1990s, but she refuses to spend too much time away from the city of her birth.
Face it, we Americans are convinced that any middle-aged actor or actress with a classy British accent is automatically Oscar-caliber. Though in all seriousness, it’s not just the accent — some of the most respected actors in the world have a long history of practicing their craft in British theatre.
Perhaps Gallagher was on to something with that whole “hand ponchos out to the audience” thing for his comedy shows.
Just about everyone would like to be Batman, which is why thousands of Batman Halloween costumes for children and adults are sold every year. The costume is just awesome in every way, right?
