The devastation that Hurricane Sandy brought to New York City goes beyond the tragic losses of lives and homes. Businesses big and small also had to deal with a variety of issues related to the hurricane’s damage, and one of New York’s biggest businesses, Broadway, was among them
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Dead Accounts, Theresa Rebeck’s new play starring two-time Tony Award winner Norbert Leo Butz and Katie Holmes, starts previews tonight at Broadway’s Music Box Theatre. The show opens on November 29th.
With Hurricane Sandy’s after-effects still lingering in the New York area, Broadway is back to its regularly scheduled performances.
Broadway is Back and Has Huge Discounts! Read More »
One of New York City’s top tourist attractions isn’t a museum or a historic building, it’s a booth. Well known to Broadway fans, the TKTS booth in Times Square has been selling discount day of the show tickets to theatergoers for four decades.
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Because of Hurricane Sandy, all Broadway performances for today are cancelled. I’d even bet shows for tomorrow and Wednesday could be cancelled as well.
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Usually it pays for Broadway producers to cast big-name actors to draw huge houses. But how much exactly do those big names make? For Al Pacino, who stars in Glengarry Glen Ross as Shelly Levene, it’s money that most Broadway regulars could only dream about.
What’s Al Pacino’s Weekly Salary for Broadway’s ‘Glengarry Glen Ross’? Read More »
Although she’s a Tony Award winning actress, Katie Finneran has had to work tremendously hard on her portrayal of Miss Hannigan in the new Broadway revival of Annie.
Katie Finneran: “I’m feeling more pressure about Annie than anything else I’ve done” Read More »
Despite playing Daddy Warbucks twice already, Anthony Warlow still felt he had a lot to learn in Broadway’s latest revival of Annie.
Sometimes an actor is faced with the decision of whether to choose a role for the popularity it will bring or to stick with more fulfilling projects. British actress Anna Friel ended up choosing to star in a new production of Anton Chekov’s Uncle Vanya.
‘Pushing Daisies’ Anna Friel takes on ‘Uncle Vanya’: “Every single word matters” Read More »
A long-running New York City fall theater tradition since the 1990s, 24 Hour Plays on Broadway involves professional actors and members of the Urban Arts Partnership collaborating answer the challenge of the title: they must create six ten-minute plays in the span of twenty-four hours and then perform them for a live audience.
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Tony Award nominee Jeremy Shamos, Obie Award winner Mark Blum and Tony Award nominee Sam Robards have joined the cast of Manhattan Theatre Club’s The Assembled Parties.
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Though popular plays are produced all over the world, quality control is a major issue that can come up when a production wants to put their own stamp on the play. Even if the production feels that those changes might be relatively minor, the authors of such works or their estates may not see it the same way to such a degree that they can prevent the production from going forward.
Samantha Marie Ware is earning rave reviews for her role as Nabulungi in the touring company of the hit musical Book of Mormon, now playing in Los Angeles.
Bring It On: The Musical, the new Broadway show based on the Universal film of the same name, is closing.
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After the announcement that Oscar-nominated workaholic actress Jessica Chastain would be making her Broadway debut in The Heiress in the lead role of Catherine, one wonders how Chastain feels about stepping out on a Broadway stage for the first time.
Taye Diggs is going back to where it all started, singing in a series of concerts while he’s not shooting Private Practice.
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Though Seven Psychopaths didn’t do the business at the box office this weekend that CBS Films was hoping for, the film got rave reviews — with much of the praise centered on Christopher Walken’s character, Hans. Walken has been an immensely popular actor for years, and he spoke about his surprising early years and why he thinks he’s remained so popular all these years.
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Just a few weeks ahead of her 78th birthday, Dame Judi Dench shows no sign of retiring or even scaling back on her award-winning acting. But despite that Dench doesn’t consider herself a proficient actress by any means, and she reveals some reasons why she still doesn’t consider herself a “good actor” to The Guardian.
Telly Leung is currently starring in the new musical, Allegiance, which allows him to tell a compelling part of American history. Leung plays a member of a Japanese-American family that is sent to an internment camp during WWII.
With the film adaptation of Jack Kerouac’s “unfilmable” novel On the Road about to be released, it’s not a surprise that new interest is being drummed up in the counterculture author’s work. Perhaps most notable is the University of Massachusetts Lowell is holding a Jack Kerouac Literary Festival, and the festival, which is celebrated in Kerouac’s hometown of Lowell, is centered around the premiere of the only play Kerouac ever wrote, Beat Generation, which was written in 1957 (the same year Kerouac published On the Road).
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