Jackman took a momentary break from his busy schedule to talk about his approach to acting on both the screen and the stage and on the intimidation of his next big role.
Television star O’Connell is returning to his native Manhattan to star in his first Broadway show, Seminar.
Hugh Dancy is currently in rehearsal for the Broadway premiere of Venus in Fur as playwright/director, Thomas, alongside Nina Arianda. The show, which closed off-Broadway two years ago, features only 2 characters and “it leaves me with nowhere to run,” Dancy said.
Though Jackman did a similar show at the Curran Theatre in San Francisco earlier this year, naturally the musical-loving Jackman prefers to do the show on The Great White Way.
In 2005, Watson won £2.3 million (around $3.6 million) after he grandfather purchased her the winning ticket. Not so lucky prior to that, she had been the victim of bullying during her formative years and now wants to help young children who hear insults and taunts every day.
Even Broadway stars can’t nail every audition — as many actors know, even the smallest, most insignificant thing could stop an actor from getting a part.
Allowing the “R-rated production at a city owned stage” apparently posed a huge problem for the Mayor and his concern for the public.
It was just announced that Diner is coming to Broadway fall 2012.
Hugh Jackman is coming back to Broadway in a show titled… Hugh Jackman, Back on Broadway.
Trey Parker and Matt Stone went from being cable TV’s darlings to Broadway superstars after The Book of Mormon swept this year’s Tony Awards and has been sold out for every performance through the end of this year.
Dexter star Jennifer Carpenter, who plays police detective Debra Morgan in the hit Showtime series, says she wouldn’t be part of the critically acclaimed drama if it wasn’t for Laura Linney.
Actor Christopher J. Hanke is currently commanding plenty of applause these days on Broadway for his role in How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying where he plays the arrogant and snobbish character Bud Frump.
What should the producers of a show do when it has already been savaged by Stephen Sondheim, New York Times theater critic Ben Brantley, and Bloomberg theater critic Jeremy Gerard before it has even made its planned debut on Broadway?
Both Sister Act and Priscilla Queen of the Desert have been facing after both shows sold less than the expected number of tickets, as did even the once wildly successful Billy Elliot.
You could call George Lee Andrews the marathon man of the Broadway stage, but Saturday is his last lap around the track.
Broadway took in 36% less money than it did for the same week last year ($11.62 million vs. $18.15 million) with an equally huge drop in attendance (from 204,265 last year to 130,853 this year).
The 38-year-old English actor won the prize for his performance in Bring Me the Head of Adam Riches, which features his “trademark mix of character comedy, anarchic stagecraft and a fearless level of audience engagement,” according to Edinburgh Fringe officials.
The Book of Mormon cost $9.1 million — far cheaper than effect-laden shows like Shrek and Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark — and has already recouped thirty percent of its cost for it’s investors and will pay off the investments completely by October.
Let’s get it out of the way — if the title Flaccid Penis Seeks Vaginal Dryness offends you the rest of the play probably will too although, as the play itself points out, it isn’t any racier than what a Google search with a poor choice of words will produce.
“Chekhov is tricky. As we say in Australia, he’s a bugger to perform,” said Blanchett
