New York City’s Rattlestick Playwrights Theater clicked the “Like” button on Social Network star Jesse Eisenberg’s play Ascunsion on Thursday, announcing it as part of its 2011-12 season.
Playing the role popularized by Tom Hanks with 2002’s Catch Me If You Can in the film’s musical adaptation has put Norbert Leo Butz on the radar screens of many. Still, as he explains in a recent interview with the New York Post, he doesn’t view himself as anything more
“I just spoke to him and he’s absolutely fine.” the spokesperson reported shortly after midnight.
James desire to snag the trophy from the icon is fierce, “She has two, she can share the wealth,” laughs the actress.
American Idol had tons of performers on its finale last night, but the only one I had any real interest for were Bono, The Edge and Reeve Carney performing ‘Rise Above’ from Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark.
“The timing couldn’t have been better and it couldn’t have been worse.”
English composer Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber will be making a huge investment in theater over the next three years, according to The Guardian.
“No one ever tells a graduating class, ‘You’re going to fail.’ But it was very important for everyone to hear that.”
“We obviously were optimistic, but you never know how these things are going to play out, so I think we were all cautiously optimistic, but this is fantastic,” said an excited Rannells.
During rehearsals for his Broadway play “The Book of Mormon”, Andrew Rannells decided to go “method” and pay a visit to the Latter-day Saints New York visitors’ center and meet some real-life missionaries.
After a serious reworking Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark returns to Broadway this week, eager to receive kinder and less critical reviews.
“I think I speak for 99% of actors when I say that… while it’s lovely to get recognized by your peers, it’s not the reason why we do it.”
Harris received an Emmy for his previous stint hosting the awards show back in 2009.
Last weekend, the 92nd Street Y’s Lyrics and Lyricists series, a New York institution in its own right, paid homage to those late great clubs like The Copacabana.
“The casting director had seen me in something and didn’t think I was right,” he recalls. “So I asked my mom — the only time I asked my mom to help me.”
“Knowing the history of black performers,” White explains, “actual follies didn’t have black female dancers. If you were black, you only did a specialty act—if you were lucky. I put that knowledge into Stella.”
Chris Rock posted this picture of him getting ready backstage before the show.
“I hate when people call Billie stupid. She’s honest and pure and has no malice. Emotionally, she a genius.”
“We thought it would be a great marketing tool, particularly for the road, and we were enamored of the idea of capturing the original company,” Memphis co-producer Sue Frost is quoted as saying.
