While the musical itself cost a reported record $75 million, Spider-Man: Turn of the Dark has been a massive hit on Broadway, taking home on average $1.3 million per week, there was one key member of the production who hasn’t been reaping any of those rewards: original director Julie Taymor.
Sutton Foster is best known for her Tony award-winning roles on Broadway’s Thoroughly Modern Millie and Anything Goes but she’ll soon take to the small screen in Gilmore Girls producer Amy Sherman-Palladino’s new ABC Family show Bunheads.
Playing Denise, a nurse who works at the shelter, is Juno star Olivia Thirlby, who talks about how she prepared for the role and praises both her co-star, Paul Dano, and the film’s director, Paul Weitz.
Hey American actors: notice a significant reduction in your residuals? You might be able to blame Canada.
Last Sunday, the British Academy Film Awards were held at London’s Royal Opera House.
Every actor dreams of knowing how to develop instant chemistry with the casting director at an audition
It’s important to remember that Jean Dujardin isn’t the only “silent” actor nominated for an Oscar this year — the iconic Max von Sydow is nominated for Best Supporting Actor for his non-speaking role of “The Renter” in Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close.
Word of advice: before you fire your agent, be sure that you’re paid up on your commissions. Also, try to avoid doing the firing via e-mail.
Two-time Tony Award nominee Alan Rickman will play his final performance on Sunday, April 1 in Seminar.
Julianne Moore most recently starred opposite Steve Carell in Glenn Ficarra and John Requa’s hit comedy Crazy, Stupid, Love; and will soon be seen starring as Gov. Sarah Palin in Jay Roach’s telefilm Game Change, based on the bestselling book by John Heileman and Mark Halperin.
The big obstacle that’s preventing you from taking action could easily be turned into the motivation you need
After winning the Golden Globe and BAFTA Best Actress Award for her portrayal of Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady, Meryl Streep is heading to the Academy Awards in what most see as a neck-and-neck race between her and SAG Best Actress winner Viola Davis for the Best Actress Oscar.
If you haven’t seen it, the new Sag-Aftra website is up and running at sagaftra.org.
Langella speaks about not only how he typically chooses and prepares for roles, but how he rose to the challenge of acting against a robotic character in Robot and Frank.
Robert De Niro won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance as the young Vito Corleone in Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather Part II. Six years later, he won his second Oscar, for Best Actor, for his extraordinary portrayal of Jake La Motta in Martin Scorsese’s Raging
Our creative journeys aren’t just about what you are creating in three-dimensional space
American Idol judge Randy Jackson has released his response to an upset singer and actress Betty Buckley, who was coined “The Voice of Broadway” by New York Magazine.
After 5 auditions for ‘Breaking Dawn’, Casey almost quit: “I was not equipped for this kind of pressure”
Kevin Spacey sat down with Theater Talk’s Michael Riedel and Susan Haskins to chat about his current role as Richard III (directed by Sam Mendes and which can be seen at BAM).
You could say Viola Davis isn’t letting all the praise and awards from her acclaimed role in The Help get to her. After all, she has a 19-month old daughter.
