WHERE have all the show tunes gone? Sara Krulwich/The New York Times A scene from “American Idiot,” based on the 2004 album of the same name by the band Green Day. On Broadway, though it took decades, rock has been transformed from nemesis to novelty to mainstay. Electric guitars onstage, not mini-orchestra-pit bands, drive [...]
(Reuters) – A big-budget Broadway musical adaptation of the classic celebration of eccentricity and morbidity, "The Addams Family," was panned by critics on Friday as bland and boring. The production, which opened on Thursday, stars Nathan Lane as Gomez and Bebe Neuwirth as Morticia. It derives from Charles Addams' New Yorker cartoons that also inspired [...]
Chad Batka for The New York Times Donna Murphy is the spotlight-loving mayor in a concert version of “Anyone Can Whistle,” the1964 musical by Arthur Laurents and Stephen Sondheim, at City Center. It’s not as if New York hasn’t known its share of power-addicted, egomaniac mayors. But there’s something special about Cora Hoover Hooper, the [...]
Sara Krulwich/The New York Times The director Michael Mayer (with microphone) and the members of Green Day — Billie Joe Armstrong, Mike Dirnt and Tré Cool — surrounded by the cast of “American Idiot.” AS they assessed the pre-Broadway tryout of the new musical “American Idiot” in California last fall, the director, Michael Mayer, and [...]
The hit West End play War Horse is to transfer to Broadway next year. War Horse is based on a children's book by Michael Morpurgo. The adaptation of Michael Morpurgo's book about a horse caught up in World War I will run at New York's Lincoln Center from 17 March 2011. First seen at the [...]
Axel Koester for The New York Times Back in the producing game: Robert Evans, who has rebounded after suffering a series of strokes, at his home in Beverly Hills. BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — Robert Evans has long been good theater. Now comes the actual stage play. Having been involved with pictures as grand as “The [...]
NEW YORK – There's nothing like a full-throttle, heart-on-sleeve melody to lift the stodgiest of Broadway musicals. In this theater publicity image released by Helene Davis Public Relations, Elena Shaddow, left, and James Snyder are shown in a scene from the Encores! concert production of 'Fanny,' running Feb. 4-7 at New York City Center in [...]
Sara Krulwich/The New York Times Sienna Miller with Jonny Lee Miller in “After Miss Julie,” her Broadway debut, which is scheduled to open on Thursday. “SERIAL MILLER” is what the London tabloids like to call the 27-year-old actress Sienna Miller, in honor of her long and well-documented romantic history. Her flings have included Jude Law, [...]
NEW YORK – New musicals will be in short supply this fall on Broadway, but a quintet of revivals plus one other major show at the historic Apollo Theatre will ensure that New York isn’t bereft of song and dance. Actors John Stamos, right, and Gina Gershon pose for a picture in front of [...]
LONDON – Pete Townshend once wrote "I hope I die before I get old." pNow the 64-year-old guitarist and songwriter for British rock band The Who says he is working on a new musical about aging. Townshend says "Floss" will focus on a pub-rock musician and his troubled relationship with his wife, who runs a [...]
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