Are you a fan of The Phantom of the Opera? Are you an artist (or do you know one)? If so, you might be interested in an art contest to celebrate Broadway’s longest-running musical. Phantom is asking its fans to create original artwork that decorates the famous mask designed by […]
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Rubin spoke about what she looks for in casting a replacement actor and how prepared an actor should be for a first audition and a callback.
Though the Jersey Boys movie hasn’t done well in theaters (so far it has grossed $56.6 million worldwide on a $40 million budget), in the past even poor performing movie adaptations of musicals that were currently on Broadway — such as the disastrous box office of the 2012 Rock of
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Julia Stiles has bounced between mediums throughout her acting career. From big blockbusters like the Bourne franchise to her own scripted show, Blue, on YouTube, the actress likes to keep mixing it up. She told the Associated Press why it’s important for her to constantly change up her career. The
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The use of smartphones in the theater has been an ongoing issue for many performers over the last few years. Some patrons forget to turn off their cell phones while others continue to text throughout a production. One theatergoer took their mobile phone use to a very worrisome level. At
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Returning to Broadway after a thirteen year absence in the lead role of a popular musical is nerve-wracking enough. But how about finding out during intermission that your pregnant wife is having contractions? Actor Josh Tower, who stepped into the lead role of Berry Gordy in Motown The Musical on
The cast of Broadway’s newest musical, Holler If You Hear Me with music from Tupac Shakur, performed on Good Morning America this morning. Singing ‘California Love’, the cast (including the teriffic Christopher Jackson – read our interview here), show why they’re the most energetic and inspiring group of actors on
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Karen Olivo had the career many aspiring New York actors dream of: Broadway shows listed on her résumé, a Tony Award and even a series regular job on the show Harry’s Law. Yet she packed up and moved to Wisconsin in late 2012 after she decided she needed a change
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Both How I Met Your Mother‘s Josh Radnor and Boardwalk Empire‘s Gretchen Mol will make their Broadway returns after more than a decade absence in Disgraced, written by novelist and screenwriter Ayad Akhtar. Disgraced won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and was previously produced in Chicago, London, and off-Broadway
With each performance Broadway’s Phantom of the Opera sets the record for longest-running Broadway show in history (it will cross 11,000 performances by the end of July), and the Phantom website boasts that more than 130 million people have seen a version of the musical in its various productions all
Holler If Ya Hear Me, the Broadway musical featuring the music of Tupac Shakur, might be the only new musical on Broadway this summer but unless there is a dramatic change in business soon it likely won’t last to see fall. According to The Broadway League, in its first three
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Holler If You Hear Me, the new Broadway musical based on the music of Tupac Shakur, has moments like the rapper himself: raw and electric. And when those moments happen, it’s truly exciting. But unfortunately, there aren’t enough of those moments here. Written by Todd Kreidler and directed by Kenny
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One year ago Jane Lynch was in the middle of her eight week run of playing Miss Hannigan in Broadway’s Annie. It was Lynch’s long-awaited Broadway debut in a career that stretches back to the early 1980s. However, audiences didn’t have to wait that long to see Lynch back on
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Indie It girl Greta Gerwig has made a return to the stage in New York in The Village Bike for the first time since she was a college student. In the play she stars as a pregnant woman with a husband uninterested in having sex with her who fulfills her
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It’s quite a feat to tackle, but that’s exactly what a group of actors, directors and writers are going to do — create six plays in 24 hours. The event is happening on June 20 at The Broad Stage in Santa Monica as a benefit for the Urban Arts Partnership.
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwhQYCUP0Vk Some 2014 Tony Award Winners and Nominees sat down for the American Theatre Wing to give their advice to actors. Featuring winners James Monroe Iglehart and Lena Hall and nominees Danny Burstein, Jarrod Spector, Andy Karl, Joshua Henry and Nick Cordero, the video is short and to the
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The brouhaha over a California production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof that ended with the actor playing Big Daddy, John Lacy, being fired for confronting an audience member who shouted gay slurs during the performance has continued over the past week. While the debate over where Lacy did
Last seen The Bronx Bombers as Derek Jeter and In The Heights (Benny) before that, he’s an incredibly talented guy who’s got some great advice and stories to tell. In the interview, we talk about how he got the role of Vertus and getting into a show from the ground floor, pre-show rituals, auditioning and more!
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXapHD-4mBw The Hollywood Reporter got Tony Award nominees Sutton Foster (Violet), Idina Menzel (If/Then), Jessie Mueller (Beautiful: The Carole King Story) and Kelli O’Hara (The Bridges of Madison County) and best actress in a play nominees Tyne Daly (Mothers and Sons) and LaTanya Richardson Jackson (A Raisin in the
Is it just me, or are we hearing an increasing amount of stories about bad audience behavior in theaters recently? Earlier this week we heard about the actor who rushed into the audience to deal with an audience member shouting gay slurs at the actor playing Brick in a production
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