When artists say they will do what it takes to get the job, most actors are talking about being prepared in that audition room. For one Broadway star though, it meant leaving home, couch surfing and a bout of homelessness. Amber Iman just made her Broadway debut playing legendary jazz
Bette Midler just wrapped a hugely successful run on Broadway in Sue Mengers: I’ll Eat You Last (trust us, it was one of the most successful examples of “star casting” in recent years), her first appearance on Broadway since 1980.
New Yorkers and tourists know that one of the best ways to score discount tickets to Broadway performances is Times Square’s TKTS Booth, which just celebrated its fortieth anniversary as a New York City institution this month.
Last week, I analyzed examples of the most successful examples of star casting on Broadway in recent years. While those productions are on the top tier, other productions don’t fare as well – with some even closing early, which is usually considered a major embarrassment for the star in question in additional to the significant financial loses faced by the producers.
In the past few years it seems like a Hollywood star opens a play on Broadway on almost a monthly basis. While this is a huge boost for Broadway and New York City – think of how many people traveled to Manhattan just to see Tom Hanks on stage in the last few weeks – the trend of “star casting” is controversial among Broadway regulars, many of whom see it as outsider stars jacking up ticket prices and “taking away” roles from legitimate Broadway actors for huge paychecks.
It was certainly an unexpected announcement that Orphans, starring Alec Baldwin, would be closing on Broadway on May 19, several weeks before its originally scheduled closing on June 30.
Jessica Chastain has just earned her second Oscar nomination for her role in the terrorist drama, Zero Dark Thirty. The actress, previously nominated for her role in last year’s The Help, became fully immersed in her role as a CIA agent in the film.
Lots of pretty solid news for Broadway in the Broadway League’s annual “Demographics of Broadway” report for the 2011-2012 season.
With Hurricane Sandy’s after-effects still lingering in the New York area, Broadway is back to its regularly scheduled performances.
The producers of the upcoming Broadway musical Diner (BASE Entertainment Co-CEOs Scott Zeiger and Brian Becker) announced today that they have postponed its previously announced pre-Broadway engagement.
Katie Holmes is returning to Broadway this fall in Theresa Rebeck’s new play, Dead Accountants. The show is a five character comedy, directed by three-time Tony Award winner Jack O’Brien.
If you have yet to hear about this Andrew Garfield fellow, you obviously haven’t been paying attention to the significant coverage of his starring role in Broadway’s recent revival of Death of a Salesman and the even bigger coverage of his turn as Peter Parker in The Amazing Spider-Man.
James Earl Jones admits that after all these years he is still driven by the performances of other actors.
I know shows are expensive to produce and everyone from the crew to the actors need to get paid but these prices are ridiculous.
It was announced this morning that Ever After, a new musical based on the 1998 Drew Barrymore film , will open on Broadway in the 2013-2014 season following a pre-Broadway engagement out of town.
Christian Borle, who plays Tom on ‘Smash’, talks about next season and what might be in store for the show.
Perhaps ten or twenty years ago it would’ve been quite a shock for an actor to go from starring in what many consider the greatest American play on Broadway to playing a superhero in a big-budget movie that opens a few weeks later. But when the actor is as talented
Playing Bernard, the initially nebbish son of Loman’s neighbor Charley who grows into a successful lawyer, is Fran Kranz, best known for starring in most of Joss Whedon’s projects, including the upcoming The Cabin in the Woods.
Broadway has had good years and bad, and big hits and misses — especially over the last decade. But what about twenty years from now? How will the centuries-old traditions of theater on the Great White Way be different in 2032?
Peter and the Starcatcher, the new play by Tony Award nominee Rick Elice, will arrive at the begin preview performances on Broadway at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre (256 West 47th Street) on Wednesday, March 28, with an official opening night set for Sunday, April 15, 2012.
