Sunday, November 24, 2024

Theater

Broadway: Tom Stoppard Is On His Way to Win a Tony Award and (Hopefully) A Pulitzer Prize for “Leopoldstadt”

British-Czech playwright has six Tony Awards for writing the Best Play on Broadway. This June should come his 7th statue, and maybe even a...

Broadway’s Biggest Annual Charity Gala Challenges Anna Wintour’s Met Ball on Same Night Next Month With Actual Talent

Game on! Broadway's biggest annual charity gala will take on Anna Wintour's Met Ball on May 1st. I'm rooting for Broadway. The Entertainment Community Fund used...

Broadway: Revived “Sweeney Todd” Scores a Triumph with Josh Groban, Annaleigh Ashford, “Stranger Things” Star Gaten Matarazzo, and 26 Piece Orchestra

Josh Groban, you know, has always wanted to be a rock star. With his gorgeous deep baritone, he's released several hit albums trying to...

Broadway: Andrew Lloyd Webber Faces Rare Financial and Criticial Bomb as “Bad Cinderella” Musical Decimated

Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber has had hit after hit with "Phantom of the Opera," "Cats," "Evita," and other musicals that have been incredibly popular...

Aaron Sorkin Tells NY Times He Had a Stroke, Paper Strangely Omits His Perilous History with Drug Addiction

I like Aaron Sorkin very much and admire his plays and movies. But still, today he tells the New York Times he had a...

Watch President Joe Biden Give National Medal of Arts to Gladys Knight, Bruce Springsteen, Amy Tan, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, More

Twenty three deserving Americans received Presidential Medals of Honor yesterday from Joe Biden. A lot of press was given to Bruce Springsteen, who we all...

Broadway Cult TV Show “Smash” Coming to Broadway in 2024 Directed by Susan Stroman

So you know "Smash" was a TV series about a Broadway show that finally opened on fictional Broadway after many soap opera like developments....

Sad Obit: The Friars Club is Padlocked Shut, Closed After Years of Mismanagement and Malfeasance Comes End of Era

The Friars Club is closed. It's padlocked shut with a gate blocking the entrance. In truth, the Friars Club has been gone for years. All that...