November 07, 2009
NEW YORK, New York
Broadway has found its Spider-Man — rock singer Reeve Carney.
Carney will portray celebrated web-slinger Peter Parker in “Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark,” producer Michael Cohl announced Friday.
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November 05, 2009
ARLINGTON, Va.
Angela Lansbury will be the first recipient of the Stephen Sondheim Award from a Washington-area theater that has produced more of his works than any other U.S. theater.
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November 04, 2009
NEW YORK, New York
Before Patrick Swayze was a film actor, a TV actor and People magazine’s “Sexiest Man Alive,” he was a dancer.
And so it was fitting that a huge, eclectic group of dancers gathered to honor him this week at the annual fundraiser for Career Transition for Dancers, a group that helps dancers develop new careers after age or injury forces them to halt dancing.
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November 04, 2009
NEW YORK, New York
Jude Law and his fellow cast mates in Broadway’s production of “Hamlet” have no reason to be melancholy: They are an official hit.
Producers of the Shakespeare classic now playing at the Broadhurst Theatre said Wednesday they’ve recouped the show’s $2.5 million costs in less than three months.
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November 03, 2009
By Jeremy Blacklow
BURBANK, Calif.
It’s hard to go anywhere nowadays and escape the “Glee” hype. And why would you want to? It’s arguably the most refreshing new scripted series on television since “30 Rock” debuted three years ago.
In today’s multi-media platform society though, one track of income a successful business venture does not make. Today, the first volume of songs is available for purchase as well, courtesy of Columbia Records.
And nothing could be more fun for reliving the moments associated with the songs in the show.
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November 03, 2009
Washington, DC
The White House is enlisting “Sex and The City” star Sarah Jessica Parker, Forest Whitaker and others from Hollywood and beyond to help push President Barack Obama’s arts initiatives.
On Tuesday, Vice President Joe Biden will install 25 new members of the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities.
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November 02, 2009
NEW YORK, New York
Mark-Paul Gosselaar is a self-professed theater novice and not afraid to admit it.
Right now, he’s making his New York stage debut off-Broadway in “The Understudy” alongside theater veterans Julie White, a best-actress Tony Award winner for “The Little Dog Laughed,” and Justin Kirk, who appeared on Broadway and in the film version of “Love! Valour! Compassion!”
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November 02, 2009
New York, NY
The abrupt closing Sunday of Neil Simon’s “Brighton Beach Memoirs” after only nine performances has cast a brief, uneasy shadow over Broadway’s fall season, ironically one of the busiest in years.
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