Hugh Jackman will star in a Broadway revival of The Music Man with the show scheduled to open in 2020. The musical was a huge broadway hit in the late 1950’s and was made into a film in 1962. The show made a star of Robert Preston, who appeared in both the original Broadway production and […]
Tags: Broadway, Cameron Monaghan, Hugh Jackman, Kristin CHenoweth, molly shannon, musical, Robert Preston, The Music Man, Victor Garber
14 Mar 2019 /
No Comment /
Read More
The 72nd Annual Tony Awards are currently under way, celebrating the best of Broadway at New York’s Radio City Music Hall. Actors Nathan Lane and Andrew Garfield have both collected trophies early in the evening for their roles in Tony Kushner’s stirring exploration of queer life and the impact of HIV in the 1980s – Angels […]
Tags: Andrew Garfield, angels in america, Broadway, laurie metcalf, Nathan Lane, tony, tony kushner, tonys
11 Jun 2018 |
Filed under Arts,Culture,Performing Arts |
Read More
WAAPA is bringing a chorus line of tap-dancing feet and high-energy song and dance to the stage with a grand production of 42nd Street. Set in Depression-era New York, the show spins the classic showbiz take of a young hopeful shooting for the stars and aiming to land in her first Broadway show. When fading star Dorothy […]
Tags: 42nd street, Broadway, WAAPA
30 May 2017 |
Filed under Arts,Culture,Performing Arts |
Read More
The United States’ next president is having some difficulty finding musicians to perform at his inauguration later this week. A string of high profile entertainers have turned down invitations to perform at the historical event. At Barack Obama’s first inauguration Aretha Franklin performed, plus some of the biggest names in the business gave their time. […]
Tags: And I'm Telling You I'm Not Going, Broadway, donald trump, Dreamgirls, gay, inauguration, Intersex, Jennifer Holiday, Lesbian, musical, queer, trans*, transgender
15 Jan 2017 |
Filed under Celebrity |
Read More
James Corden is set to host the Tony Awards for the first time tomorrow. The Broadway theatre awards will see the best dramas and musicals from the last year honoured. It’s the awards 70th outing and musical ‘Hamilton’ has broken the record books with an astounding 16 nominations. Corden told the New York Post that […]
Tags: Barbra Streisand, Broadway, Foxtel Arts, Frank Langella, Gabriel Byrne, hamilton, James Corden, Jeff Daniels, Jeff Dnaiels, Jessica Lange, Jonathon Groff, Kathy Bates, Laurie Metcalfe, Lupita Nyong'o, Mark Strong, Megan Hilty, Michelle Williams, musical, New York, Play, Sophie Okonedo, Tim Piggott-Smith, Tony Awards
12 Jun 2016 |
Filed under Culture,Screen,Tv |
Read More
Is the musical ‘Cats’ heading to the big screen? There are reports that director Tom Hopper is set to direct a new screen version of the popular musical. Hopper has previously directed the screen version of ‘Les Miserables’ and this year brought us ‘The Danish Girl’. Hopper also directed the popular film ‘The Kings Speech’ […]
Tags: Andrew Lloyd Webber, Broadway, Cats, helen mirren, Jezebel, Joanna Rothkopf, les miserables, musical, Prime Suspect, Ross Hannaford, Suki Waterhouse, The Danish Girl, The King's Speech, Tom Hopper
8 May 2016 |
Filed under Arts,Culture,Film,Screen |
Read More
Actors Russell Tovey and Andrew Garfield have signed on for a UK theatrical production of ‘Angels in America’. Russell Tovey and Andrew Garfield are set to appear on stage together in the UK. Both actors have signed on for a production of ‘Angels in America’ for the Royal National Theatre. The new production of the […]
Tags: AIDS, Andrew Garfield, angels in america, Arthur Miller, banished, Beautiful Thing, Being Human, Black Swan State Theatre Company, Britian, Broadway, Doctor Who, Emma Thompson, Him and Her, HIV, Jeffrey Wright, Looking, Marianne Elliot, Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Royal National Theatre, Russell Tovey, Spiderman, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, The History Boys, The Night Manager, Theatre, tony kushner, UK, War Horse, West End
12 Apr 2016 |
Filed under Celebrity |
Read More
The Divine Ms M is returning to Broadway. Bette Midler is set to star in a revival of the musical ‘Hello Dolly!’. The show will begin Broadway performances on March 13, 2017 and open on April 20, 2017. A theatre has yet to be announced. Midler broke the good news to her fans on her Twitter […]
Tags: Barbra Streisand, Bette Midler, Betty Grable, Broadway, Carol Channing, Divine Ms M, Ethel Merman, Fiddler on the Roof, Gene Kelly, Ginger Rodgers, Hello Dolly, HIV, Jerry Herman, La Cage aux Folles, Louis Armstrong, Mame, Mary Martin, Michael Crawford, New York, Phyllis Diller, Walter Matheau
20 Jan 2016 |
Filed under Arts,Culture,Performing Arts |
Read More
Anne Hathaway recently visited the Tonight Show and accompanied Jimmy Fallon for some jazzy Broadway versions of hip hop classics. Their repertoire including such hits as ‘Gin and Juice’ but none was better than Kendrick Lamar’s ‘Bitch Don’t Kill My Vibe’.
Tags: Anne Hathaway, Bitch Don't Kill My Vibe, Broadway, Hip Hop, Jimmy Fallon, Kendrick Lamar, Snoop Dogg, The Tonight Show
10 Apr 2014 |
Filed under Celebrity |
Read More
Film actor James Franco will take his first steps on a Broadway stage next year, the popular actor has signed on to play George in a revival of ‘Of Mice and Men’. Franco will star opposite Irish actor Chris O’Dowd (Bridesmaids, The IT Crowd) in a new production of the play by John Steinbeck’s which […]
Tags: Broadway, James Earl Jones, James Franco, John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men
28 Nov 2013 |
Filed under Celebrity |
Read More