Killing Eve star Jodie Comer claims Broadway as her own in her tour de force performance of Prima Facie, a scalding indictment of the law and its limits opening tonight at the Golden Theatre. Comer plays Tessa, a young, working class Liverpool woman who has become one of London’s most …
Read More »Actors’ Equity Joins Legal Fight Against Tennessee Anti-Drag Law – Deadline read full article at worldnews365.me
Actors’ Equity Association has filed an amicus brief in Tennessee opposing that state’s new law – the first in the nation – intended to limit or ban some drag shows. In a brief filed this week, Equity argues that the Tennessee law is unconstitutionally overbroad and vague, covers a wide …
Read More »Neil Patrick Harris Joins Mischief – Deadline read full article at worldnews365.me
All’s right in the world when Peter Pan Goes Wrong. The latest impeccable demonstration of disaster-farce concocted and performed by Britain’s gift-to-the-world Mischief Theatre, Peter Pan Goes Wrong currently guest stars Neil Patrick Harris, who fits in so well with the ensemble that he seems like just another one of …
Read More »Aaron Sorkin Leaves The Magic To His Cast – Deadline read full article at worldnews365.me
What’s a Camelot without a little magic? Aaron Sorkin works up an answer to that question in the new Lincoln Center Theater production of the 1960 Lerner & Loewe musical, and the result is an adaptation that seems at every turn to be pleading its case for its own relevance. …
Read More »Black, Queer & Delicious Serving Of Shakespeare – Deadline read full article at worldnews365.me
Like that relative who picks through the chicken parts at a family picnic to find the leg or the breast or the thigh with just the right amount of crisp, playwright James Ijames has no reluctance to rummage through the bones of Shakespeare’s Hamlet to cook up the irresistible Fat …
Read More »A Boy And His Tiger Show Their Stripes – Deadline read full article at worldnews365.me
When a character promises a life story so inspirational it’ll make a believer of an atheist, the tale better come through on some big-time convincing. Life of Pi, Lolita Chakrabarti’s stage adaption of Yann Martel’s heart-tugging 2001 novel opening tonight at Broadway’s Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre, won’t likely be churning out …
Read More »Josh Groban & Annaleigh Ashford Triumph – Deadline read full article at worldnews365.me
In a Broadway season that might be remembered for a lovely, pared-down minimalism – the intriguing starkness of A Doll’s House with Jessica Chastain, the less-is-more near-concert-style presentations of Into the Woods and Parade – director Thomas Kail’s Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street will stand out for, …
Read More »Andrew Lloyd Webber Musical – Deadline read full article at worldnews365.me
Your first thought after seeing Bad Cinderella, the latest musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber, is, well, she isn’t that bad. For better and worse. The musical, energetically directed by Laurence Connor, opens on Broadway tonight with quite a reputation: We’ve heard it was lambasted by critics in London (it wasn’t). …
Read More »King Family Singer Who Surprised Tearful Mom Was 75 – Deadline read full article at worldnews365.me
Ric de Azevedo, a King Family singer who later worked on the production teams of early 1980s series Private Benjamin and Enos but might best be remembered for a surprising, tearful moment during a Vietnam era Christmas special, died March 14 in Fruit Heights, Utah, of an undisclosed illness. He …
Read More »Ben Platt & Micaela Diamond Shine In Revival – Deadline read full article at worldnews365.me
Neo-nazis tend to be a noisy bunch, and it takes an extraordinary and confident work of art to drown out their loud, ugly racket. Parade, opening tonight on Broadway at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre, is that work of art. With a serendipitous advertising slogan – “This Is Not Over …
Read More »Jeremy O. Harris Names Jesús I. Valles’ Play As Yale Drama Prize Winner – Deadline read full article at worldnews365.me
EXCLUSIVE: Jesús I. Valles’ play Bathhouse.pptx has been awarded the distinguished 2023 Yale Drama Series Prize, with the glory’s decide Jeremy O. Harris calling the brand new work an exploration of “a queer history that is quickly being erased.” The prize for rising playwrights, now in its sixteenth 12 months, …
Read More »Jessica Chastain In Stark Revival – Deadline read full article at worldnews365.me
At various factors throughout Jamie Lloyd’s hypnotic Broadway revival of Ibsen’s A Doll’s House, you might swear that stars Jessica Chastain and Succession‘s Arian Moayed are confiding in you, whispering their secrets to no one else. This stark, sometimes chilly production is an eavesdropper’s paradise, so intimate and conversational that …
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