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Harry Potter star delivers 'intense' performance

Sep 26, 08 1:10 PM CDT
(Newser) - Daniel Radcliffe takes on a “mothball-preserved, off-the-rack part” as a teenage stable boy who blinds horses in the Broadway debut of Equus, and “wears it like a tailor’s delight,” writes Ben Brantley of the New York Times. Radcliffe’s “beautifully understated” acting and... More »

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(AP) - Katie Holmes made her Broadway debut in All My Sons last night, but not before about 30 anti-Scientology protesters put on a show of their own outside Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre. The protesters, some masked, chanted "Scientology kills! and carried "FREE KATIE" placards. And, yes, her famous hubby showed... More »

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Scientology • Tom Cruise • New York City • Broadway • Katie Holmes

 Gere, Winger May
 Reunite on Broadway 

Officer and a Gentleman co-stars' first reunion

Sep 16, 08 12:14 PM CDT
(Newser) - Richard Gere is weighing an offer to play the Spencer Tracy role in a Broadway production of Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?—opposite Debra Winger. The famously feuding co-stars of An Officer and a Gentleman haven't worked together since that 1982 smash hit. The production is stalled as producers search... More »

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New York City • Richard Gere • Broadway • celebrity • reunion • Debra Winger

Kushner First to Win $200K Prize for Playwrights

Unusually large purse will allow him to spend less time in Hollywood

Sep 16, 08 9:22 AM CDT
(Newser) - Tony Kushner will be the first recipient of a new biennial prize for playwriting, with a whopping $200,000 purse the benefactors hope will allow recipients to focus full-time on not-so-lucrative theater. Although Kushner is widely regarded as one of America's greatest dramatists, he has spent the past several years... More »

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theater • Broadway • awards • prize • Tony Kushner • playwriting • Angels in America • Harold and Mimi Steinberg • Steinberg Distinguished Playwright Award

  Naked Harry Hits Internet 

Two days in New York was all it took

Sep 11, 08 9:06 AM CDT
(Newser) - Just two previews into his bare-all Broadway debut, and naked photos of Daniel Radcliffe —best known to the world for playing a certain boy wizard —have already leaked online, the New York Daily News reports. Radcliffe managed to play the role for five months in London without... More »

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Harry Potter • pornography • Broadway • Daniel Radcliffe • Equus

 It's Curtains for
 Rent After 12 Years

Hugely popular musical takes a break from Broadway

Sep 7, 08 5:13 PM CDT
(Newser) - Twelve years and 5,124 performances later, Broadway bids adieu today to Rent, the New York Daily News reports. The beloved musical, which follows a group of bohemians and street folk through AIDS-ravaged, early-1990s East Village, “speaks to people's hearts," an original cast members tells the AP. It... More »

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theater • Broadway • musical theater • Rent

 From Reality TV to Broadway

Real-life sorortiy girl is new 'Elle Woods'

Jul 25, 08 11:30 AM CDT
(Newser) - In just a year, Bailey Hanks has gone from sorority girl to reality TV star to Broadway star. The 20-year-old preacher’s daughter from South Carolina beat out nine other hopefuls on MTV’s Legally Blonde the Musical: The Search for Elle Woods and made her stage debut on Wednesday,... More »

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reality TV • MTV • Broadway • Legally Blonde: The Musical • Bailey Hanks

Holmes' Sept. Broadway Debut Already a Bust?

Tickets aren't selling, and producers fear
the worst

Jul 2, 08 11:41 AM CDT
(Newser) - Katie Holmes is not drawing the tickets sales for her Broadway debut producers had hoped for, the New York Post reports. "I bought 1,000 tickets to the show," one broker says of the September revival of Arthur Miller's All My Sons. "I still have them."... More »

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theater • Nicole Kidman • Tom Cruise • Broadway • Julia Roberts • Katie Holmes • ticket sales • All My Sons

 In the Heights Tops Tonys 

August: Osage County wins best play

Jun 16, 08 5:22 AM CDT
(Newser) - Last night’s Tony Awards featured an eclectic mix of new shows and revivals, an acceptance-speech rap from a first-time writer, and performances from a variety of musicals young and old. The winners:
  • Best Musical: In the Heights
  • Best Play: August: Osage County
  • Best Revival of a Musical: South
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theater • New York City • Tony Awards • Broadway

 Katie Cruises to Broadway 

Will make stage debut in All My Sons

May 20, 08 7:35 AM CDT
(Newser) - Actress Katie Holmes is headed for Broadway, where she'll make her theatrical debut in the fall in Arthur Miller's Tony-winning play All My Sons, reports the Los Angeles Times. It's a risky step for Mrs. Tom Cruise, who hasn't appeared onstage since high school. She'll star alongside two-time Tony winner... More »

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theater • Tom Cruise • Broadway • Katie Holmes • Arthur Miller • John Lithgow • Dianne Wiest • Suri Cruise • All My Sons

 Heights, South Pacific
 Lead Tony Nominations 

New musical draws 13 nods for Broadway awards

May 13, 08 9:48 AM CDT
(Newser) - Nominations for the Tony Awards were announced today, with 13 nods going to In the Heights, a new musical about Latino families in working-class New York that features rap, hip-hop, and salsa music. The revival of South Pacific drew 11 nominations, while August: Osage County drew the most nominations (7)... More »

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South Pacific • Tony Awards • Broadway • musical

 Baltimore Ready for 
 Broadway Moment 

City takes advantage of native son's sleazy musicals

Apr 29, 08 2:45 PM CDT
(Newser) - Known as a harbor city plagued by gang violence and urban decay, Baltimore is hoping for a Broadway-style makeover—courtesy of John Waters, native son and creator of Hairspray and Cry-Baby. His gleefully trashy films are the inspiration for two cleaned-up musicals now on Broadway, and Baltimore hopes their sparkle... More »

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tourism • Broadway • Hairspray • Baltimore • musical theater • John Waters • Cry-Baby

Theater Review

 No Tears in Soulless Cry-Baby 

Latest Waters musical lacks heart

Apr 25, 08 9:16 AM CDT
(Newser) - Cry-Baby, the latest broadway musical based on a John Waters movie, is tasteless—and not in the good way, writes Ben Brantley in the New York Times. It’s not offensive, it just has no flavor. Its 1950s bad-boy-meets-good-girl premise is tired, and James Snyder can’t match... More »

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Broadway • Hairspray • musical theater • reviews • John Waters • musical • Cry-Baby

 'Potter' Star to
 Bare All on
 Broadway 

Equus starts 22-week run in New York
in September

Apr 9, 08 11:35 AM CDT
(Newser) - Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe will strip down for American audiences on Broadway in a challenging dramatic role that has already wowed Brits. In a major departure from his famous boy wizard role, the 18-year-old stars in the dark psychosexual drama Equus as a troubled adolescent accused of blinding horses.... More »

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Harry Potter • theater • nudity • Broadway • Daniel Radcliffe • Equus • West End theater

THEATER REVIEW

 Critics Agog Over South Pacific 

Show's first Broadway revival draws unanimous praise

Apr 4, 08 12:52 PM CDT
(Newser) - The first Broadway revival of South Pacific opened last night, and the critics agree: It's outstanding. "Its brilliance hasn’t faded," Richard Zoglin writes in Time, calling the new production of perhaps the best Rodgers and Hammerstein collaboration “surprisingly fresh, astringent, meaty and convention-defying." Writes Ben... More »

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theater • Broadway • World War II • Rodgers and Hammerstein • revival

Katie May Be Heading to Broadway

Holmes in talks to make her stage debut later this year

Mar 29, 08 10:09 PM CDT
(Newser) - Katie Holmes may make a run for the door later this year—the stage door, that is. The actress known to some as Mrs. Tom Cruise is in serious talks to star in a revival of Arthur Miller’s All My Sons when it opens on Broadway later this year,... More »

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theater • Tom Cruise • Broadway • Katie Holmes • play • Broadway producers • Arthur Miller • John Lithgow • Dianne Wiest

Ferrell to Stump This Fall, But Only Onstage

Comedian plans candidate character for upcoming solo show

Jan 19, 08 10:45 AM CST
(Newser) - Will Ferrell is working on a one-man show that could hit Broadway this fall, and he may focus the routine on an interactive bit starring a mock presidential candidate, Politico reports. The onetime "Saturday Night Live" George Bush doppelganger plans to incorporate a stump speech, question-and-answer session, and political... More »

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theater • satire • Broadway • fringe candidates • Will Ferrell • solo show

Rent's Lease Up After 12 Years

7th-longest-running Broadway show closing June 1

Jan 16, 08 11:51 AM CST
(Newser) - Rent is preparing to close up shop and move out of the Nederlander Theatre on Broadway, its home since 1996. The cutting-edge rock adaptation of La Bohème was written by Jonathan Larson, who died at the age of 35 of an aneurysm the night of the final dress rehearsal.... More »

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theater • AIDS • New York • Broadway • Warner Music • Rent • Jonathan Larson • Nederlander Theatre • East Village

NEW RELEASE

Little Mermaid a Titanic Flop

Disney's latest blunder is a $15M beached whale

Jan 11, 08 4:15 PM CST
(Newser) - The verdict on Disney's latest Broadway musical, The Little Mermaid, is grim. "Loved the shoes. Loathed the show," Ben Brantley of the New York Times says of the "merblades" the cast uses to glide across a stage "soaked in that sparkly garishness that only a very... More »

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Broadway • Disney • The Little Mermaid • musical

Choreographer Kidd Dies at 92

He won five Tonys and and an honorary Oscar

Dec 25, 07 6:20 PM CST
(Newser) - Choreographer Michael Kidd, creator of some of the most enduring dance steps on Broadway and in Hollywood, has died of cancer at age 92, the New York Times reports. Kidd, who won five Tonys and an honorary Oscar, is best known for his choreography in the 1954 film Seven Brides ... More »

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Hollywood • obituary • Broadway • ballet • dance • death • Michael Kidd • musical

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