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Actor Nearly Killed by Prop Gun

Unexpectedly loaded revolver shakes up Of Mice and Men rehearsal

Jan 21, 09 2:34 PM CST

(Newser) - A Florida theater company’s production of Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men got a little too real Monday when a prop gun almost killed an actor in rehearsal, the Sarasota Herald-Tribune reports. A revolver used in the play’s final scene—in which the character Lennie is shot—turned... More »

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Florida • theater • accident • actor • shooting • guns • John Steinbeck • Of Mice and Men

Mercury Illness Was Real: Piven

Star defends decision to leave Broadway production

Jan 12, 09 2:29 PM CST

(Newser) - Jeremy Piven has taken a lot of flak since leaving the Broadway production of Speed-the-Plow due to unhealthy amounts of mercury in his body—including anonymous sources who said medical reasons were a cover for the fact that he was fired—but the condition was real, the actor tells People.... More »

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theater • Broadway • mercury • sushi • mercury poisoning • David Mamet • Jeremy Piven • Speed-the-Plow

Radcliffe Sick of Being Naked

'Harry Potter' star ready for new role

Dec 31, 08 11:13 AM CST

(Newser) - The idea of Harry Potter getting naked brought a lot of attention to Broadway’s Equus—but star Daniel Radcliffe is getting tired of stripping down with a fake horse every night, reports the New York Post. What’s next for the actor? Possibly a musical, he told his producer.... More »

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theater • nudity • Broadway • celebrity • play • Daniel Radcliffe • Equus • nude

No Revival in Sight for Battered Broadway

Economic downturn makes investors nervous and theatergoers thrifty

Dec 28, 08 3:29 PM CST

(Newser) - The economic crisis has produced plenty of drama, but it means a bust for Broadway, the Los Angeles Times reports. Investors are jittery about backing just about anything, theaters are cutting costs, and some shows are shutting down early or canceling their openings. "What we had was a small... More »

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theater • Broadway • economy • New York economy • financial crisis

Appreciation

Above All, Pinter Was Remarkable, Loyal Friend

Playwright lives on in his plays, already considered modern classics

Dec 25, 08 2:12 PM CST

(Newser) - He didn’t always like the plays of Harold Pinter, who died yesterday at 78, but Guardian theater critic Michael Billington says he’s sure they “will endure wind and weather, because he understood the insecurity of human life.” Billington, also Pinter’s biographer, remembers the “poet’... More »

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theater • obituary • writer • Harold Pinter • Nobel Prize for Literature • playwriting • Nobel laureates

OBITUARY

Theater Giant
Harold Pinter
Dead at 78

Outspoken playwright was awarded Nobel in 2005

Dec 25, 08 8:10 AM CST

(Newser) - Harold Pinter, one of the foremost playwrights of the 20th century, has died of cancer at the age of 78. He began his career as a poet before writing such classic plays as The Caretaker and The Homecoming, and was awarded the Nobel Prize in 2005. His widow, Antonia Fraser,... More »

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theater • obituary • writer • Harold Pinter • Nobel Prize for Literature • playwriting • Nobel laureates

APPRECIATION

Broadway Bigwig's
Secret Struggle

Dec 24, 08 10:34 AM CST

(Newser) - Just before he died last month, Broadway mogul Gerald Schoenfeld finished a memoir revealing a secret but devastating battle with depression, Jeremy Gerard writes on Bloomberg. “This will surprise many of the people who thought they knew the Shubert Organization chairman well. It did me.” The Great White... More »

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theater • New York City • depression • Broadway • Shubert Organization • Gerald Schoenfeld

theater review

Stage Shrek Is
Lumbering but Lovable

Show lacking in 'inspiration'

Dec 15, 08 12:14 PM CST

(Newser) - Shrek the Musical has its moments, but in the end, it contradicts its own message that substance trumps what’s on the surface, writes Ben Brantley in the New York Times. The “leaden” show presents a “cavalcade of storybook effigies” that “feels like 40 blocks’ worth of... More »

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theater • Broadway • musical theater • reviews • Shrek

OPINION

Blago Dialogue
Worthy of Mamet

Dec 10, 08 11:42 AM CST

(Newser) - An astute reader of the criminal complaint against Rod Blagojevich will notice that, with shockingly little tweaking, the wiretapped conversations between the Illinois governor and his co-conspirators could be dialogue from a David Mamet play. Choire Sicha demonstrates in Salon, turning it into a quick one-acter. From the trash-talking femme... More »

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Barack Obama • theater • corruption • profanity • play • Illinois • governor • Rod Blagojevich • dialogue • political scandal • David Mamet • Patti Blagojevich

Fonda Heads Back to Broadway

Starring role marks return after 46 years

Dec 5, 08 11:12 AM CST

(Newser) - Oscar- and Emmy-winning actress Jane Fonda will have another chance to add a Tony to her collection when she returns to Broadway after a 46-year absence, Playbill reports. Fonda, who made her Broadway debut in 1960, will star in Moisés Kaufman's 33 Variations as Katherine Brandt, a musicologist working... More »

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music • theater • Broadway • Jane Fonda • celebrity • play • Beethoven

Pianist's Skull
Steals Hamlet Scene

Concert pianist left skull to theater

Nov 26, 08 9:24 AM CST

(Newser) - A concert pianist has appeared on stage in a 22-performance run of Hamlet—26 years after his death. André Tchaikowsky, a Polish Jew who was smuggled out of Warsaw as a child of 7, left his skull to the Royal Shakespeare Company upon his death in 1982. It was finally... More »