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September 2008
- Revealing Radcliffe Carries Equus
  
  New York Times | 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 his “luminously intense eyes" dominate the dark psychodrama about our inner madness, Clive Barnes agrees in the New York Post. More »
- Scientology Protests Greet Katie on Broadway
  
  Associated Press | Sep 19, 08 7:59 AM CDT
  
  (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 up for moral support. More »
- Gere, Winger May Reunite on Broadway
  
  Fox News | 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 for a replacement for Bill Pullman, Fox News reports. More »
- Kushner First to Win $200K Prize for Playwrights
  
  New York Times | 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 writing screenplays in Hollywood, the New York Times reports. More »
- It's Curtains for Rent After 12 Years
  
  New York Daily News | 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 also spoke their wallets: The award-winning musical has grossed more than $280 million on Broadway. More »
July 2008
- From Reality TV to Broadway
  
  ABC News | 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, ABC News reports. More »
- Holmes' Sept. Broadway Debut Already a Bust?
  
  New York Post | 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." Some had predicted Holmes' turn would rival Julia Roberts' box-office success with Three Days of Rain in 2006. More »
May 2008
- Heights , South Pacific Lead Tony Nominations
  
  New York Times | 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) for a new play. Whoopi Goldberg will host the award show on June 15. More »
April 2008
- No Tears in Soulless Cry-Baby
  
  New York Times | 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 Johnny Depp’s portrayal of the Elvis-esque title character. “The performers all seem like good kids impersonating bad kids for kicks.” More »
- 'Potter' Star to Bare All on Broadway
  
  Variety | 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. The part calls for a 10-minute nude scene. The play is scheduled to start a 22-week Broadway on September 5, Variety reports. More »
- Critics Agog Over South Pacific
  
  Time | 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 Brantley of the New York Times: "I’m darned if I can find one serious flaw." More »