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- 2/7/2021
- by Adrian Halen
- Horror News
The theater industry’s pandemic-shortened season seems to have opened up the Grammy playing field for cast albums, as only two of the six just-announced nominees for the 2021 awards represent the usually-dominant Broadway.
The two Broadway cast albums included in today’s nominations for Best Musical Theater Album are David Byrne’s American Utopia on Broadway and Jagged Little Pill, the musical consisting of Alanis Morissette songs. Two London cast albums were nominated, as were two from Off Broadway.
Last year, all five nominees in the category were Broadway productions (Hadestown won), while the year before Broadway accounted for four of the five nominees, with TV’s Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert filling out the category (Broadway’s The Band’s Visit won). Previous years show a similar pro-Broadway pattern.
A slew of highly anticipated 2020 Broadway musicals were...
The two Broadway cast albums included in today’s nominations for Best Musical Theater Album are David Byrne’s American Utopia on Broadway and Jagged Little Pill, the musical consisting of Alanis Morissette songs. Two London cast albums were nominated, as were two from Off Broadway.
Last year, all five nominees in the category were Broadway productions (Hadestown won), while the year before Broadway accounted for four of the five nominees, with TV’s Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert filling out the category (Broadway’s The Band’s Visit won). Previous years show a similar pro-Broadway pattern.
A slew of highly anticipated 2020 Broadway musicals were...
- 11/24/2020
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Laura Esquivel’s 1989 novel Like Water For Chocolate, adapted for the screen in 1993, is now headed to the stage: A musical version to be directed by Tony Award winner Michael Mayer with original music by the Grammy Award-winning Latin group La Santa Cecilia is in development, producers announced today.
La Santa Cecilia will write the lyrics along with Pulitzer Prize winner Quiara Alegría Hudes, with a book by Lisa Loomer, according to producers Tom Hulce and Ira Pittleman.
A section of the never-before-heard music will by performed tonight by La Santa Cecilia as part of the digital concert event ¡Viva Broadway! Hear Our Voices at BroadwayCares.org.
“In times of waiting many wonderful things happen,” Esquivel said in a statement. “Dreams take shape and become voices, harmonies, dance. The musical Like Water for Chocolate waited until a group of extraordinary dreamers came together: La Santa Cecilia and Quiara Alegría Hudes,...
La Santa Cecilia will write the lyrics along with Pulitzer Prize winner Quiara Alegría Hudes, with a book by Lisa Loomer, according to producers Tom Hulce and Ira Pittleman.
A section of the never-before-heard music will by performed tonight by La Santa Cecilia as part of the digital concert event ¡Viva Broadway! Hear Our Voices at BroadwayCares.org.
“In times of waiting many wonderful things happen,” Esquivel said in a statement. “Dreams take shape and become voices, harmonies, dance. The musical Like Water for Chocolate waited until a group of extraordinary dreamers came together: La Santa Cecilia and Quiara Alegría Hudes,...
- 10/1/2020
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Like Water for Chocolate (Cómo Agua Para Chocolate), Laura Esquivel’s sensual 1989 novel, was a phenomenon in fiction, with its romantic story set in Mexico during the early 20th century that combined magical realism and cooking recipes. It was later adapted into a popular 1992 Spanish-language movie, nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film, and became the highest-grossing foreign-language film ever released in the United States at the time. Now it seems it’s finally time to get the musical theater treatment.
The new work will be...
The new work will be...
- 10/1/2020
- by Jerry Portwood
- Rollingstone.com
May and June episodes will feature Tony Award-winning director Diane Paulus, choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, and actor Elizabeth Stanley on their collaboration during Jagged Little Pill Tony-winning director Michael Mayer with actors Jonathan Groff and Christian Borle on Little Shop of Horrors directors Lileana Blain-Cruz, Sheryl Kaller, and Desdemona Chiang director Gaye Taylor Upchurch and playwright Lauren Gunderson on The Half-Life of Marie Curie and more.
- 5/7/2020
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Berkeley Rep’s world premiere of Swept Away, a stage production featuring the music of The Avett Brothers, written by Moulin Rouge!‘s John Logan and reteaming Spring Awakening director Michael Mayer and star John Gallagher Jr, has been postponed for a year to summer 2021 due to the coronavirus pandemic.
With its high-profile creative team and cast (Kinky Boots‘ Stark Sands will co-star), the new musical’s development has already drawn considerable New York attention. Gallagher himself released a video today announcing the postponement and the reasoning behind it. (Watch it below.)
“This week I was set to begin rehearsals for a brand new musical, Swept Away, with a tremendous book by the great John Logan and featuring the beautiful music of one of my favorite bands The Avett Brothers,” Gallagher says from his Brooklyn home, “and it is with a very heavy heart indeed that I announce to you...
With its high-profile creative team and cast (Kinky Boots‘ Stark Sands will co-star), the new musical’s development has already drawn considerable New York attention. Gallagher himself released a video today announcing the postponement and the reasoning behind it. (Watch it below.)
“This week I was set to begin rehearsals for a brand new musical, Swept Away, with a tremendous book by the great John Logan and featuring the beautiful music of one of my favorite bands The Avett Brothers,” Gallagher says from his Brooklyn home, “and it is with a very heavy heart indeed that I announce to you...
- 5/6/2020
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Brian Dennehy, the prolific character actor who could easily jump between comedy and drama on stage and screen, died Wednesday from natural causes in Connecticut. He was 81.
Dennehy’s daughter, Elizabeth Dennehy, confirmed his death Thursday on Twitter, writing, “It is with heavy hearts we announce that our father, Brian passed away last night from natural causes, not Covid-related. Larger than life, generous to a fault, a proud and devoted father and grandfather, he will be missed by his wife Jennifer, family and many friends.”
It is with heavy hearts we announce that our father,...
Dennehy’s daughter, Elizabeth Dennehy, confirmed his death Thursday on Twitter, writing, “It is with heavy hearts we announce that our father, Brian passed away last night from natural causes, not Covid-related. Larger than life, generous to a fault, a proud and devoted father and grandfather, he will be missed by his wife Jennifer, family and many friends.”
It is with heavy hearts we announce that our father,...
- 4/16/2020
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
In this episode, Ben and Daniel talk to four-time Tony-winning lighting designer Kevin Adams about the soundtrack to the 1973 film 'Jesus Christ Superstar.' They also discuss 'Hair,' Barry Dennen, Barbra Streisand, Sandra Bernhard, 'Without You I'm Nothing,' Jodie Foster, Madonna, Tommy, Rupert Everett, Michael Mayer, Spike Lee, Jennifer Holliday, Stephen Trask, and John Cameron Mitchell. Kevin shares stories from his career, from working as a gogo dancer, to working on music videos, to collaborating with legendary directors and performers at The Mark Taper Forum, The Public Theater, and on Broadway. Kevin's credits include 'Hedwig and the Angry Inch,' 'Spring Awakening,' 'Passing Strange,' 'Next to Normal,' 'The Cher Show,' and 'SpongeBob SquarePants.'...
- 12/16/2019
- by Ben Rimalower
- BroadwayWorld.com
The critically-acclaimed revival of Little Shop Of Horrors will be receiving an original cast recording, to be released by Ghostlight Records. The New Little Shop Of Horrors Off-Broadway Cast Album, produced by Alan Menken, Will Van Dyke, Frank Wolf, and Michael Mayer a and executive produced by Kirdahy, Ahrens and Arnold a will be released on December 20, 2019 digitally and will be available on all streaming platforms. A physical CD will be released at a future date to be announced.
- 12/11/2019
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
New York Stage and Film has announced that its annual Winter Gala will feature remarks by Annette Bening, Josh Groban, Michael Mayer, and Heidi Schreck and will feature performances by Brittain Ashford, Cosmo Castaldi, Daya Curley, Sofia Dobrushin, John Gallagher Jr., Jonathan Groff, Marcy Harriell, Van Hughes, Taylor Symone Jackson, Lea Michele, Nasia Thomas, Ana Villafae, and Candice Marie Woods.
- 11/26/2019
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Exclusive Spring Awakening, the 2006 emotionally powerful, sexually frank and Tony-winning musical by Duncan Sheik and Steven Sater, has been staged around the world, and now for the first time is heading to China. Yes, the South Park-hating, frequently censoring and much in the news China.
Set for a limited 13-performance Shanghai engagement in January 2020, the staging will be directed and choreographed by Spencer Liff, who choreographed the acclaimed 2015 Broadway revival of Deaf West’s Spring Awakening that featured hearing and deaf actors and utilized both English and American Sign Language.
Now he’ll direct and choreograph a Spring Awakening with an entirely Chinese cast that will speak the dialogue in Chinese and sing the songs in English. The production will be performed at Theatre Above, a 600-seat venue in downtown Shanghai. A national tour will follow.
The announcement was made today by producers Harmonia Holdings, Ltd. and Saic•Shanghai Culture,...
Set for a limited 13-performance Shanghai engagement in January 2020, the staging will be directed and choreographed by Spencer Liff, who choreographed the acclaimed 2015 Broadway revival of Deaf West’s Spring Awakening that featured hearing and deaf actors and utilized both English and American Sign Language.
Now he’ll direct and choreograph a Spring Awakening with an entirely Chinese cast that will speak the dialogue in Chinese and sing the songs in English. The production will be performed at Theatre Above, a 600-seat venue in downtown Shanghai. A national tour will follow.
The announcement was made today by producers Harmonia Holdings, Ltd. and Saic•Shanghai Culture,...
- 11/6/2019
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Bucking the current trend of rewriting and reinterpreting older musicals to suit current sensibilities, director Michael Mayer's buoyant and bouncy revival of Little Shop of Horrors, with a story involving a hero who murders and a leading lady who defends the actions of her physically abusive boyfriend, pretty much delivers Howard Ashman and Alan Menken's 1982 smash hit with the same brand of beloved quirkiness that has made it a favorite for high schools, community theatres and regional productions for over three decades.
- 10/21/2019
- by Michael Dale
- BroadwayWorld.com
‘Little Shop Of Horrors’ Review: Jonathan Groff, Tammy Blanchard Bring The Off-Broadway Classic Home
Little Shop of Horrors, the once and current Off Broadway marvel, announced in 1982 the arrival of two songwriters – Howard Ashman & Alan Menken – who’d soon expand musical theater boundaries to swallow Hollywood like so much plant food. The musical comes home again (you can’t isn’t in its vocabulary) with Michael Mayer’s delightful production featuring a dream trio of Jonathan Groff, Tammy Blanchard and Christian Borle.
In a staging that feels garden-fresh while honoring everything that made the musical such an invigorating blast nearly 40 years ago, this Little Shop sold out its limited run at the Westside Theatre (Upstairs) before performances began in September, prompting an eight-week extension through Jan. 19 that offers audiences a rare opportunity to see the show on the turf and in the manner that Ashman & Menken must surely have envisioned.
Their musical, inspired by Roger Corman’s trippy, low-budget 1950 horror flick, has long since become an international theatrical staple,...
In a staging that feels garden-fresh while honoring everything that made the musical such an invigorating blast nearly 40 years ago, this Little Shop sold out its limited run at the Westside Theatre (Upstairs) before performances began in September, prompting an eight-week extension through Jan. 19 that offers audiences a rare opportunity to see the show on the turf and in the manner that Ashman & Menken must surely have envisioned.
Their musical, inspired by Roger Corman’s trippy, low-budget 1950 horror flick, has long since become an international theatrical staple,...
- 10/18/2019
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
The Off Broadway revival of Little Shop of Horrors, already sold out well before its first preview on Sept. 17, has released an additional eight weeks of tickets, producers announced today. Tickets for the landmark Howard Ashman & Alan Menken musical, set for the Westside Theatre and starring Jonathan Groff, Tammy Blanchard and Christian Borle, are now on sale through Sunday, January 19, 2020.
Directed by Tony winner Michael Mayer, Little Shop officially opens on Thursday, October 17. As previously announced, Tony nominee Gideon Glick (To Kill A Mockingbird) will join the production for a two-week (November 5 through November 17) as Seymour while Groff is on a scheduled leave.
Also in the cast: Tom Alan Robbins, Kingsley Leggs, Ari Groover, Salome Smith, Joy Woods, Stephen Berger, Chris Dwan, Kris Roberts, Chelsea Turbin, Eric Wright, and Teddy Yudain.
Described as “an intimate new production,” Mayer’s staging of Little Shop...
Directed by Tony winner Michael Mayer, Little Shop officially opens on Thursday, October 17. As previously announced, Tony nominee Gideon Glick (To Kill A Mockingbird) will join the production for a two-week (November 5 through November 17) as Seymour while Groff is on a scheduled leave.
Also in the cast: Tom Alan Robbins, Kingsley Leggs, Ari Groover, Salome Smith, Joy Woods, Stephen Berger, Chris Dwan, Kris Roberts, Chelsea Turbin, Eric Wright, and Teddy Yudain.
Described as “an intimate new production,” Mayer’s staging of Little Shop...
- 9/4/2019
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Gideon Glick, To Kill a Mockingbird‘s Tony-nominated Dill Harris, will drop by the upcoming Little Shop of Horrors for a quick visit, filling in for star Jonathan Groff, star of Netflix’s Mindhunter, during the latter’s pre-scheduled two-week leave from the production.
The announcement was made by producers today.
The Little Shop of Horrors Off Broadway revival will begin previews Tuesday, September 17, at the Westside Theatre, with opening night set for Thursday, October 17. Glick will take the role of Seymour Tuesday, November 5 through Sunday, November 17. Groff returns on Tuesday, November 19.
Glick, who has moved Mockingbird‘s audience with his poignant and very funny portrayal of the young Truman Capote-based Dill since last year’s opening of the Aaron Sorkin adaptation of the Harper Lee novel. He’s also appeared in Broadway’s Significant Other in 2017 and Spring Awakening in 2006, among other stage credits. On TV he...
The announcement was made by producers today.
The Little Shop of Horrors Off Broadway revival will begin previews Tuesday, September 17, at the Westside Theatre, with opening night set for Thursday, October 17. Glick will take the role of Seymour Tuesday, November 5 through Sunday, November 17. Groff returns on Tuesday, November 19.
Glick, who has moved Mockingbird‘s audience with his poignant and very funny portrayal of the young Truman Capote-based Dill since last year’s opening of the Aaron Sorkin adaptation of the Harper Lee novel. He’s also appeared in Broadway’s Significant Other in 2017 and Spring Awakening in 2006, among other stage credits. On TV he...
- 8/21/2019
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive The Tony-winning John Gallagher Jr. and Tony-nominated Stark Sands have joined a team of similarly Broadway-familiar vets in the world premiere of Swept Away, the previously announced new stage production featuring the music of the popular folk and roots-rock band The Avett Brothers.
Swept Away is being developed and staged at Berkeley Rep in Berkeley, California, and will begin performances on Sunday, June 14, 2020, now with two of the actors who worked with director Michael Mayer on productions of another Berkeley-developed musical American Idiot.
Inspired by and featuring the music of The Avett Brothers, Swept Away is written by John Logan, the playwright and screenwriter. Directing will be Mayer,.
While it’s too early for anything like Broadway plans, the cast and director should ensure that plenty of New York eyes...
Swept Away is being developed and staged at Berkeley Rep in Berkeley, California, and will begin performances on Sunday, June 14, 2020, now with two of the actors who worked with director Michael Mayer on productions of another Berkeley-developed musical American Idiot.
Inspired by and featuring the music of The Avett Brothers, Swept Away is written by John Logan, the playwright and screenwriter. Directing will be Mayer,.
While it’s too early for anything like Broadway plans, the cast and director should ensure that plenty of New York eyes...
- 8/8/2019
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Jonathan Groff is, suddenly, Seymour with this fall’s Off Broadway return of the beloved Howard Ashman-Alan Menken musical Little Shop of Horrors. Co-starring with Mindhunter‘s Groff in the Michael Mayer-directed revival will be Tammy Blanchard and Christian Borle.
The production and casting was announced today by producers Tom Kirdahy, Robert Ahrens, Hunter Arnold, Mickey Liddell, Curt Cronin and John Joseph. Previews begin Tuesday, September 17, at the Westside Theatre, with opening night set for Thursday, October 17.
Groff will play Seymour, the hapless, lovestruck florist who creates a monster when he starts feeding a voracious, people-eating and fast-growing plant. Blanchard will play his co-worker and love Audrey.
Borle has been cast as Audrey’s cruel dentist boyfriend Orin Scrivello...
The production and casting was announced today by producers Tom Kirdahy, Robert Ahrens, Hunter Arnold, Mickey Liddell, Curt Cronin and John Joseph. Previews begin Tuesday, September 17, at the Westside Theatre, with opening night set for Thursday, October 17.
Groff will play Seymour, the hapless, lovestruck florist who creates a monster when he starts feeding a voracious, people-eating and fast-growing plant. Blanchard will play his co-worker and love Audrey.
Borle has been cast as Audrey’s cruel dentist boyfriend Orin Scrivello...
- 7/22/2019
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
A new musical about the life and career of Neil Diamond will debut on Broadway. The as-yet-untitled show will center around a score comprising some of Diamond’s biggest hits. Oscar-nominated writer Anthony McCarten will write the book, while Tony-winner Michael Mayer will direct the show.
“I’ve always loved Broadway,” Diamond said in a statement. “The inspiration for many of my early songs came from shows like West Side Story, My Fair Lady and Fiddler on the Roof, so it seems only fitting to bring my songs to The Great White Way.
“I’ve always loved Broadway,” Diamond said in a statement. “The inspiration for many of my early songs came from shows like West Side Story, My Fair Lady and Fiddler on the Roof, so it seems only fitting to bring my songs to The Great White Way.
- 7/1/2019
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
A Neil Diamond bio-musical, with a score by the iconic singer-songwriter and a book by Bohemian Rhapsody writer Anthony McCarten, is heading to Broadway. Producers Ken Davenport and Bob Gaudio announced today that the as-yet-untitled project is in development.
Michael Mayer will direct.
Diamond – the man behind “Sweet Caroline,” “You Don’t Bring Me Flowers” and “Song Sung Blue,” to name just a small few – said in a statement, “I’ve always loved Broadway. The inspiration for many of my early songs came from shows like West Side Story, My Fair Lady and Fiddler on the Roof, so it seems only fitting to bring my songs to The Great White Way. I’m honored and excited to be working with this great team.”
Said McCarten, “On the mantle-piece in my childhood home in New Zealand, there were always two pictures: one was of the Pope,...
Michael Mayer will direct.
Diamond – the man behind “Sweet Caroline,” “You Don’t Bring Me Flowers” and “Song Sung Blue,” to name just a small few – said in a statement, “I’ve always loved Broadway. The inspiration for many of my early songs came from shows like West Side Story, My Fair Lady and Fiddler on the Roof, so it seems only fitting to bring my songs to The Great White Way. I’m honored and excited to be working with this great team.”
Said McCarten, “On the mantle-piece in my childhood home in New Zealand, there were always two pictures: one was of the Pope,...
- 7/1/2019
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
When posters for Broadway’s revival of Burn This started heating up New York’s chilly subway stations earlier this winter, stars Adam Driver and Keri Russell, snuggling, entangled, staring holes, seemed a sort of inevitable pairing. Both looked incredible, and he was arriving in step with his Oscar nomination for Spike Lee’s BlacKKKlansman, she a Golden Globe nominee for her still-fresh-in-the-mind final season of The Americans. And both would be appearing in the next installment of Star Wars, no less. If theater marketing had gods, somewhere they were smiling.
The buzzy ad campaign proved both effective and prophetic: The revival of Lanford Wilson’s 1987 drama, directed by Michael Mayer and co-starring David Furr and Brandon Uranowitz, is easily one of the hottest newcomers this Broadway season, pulling in the type of weekly box office – $768,766 for the week ending April 21, the most recent numbers available – that are more typically...
The buzzy ad campaign proved both effective and prophetic: The revival of Lanford Wilson’s 1987 drama, directed by Michael Mayer and co-starring David Furr and Brandon Uranowitz, is easily one of the hottest newcomers this Broadway season, pulling in the type of weekly box office – $768,766 for the week ending April 21, the most recent numbers available – that are more typically...
- 4/24/2019
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Cindy Hulej on Only Lovers Left Alive: "I relate a lot to that movie on multiple levels. And for Paterson I customised the guitar in that." Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
While I was talking with Rick Kelly at his work bench in the back of the shop of Carmine Street Guitars, Ed Bahlman was having a lively conversation with Cindy Hulej on music. The Boys Next Door, The Birthday Party, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Blixa Bargeld, Rowland S Howard and Wim Wenders' Wings Of Desire were being discussed.
Cindy told me that she customised a guitar for Golshifteh Farahani to play in Jim Jarmusch's Paterson, which also starred Adam Driver. Driver is now in New York tearing up the stage opposite Keri Russell in the Broadway revival of Lanford Wilson's Burn This, directed by Michael Mayer, and he will soon be seen in Jarmusch's Cannes Film...
While I was talking with Rick Kelly at his work bench in the back of the shop of Carmine Street Guitars, Ed Bahlman was having a lively conversation with Cindy Hulej on music. The Boys Next Door, The Birthday Party, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Blixa Bargeld, Rowland S Howard and Wim Wenders' Wings Of Desire were being discussed.
Cindy told me that she customised a guitar for Golshifteh Farahani to play in Jim Jarmusch's Paterson, which also starred Adam Driver. Driver is now in New York tearing up the stage opposite Keri Russell in the Broadway revival of Lanford Wilson's Burn This, directed by Michael Mayer, and he will soon be seen in Jarmusch's Cannes Film...
- 4/14/2019
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
The music of the Avett Brothers has inspired a new musical. Swept Away will premiere at the Berkeley Repertory Theatre in Berkeley, California, in June 2020.
Written by John Logan and directed by Michael Mayer — both Tony Award winners — Swept Away‘s music draws from the North Carolina band’s catalog, and in particular the Avett Brothers’ 2004 LP Mignonette. The musical is set in 1888 and tells the tale of a shipwrecked crew, including two brothers, as they struggle to survive after reaching land off the coast of New Bedford, Massachusetts.
Adapting...
Written by John Logan and directed by Michael Mayer — both Tony Award winners — Swept Away‘s music draws from the North Carolina band’s catalog, and in particular the Avett Brothers’ 2004 LP Mignonette. The musical is set in 1888 and tells the tale of a shipwrecked crew, including two brothers, as they struggle to survive after reaching land off the coast of New Bedford, Massachusetts.
Adapting...
- 4/3/2019
- by Jeff Gage
- Rollingstone.com
Another slate of high-profile Broadway arrivals hit the street last week, with much anticipated productions like Burn This, Hillary and Clinton, What the Constitution Means to Me and Gary: A Sequel To Titus Andronicus adding both money to the till and words (so many words) to the district’s marquees.
In all, box office receipts for the 34 productions (three more than the previous week) were up 9% to $32,944,573, with attendance taking a commensurate 6% hike to 288,544. Average ticket price for a Broadway seat during the season’s Week 42 (ending March 17) was $114, a few bucks more than the previous week.
Let’s start with the recent arrivals: Kiss Me, Kate opened March 14 to fine reviews at Studio 54, with stars Kelli O’Hara and Will Chase playing to Sro houses. Press seats and opening night comps, along with the non-profit Roundabout’s subscription-heavy base, kept grosses at $681,659, an increase over the previous week and about 68% of full-price potential.
In all, box office receipts for the 34 productions (three more than the previous week) were up 9% to $32,944,573, with attendance taking a commensurate 6% hike to 288,544. Average ticket price for a Broadway seat during the season’s Week 42 (ending March 17) was $114, a few bucks more than the previous week.
Let’s start with the recent arrivals: Kiss Me, Kate opened March 14 to fine reviews at Studio 54, with stars Kelli O’Hara and Will Chase playing to Sro houses. Press seats and opening night comps, along with the non-profit Roundabout’s subscription-heavy base, kept grosses at $681,659, an increase over the previous week and about 68% of full-price potential.
- 3/18/2019
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Three-time Emmy Award nominee Adam Driver Pale and Golden Globe Award Winner and Emmy Award Nominee Keri Russell Anna will lead the first revival of Pulitzer Prize Winner Lanford Wilson's Burn This. Directed by Tony Award winner Michael Mayer, Burn This is set to begin performances on tonight, March 15, 2019. Get to know the cast below as they begin Broadway performances...
- 3/15/2019
- by Julie Musbach
- BroadwayWorld.com
The first revival of Pulitzer Prize Winner Lanford Wilson's Burn This, directed by Tony Award winner Michael Mayer, will begin performances on Friday, March 15, 2019 and officially opens on Tuesday, April 16, 2019 at Broadway's Hudson Theatre.Burn This stars Academy Award Nominee and three-time Emmy Award Nominee Adam Driver Pale, Golden Globe Award Winner and Emmy Award Nominee Keri Russell Anna, Tony Award Nominee David Furr Burton and Tony Award Nominee Brandon Uranowitz Larry.
- 3/7/2019
- by Walter McBride
- BroadwayWorld.com
Exclusive: Michael Scott, DillonScott Media and Bcdf Pictures will adapt and produce American-Irish author Morgan Llywelyn’s New York Times and Time bestselling historical novel Lion of Ireland as a TV series. Scott will write the pilot and will serve as Ep along with Barry Krost as well as Claude Dal Farra and Brian Keady of Bcdf Pictures.
Lion of Ireland has sold over 40M copies worldwide and won numerous awards, including a Cultural Heritage Award, while Morgan was honored with an Exceptional Celtic Woman of the Year Award by Celtic Women International.
Lion of Ireland tells the story of Brian Boru, the greatest king Ireland has ever known, the man who liberated the Irish nation from centuries of Viking rule. It also tells the story of the extraordinary women who shaped his life and, ultimately, history itself: Fiona, a Druid priestess; Dierdre, a warrior princess, and Gormflaith a powerful Celtic Queen.
Lion of Ireland has sold over 40M copies worldwide and won numerous awards, including a Cultural Heritage Award, while Morgan was honored with an Exceptional Celtic Woman of the Year Award by Celtic Women International.
Lion of Ireland tells the story of Brian Boru, the greatest king Ireland has ever known, the man who liberated the Irish nation from centuries of Viking rule. It also tells the story of the extraordinary women who shaped his life and, ultimately, history itself: Fiona, a Druid priestess; Dierdre, a warrior princess, and Gormflaith a powerful Celtic Queen.
- 3/4/2019
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
BroadwayCon is excited to announce that it will host a 20-year reunion with original cast and creative team members of You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown. Moderated by Dave Quinn People Magazine, the panel will include Anthony Rapp Charlie Brown, Bd Wong Linus, Roger Bart Snoopy, Ilana Levine Lucy, Michael Mayer director, and Jerry Mitchell choreographer on Saturday, January 12, at 730 Pm.
- 1/8/2019
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
This weekend’s New York Stage and Film winter gala will have a decided thirtysomething aura. In addition to the previously announced honorees (and real-life marrieds) Ken Olin and Patricia Wettig, their former co-star Timothy Busfield will be among the event’s directors.
Among the presenters and performers at the gala will be Jon Robin Baitz, John Gallagher Jr., Josh Radnor and Duncan Shiek. The fundraising event will also honor longtime New York Stage and Film artistic director Johanna Pfaelzer, who is stepping down from her post at the end of the 2019 summer season.
The event is set for Sunday, December 9 at Manhattan’s Plaza Hotel. Also directing the evening’s tributes will be Tony Award nominee Sheryl Kaller and Tony Award winner Michael Mayer.
The gala is a fundraising event to support New York Stage and Film’s year-round theater and film development initiatives. Other performances and appearances this year will include Santino Fontana,...
Among the presenters and performers at the gala will be Jon Robin Baitz, John Gallagher Jr., Josh Radnor and Duncan Shiek. The fundraising event will also honor longtime New York Stage and Film artistic director Johanna Pfaelzer, who is stepping down from her post at the end of the 2019 summer season.
The event is set for Sunday, December 9 at Manhattan’s Plaza Hotel. Also directing the evening’s tributes will be Tony Award nominee Sheryl Kaller and Tony Award winner Michael Mayer.
The gala is a fundraising event to support New York Stage and Film’s year-round theater and film development initiatives. Other performances and appearances this year will include Santino Fontana,...
- 12/4/2018
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Next spring’s Broadway revival of Lanford Wilson’s Burn This starring Adam Driver and Keri Russell has completed casting and set an April 16 opening date at the Hudson Theatre.
Previews begin March 15, with Tony Award nominees David Furr and Brandon Uranowitz rounding out the four-member cast, says producer David Binder. Michael Mayer will direct, with the design team including Derek McLane (Sets), Clint Ramos (Costumes) and Natasha Katz (Lights).
Burn This, which originated Off Broadway in 1987 before transferring to Broadway in an acclaimed production starring John Malkovich and Joan Allen, is set in a downtown Manhattan loft in the 1980s, as four New Yorkers are brought together after a funeral. Driver and Russell play the brother and the roommate, respectively, of the deceased.
Furr will play Burton, the longtime lover of Russell’s Anna. Tony nominated for his performance in the 2016 Noises Off revival, Furr has also appeared on Broadway in Accent On Youth,...
Previews begin March 15, with Tony Award nominees David Furr and Brandon Uranowitz rounding out the four-member cast, says producer David Binder. Michael Mayer will direct, with the design team including Derek McLane (Sets), Clint Ramos (Costumes) and Natasha Katz (Lights).
Burn This, which originated Off Broadway in 1987 before transferring to Broadway in an acclaimed production starring John Malkovich and Joan Allen, is set in a downtown Manhattan loft in the 1980s, as four New Yorkers are brought together after a funeral. Driver and Russell play the brother and the roommate, respectively, of the deceased.
Furr will play Burton, the longtime lover of Russell’s Anna. Tony nominated for his performance in the 2016 Noises Off revival, Furr has also appeared on Broadway in Accent On Youth,...
- 11/27/2018
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Head Over Heels, the Broadway musical featuring songs from The Go-Go’s including the title tune, “We Got The Beat” and “Our Lips Are Sealed” will play its final performance Sunday, Jan. 6, 2019, producers announced today.
The musical, which opened at the Hudson Theatre on July 26, will have played 188 regular performances and 37 previews by the time it closes next month. The production, greeted by mixed reviews, never caught fire at the box office, and has been struggling in recent weeks with grosses hovering around 20% of a
$883,552 box office potential. Even during weeks when 60% of seats were filled, modest average ticket prices of $61 kept box office far from reaching potential.
“Along with my partners, creative team and cast, it was our desire to create a piece of live theatre that celebrates love of all kinds and portrays a world of beauty in which joy and acceptance reign above all else,” said lead producer Christine Russell.
The musical, which opened at the Hudson Theatre on July 26, will have played 188 regular performances and 37 previews by the time it closes next month. The production, greeted by mixed reviews, never caught fire at the box office, and has been struggling in recent weeks with grosses hovering around 20% of a
$883,552 box office potential. Even during weeks when 60% of seats were filled, modest average ticket prices of $61 kept box office far from reaching potential.
“Along with my partners, creative team and cast, it was our desire to create a piece of live theatre that celebrates love of all kinds and portrays a world of beauty in which joy and acceptance reign above all else,” said lead producer Christine Russell.
- 11/26/2018
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Desirae Brown with Copeland on Julianne Moore's response after Ben Niles showed her The 5 Browns: Digging Through the Darkness: "She wrote a beautiful lovely note. She's such a great advocate also." Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
When I met with Desirae Brown at her apartment, she made a Juilliard connection for The 5 Browns to Nico Muhly and Isabel Leonard, the star of the opera Marnie, directed by Michael Mayer, currently at The Metropolitan Opera in New York. In the first installment of my conversation with Desirae, she reveals that she loves playing Peer Gynt with Deondra, who co-founded The Foundation for Survivors of Abuse with her and the importance of taking control to survive abuse.
Desirae Brown on performing Peer Gynt: "That's probably my favourite part. I do love playing with Deondra and I remember being there." Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Julianne Moore, Scott McGehee and David Siegel's What Maisie Knew,...
When I met with Desirae Brown at her apartment, she made a Juilliard connection for The 5 Browns to Nico Muhly and Isabel Leonard, the star of the opera Marnie, directed by Michael Mayer, currently at The Metropolitan Opera in New York. In the first installment of my conversation with Desirae, she reveals that she loves playing Peer Gynt with Deondra, who co-founded The Foundation for Survivors of Abuse with her and the importance of taking control to survive abuse.
Desirae Brown on performing Peer Gynt: "That's probably my favourite part. I do love playing with Deondra and I remember being there." Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Julianne Moore, Scott McGehee and David Siegel's What Maisie Knew,...
- 11/7/2018
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Funny Girl starring Sheridan Smith will be broadcast in cinemas across the UK on 24 October, as part of a worldwide release of the smash-hit stage production that played to critical acclaim at the Menier Chocolate Factory, in the West End and on tour. Michael Mayer's production was filmed during the final week of its run at the Manchester Palace Theatre by Digital Theatre, and will be released in cinemas by Trafalgar Releasing.
- 10/22/2018
- by BroadwayWorld TV
- BroadwayWorld.com
Funny Girl starring Sheridan Smith will be broadcast in cinemas across the UK on 24 October, as part of a worldwide release of the smash-hit stage production that played to critical acclaim at the Menier Chocolate Factory, in the West End and on tour. Michael Mayer's production was filmed during the final week of its run at the Manchester Palace Theatre by Digital Theatre, and will be released in cinemas by Trafalgar Releasing.
- 10/22/2018
- by BroadwayWorld TV
- BroadwayWorld.com
Dolly Wells on directing Emily Mortimer, bookshops, and Jane Curtin and Melissa McCarthy in Can You Ever Forgive Me?
The Diary Of A Teenage Girl director Marielle Heller's latest film, Can You Ever Forgive Me?, stars Melissa McCarthy as Lee Israel and is based on Israel's autobiography with a screenplay co-written by Nicole Holofcener and Jeff Whitty (original book for Michael Mayer's Head Over Heels and Tony winner for Avenue Q). In the second half of my conversation at the Whitby with Dolly Wells, who plays Anna, a bookshop owner who befriends Lee, we explore the nature of their relationship.
Dolly points out a detail regarding a stolen coat, how there is "real life in those costumes" by Arjun Bhasin, directing her Doll & Em co-star Emily Mortimer in Good Posture, "real bookshops, real characters selling books", and what's under the bed.
Dolly Wells: "I only moved to...
The Diary Of A Teenage Girl director Marielle Heller's latest film, Can You Ever Forgive Me?, stars Melissa McCarthy as Lee Israel and is based on Israel's autobiography with a screenplay co-written by Nicole Holofcener and Jeff Whitty (original book for Michael Mayer's Head Over Heels and Tony winner for Avenue Q). In the second half of my conversation at the Whitby with Dolly Wells, who plays Anna, a bookshop owner who befriends Lee, we explore the nature of their relationship.
Dolly points out a detail regarding a stolen coat, how there is "real life in those costumes" by Arjun Bhasin, directing her Doll & Em co-star Emily Mortimer in Good Posture, "real bookshops, real characters selling books", and what's under the bed.
Dolly Wells: "I only moved to...
- 10/20/2018
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Dolly Wells on costume designer Arjun Bhasin: "I mean I had worked out Anna but once I was putting on his clothes, I thought, oh my god, this is so good." Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Dolly Wells, star of Doll & Em with Emily Mortimer (Isabel Coixet's The Bookshop) plays Anna, a bookshop owner in Marielle Heller's Can You Ever Forgive Me?, co-written by Nicole Holofcener and Jeff Whitty (original book for Michael Mayer's Head Over Heels and Tony winner for Avenue Q). Based on the book by Lee Israel, the film stars Melissa McCarthy as Lee Israel with Richard E Grant as Jack Hock, Jane Curtin as her agent Marjorie, Anna Deavere Smith as Israel's ex Elaine, and bookstore owners Alan and Paul, played by Ben Falcone and Stephen Spinella.
Dolly Wells on her role as Anna with Melissa McCarthy's Lee Israel: "She instructs her, which is so ironic.
Dolly Wells, star of Doll & Em with Emily Mortimer (Isabel Coixet's The Bookshop) plays Anna, a bookshop owner in Marielle Heller's Can You Ever Forgive Me?, co-written by Nicole Holofcener and Jeff Whitty (original book for Michael Mayer's Head Over Heels and Tony winner for Avenue Q). Based on the book by Lee Israel, the film stars Melissa McCarthy as Lee Israel with Richard E Grant as Jack Hock, Jane Curtin as her agent Marjorie, Anna Deavere Smith as Israel's ex Elaine, and bookstore owners Alan and Paul, played by Ben Falcone and Stephen Spinella.
Dolly Wells on her role as Anna with Melissa McCarthy's Lee Israel: "She instructs her, which is so ironic.
- 10/15/2018
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Michael Mayer on Keri Russell joining Adam Driver in the director's Broadway revival of Lanford Wilson's Burn This: "We did a reading of the play with Adam some weeks ago, and I responded immediately to her great intelligence and passion." Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Michael Mayer, the director of The Seagull and the timely and rapturous Broadway musical Head Over Heels (based on Sir Philip Sidney's Arcadia featuring the song catalogue of The Go-Go's and Belinda Carlisle), has just announced that Keri Russell will be joining her Star Wars: Episode IX comrade Adam Driver (star of Spike Lee's BlacKkKlansman) in Mayer's Broadway revival of Lanford Wilson's Burn This. The original production of Burn This in 1987 starred John Malkovich and Joan Allen.
Michael Mayer, who is also directing Nico Muhly's opera Marnie, based on Winston Graham’s novel, at The Metropolitan Opera in New York, will participate in...
Michael Mayer, the director of The Seagull and the timely and rapturous Broadway musical Head Over Heels (based on Sir Philip Sidney's Arcadia featuring the song catalogue of The Go-Go's and Belinda Carlisle), has just announced that Keri Russell will be joining her Star Wars: Episode IX comrade Adam Driver (star of Spike Lee's BlacKkKlansman) in Mayer's Broadway revival of Lanford Wilson's Burn This. The original production of Burn This in 1987 starred John Malkovich and Joan Allen.
Michael Mayer, who is also directing Nico Muhly's opera Marnie, based on Winston Graham’s novel, at The Metropolitan Opera in New York, will participate in...
- 8/16/2018
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Keri Russell is Broadway bound.
The award-winning actress is joining Adam Driver in the first Broadway revival of Lanford Wilson’s “Burn This.” Tony Award winner Michael Mayer will direct the show, which begins performances in March of 2019 at a theater yet to be announced.
“Burn This” is set in the ’80s and tells the story of four New Yorkers, whose lives are shaken up after a young dancer’s accidental death. Russell will play a modern dancer named Anna, and Driver will portray Pale, a hyperactive restaurant manager, who are brought together in wake of the tragedy. The rest of the cast will be announced shortly.
Russell, fresh off her third Emmy nomination for her role as Elizabeth Jennings in FX’s acclaimed drama “The Americans,” is returning to New York theater after making her off-Broadway stage debut in Neil Labute’s “Fat Pig.” She will appear next in...
The award-winning actress is joining Adam Driver in the first Broadway revival of Lanford Wilson’s “Burn This.” Tony Award winner Michael Mayer will direct the show, which begins performances in March of 2019 at a theater yet to be announced.
“Burn This” is set in the ’80s and tells the story of four New Yorkers, whose lives are shaken up after a young dancer’s accidental death. Russell will play a modern dancer named Anna, and Driver will portray Pale, a hyperactive restaurant manager, who are brought together in wake of the tragedy. The rest of the cast will be announced shortly.
Russell, fresh off her third Emmy nomination for her role as Elizabeth Jennings in FX’s acclaimed drama “The Americans,” is returning to New York theater after making her off-Broadway stage debut in Neil Labute’s “Fat Pig.” She will appear next in...
- 8/15/2018
- by Rebecca Rubin
- Variety Film + TV
The Americans‘ Keri Russell will join the previously announced Adam Driver in Michael Mayer’s Broadway revival of Lanford Wilson’s Burn This, producer David Binder announced today. The play begins performances in March 2019 at a theater to be announced.
The production will mark Russell’s first appearance on a New York stage since her 2005 Off-Broadway debut in Neil Labute’s Fat Pig.
Russell will play Anna, one of four New Yorkers brought together at a funeral following an accidental death. Set in the gritty downtown New York of the 1980s, Burn This focuses on the tempestuous relationship between dancer Anna, who was roommates with the recently deceased Robbie, and Pale (Driver), Robbie’s sexy and dangerous brother.
Additional casting and design team will be announced shortly.
Before the announcement of Driver’s casting last December, Mayer was set to direct a Burn This revival with Jake Gyllenhaal in 2017. Gyllenhaal...
The production will mark Russell’s first appearance on a New York stage since her 2005 Off-Broadway debut in Neil Labute’s Fat Pig.
Russell will play Anna, one of four New Yorkers brought together at a funeral following an accidental death. Set in the gritty downtown New York of the 1980s, Burn This focuses on the tempestuous relationship between dancer Anna, who was roommates with the recently deceased Robbie, and Pale (Driver), Robbie’s sexy and dangerous brother.
Additional casting and design team will be announced shortly.
Before the announcement of Driver’s casting last December, Mayer was set to direct a Burn This revival with Jake Gyllenhaal in 2017. Gyllenhaal...
- 8/15/2018
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
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