WAKE UP with BWW 5/14/2015 - 'FURY' & 'MENAGERIE' Off-Broadway, 'DEADLAND' in Seattle and More!
By: Jessica Showers May. 14, 2015
Good morning, BroadwayWorld! Because we know all our readers eat, sleep and breathe Broadway, what could be better than waking up to it? Today's big news: Two classics begin off-Broadway, Brian Stokes Mitchell is feted at lunch, Darko Tresnjak directs KISS ME, KATE, and JASPER IN DEADLAND comes to Seattle!
TODAY'S TOP ITEMS:
- Elevator Repair Service's THE SOUND AND THE FURY begins at The Public tonight, and Masterworks Theater's THE GLASS MENAGERIE opens off-Broadway!
- New Dramatists celebrate Brian Stokes Mitchell at their spring luncheon...
- GENTLEMAN'S GUIDE's Darko Tresnjak helms KISS ME, KATE, starting tonight in Hartford; and Matt Doyle reprises his role in JASPER IN DEADLAND, opening this evening in Seattle!
- Plus, the company of AN ACT OF GOD meets the press today, so stay tuned for photos!
NEWS YOU MISSED YESTERDAY:
- TUCK EVERLASTING is officially headed to Broadway next spring!
- Annette Bening, Saoirse Ronan, Corey Stoll and more will lead THE SEAGULL on the big screen!
- We got a fresh look (right) at Mandy Patinkin and Taylor Mac in THE LAST TWO PEOPLE ON EARTH.
- Andy Karl is set to host Roundabout's 2015 Student Theatre Arts Festival, while HEDWIG's Darren Criss will emcee BROADWAY JUNIOR!
- We have all the latest on REBECCA publicist Marc Thibodeau and producer Ben Sprecher...
- Nicole Kidman & Ruth Wilson have joined John Cameron Mitchell's HOW TO TALK TO GIRLS AT PARTIES, and Bradley Cooper will appear on CBS in LIMITLESS...
- Noomi Rapace has been tapped to play iconic opera star Maria Callas in the biopic CALLAS!
- And Sarah Brightman has postponed her space journey...
Broadway Weather Forecast: High of 73 and sunny today!
What we're watching: DRIVING MISS DAISY, starring Angela Lansbury and James Earl Jones, in cinemas today!
What we're listening to: Matthew Morrison singing on the FINDING NEVERLAND concept album, out next month!
Video of the Day: Get a sneak peek at GLEE's Melissa Benoist and stage stars Laura Benanti & Jeremy Jordan in CBS's SUPERGIRL!
And a Happy Birthday shout-out to Mark Blum, who turns 65 today!
Blum last appeared on Broadway in The Assembled Parties. Before that, he starred in Gore Vidal's The Best Man, Twelve Angry Men, The Graduate, A Thousand Clowns, My Thing of Love, Lost in Yonkers and The Merchant, the latter for which he as also stage manager. Off-Broadway, Blum has recently starred in Lonely, I'm Not, Picked, The Singing Forest, Mourning Becomes Electra, Buffalo Gal, The Music Teacher, The Long Christmas Ride Home, The Waverly Gallery and many other works, including 1986's It's Only a Play (now being revived on Broadway).
Photo by James Leynse
See you bright and early tomorrow, BroadwayWorld!