Eddie Varley - Page 148

It became official when, SPIDER-MAN, Turn Off the Dark, was announced to open on Thursday, February 18, 2010 at Broadway's Hilton Theatre, 213 West 42nd Street (preview performances will begin Saturday, January 16, 2010). Directed by Tony Award-winner Julie Taymor with 22-time Grammy Award-winning Bono and The Edge creating new music and lyrics, SPIDER-MAN will be written by Julie Taymor and Glen Berger. Well 'True Believers', since that official statement, the 'webslinging' work has heated up, and the creative process is in full 'swing' (forgive us the pun, but c'mon...).

AMERICAN IDOL 'Wild Child' Adam Lambert continues to stand out this season, the young Los Angeles based singer, who is now a member of the top 10 finalists.

Tony Award-winners Philip Bosco, Jim Norton and Ruben Santiago-Hudson, as well as Cheyenne Jackson, Kate Baldwin, and Jeremy Bobb star in Finian's Rainbow, the final production of New York City Center's 2008-09 Encores! season. Performances begin tonight March 26th, and runs through to March 29th.

EXIT THE KING which stars Geoffrey Rush, Susan Sarandon,Lauren Ambrose, Andrea Martin, William Sadler and Brian Hutchison, officially opens on Broadway tonight, Thursday, March 26 at the Barrymore Theatre (243 West 47th Street). Eugene Ionesco's classic comedy is directed by Neil Armfield, and translated by Armfield and Rush.

Goodspeed Musicals, the only two time Tony Award winning theatre in the country, is proud to announce that Lucky Guy, a new musical comedy, will be the spring production at The Norma Terris Theatre in Chester, Connecticut. This heartfelt musical comedy will play May 14 through June 14. Lucky Guy is sponsored by Essex Savings Bank.

Variety is reporting that Zac Efron is in negotiations to re-team with 17 Again director Burr Steers on an adaptation of the novel 'The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud.' The film will likely be the next for Efron, who just bailed out of Paramount's Footloose remake.

The new Broadway musical NEXT TO NORMAL will begin preview performances on Friday, March 27 at the Booth Theatre (222 West 45th Street). There will be a limited number of $25.00 rush tickets available in the front row and in the boxes for each performance. These rush tickets, which are available to all patrons, can be purchased at the box office only, beginning at 10:00am the day of the performance (12:00pm on Sundays). There is a limit of 2 tickets per person.

Outer Critics Circle, the organization of writers covering New York theatre for out-of-town newspapers, national publications and other media beyond Broadway, is proud to report that Broadway stars, and husband and wife team, Rebecca Luker and Danny Burstein will publicly announce the nominees for the 2008-09 season on Monday, April 20th (11AM) at the historic Algonquin Hotel (59 West 44th Street).

'Awkward 10 Minutes With Mike' continues into April once a week after a select evening's performance of Sleepwalk With Me starring Mike Birbiglia at The Bleecker Street Theater.

Multiple Drama Desk and Tony Award winning actor/writer Harvey Fierstein will host the 54th Annual Drama Desk Awards ceremony on Sunday, May 17, 2009, at 9 PM at the F.H. LaGuardia Concert Hall at Lincoln Center in New York City, it was announced by Robert R. Blume, Executive Producer of the annual Drama Desk Awards ceremony, and William Wolf, President of the Drama Desk, an organization of theater critics, writers and editors that honors excellence in all areas of New York theatre, including Broadway, Off Broadway, Off Off Broadway and not-for-profit theater. This will be the fourth time in the past six years that Fierstein has hosted the Drama Desk Awards, having emceed the Awards in 2004, 2005 and 2006.

Variety reports that Stacy Keach will return to the role of Richard Nixon for three perfs in the national tour of 'Frost/Nixon,' currently onstage at the Ahmanson Theater. After Keach suffered a mild stroke last week, his understudy, Bob Ari, took over the role of the former president in the Peter Morgan-penned play, helmed by Michael Grandage. Ari understudied the role under Frank Langella in the Broadway production.

Lyric Theatre, Oklahoma's premiere professional theatre company, will present the American Premiere of Woody Sez, the words, music, & spirit of Woody Guthrie as part of the 2009 'Lyric at the Plaza' season.

The news was announced today that Actors' Equity and the producers of Speed-the-Plow have agreed that the dispute regarding Jeremy Piven's early exit from the show will be heard by Arbitrator George Nicolau in New York on June 8 and June 9, 2009.

This coming Friday, March 27, theatre artists the world over will spend part of their day acknowledging and honouring the larger community of the art form they share in. Designated 'World Theatre Day' by the International Theatre Institute, the even is described as 'an opportunity to celebrate together an art form and a way of life that binds us, regardless of borders, language or political differences. It's a day of communion'.

The Hollywood Report is reporting that Vanessa Redgrave is joining the cast of director Ridley Scott's untitled Robin Hood film project, which stars Russell Crowe, production will begin in the United Kingdom.

Private Practice star Taye Diggs real-life wife, Tony winner Idina Menzel, will guest-star on the ABC series this Thursday March 26th. Menzel will play the mother of a patient tended to by Pete (Tim Daly). To hear one source tell it, Pete's special brand of 'bedside manner' might bring about an attraction between him and Menzel's character.

MAN underdog presents 'The Temperamentals' by Jon Marans, Off Broadway at The Barrow Group Studio Theater, 312 West 36 Street 3rd Floor. Previews begin Thursday, April 30, 2009 and the opening is Monday, May 4 at 8:00 pm for the limited engagement. The full cast has been announced and includes Tom Beckett, Thomas Jay Ryan, Matthew Schneck, Michael Urie & Sam Breslin Wright. It is directed by Jonathan Silverstein.

ShockTilYouDrop.com is reporting that stage and screen star Taye Diggs has been cast in the Dylan Dog live-action film Dead of Night.

Actors' Equity and the producers of Speed-the-Plow have agreed that the dispute regarding Jeremy Piven's early exit from the show will be heard by Arbitrator George Nicolau in New York on June 8 and June 9, 2009.

The Chicago Tribune's Chris Jones is reporting in his 'Theater Loop' column the surreal news that Rod Blagojevich, the former governor of Illinois, has invited the cast of Second City's 'Rod Blagojevich Superstar,' a comedic and hard hitting spoof of the disgraced politician's recent shenanigans, 'alleged and otherwise, to appear with him on the radio'.