Photo Flash: GOD OF CARNAGE Opens at Center Theatre Group with Broadway Cast!April 14, 2011'God of Carnage' open last night, April 13, at 8 p.m. at the Center Theatre Group / Ahmanson Theatre reuniting the original Tony Award-nominated Broadway cast of Jeff Daniels, Hope Davis, James Gandolfini and Marcia Gay Harden in the scathingly funny, Tony Award-winning Best Play. The production is currently in previews and will play through May 29 only. Check out photos from opening night below!
TV: WAR HORSE Opens at LCT Tonight!April 14, 2011War Horse is a thrilling and spectacular production based on the celebrated novel by Michael Morpurgo. The First World War is the backdrop for this tale of bravery, loyalty, and the extraordinary bond between a young recruit and his horse. Actors, working with astonishing life-sized puppets by the internationally renowned Handspring Puppet Company, take audiences on an unforgettable journey through history. War Horse at The Vivian Beaumont Theatre at Lincoln Center opens tonight, April 14th. Click below for a performance preview and photos of this epic production!
Photo Flash: Travolta Promotes GOTTI Film in New York CityApril 14, 2011On April 12, 2011, a press conference for the new film 'Gotti - Three Generations' was held at the Sheraton Hotel. John Travolta will star in the film, which has a budget of about 75M. BroadwayWorld brings you coverage of the event below.
Women Who Care Honor Bush, Nemcova et al.; Trump, Lehmkuhl Present, 5/3April 14, 2011Loreen Arbus, Founder & Chair of Women Who Care and Edward R. Matthews, CEO of United Cerebral Palsy of New York City, have announced the 2011 Celebrity Presenter Line-up for The Diamond Anniversary Women Who Care Luncheon to benefit United Cerebral Palsy of New York City. The event will be held on Thursday, May 5th, at Cipriani 42nd Street. Women Who Care celebrates the accomplishments of women as caregivers, volunteers and professionals.
Matthew Broderick & Anika Noni Rose Announce 2011 Tony Noms, 5/3April 14, 2011This year's Tony nominations will be announced on May 3. The 65th annual Tony Awards ceremony takes place on Sunday, June 12, 2011, broadcast on CBS. EW.com has revealed this morning that the announcers will be former Tony recipients Matthew Broderick (The Producers, The Odd Couple, The Philanthropist, Brighton Beach Memiors, How To Succeed in Business...) and Anika Noni Rose (Caroline or Change). The nominations will be announced at Lincoln Center's Public Library for Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center beginning at 8:30am.
COMPANY to Screen at 500+ Theatres; Four Shows EachApril 14, 2011Screenvision, the leading innovator in cinema advertising, continues its mission to bring the best from the world of fine arts to movie theaters as it will present the New York Philharmonic's all-new, star-studded production of Stephen Sondheim's Tony Award-winning musical, Company. Through an arrangement with Ellen M. Krass Productions and the New York Philharmonic, Screenvision will bring the special performance recorded live in New York at Lincoln Center's famed Avery Fisher Hall to its North American digital cinema network for a limited number of engagements beginning June 15. The concert will be screened in over 500 theaters, with four showings per venue. Tickets will average $18.
TV: WONDERLAND Performance Preview Montage - Sneak Peek!April 13, 2011A New Alice. A New Musical stars Janet Dacal (In The Heights) as Alice, Darren Ritchie (Little Shop of Horrors, Thoroughly Modern Millie) as Jack the White Knight, E. Clayton Cornelious (The Scottsboro Boys, A Chorus Line) as Caterpillar, Jose Llana (Spelling Bee, Flower Drum Song) as El Gato, Karen Mason (Hairspray, Mamma Mia!) as The Queen of Hearts, Kate Shindle (Legally Blonde, Cabaret, Jekyll and Hyde) as The Mad Hatter, Carly Rose Sonenclar (Les Miserables, Little House on the Prairie) as Chloe, Edward Staudenmayer (Spamalot, Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me) as The White Rabbit and Danny Stiles (Regional productions of Guys and Dolls and Sister Act: The Musical) as Morris the March Hare. With a book by Gregory Boyd and Jack Murphy, lyrics by Jack Murphy, music by Frank Wildhorn, choreography by Marguerite Derricks and direction by Gregory Boyd, WONDERLAND will open at Broadway's Marquis Theatre (1535 Broadway between 45th & 46th Streets) on Sunday, April 17, 2011, and performances began Monday, March 21.
ANYTHING GOES to Sail into 2012! Tickets On Sale Through Jan. 8, 2012April 13, 2011Roundabout Theatre Company has announced a new block of tickets now on-sale through January 8th, 2012 for Anything Goes. Anything Goes stars Tony Award winner Sutton Foster as 'Reno Sweeney' and Tony and Academy Award winner Joel Grey as 'Moonface Martin,' and is directed and choreographed by Tony Award winner Kathleen Marshall.
Sarandon, Harner & Rosenfield Join Mulligan in Atlantic's THROUGH A GLASS DARKLY at NYTWApril 13, 2011Atlantic Theater Company (Neil Pepe, Artistic Director; Jeffory Lawson, Managing Director) is proud to announce that Academy Award® nominee Chris Sarandon, Jason Butler Harner and Ben Rosenfield will join Academy Award® and Golden Globe Award® nominee Carey Mulligan in the U.S. premiere of the play THROUGH A GLASS DARKLY, based on the Academy Award® winning Ingmar Bergman film adapted for the stage by Jenny Worton.
Wilson, Applegate, Branagh, Shatner, Short, Hanks et al. Lead THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR at Shakespeare Center in LA, 5/9 April 13, 2011The Shakespeare Center of Los Angeles (SCLA) continues the celebration of its 25th anniversary by holding its 21st Simply Shakespeare reading of 'The Merry Wives of Windsor.' The participants for this rhinestone-studded cast in a down-home evenin' that will be more colorful than a clown at a rodeo include Christina Applegate, Kenneth Branagh, Faith Hill, Eric idle, Arte Johnson, Eugene Levy, Tim McGraw, William Shatner, Martin Short, Tracey Ullman and the co-chairs of the event Rita Wilson and Tom Hanks, all of whom will be reading one of Shakespeare's best known and beloved comedies.
Review Round-Up: GHOST THE MUSICAL in the UK!April 13, 2011Last night, April 12, opened its premiere engagement at the Opera House, Manchester running from 28 March - 14 May 2011 for a strictly limited 7 week run before it begins its West End run at the Piccadilly Theatre on 22 June 2011, with booking open for performances until 28 January 2012. The reviews are in and BroadwayWorld brings you the round-up below.
Photo Flash: Everett, Tointon in Rehearsal for West End's PYGMALION!April 13, 2011The cast of the upcoming West End revival of PYGMALION starring Rupert Everett, Kara Tointon and Diana Rigg also features Simon Ward, Peter Eyre and Peter Sandys Clarke as Alfred P. Doolitte, Colonel Pickering, and Freddy Eynsford Hill respectively. Marty Cruickshank and Roberta Taylor also star. The first rehearal photos have surfaced and appear below!
Ryan Collinson Becomes 26th 'Billy' in West End's BILLY ELLIOTApril 13, 2011Today, 13 April 2011, twelve year old Ryan Collinson from Southport, becomes the twenty-sixth boy to play the title role in the West End production of Billy Elliot the Musical. The internationally award-winning show, which opened a the Victoria Palace Theatre in 2005, has been seen by over 6 million people worldwide, including 3 million in the West End. Ryan becomes the 56th boy to play Billy Elliot worldwide since Jamie Bell in the award-winning film.
TV: Kathleen Turner in HIGH on Broadway!April 12, 2011Two-time Golden Globe winner, Academy Award & Tony Award nominee Kathleen Turner returns to Broadway this spring as 'Sister Jamison Connelly' in HIGH, a new play written by Matthew Lombardo and directed by Rob Ruggiero. Previews begin on Broadway on March 25 and the official opening is April 19, 2011. Check out a production preview below!
Photo Flash: Ricky Martin Plays MiamiApril 12, 2011This past weekend, soon-to-be Evita star took to the stage in Miami as part of his current tour. BroadwayWorld brings you coverage of the concert below. Martin is set to play Che in the upcoming Evita revival in the Spring of 2012.
STAGE TUBE: Hawke, Guare, Mee & More Share 'Signature Stories'April 12, 2011As Signature Theatre gets ready to move to Signature Center, it's new home, in celebration of their 20th anniversary, the company interviewed nearly 40 actors, playwrights, directors and designers who have worked at Signature to get their 'Signature Story.' Signature Theatre is launching this new video series featuring multiple subjects on a specific topic, with one artist talking more in depth about a specific memory.