AFP Blog: Recent News of Note (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
Arts, Briefly - Tony Award for Philanthropy - NYTimes.com: "Next year’s Tonys will feature a new award honoring the philanthropic efforts of a member of the theater community"
UPTOWNflavor (Free subscription) | yesterday
John F. Breglio announced today that the 2009 national tour of Tony Award-winning, smash musical Dreamgirls will hold open auditions at the Apollo Theater (253 West 125 Street) on Saturday, November 1, 2008 with audition sign-in from 9:30am till 11am. This open audition is for casting the starring roles of The Dreams [...]
New York Times (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
Next year’s Tonys will feature a new award honoring the philanthropic efforts of a member of the theater community.
Lady Bunny Blog (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
I WORSHIP DIAHANN! I ALWAYS THOUGH RUPAUL LOOKED LIKE HER WHEN SHE STARTED DOING GLAMOUR DRAG. FROM TCM.COM DIAHANN CARROL'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY IS OUT NOW! She is perhaps most famous for her role as Dominique Deveraux, the “black bitch” from Dynasty. But she is also a Golden Globe and Tony Award winning actress of stage, screen and film and has been nominated for an Oscar®, a Grammy, and an Emmy. Carroll...
New York Times (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
Miss Dailey was an actress perhaps best known for her roles in television soap operas and for her portrayal of Nettie Cleary in the 1964 Tony Award-winning drama “The Subject Was Roses.”
VH1 (Free subscription) | 10/06/2008
"13," a new musical with songs written by Tony Award winner Jason Robert Brown, offers a more realistic take on growing up than "High School Musical," but it's just as catchy.
MTV News (Free subscription) | 10/06/2008
New musical, with songs by Tony Award winner Jason Robert Brown, is a more dysfunctional, realistic take on growing up. By Jim Cantiello, with additional reporting by Garth Bardsley The cast of "13" Photo: Joan Marcus The senior class of East High from " High School Musical " might have to watch their backs: There's a new batch of singing and dancing teenagers about to enter the world of pop culture....
The New Yorker - Arts and Culture (Free subscription) | 10/06/2008
From 1974 to 1980, the immensely assured multi-instrumentalist and composer Anthony Braxton was given virtual carte blanche at Clive Davis’s Arista Records--an unlikely union of artist and corporation. Braxton was nothing if not rigorously intellectual and formally obsessed--a sonic omnivore influenced by artists as seemingly irreconcilable as . . .
Times of the Internet (Free subscription) | 10/05/2008
NEW YORK, Oct. 5 (UPI) -- The run of a Broadway production of the musical Hairspray is approaching its end at New York's Neil Simon Theater, production heads say. The head of the production informed cast members last week that the Tony Award-winning musical would end Jan. 18, Variety reported Friday. While the closing has yet to be finalized, Variety said original Hairspray star Harvey Fierstein is...
San Diego Union (Free subscription) | 10/05/2008
It's been a breakthrough year for hip-hop in theater. In June, the propulsive “In the Heights” won the Tony Award for best musical; locally, La Jolla Playhouse staged “The Seven,” a bold fusion of rap and Greek tragedy.
LA Times (Free subscription) | 10/03/2008
Only five actresses have won theater's highest honor and filmdom's top prize in the same year.
Out in Hollywood (Free subscription) | 10/03/2008
Paul Newman may have been one of the world's biggest movie stars for five decades, he also appeared in five Broadway shows including "Our Town in 2003, a production for which he was nominated for a Tony Award for best...
PerezHilton.com (Free subscription) | 10/03/2008
Tony Award-winning musical Hairspray is finally coming to an end on Broadway. The hit show is expected to close in mid-January 2009. Before it's end, though, they'll be welcoming back a familiar face, Harvey Fierstein, who won a 2003 Tony Award as Best Actor in a Musical for playing Edna Turnbald. Fierstein will be returning to the Neil [...]
NewYorkology: A New York Travel Gui (Free subscription) | 10/03/2008
Crane passing the Statue of Liberty today. By Amy Langfield/NewYorkology Fierstein may return as Edna Turnblad before Hairspray’s final bow (Playbill) Hairspray, the Tony Award-winning hit Broadway musical, is expected to close in mid-January 2009, but not before welcoming...
New York Times (Free subscription) | 10/02/2008
There are plenty of ways to go to the theater -- and even get great seats to Tony Award-winning Broadway shows -- for under $50.
