WAKE UP with BWW 4/3/2015 - Porter on PBS, Hall Leaves HEDWIG, Easter and More!
By: Jessica Showers Apr. 03, 2015
Good morning, BroadwayWorld! Because we know all our readers eat, sleep and breathe Broadway, what could be better than waking up to it? This weekend's big news: UNDERLAND begins off-Broadway, Billy Porter brings soul to PBS tonight, Lena Hall plays her final show in HEDWIG, and Easter is upon us!
THIS WEEKEND'S TOP ITEMS:
- ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK's Annie Golden stars in UNDERLAND, starting tonight at 59E59.
- Tony winner Billy Porter performs from the American Songbook on PBS tonight!
- The company of PERMISSION meets the press today, so stay tuned for photos.
- Lena Hall marks her final performance in HEDWIG on Saturday...
- And Sunday is Easter!
(TONS OF) NEWS YOU MISSED YESTERDAY:
- AMERICAN PSYCHO will open on Broadway next spring!
- The new GROUNDHOG DAY musical is coming to Broadway in 2017...
- David Mamet's CHINA DOLL, with Al Pacino, is slated for a November opening.
- A stage adaptation of TANGLED will premiere this fall via Disney Cruise Lines!
- HAMILTON has topped this year's Lortel Award nominations...
- David Bowie and Enda Walsh's LAZARUS will debut at NYTW this winter.
- MOTOWN is headed to the West End's Shaftesbury Theatre next March!
- Ciaran Hinds will star opposite Benedict Cumberbatch in HAMLET at the Barbican, while Ricardo Chavira will lead the UK debut of THE MOTHERF**KER WITH THE HAT...
- We got a peek (above, right) and GLEE's Dianna Agron in rehearsal for MCQUEEN in London.
- WAITRESS, Mark Rylance's NICE FISH, 'GREAT COMET' and more highlight A.R.T.'s 2015-16 season!
- The Public & HAMILTON will present a 40th anniversary tribute to A CHORUS LINE.
- And Glenne Headly is temporarily stepping in for Rita Wilson in Broadway's FISH IN THE DARK...
Broadway Weather Forecast: Rain off and on this afternoon and tonight, windy Saturday, but clear for Easter Sunday with a high of 61!
Quote of the Day: A word from birthday boy David Hyde Pierce...
"On some level in acting, what you're trying to find is truth, because when it's true is when it's also funny."
-- David Hyde Pierce (via BrainyQuote)
What we're watching: Billy Porter's BROADWAY AND SOUL concert on LIVE FROM LINCOLN CENTER tonight - check out a preview below!
And a Happy Birthday shout-out to David Hyde Pierce, who turns 56 today!
Pierce is directing It Shoulda Been You on Broadway this season, as well as Ripcord off-Broadway. He last starred in Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike (which earned him a Tony nod in 2013), La Bete, Accent on Youth, Curtains (which won him a Tony in 2007), Spamalot, The Heidi Chronicles and Beyond Therapy. In 2010, he received the Tonys Isabelle Stevenson Award. Among his off-Broadway credits are Close Up Space, an oak tree, Waiting for Godot, Much Ado About Nothing, Zero Positive, The Maderati, Hamlet and Summer. The actor is well known for his role as 'Dr. Niles Crane' in the NBC sitcom Frasier, for which he took home four Emmy Awards. Since then, Pierce has appeared on TV in The Good Wife and will soon be seen in Wet Hot American Summer.
VANYA AND SONIA AND MASHA AND SPIKE.
Photo by Carol Rosegg
See you bright and early on Monday, BroadwayWorld!