Michael McKean News

Tracy Letts' The Minutes, the newest work from the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright of August: Osage County, has officially opened on Broadway last night at Studio 54. BroadwayWorld was there for the special occasion and you can check out photos from the red carpet arrivals .

Starring Golden Globe and Emmy Award winner Paul Giamatti (“John Adams”) and Golden Globe® nominee Corey Stoll (“House of Cards”), the latest season of BILLIONS, the dust clears to reveal a world that has evolved. With Axe (Damian Lewis, “Homeland”) gone and Michael Prince (Stoll) assuming his place, Chuck (Giamatti) must develop a new strategy.

SF Sketchfest, co-founded and directed by David Owen, Cole Stratton and Janet Varney, the longest-running comedy festival in the U.S. The event mixes major comedy stars and up-and-coming comedians from around the world for sketch, stand-up, alternative comedy, music, improv, films, tributes, live podcasts, workshops, and panel discussions.

The Way Off Broadway Dinner Theatre is preparing for a heartwarming romantic comedy this fall when its production of the Broadway classic The Pajama Game takes to the stage.  Opening Friday, September 10th, the production was rescheduled from earlier this season. 

Superman was created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster. Based on DC Comics characters, Smallville was developed for television by Alfred Gough & Miles Millar.

BSC has announced the encore presentation of last summer’s audience favorite, Rob Ulin’s JUDGMENT DAY, directed by Matthew Penn (“Law & Order,” “Orange Is the New Black,” BSC’s Typhoid Mary, 10x10 New Play Festival) and starring Tony Award winners Jason Alexander, Patti LuPone, Santino Fontana and Grammy Award winner Michael McKean.

The cast also features Loretta Devine (Della), Josh Johnston (Doctor), Bianca LaVerne Jones (Principal), Julian Emile Lerner (Casper), Justina Machado (Tracy), Carol Mansell (Edna), Michael Mastro (Jackson) and Elizabeth Stanley (Chandra). 

The unimaginable has happened...Equestria has lost its magic! Earth Ponies, Unicorns, and Pegasi are no longer friends and now live separated by species.

This week (June 7-13) in live streaming: Matthew Morrison visits Backstage Live, the Next on Stage Season 3 finale, Show of Titles premieres, and so much more!

Primetime Emmy®-winner Ed Asner presents the 9th Annual Ed Asner & Friends Celebrity Poker Night where poker fans are invited to participate in a live online event featuring their favorite celebrities as opponents.

In addition to contributing the original single “Seeds” the film, Yoke Lore and longtime collaborator Ariel Loh composed the score to Pink Skies Ahead. Galvin says “Ariel and I have made some ventures into other sonic realms before, but never scored an entire film.”

The Way Off Broadway Dinner Theatre will kick of its 2021 Season in January with the ultimate who dunnit? – Clue: On Stage.  The theatre began working with Broadway Licensing, the show’s licensing agent in New York, nearly two years ago to obtain the rights to produce a production of the new play based on the hilarious ‘80s motion picture. 

This week's Theater Stories features the American Airlines Theatre! Learn about the Tony-winning plays to grace the stage, including 12 Angry Men, The Constant Wife and more; the theatre's upcoming shows 1776 and Birthday Candles, and much more!

Five essential John Hughes classics arrive in one fantastic Blu-ray Collection on February 23, 2021 from Paramount Home Entertainment. 

Rob Reiner, Christopher Guest, Harry Shearer, and Michael McKean will reunite the fictional band Spinal Tap for an upcoming Democratic Party fundraiser.

Today (August 22-23) in live streaming: Rachel Bay Jones sings with Seth Rudetsky, the Pippin cast reunites on Stars in the House, and so much more!

Rob Ulin, a Peabody Award, Golden Globe, Humanitas Prize-winning television writer and show runner, speaks with BroadwayWorld about his latest project- Judgement Day. He shares the biggest differences in writing a play versus writing for the television, what it was like working with the star-studded cast, and more!

Barrington Stage Company (BSC), under the leadership of Founder/Artistic Director Julianne Boyd, continues its 2020 season with performances beginning tonight for the concert, The Hills Are Alive with Rodgers & Hammerstein. Additional performances have been added to the 2020 season.

An online reading of the new play, Judgment Day, written by Rob Ulin, directed by Matthew Penn, and starring Tony Award winners Jason Alexander, Patti LuPone, Santino Fontana and Grammy Award winner Michael McKean, will benefit Pittsfield, MA's Barrington Stage Company and The Actors Fund, it was announced today.

Today (July 16) in live streaming: Broadway barks is back, MCC presents Good As New, and so much more!