Billy Wilder News

As BroadwayWorld previously reported, Leicester’s Curve theatre will stream a virtual version of Sunset Boulevard in Concert.

My Song For You – Marta Eggerth and Jan Kiepura was inaugurated on October 20th with a simulcast online ceremony hosted by the Austrian Cultural Forum in New York led by Director Michael Haider, and the University of Music and Performance in Vienna, or MDW.

Masters of the open-air cinema experience, Rooftop Cinema Club (RCC) is kicking off 2021 in style! As the pandemic continues to reshape LA's entertainment scene, RCC is keeping us entertained in the new year, as they announce their January lineup at The Drive-In at Santa Monica Airport. 

Tal día como hoy en 2016, el Eixample Teatre de Barcelona volvía a subir el telón para acoger la adaptación teatral de la película de Billy Wilder SOME LIKE IT HOT (CON FALDAS Y A LO LOCO).

Leicester's Curve theatre has revealed new dates and further casting for its upcoming season of socially distanced performances.

Basada en la película homónima de Billy Wilder y con música de Andrew Lloyd Weber y librero de Don Black y Christopher Hampton, SUNSET BOULEVARD subía el telón en Broadway el 17 de noviembre de 1994.

Glenn Close spoke to Vogue earlier this week, where she discussed the future of the 'Sunset Boulevard' musical onscreen. 

Sadler's Wells' online autumn season begins with a new series of collaborations, Digital Stage In Focus, created in partnership with three of the UK's most innovative dance companies - Hofesh Shechter Company, ZooNation: The Kate Prince Company, and Candoco Dance Company.

On this day in 1993, Patti LuPone starred as Norma Desmond in the premiere production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Sunset Boulevard.

She's ready for her close up! Glenn Close hopes to begin filming the movie musical adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Sunset Boulevard this year.

Elia Suleiman, Asian-American Filmmaking, LA HAINE, FilmAfrica, and more announced at BAM, April-May 2020

Great voices and incredible sets and lighting cannot hide the weaknesses of the musical.

Rendezvous with Marlene started with a letter. A young Ute Lemper explodes onto the French stage playing Sally Bowles in Cabaret and the next day the French press proclaimed her, a?oeLa nouvelle Marlene!a??.

Enjoy Broadway in your backyard with the Maltz Jupiter Theatre's 2020/21 season! With just the ticket for everyone, the award-winning regional theatre's upcoming season will begin with I Hate Hamlet (October 25 - November 8), Paul Rudnick's hilarious comedy in which rising star Andrew Rally is visited by the ghost of a legendary actor who is determined to convince the young artist to pursue a life on the stage.

Ken Ludwig's Leading Ladies is now playing at Adobe Theatre. Running from January 17th - February 9th, Leading Ladies is considered to be a, 'rare mix of screwball comedy and farce with a tip of the hat to the Billy Wilder classic Some Like it Hot,' by director Lewis Hauser. In addition, 'the characters are real. The situations are real. And that makes for great comedy, as only author Ken Ludwig can imagine it.' Without a doubt, Leading Ladies is great comedy, and makes for an entertaining afternoon.

Oscar®-nominated Art Director and Production Designers William J. Creber, best known for his work on the Irwin Allen disaster flicks The Poseidon Adventure and The Towering Inferno and the first three Planet of the Apes movies, and Roland Anderson, best known for his work on Breakfast at Tiffany's, White Christmas and Cecil B. DeMille's Cleopatra, will be inducted into the Art Directors Guild (ADG, IATSE Local 800) Hall of Fame for their extraordinary contributions to the visual art of storytelling at the 24th Annual Art Directors Guild's Excellence in Production Design Awards. The 2020 Awards will be held Saturday, February 1, 2020, returning to the InterContinental Los Angeles Downtown. The announcement was made today by President Nelson Coates ADG and Awards Producer Scott Moses ADG.  

Deadline reports that 'Star Wars' producer Kathleen Kennedy will be honored at the EE British Academy Film Awards.

From November 21st-24th, Judson Theatre Company will be presenting a production of Agatha Christie's Witness for the Prosecution at the Bradshaw Performing Arts Center. I recently had the great pleasure of interviewing actor Alan Campbell, who will be starring in the role of Sir Wilford Robarts.

With a fine mix of veterans and rising stars among its suspects, Theatre Charlotte's AND THEN THERE WAS NONE keeps us one step behind a maniacal killer.

Porchlight Music Theatre presents Sunset Boulevard at The Ruth Page Center for the Arts. Featuring music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, lyrics and books by Don Black and Christopher Hampton, Sunset Boulevard stars Hollis Resnik and is directed by Michael Weber, choreographed by Shanna VanDerwerker and music directed by Aaron Benham.