Good morning, BroadwayWorld! Because we know all our readers eat, sleep and breathe Broadway, what could be better than waking up to it? Today's big news: It's another night of galas, benefits and fundraisers!
Broadway's new suspense thriller Misery, starring two-time Emmy Award winner and Golden Globe Award winner Bruce Willis and three-time Emmy Award winner Laurie Metcalfand written by two-time Academy Award winner William Goldman, begins performances tonight, October 22, 2015, at Broadway's Broadhurst Theatre (235 W 44th Street), and officially opens on Sunday, November 15, 2015, in a strictly limited 16-week engagement.
Listen to Annie Wilkes and you just might make it out alive. MISERY is offering you a way out, and your ticket in to see Bruce Willis and Laurie Metcalf on Broadway... on a few conditions. Enter the official NUMBER ONE FAN SWEEPSTAKES for a chance to win tickets to William Goldman's thrilling stage adaptation of Stephen King's best-selling novel. Visit the MISERY website and complete the tasks (liking MISERY ON BROADWAY on Facebook, writing your own ending to Misery's Child, etc.) and you could win:
Metcalf won an Obie Award for her Off-Broadway debut and is one of the finest actors regularly appearing in New York.
Directed by Oscar winner Barry Levinson, ROCK THE KASBAH is a new dramatic comedy inspired by stranger-than-fiction, real-life events.
Watching the new King and I commercial over and over again? Booking your tickets to London to see Harry Potter and the Cursed Child? Didn't have time to check in on your favorite Broadway stars? Well don't worry BroadwayWorld has rounded up some of the biggest stories from this week from Broadway and beyond with BroadwayWorld's 'This Week in Pictures.'
With last night's first preview of MISERY, dad and daughter Bruce and Rumer Willis are now officially making their Broadway debuts together;
Broadway's new suspense thriller Misery, starring two-time Emmy Award winner and Golden Globe Award winner and written by two-time Academy Award winner William Goldman, just began performances last night, October 22, 2015, at Broadway's Broadhurst Theatre (235 W 44th Street), and officially opens on Sunday, November 15, 2015, in a strictly limited 16-week engagement. BroadwayWorld was there to catch the cast's very first curtain call and you can check out footage below!
Broadway's new suspense thriller Misery, starring two-time Emmy Award winner and Golden Globe Award winner Bruce Willis and three-time Emmy Award winner Laurie Metcalf and written by two-time Academy Award winner William Goldman, just began performances last night, October 22, 2015, at Broadway's Broadhurst Theatre (235 W 44th Street), and officially opens on Sunday, November 15, 2015, in a strictly limited 16-week engagement. BroadwayWorld was there to catch the cast's very first curtain call and you can check out photos below!
A look back at Rob Reiner's 1990 film version of MISERY and new stars Bruce Willis and Laurie Metcalf.
Over the past few decades, many have bemoaned the rash of movies adapted for the Broadway stage, claiming that the theatre had lost its sense of creativity and enginuity. Some of these movie adaptations have gone on to have successful, award-winning runs (THE PRODUCERS and THE 39 STEPS to name a few), while many, many others have, simply, not. However, long before the stage looked to the screen as a source for new works, the inspiration for many of the theatre's best shows came from the pages of some of the world's best books; like THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK, or the longest running show in Broadway history, THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA.
'[Thank you] to an incredible cast of British and American actors who make the Atlantic look like a little creek you can just kind of pop across,' said Dame Helen Mirren upon receiving her 2015 Tony Award. The stage and screen star reprised her critically-acclaimed performance in THE AUDIENCE after a West End run in 2013, and she was just one of many to 'pop across' an ocean for a stab at Broadway. An unprecedented amount of British talent took over Broadway last year, bringing us such productions as THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME, WOLF HALL: PARTS 1 & 2, and SKYLIGHT. It doesn't seem like the trend is ending anytime soon. This fall, Broadway will welcome a slew of British actors- some of whom will be making their US stage debuts in incoming productions. And it's not just performers. We're getting some complete British imports in shows like A VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE and KING CHARLES III. Below, we're taking a moment to shine a spotlight on this season's British imports.
Broadway's new suspense thriller Misery, starring two-time Emmy Award winner and Golden Globe Award winner Bruce Willis and three-time Emmy Award winner Laurie Metcalf and written by two-time Academy Award winner William Goldman, begins performances tonight, October 22, 2015, at Broadway's Broadhurst Theatre (235 W 44th Street), and officially opens on Sunday, November 15, 2015, in a strictly limited 16-week engagement.
Good morning, BroadwayWorld! Because we know all our readers eat, sleep and breathe Broadway, what could be better than waking up to it? Today's big news: DAMES AT SEA taps onto Broadway tonight, MISERY creeps onto the Broadhurst stage, SHEAR MADNESS trims and tricks off-Broadway, and more!
Listen to Annie Wilkes and you just might make it out alive. MISERY is offering you a way out, and your ticket in to see Bruce Willis and Laurie Metcalf on Broadway... on a few conditions. Enter the official NUMBER ONE FAN SWEEPSTAKES for a chance to win tickets to William Goldman's thrilling stage adaptation of Stephen King's best-selling novel. Visit the MISERY website and complete the tasks (liking MISERY ON BROADWAY on Facebook, writing your own ending to Misery's Child, etc.) and you could win:
Bruce Willis stopped by Friday's TONIGHT SHOW and revealed his new look, which looks an awful lot like Donald Trump's. Later, the actor talks about making his Broadway debut with MISERY and his new comedy "Rock the Kasbah."
Returning to TODAY for his first live appearance in 21 years, actor Bruce Willis sat down with Matt Lauer to talk about his upcoming film 'Rock the Kasbah,' and his upcoming Broadway debut in a stage version of the Stephen King thriller MISERY.
Today, October 16, The Chernuchin Theatre, one of the theatres housed at The American Theatre for Actors (ATA, 314 West 54th Street, New York City) will be named for beloved Broadway legend and two-time Tony Award winner John Cullum. He is best known as Holling, the bartender in 'Northern Exposure.'
Actress and singer Rumer Willis, daughter of actors Bruce Willis and Demi Moore, is currently making her Broadway debut as Roxie Hart in the long running musical CHICAGO.
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