As two shows seen on its stage rock Broadway, one extends its stay off Broadway, and another just wrapped a local run that grabbed national headlines, Berkeley Repertory Theatre proudly announces a new year of exhilarating plays.
John Leguizamo's GHETTO KLOWN is currently running at Broadway's Lyceum Theatre (149 W. 45 Street) and is in the news.
Whether you've been living under a rock for the past week, or you're just in the mood for a recap of everything theatre, BroadwayWorld's ‘This Week in Pictures' is here to satisfy your end of the week fix.
John Leguizamo's GHETTO KLOWN has begun performances at Broadway's Lyceum Theatre (149 West 45th Street).
John Leguizamo's GHETTO KLOWN has begun performances at Broadway's Lyceum Theatre (149 West 45th Street). Tomorrow, hear John when he's a guest on WOR Radio's Joan Hamburg Show between 10 AM - Noon.
John Leguizamo's GHETTO KLOWN began performances on Monday, February 21st in preparation for a Tuesday, March 22nd opening. GHETTO KLOWN will play a 12-week engagement. It marks John's fifth one-man play and his third on Broadway. Academy Award winner Fisher Stevens makes his Broadway directorial debut with the show.
Audiences and critics on both coasts embraced Eurydice and In the Next Room (or the vibrator play), two shows steeped in longing from playwright Sarah Ruhl and director Les Waters. Now this talented team turns its attention to a fresh translation of a masterpiece: Anton Chekhov's Three Sisters. Ruhl enlivens this classic with the same elegant understanding of intimacy that infused those earlier collaborations, while Waters and a cast of 14 deliver another sumptuous production. This West Coast premiere begins previews on Berkeley Rep's intimate Thrust Stage on April 8, opens April 13, and runs through May 22. Three Sisters is a co-production between Berkeley Rep, where Waters serves as associate artistic director, and Yale Repertory Theatre.
John Leguizamo returns to Broadway with his new solo play GHETTO KLOWN for a 12-week engagement opening on Tuesday March 22 at the Lyceum Theatre (149 West 45th Street). Check out Leguizamo's interview on 'Good Day New York' from February 21.
John Leguizamo returns to Broadway with his new solo play GHETTO KLOWN for a 12-week engagement beginning previews today, February 21 and opening on Tuesday March 22 at the Lyceum Theatre (149 West 45th Street).
John Leguizamo's GHETTO CLOWN begins performances this Monday, February 21st at Broadway's Lyceum Theatre (149 West 45th Street) and is in the news. John will be a guest on National Public Radio's popular and oddly informative news quiz, Wait! Wait! Don't Tell Me! this weekend, featured in The New York Daily News on Sunday, in Crain's New York and on Good Day New York on Monday.
This week, in honor of our InDepth Interview series of articles on the Public Theater Shakespeare LAB production of TIMON OF ATHENS featuring Richard Thomas and Barry Edelstein, we are setting out to prove that all the world's a stage and we are, indeed, merely its players with a collection of clips featuring the work of William Shakespeare. Leonardo Dicaprio to Anthony Hopkins to Russell Brand; Ian McKellen & Judi Dench and more await with many marvelous visions for weary eyes and ears to behold and be bequeathed. TITUS, ROMEO & JULIET, THE TEMPEST and MACBETH are merely a taste of the grand banquet!
John Leguizamo's GHETTO CLOWN begins performances this Monday, February 21st at Broadway's Lyceum Theatre (149 West 45th Street) and is in the news. John will be a guest on National Public Radio's popular and oddly informative news quiz, Wait! Wait! Don't Tell Me! this weekend, featured in The New York Daily News on Sunday, in Crain's New York and on Good Day New York on Monday.
With a slew of standup comedians arriving on the Great White Way this season, Broadway veteran Colin Quinn gave a piece of advice to every one of them in an article for the New York Times. Check out his words of wisdom below:
The all new 21st Season of Broadway Beat is here! This week catch up with Broadway Beat at Roundabout's THE MILK TRAIN DOESN'T STOP HERE ANYMORE by Tennessee Williams and starring Olympia Dukakis, Ghetto Klown starring John Leguizamo, the new cast of LA CAGE AUX FOLLES with Harvey Fierstein and Jeffrey Tambor, and THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA's 23rd Birthday!
It's been 15 years since she's performed on a Bay Area stage - now Anna Deavere Smith is returning.
Today, Berkeley Repertory Theatre announced that it is rescheduling the run of Rita Moreno: Life Without Makeup so that its star can recuperate from a recent knee replacement.
John Leguizamo meets Stephen (aka - the Freak Out Kid), who he parodied in a video. Stephen wasn't amused, so as a way of making it up to him, John invited him backstage to his show, Ghetto Klown, when he was doing it out in Chicago.
John Leguizamo, returning to Broadway this year with his new solo play GHETTO KLOWN for a 12-week engagement beginning previews on February 21 and opening on Tuesday March 22 at the Lyceum Theatre (149 West 45th Street), met the muse behind one of his newest YouTube videos, the star of the infamous 'Greatest Freak Out Ever' video. Luguizamo parodied the video, and later arranged to meet the original viral sensation. View the meeting below!
GHETTO KLOWN will play a 12-week Broadway engagement, beginning previews on Monday, February 21 and opening on Tuesday, March 22. This marks John's fifth one-man play and his third on Broadway. Academy Award winner Fisher Stevens makes his Broadway directorial debut with the show. The marquee is up and BroadwayWorld brings you a look below!
Now that's dedication. John Leguizamo's devoted Chicago fans cross-country skied to the performance of his one-man show last night at the Royal George Theatre - in the middle of the record-breaking blizzard.
