As BroadwayWorld previously reported, 20th Century Fox recently formed a joint venture with top Broadway producer and Tony Award winner Kevin McCollum (Motown, Rent, Avenue Q, In the Heights), prolific film producer John Davis (Predator, The Firm, Grumpy Old Men, I Robot, Chronicle) and leading industry executive Tom McGrath, to develop live stage productions based upon the studio's vast library of films. Now according to the New York Times, Fox won't be the only major film studio with movie-based musicals in the woks in the coming years.
Profiles in History, run by Joe Maddalena, is proud to announce the auction of 75,000 original camera negatives and transparencies from the Milton H. Greene Estate. Over 3,700 unpublished Marilyn Monroe images highlight the auction. All images are to be sold with copyright and will go up for auction today, July 27.
Real life husband and wife Keir Dullea and Mia Dillon play the classic couple 'Big Daddy' and 'Big Mama' in Tennessee Williams' Pulitzer Prize Winning play, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof at this year's TW Festival, 50% Illusion: Tennessee Williams and Women, in an upcoming production from the Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater (WHAT).
When Thornton Wilder premiered his new play OUR TOWN in 1938, I would wager that more than one person left the theatre asking why anyone would want to watch the lives of "ordinary" people on stage. Fast forward to present day where millions of people the world over tune in to reality tv shows, following the lives of "ordinary" people. The difference is, that there is nothing "brilliant" about the lives of the so-called stars of reality TV. However, Wilder's OUR TOWN is light years ahead of it's time, and the talented cast of his well-known play bring out it's brilliance at the Theater At Monmouth.
Internationally recognized stage and screen superstar Kim Cattrall and rising Broadway headliner Seth Numrich currently star in the West End in the rapturously received Old Vic production of the Tennessee Williams classic SWEET BIRD OF YOUTH and the stately leading players switched roles with their cast-mates for a recent special one-off performance.
Stage Door, Inc. will present Tennessee Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, opening Friday, August 16th and running Fridays and Saturdays at 8:00pm and Sunday matinees at 3:00pm weekends through September 1st. Tickets are $15 for general admission, $12 for seniors or students with ID. Group rates are available for all performances.
Broadway/Hollywood superstar Scarlett Johansson teams with popular A-lister Matthew McConaughey for a new TV commercial directed by film master Martin Scorsese and the first shots from the set have leaked.
Westport Country Playhouse hosted an unveiling of a portrait of the late actor Jason Robards, for whom the theater is named, on Tuesday, July 9. The portrait depicts Robards in the role of Cornelius Melody in 'A Touch of the Poet' by Eugene O'Neill. Donated to the Playhouse by Robards's children, Jake and Shannon, it is displayed in the Playhouse lobby. The portrait artist is Clyde Smith of Silvermine Arts Center. Click below to watch a video clip (taken by Chad Kinsman) from the unveiling!
SEX & THE CITY superstar Kim Cattrall joins with one of Broadway's most popular young leading men in the new West End production of Tennessee Williams's SWEET BIRD OF YOUTH and a new promotional trailer for the production has been released.
The Film Society of Lincoln Center announced today Fasten Your Seatbelts (Part 2): 20th Century Fox (August 9-15), a summertime big screen showcase of some of the movie studio's most beloved and unforgettable films.
Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece, Our Town, is to get its official 75th anniversary UK production - its first major London revival in a generation - at the King's Head Theatre from Wednesday 26 June - Saturday 20 July.
Conveniently scheduled to occur during the weeks of this year's New York Musical Theatre Festival, The Paley Center For Media is presenting a series of theatrically-related programs and presentations throughout July featuring some particularly rarely-seen entities.
Comedy, absurdity, history, tragedy, baseball, courtroom drama, nostalgia and music: there's not a lot that the American Century Theater's upcoming 2013-2014 theatrical season doesn't have.
In 2006, the late Bruce Rossmeyer called upon his personal relationship with James Gandolfini to help support his favorite children's charity, Camp Boggy Creek. He was granted the title of Grand Marshall at Camp Boggy Creek's 12th Annual Ride for Children. Together, along with the support of over 1,200 motorcycle riders, they helped raise approximately $500,000 to benefit children who suffer from serious illnesses, such as cancer, epilepsy, diabetes and spina bifida. 'To our family, James Gandolfini was more than an actor, he was a friend', stated Mandy Rossmeyer Campbell. 'We were all very blessed to have known him and he will be missed. We hope everyone will pay tribute to both James and my Father at the upcoming 19th Annual Ride for Children, on October 6, 2013.'
A sizzling new trailer has been released in promotion of the currently running West End revival of the Tennessee Williams classic SWEET BIRD OF YOUTH, starring SEX & THE CITY's Kim Cattrall and recent Broadway GOLDEN BOY Seth Numrich.
The world-premiere television event PATRICK DEMPSEY: RACING LE MANS follows Dempsey as he and his team, co-owned with Italian soccer superstar Alessandro Del Piero, prepare for the vehicular equivalent of climbing Mt. Everest.
Audiences around the world are saddling up for Disney's release of The Lone Ranger this July starring Johnny Depp and Armie Hammer, produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and directed by Gore Verbinski.
Completing the programming for the 10th annual New York Musical Theatre Festival, NYMF announced several additional concerts, a series of educational workshops, and a "Musicals on Television" screening series in partnership with the Paley Center for Media. This year's Festival will begin July 8th and continue through July 28th. Single tickets are currently on sale.
Stage, screen and SEX & THE CITY star Kim Cattrall essays the role of Alexandra Del Lago in the new West End staging of the Tennessee Williams classic SWEET BIRD OF YOUTH at Kevin Spacey's artistically-supervised Old Vic and new production shots of the sexy siren and her accomplished and attractive co-star, Seth Numrich, have just been revealed.
