Tony-winning actress Kelli O’Hara, playwright Taylor Mac and Beetlejuice director Alex Timbers will receive special honors at the upcoming Drama League Awards. The three recipients, along with winners in five competitive categories, will pick up their awards at the Drama League’s annual event in Manhattan on May 17.
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Broadway just got a step closer to summoning Beetlejuice: The stage musical adaptation of Tim Burton’s ’80s classic will make its world premiere next October in a pre-Broadway run at the National Theatre in Washington, D.C.
Directed by two-time Tony nominee (Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, Peter and the Starcatcher)…
Broadway’s latest screen-to-stage adaptation, Moulin Rouge! The Musical, has booked Boston for its Broadway tryout next summer, restating Beantown’s status as a shake-out city for Gotham-bound shows. That status had largely been usurped by neighboring Cambridge, where the non-profit American Repertory Theatre has…
David Byrne’s boisterous segue from Imelda Marcos (Here Lies Love) to Saint Joan (Joan of Arc: Into the Fire) is the ultimate example of crab-walking from the ridiculous to the sublime. It’s also true that in Here Lies Love, his shape-shifting disco dance-a-thon about the imperious Philippine First Lady (co-authored…
EXCLUSIVE: The latest twist in the Alex Timbers/Disney saga is news that the acclaimed Broadway director/writer and co-creator of Amazon’s Mozart In The Jungle is negotiating to direct Cruella at Disney. Emma Stone, who received both a Golden Globe and SAG nomination this week for her role in La La Land, has been…
Global Creatures, the outfit behind Walking With Dinosaurs — The Arena Spectacular, announced this morning that it’s signed up a top-rank duo of director Alex Timbers (Rocky – The Musical, Peter and the Starcatcher, Here Lies Love) and writer John Logan (Spectre, Skyfall, Red) to develop Baz Luhrmann’s 2001 pop…
Alex Timbers has exited as director of Frozen, the in-the-works musical based on the wildly successful Disney animated movie. The move comes after an Actors Equity casting notice posted yesterday for a fall development lab for the project in New York that listed Timbers as director. It also listed Christopher Gattelli…
The Roundabout Theatre Company’s exceptionally charming revival of The Robber Bridegroom is exactly the kind of intimate extravaganza you would expect from Alex Timbers, among the most inventive young directors working in the musical theater today: crowned by Disney to usher Frozen from screen to stage, Timbers’ c.v…
Director Alex Timbers (Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, Rocky) and leading man Steven Pasquale (FX’s Rescue Me, The Bridges Of Madison County) will join forces in a revival of the Alfred Uhry/Robert Waldman musical about a Mississippi rogue, based on the Eudora Welty story. The 1975 Broadway premiere, with its signature…
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