EXCLUSIVE:Carolee Carmello, following up an acclaimed Off Broadway performance in Sweeney Todd, will be playing another musical theater icon, taking over the lead role from the departing Betty Buckley in the national tour of Hello, Dolly!
Carmello will be the production’s latest Dolly: Bette Midler won a 2017 Tony…
Betty Buckley (Supergirl, Split) and Colin Cunningham (Blood Drive, Falling Skies) are set as series regulars, and Jeremy Childs (The Last Castle, Nashville) and Liz McGeever (Star, Nashville) will recur on the upcoming third season of AMC’s Preacher.
Based on the popular cult comic book franchise, Preacher is a…
Jack Skirball was a Reform Jewish rabbi from Cleveland who moved to Los Angeles, where he became a real estate developer and film producer best known for his relationship with Alfred Hitchcock: Skirball was associate producer of Saboteur in 1942 and producer, a year later under his own banner, of Shadow of a Doubt…
This weekend offers your last chance to see Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812 in its wondrous Mimi Lien setting, elaborate and eccentric as a Fabergé egg, at the Imperial Theatre. Dave Malloy’s ambitious musical joins the ranks of misfires – Passing Strange and Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson come to mind…
Second Update, 9 A.M.: Here’s Ben Vereen’s emotion-packed performance of “What A Wonderful World” at yesterday’s Concert For America at new York’s Town Hall. And, below, part of Chita Rivera’s astonishing performance of “America” from West Side Story.
UPDATE Saturday morning: The organizers of Friday’s sold-out…
Sterling K. Brown has been a busy working actor for many years, but the relatively peripheral parts he was given kept him under the Emmy radar, until that is, he stepped into the shoes of prosecutor Chris Darden on The People v. O.J. Simpson.
The show also helped to rewrite the public's understanding of Darden's role…
Jeremy Gerard has covered the shifting fortunes of Jujamcyn Theatres since it became a formidable competitor to the larger Shubert and Nederlander organizations in the late 1980s. In 2013 producer Jordan Roth became Jujamcyn's majority owner and the Street's youngest power broker. In this weekly email conversation…
