ONSTAGE & BACKSTAGE: The Old Year Passes
Monday, December 31st, 2007A week in the life of actor, musical director and theatre talk show host Seth Rudetsky.
A week in the life of actor, musical director and theatre talk show host Seth Rudetsky.
Sarah Brightman, the former muse of composer Andrew Lloyd Webber who rose to international fame starring in The Phantom of the Opera , readies to release her latest recording “Symphony” in the U.S. on Jan. 29, 2008.
The acclaimed August: Osage County comes out on top again at the top of Entertainment Weekly’s 2007 “Shows of the Year.” Spring Awakening star Jonathan Groff and Tony Award nominated actress Amy Ryan also shine in magazine’s year-end lists.
It was a very good week for the Toronto production of Dirty Dancing ? The Classic Story on Stage. The producers reported sales of $1,347,525 (CAD) for the week of Dec. 26-30.
Sir Ian McKellen, currently wrapping his world tour of King Lear with the RSC, has been named to Queen Elizabeth II’s New Year Honours list.
Mohalk Entertainment will host a Broadway Cares benefit New Year’s Eve party at New York City’s Ava Lounge.
Audiences at a Dec. 29 performance of Emile and the Detectives at Berlin’s Volksbühne Theatre fled the venue when tear gas was accidentally released, according to reports.
Fires in the Mirror and Twilight: Los Angeles 1992 playwright Anna Deavere Smith will be awarded the New York Women in Communication’s Matrix Award on April 7, 2008 at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in Manhattan.
Lauded actress Sally Field has joined the starry lineup of Allison Janney, Neil Patrick Harris, Jane Kaczmarek, Steven Weber, Mary McCormack, Charlayne Woodard, Noah Wyle and more for the Ojai Playwrights Conference’s annual winter gala performance, Jan. 19.
In their second weekend in movie theatres, Dec. 28-30, Tim Burton’s movie musical “Sweeney Todd” and Aaron Sorkin’s “Charlie Wilson’s War” remained among the top ten highest-grossing films.