According to Variety:
Broadway producers and the stagehands union have agreed to a negotiation session on Nov. 7, the first time the two sides will officially meet since they hit an impasse in contract talks Oct. 9.
It seems likely that the union, Local One, requested new … Read more »
“Playing the past is a reaction to the present,” the marvelous Italian actor Alessio Boni (pictured) told me during a conversation in New York last June. Boni plays Prince Andrei in a European production of “War and Peace” that was just shown on Italian television … Read more »
Warner Bros. has hired Greg Berlanti to direct “Green Lantern,” a live-action take on the DC Comics superhero. Berlanti will also co-write the script.
Berlanti hopes to make the jump to big-budget fantasy fare after serving as writer and exec producer on character-driven TV series “Dirty … Read more »
The meager box office of “Things We Lost in the Fire” has been a disappointment to everyone I know who’s seen the movie, because they all leave the theater raving about the performances. One friend, New York-based actor David Ginn, got to thinking about one … Read more »
This past summer, which saw the popular and (mostly) critical success of his production of “Gypsy,” for which he wrote the book, Arthur Laurents said that he was working on a Broadway revival of “West Side Story,” for which he also wrote the book. Laurents … Read more »
According to the Hollywood Reporter:
HBO Films is developing a movie about Jack Kevorkian, the advocate of doctor-assisted suicide who was paroled from prison in June.
The film focuses on the development of Kevorkian’s controversial methods and subsequent action involving physician-assisted suicide, which led to his eight-year … Read more »
Harvey Keitel will star in the New York premiere of “Jerry Springer — The Opera” in a two-night stint at Carnegie Hall in January. Keitel’s stage credits include a 1975 Rialto revival of “Death of a Salesman” and the Broadway run of “Hurlyburly” in 1984.
“Springer” … Read more »
According to Playbill.com:
Guthrie artistic director Joe Dowling announced Oct. 25 that the Minnesota venue has commissioned Pulitzer Prize winner Tony Kushner to pen a new play.
The work, entitled “The Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures,” will debut on … Read more »
