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*Is Wendy Williams is picking up and moving her show to the Windy City? No, actually she’s not, but she is going to be a part of the long-running musical “Chicago.” The talkshow diva will take over the role of “Matron ‘Mama’” as the musical continues to attract audiences at the Ambassador Theatre. Can we [...]
*Tony Award nominee Condola Rashad will star opposite Orlando Bloom in a new Broadway run of William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, but this time the bitter divide between the Montagues and Capulets will be underscored by their different ethnicities. Five-time Tony nominee David Leveaux will direct the staging, also set to feature Jayne Houdyshell (Follies) [...]
*The Los Angeles Women’s Theatre Festival, a multi-cultural festival of solo artists, celebrated 20 years of presenting live theatrical performances in the Los Angeles community last night. Since 1993 this small company, which began with a “chance meeting” of two solo actors from differing cultures, Adilah Barnes, an African American; and Miriam Reed, an Anglo, [...]
*Parents are outraged after discovering that the cast of a high school production of “The Wiz” is all white. Originally cast with a slew of black stars as a direct response to the white version of “Wizard of Oz,” officials at an upstate New York school is being blamed for not marketing the musical to incorporate a more diverse (aka [...]
*Alcon has acquired rights to the Tony Award-winning musical “Memphis” and will bring it to the big screen, likely through Warner Bros, where Alcon is based, according to The Hollywood Reporter. [SUBSCRIBE TO EURWEB's RSS FEED] Mark Gordon and Molly Smith are producing the film, which revolves around the relationship between a white radio DJ [...]
*Could you imagine being out with your kid and some strange, hollow mouth individual strides through the theater in nothing but his birthday suit. Everyone in the theatre should’ve been more sickened by his face not his waist. According to 5 NBC Chicago, the man walked into an already playing (more…)
*Beginning in November, Academy Award nominee Angela Bassett will begin her run as a conflicted pastor in the world premiere of Pastoral, a play by Frank Tangredi, as part of California’s Pasadena Playhouse’s 2011-12 season, the company announced this week. In the drama, according to Pasadena Playhouse, “Pastor Emily has a dark secret, hidden from [...]
*Broadway.com is reporting that the Broadway arrival of The Scottsboro Boys musical is among the most anticipated shows of the upcoming fall theater season. From the powerhouse team of John Kander and the late Fred Ebb (Chicago, Cabaret, Curtains), the play uses the minstrel show performance style to tell the compelling true story of a [...]
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