Hottest Articles on BWW from Wednesday, Jun. 13

1) ANYTHING GOES to Play Final Performance on Broadway August 5

Roundabout has announced that the final eight weeks of performances begin today for the Tony Award winning production of Anything Goes. The original limited engagement subscription run opened on April 7, 2011 and was scheduled to run for 19 weeks. It went on to be extended three times through August 5, 2012 and this week, Anything Goes will celebrate its 500th performance on Broadway. This acclaimed production marks the second longest Broadway run in Roundabout’s history, following its beloved revival of Cabaret. (more...)

2) Photo Coverage: 2012 Tonys - What the Stars Wore; Fashion Hits & Misses!

Feathers, glitter, and lace are the norm for Broadway talent, but at the 2012 Tony Awards on Sunday, the stars transformed from showgirl to sophisticated on the red carpet. BroadwayWorld was there to capture each and every one in their evening finest and brings you the best of the best - and quesitonable of the questionable - below! (more...)

3) Photo Flash: The Stars Come Out for Paramount's 100th Anniversary

The newest issue of Vanity Fair includes what the magazine has dubbed 'The Paramount Picture', featuring 116 "of the greatest talents ever to work in the studio." See if you can find your favorite stars below! (more...)

4) Photo Coverage: Jeremy Jordan, Laura Bush & More Honor Jon Bon Jovi; Support Homeless Youth

Last night, June 12, homeless youth working towards brighter futures got a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to perform with Broadway stars at Covenant House's A Night of Broadway Stars gala on the stage of Frederick P. Rose Hall, Home of Jazz at Lincoln Center. (more...)

5) Anne Hathaway Talks Singing 'Fantine' in LES MIS Film

At the end of May, theatre fans were treated to an all new trailer for the highly-anticipated LES MIS film, dominated by Anne Hathaway's rendition of "I Dreamed a Dream" from her role as Fantine. Now Hathaway is speaking out about what is was like to play the iconic role. On singing "I Dreamed a Dream," she told NY Magazine: "I apparently looked like I was ready to face the guillotines. They just kept telling me and the cast to ignore the iconic nature of Les Miz and of the song. I had to sing it as if it had never been sung or heard before." (more...)

6) A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE Cancels Summer Extension; London Run in the Works

The acclaimed Broadway production of Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire, directed by Emily Man has cancelled its previously announced summer extension, and will now take its final Broadway bow on its original closing date- July 22. BroadwayWorld has learned that the show might be moving to London, aiming for a Fall 2012 opening. (more...)

7) Cheyenne Jackson in Talks for Steven Soderbergh's BEHIND THE CANDELABRA Film

According to Indie Wire, Broadway favorite Cheyenne Jackson is currently in talks to star in Steven Soderbergh's upcoming "Behind The Candelabra" film about the life of Liberace. Jackson would join previously announced Academy Award(R) winners Michael Douglas ("Wall Street," "Traffic," "Solitary Man") and Matt Damon ("Contagion," "Ocean's Eleven, Twelve, Thirteen," "Invictus"). Also in negotiationas are Rob Lowe and Boyd Holbrook. (more...)

8) BWW TV: Christopher Gattelli on His Tony Win for NEWSIES - 'I Now Feel Like I've Given Back'

Christopher Gattelli is the recipient for this year's Tony Award for Best Choreography for NEWSIES. Following his win, an emotional Gattelli spoke with BroadwayWorld about what the whole expereince has meant for him. (more...)

9) Photo Flash: First Look at Patrick Breen, Luke MacFarlane, et al. in THE NORMAL HEART Tour

Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater presents the 2011 Tony Award-winning production of Larry Kramer’s The Normal Heart. George C. Wolfe, who directed the show’s sold-out Broadway engagement last season, is mounting the professional D.C.-area premiere of this production, which features returning Broadway cast members Patrick Breen and Luke MacFarlane, among others. Presented by special arrangement with Daryl Roth, The Normal Heart is now playing though July 29 in the Kreeger Theater. (more...)

10) Tracy Letts and Amy Morton to Lead WHO'S AFRAID OF Virginia Woolf? at Booth Theatre; Opening Set for 10/13

This fall, one of America’s most acclaimed theatre ensembles will take on one of the greatest plays of the 20th century when the Steppenwolf Theatre Company production of Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? comes to Broadway to celebrate the play’s 50th anniversary. (more...)

11) Jeremy Jordan, Max Crumm and Tom Wopat to Join Laura Osnes at the Cafe Carlyle; CD Release Announced

Broadway Records announced today that it will release a live album in September 2012 of Tony Award nominee Laura Osnes at the Café Carlyle. (more...)

12) STAGE TUBE: HARVEY's Jim Parsons on THE DAILY SHOW with Jon Stewart!

Jim Parsons, who is starring in the Broadway production of HARVEY, appeared May 31st on Comedy Central’s "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart". Watch the Broadway and "Big Bang Theory" TV star in the episode below! (more...)

13) BWW TV: Alan Menken on His Tony Win - 'All the Oscars are Going to Move to the Side to Make Room For This!'

Alan Menken and Jack Feldman are this year's recipients of the Tony Award for Best Original Score (Music and Lyrics) Written for Theatre for NEWSIES. An eight-time Oscar winner, this is Menken's first Tony Award. Click below to hear from the maestro and partner Jack Feldman on his newest achievement. (more...)

14) THE ANARCHIST to Open on Broadway at Lyceum Theatre on December 2

Producers Jeffrey Richards, Jerry Frankel and Howard & Janet Kagan announced today that THE ANARCHIST, a new play written and directed by David Mamet starring Patti LuPone and Debra Winger, will be presented on Broadway at the Lyceum Theatre (149 West 45th Street). (more...)

15) Photo Coverage: CLYBOURNE PARK Celebrates Tony Success with Champagne Toast

Producer Jordan Roth, playwright Bruce Norris, director Pam MacKinnon and cast members Crystal A. Dickinson, Brendan Griffin, Damon Gupton, Christina Kirk, Annie Parisse, Jeremy Shamos and Frank Wood celebrated the Tony Awards success of Clybourne Park with a champagne toast yesterday, June 12, backstage at the Walter Kerr Theatre. (more...)

16) STAGE TUBE: NEWSIES Cast Reacts Backstage to Christopher Gattelli's Tony Win

Members of THE BOOK OF MORMON cast stood next to the NEWSIES company backstage at the 2012 Tony Awards on June 10 and caught their reaction to Christopher Gattelli's Tony win for Best Choreography. Check out the video below! (more...)

17) Woody Harrelson Brings BULLET FOR ADOLF to New World Stages in July

Bullet for Adolf, a new comedy by Woody Harrelson and Frankie Hyman, will receive its American premiere this summer, it was announced today. Directed by Mr. Harrelson (Academy Award® nominee – The Messenger, The People vs. Larry Flynt), performances will begin Thursday, July 19, 2012 at New World Stages (340 West 50th Street), with an official Opening Night set for Wednesday, August 8, 2012. The production is scheduled to play through Sunday, September 9, 2012. (more...)

18) Photo Flash: Curtain Call & After Party for TORCH SONG TRILOGY Opening Night Feat. David Bedella

Last night was opening night for the revival of Torch Song Trilogy at the Menier Chocolate Factory, London. Check out these photographs of the cast, including leading man David Bedella, during their curtain call and after-show party. (more...)

19) National Theatre's TIMON OF ATHENS, COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO, et al. to Be Broadcast Live in 2012-13

The National Theatre will present the fourth season of National Theatre Live (NT Live), a successful initiative to broadcast live performances from the National’s stages to cinemas worldwide. Since its first season, which began in June 2009 with the acclaimed production of Phédre starring Helen Mirren, over 750,000 people have now experienced the National’s work on movie screens worldwide. (more...)

20) FLASH SPECIAL: A Christopher Plummer Clip Collection

Today we are concluding our two-part look at the life and career of legendary stage and screen icon Christopher Plummer by focusing on some of the finest films, television and filmed stage performances of his career thus far, as we anticipate the nationwide release of his newest stage and screen venture, the cinematic presentation of his recent turn as Prospero at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival in Des McAnuff’s THE TEMPEST, presented by Fathom-equipped movie theaters on June 13, followed by a Q&A with Plummer. From his stage debut in the late-1940s through to his spectacular screen career begun with Sidney Lumet’s STAGE STRUCK in 1958, in this career-spanning clip collection we will be sampling many of the most memorable and most notable projects from a rich resume ranging from almost every major male role in the canon of Shakespeare - AS YOU LIKE IT to THE WINTER’S TALE - to the work of Lilian Hellman, Bertolt Brecht, Henrik Ibsen, Anton Chekhov and Peter Shaffer to Rodgers & Hammerstein’s THE SOUND OF MUSIC on film to the Tony Award-winning Anthony Burgess musical adaptation of CYRANO onstage, to TV’s THE THORN BIRDS and ON GOLDEN POND all the way to last year’s double-header of brilliance in both David Fincher’s THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGTON TATTOO and BEGINNERS, the latter being the part for which Plummer finally received a Best Actor Academy Award. Of course, besides his well-earned Oscar, Plummer has amassed many other top honors over the course of his sixty-year-career, as well - two Tony Awards (for CYRANO, a musical, and BARRYMORE, a two-person mostly monologue); a Golden Globe; two Emmy Awards; a SAG Award; a Genie; the list goes on and on… as does Christopher Plummer’s reputable and riveting career. (more...)