Alec Baldwin Goes Bust On Broadway
Today in show business news: Alec Baldwin's latest Broadway play is closing early, Steve Carell returns to The Office, Winona Ryder is making a comeback, and The Newsroom goes back in time again.
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In case you missed it, earlier this week, the novelist Jonathan Franzen wrote a letter to the New York Times in which he rebutted Frank Bruni’s column “Sexism’s Puzzling Stamina.”
Today in show business news: Alec Baldwin's latest Broadway play is closing early, Steve Carell returns to The Office, Winona Ryder is making a comeback, and The Newsroom goes back in time again.
Today in show business news: Anne Hathaway may be headed back to the Weimar era, Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore team up once again, and Jennifer Garner will have a bad day too.
The Broadway production of the new musical Matilda got a rave review from Ben Brantley in The New York Times today, but if you only looked at the banner ad that ran above that review, you wouldn't have known.
We wonder what Truman Capote would say: Game of Thrones fans are invading Broadway to snap photos of a naked Holly Golightly played by Daenerys Targaryen. Do they not watch her get naked on HBO every week?
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The drama of Shiagate continues! The two latest developments in the saga are encouraging and absurd.
Today in celebrity gossip news: Getting to the bottom of why Shia LaBeouf abruptly left his Broadway play, peeping Rihanna's birthday Instagram, and sighing at a sad story about a storage locker.
Today in show business news: Shia LaBeouf has dropped out of a play quite suddenly, NBC is totally screwed, and Michelle Williams has a reality show. No, not that Michelle Williams.
Mega-producer Cameron Mackintosh cites the wild success of the Les Misérables movie in his reasoning for the New York return of the show, which has been touring around the country successfully for two years. So will it be the same epic you wept through in 1989? Not quite, no
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Today in show business news: PBS had a real ratings bonanza last night, Ryan Lochte has officially been given his own show, and One Direction unveils their latest filmic masterpiece.
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Today in celebrity news: It's an early close on the White Way for Katie Holmes, Taylor Swift and Harry Styles and Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez all go skiing, and Nick Stahl got in some embarrassing trouble.
Today in show business news: Your beloved Shia is headed to the White Way, Chuck Lorre plans a problematic new show, and Storage Wars is staged, apparently.
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It can't be debated that the musical Annie is a saccharine show. But with Annie back on Broadway this season, critics and commenters are reminded how remarkably relevant the titular character's optimism is be in a nation and a city reeling from hardship.
A summary of the best reads found behind the paywall of The New York Times.
A summary of the best reads found behind the paywall of The New York Times.
Today in showbiz news: One of the better shows of the new season did only OK in its debut last night, Tom Hanks is officially headed to Broadway, and Jodie Foster is directing another movie.
A new promo has us actually excited for the latest movie musical, The Great Gatsby sets a landing date, and Scarlett Johansson officially heads back to Broadway.
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Marvin Hamlisch, the Hollywood and Broadway composer who wrote the music for The Sting and A Chorus Line, and one of only 11 people to have won an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony award, died on Monday at age 68.
Today: Mike Tyson is doing a one-man show in New York, Charlie Bucket heads to the West End, and Ed Helms is a busy man.
Over the Easter weekend, a busy one for New York theater, Disney's smash-hit musical The Lion King became Broadway's smashest hit ever, surpassing ancient veteran The Phantom of the Opera.
Foolish April has arrived, meaning it's the last big month for shows to open on Broadway before all-important Tony eligibility closes for the season. Here are the shows that are worth dropping a hundred dollars to sit in the dark.
The Call Sheet sifts through the day's glut of Hollywood news to find the stories even non-industry types can care about. Today: Broadway claims another beloved movie, HBO passes on a dude show, and Jeff Goldblum heads to TV.
Kelly Clarkson endorses Ron Paul and outrages the Internet, Kanye West is still available for New Year's Eve, and Zoe Saldana and Bradley Cooper are "totally dating."
The Mormons score big on Broadway, Liev Schreiber gets his own show, and Charlize Theron swears a lot.
Plus: Steven Spielberg's Abraham Lincoln movie won't come out until after the 2012 election
Don't look now, but the year's most maligned musical is doing well at the box office
Blames blogs, preview audiences for Spidey's troubles
Well, almost incident-free
The ousted director won't let a arbitration claim get in the way of opening night
Opening is Tuesday, for real. But will the show make anyone any money?
Plus: The legal wrangling for the L'Oreal family fortune started up again in France yesterday
Enjoy the obscene new Broadway hit from the privacy of your desk
The $70 million musical will be closed for two weeks before opening in a revised version that Taymor will not be involved in
Mormons almost like 'Book of Mormon'
She came, she saw, she spent $65 million on a musical and left before it opened
Future of director Julie Taymor uncertain
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