This holiday weekend I saw some movies on the big screen (Indiana Jones and the blah blah Crystal Skull – exactly what you think it would be, enjoyable but nothing more; Iron Man, which made me love Robert Downey Jr. all over again – oddly more human than Indiana Jones) and at home. One of [...]
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Cinematic theatrics: A LaGravenese musical?
Posted by Chad Jones on 26 May 08 - 2 Comments
Katie Holmes is actually a live actor!
Archived in the category: Arthur Miller, Ben Affleck, Broadway, Jennifer Garner, Katie Holmes, Queen Latifah, theater news
Posted by Chad Jones on 24 May 08 - 2 Comments
Frederick M. Brown, Getty Images / Jan. 9, 2008 It’s true! Katie Holmes isn’t just a pretty, skinny Victoria Beckham-wannabe clothes horse; nor is she simply a trophy wife capable of possibly giving birth to her movie star husband’s adorable progeny. No, it turns out that Katie Holmes is actually a three-dimensional acting person. How [...]
You can’t stop the beat!
Archived in the category: Hairspray, Jack O'Brien, Jerry Mitchell, John Travolta, Michelle Pfeiffer, Queen Latifah, SHN/Best of Broadway, Zac Efron, musicals
Posted by Chad Jones on 03 Apr 08 - 0 Comments
Brooklynn Pulver (above center) is Tracy Turnblad in the touring production of Hairspray. Photo by Phil Martin Last summer, it was yet another musical breathing new life into the revival of movie musicals. This summer, it’s an actual, three-dimensional live musical happening before your very eyes. Hairspray, one of the happiest musicals around, is returning [...]
K-K-K-Katie Holmes on Broadway, `Tales’ in tune
Archived in the category: Armistead Maupin, Arthur Miller, Avenue Q, Ben Affleck, Jason Moore, Jeff Whitty, Jennifer Garner, Katie Holmes, Queen Latifah, Rufus Wainwright, Scissor Sisters, Tales of the City, Tom Cruise, theater news
Posted by Chad Jones on 31 Mar 08 - 1 Comment
Yes, Katie Holmes, late of Dawson’s Creek, she of the couch-jumping husband, the ever-changing cute hairdos and the impossibly adorable Suri parentage, is being rumored to be heading to Broadway for a revival of Arthur Miller’s All My Sons starring John Lithgow and Dianne Weist. Ms. Holmes must have had a conversation with Jennifer Garner, [...]
A very diva weekend with Jennifer & Latifah
Posted by Chad Jones on 26 Nov 07 - 0 Comments
This weekend just past in San Francisco was a good one for those of us who savor larger-than-life lady singers. On Saturday, Jennifer Holliday, the Tony Award-winning original Effie Melody White in Dreamgirls, made a rare concert appearance in San Francisco. The Herbst Theatre was jam packed with Holliday lovers, though the show started out [...]
