Another week, another Berkeley Repertory Theatre show going to Broadway. Carrie Fisher’s autobiographical solo show Wishful Drinking, directed by Berkeley Rep artistic director Tony Taccone, will open in October at — where else? — Studio 54, where it runs through Jan. 3. The show is produced by Roundabout Theatre Company in association with Jonathan Reinis, [...]
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Come on I wanna Leia: Fisher lands on Broadway
Archived in the category: Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Broadway, Carrie Fisher, Danny Hoch, Mary Zimmerman, Passing Strange, Philip Kan Gotanda, Sarah Jones, Sarah Ruhl, Stew, Tony Kushner, Tony Taccone, theater news
Posted by Chad Jones on 30 Apr 09 - 0 Comments
Spike Lee to film `Passing Strange’
Posted by Chad Jones on 04 Jul 08 - 0 Comments
EW.com reports that filmmaker Spike Lee is so taken with Stew’s Broadway musical Passing Strange that he has raised money to film the show concert style. Here’s the short news item: Spike Lee is going to Broadway. The Oscar-nominated writer/director will be spending part of his July filming the Tony-winning production Passing Strange. Lee will [...]
Great American musical roundup
Archived in the category: A Catered Affair, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Broadway, CDs, Faith Prince, Harry Connick Jr., Harvey Fierstein, In the Heights, John Bucchino, Kelli O'Hara, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Passing Strange, Rodgers and Hammerstein, South Pacific, Stew, musicals
Posted by Chad Jones on 03 Jul 08 - 1 Comment
We have a tradition here at Theater Dogs, and that is to commemorate the Fourth of July by celebrating the greatest American art form: the musical. It was an interesting year on Broadway for new musicals. Below are reviews of cast albums for three of them (I passed on Little Mermaid because I love [...]
Missing the Tonys
Archived in the category: Berkeley Repertory Theatre, In the Heights, Passing Strange, Patti LuPone, Rodgers and Hammerstein, South Pacific, Stephen Sondheim, Steppenwolf Theatre, Stew, Tony Awards, Tracy Letts, Uncategorized, musicals, plays, theater news
Posted by Chad Jones on 16 Jun 08 - 1 Comment
For the last four days I’ve been in Ashland, Ore., reviewing shows at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival for the San Francisco Chronicle (more on that later), and while the Tonys were on Sunday night, I was at the opening of a new musical adaptation of Shakespeare’s The Comedy of Errors. Of course I’ll watch the [...]
