'Jungle Book' Disney's Next Big Broadway Hit?
Broadway observers can be forgiven for being skeptical when Disney Theatrical Prods. says it's taking a wait-and-see attitude toward the latest Mouse House-affiliated stage outing, "The Jungle Book."
Metamorphoses
Theater Review: 'The Jungle Book'
With a history of infusing classic tales with fresh theatricality, auteur-director Mary Zimmerman ("Metamorphoses") is both a natural choice to adapt a Disney film to the stage and a nearly…
Legit Review: 'Reasons to Be Happy'
It's payback time for the “regular” looking girls whose boyfriends humiliated them for being insufficiently gorgeous in Neil LaBute's 2008 play, “Reasons to Be Pretty.” The same gang returns in…
Legit Review: 'Far From Heaven'
It's really hard to pull off a production style that says: “Yoo-hoo, I'm being ironic here!” without patronizing or caricaturing its targets of irony. Todd Haynes executed this risky directorial…
Legit Review: 'The Scottsboro Boys'
Susan Stroman's staging of John Kander and Fred Ebb's "The Scottsboro Boys" finally comes to L.A.'s Ahmanson Theater after stints on Broadway, San Diego and elsewhere. Although most of the Broadway…
Canada's 'Laurence' gets U.S. distrib
Breaking Glass Pictures has acquired U.S. distribution rights to Xavier Dolan's "Laurence Anyways," Canada's official submission for the Academy Awards.
Review: 'Laurence Anyways'
Fully immodest and intermittently astonishing, Xavier Dolan's epic melodrama "Laurence Anyways" charts a male-to-female transsexual's tumultuous relationship with a straight woman but stands to…
Posters give prod'ns image control
"And the Tony Award for best theater poster goes to ... " No, that's not happening. Not this year. Probably not ever if the Tony people want to keep their award show to just three hours.
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