Highlights
A collection of news and information related to Broadway Theater published by this site and its partners.
Displaying items 1-12 of 2885
» View latimes.com items only
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11-241
Next >
-
'So You Think You Can Dance': lots of props, plenty of awesome dancing
Reality CheckJohn-John Williams IV is in Chicago at a hotel that does not have Fox (to our disbelief). So I'm filling in and recapping a well-danced So You Think You Can Dance. There's new partnering tonight (again). Each pair will dance......Tags: Fergie (singer), Sports, Georgia Brown, Bars and Clubs, Nigel Lythgoe
-
WBC plans to carry on, with or without Alex Rodriguez
WatchdogI contributed some TV-related stuff to Ken Davidoff's Wednesday newspaper extravaganza on the World Baseball Classic, which opens at 4:30 a.m. Thursday. Naturally, I mentioned the level of interest in the Dominican team because of its third baseman,...Tags: Baseball, Alex Rodriguez, Music Theater, Sports, World Baseball Classic
-
Joe Buck is better at announcing than playing softball
WatchdogVideo here of Joe Buck promoting his new HBO show while playing softball (badly) in the Broadway Show League in Central Park. (Love the St. Louis Blues cap, Joe.) Here is an interview with Buck from The Big Lead. Coming......Tags: HBO (tv network), Central Park, St. Louis Blues, Theater
-
Shaq gets new team, sheds Star Island home
The Business of Sports | Sun-Sentinel BlogsFormer Heat center Shaquille O???Neal finally unloaded his Star Island home on Wednesday, a day before he was traded from Phoenix to the Cleveland Cavaliers. Philip Freedman, a broker with Flagstone Realty, said the deal to sell the 2.5 acre......Tags: Rosie O'Donnell, Sports, Basketball, Baseball, Homes
-
'So You Think You Can Dance' recap: Top 10 perform
Reality CheckTonight, the Top 10 on So You Think You Can Dance get new partners, new dances and voted on solely by the viewers. It's a whole new ball game, is what I'm saying.The first couple (no intros!) is Ryan and......Tags: Clothing and Textiles Industry, Academic Progress, Sports, Costumes (clothing), Nigel Lythgoe
-
Take a Pythonesque cruise with 'Pirates'
One hundred and thirty-two years after W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan dreamed up a preposterous operetta involving a very modern major-general, his bevy of beautiful, naive daughters and a dutiful young Englishman apprenticed to a band of big-hearted...
Tags: Cornwall, Entertainment Events, Marriott Theatre, Music, Music Theater
-
Tevye reigns in rich 'Fiddler on the Roof'
"Fiddler on the Roof" is among the greatest Broadway musicals for any number of reasons: a score without a single dud; rich, sturdy, funny characters who somehow reward with each revisit; a high-stakes story that not only blends the personal and religious...
Tags: Entertainment Events, Arts and Culture, Religion and Belief, Judaism, Theater
-
'Oklahoma!' comes sweepin' into Lyric Opera
If ever a musical theater work deserved its exclamation point, it's “Oklahoma!” Breathes there a man or woman of a certain age who hasn't at one time or another succumbed to the nostalgic charms of this classic American show, whose spirit...
Tags: Music, The Sound of Music (movie), Entertainment Events, Music Theater, Concerts
-
'Pajama Game' a labor of love with a conscience
Granted, it ends not with "Strike! Strike! Strike!" but with a man and a woman sharing the same set of jammies. But "The Pajama Game," the racy-for-its-day 1954 musical about a union official in a pajama factory who gets romantically sewn up with a member...
Tags: Labor Legislation, Entertainment Events, Music Theater, Music, Arts and Culture
-
Turning the tables on Tennessee Williams' story of fading beauty
Tennessee Williams' fleet of fragile, fading beauties contains many traps for long-beautiful actresses eager to publicly confront their neuroses and their mortality, if only to assert that they're not in denial about the constant ravages of time, even...
Tags: Entertainment Events, Goodman Theatre, Lindsay Lohan, Arts and Culture, Religion and Belief
-
Broadway review: 'Pippin' pulls off a theatrical high-wire act
NEW YORK — There are shows that revive aging material through revisionism. And there are productions that prefer to celebrate the pull of nostalgia, especially when the songs are great. "Pippin," the brilliant Diane Paulus revival of the...
Tags: Entertainment Events, Music, Music Theater, Music Box Theatre, Arts and Culture
-
Heat rises at Porchlight in this most Chicago of musicals
When you're sitting watching a new musical, it's easy to focus on a book or a score and underestimate the perennial dependency of Broadway tuners on lyrics. And if you're ever looking for lyrical excellence, the songs of Lorenz Hart (an early...
Tags: Entertainment Events, Music, Music Theater, Bewitched (tv program), Arts and Culture
Jul 24, 2008
|Blog| Baltimore Sun
Mar 4, 2009
|Blog| Newsday
Jun 4, 2009
|Blog| Newsday
Jun 25, 2009
|Blog| Sun-Sentinel
Dec 2, 2009
|Blog| Baltimore Sun
Apr 15, 2012
|Column| Chicago Tribune
Mar 10, 2013
|Column| Chicago Tribune
Apr 26, 2013
|Column| Chicago Tribune
Apr 30, 2013
|Column| Chicago Tribune
Sep 24, 2012
|Column| Chicago Tribune - Hold from PM
Apr 25, 2013
|Column| Chicago Tribune
Apr 24, 2013
|Column| Chicago Tribune
Original site for Broadway Theater topic gallery.
