Broadway actors
Star! Musical Movie (1968)
Star! (re-titled Those Were the Happy Times for its 1969 re-release) is a 1968 American biographical musical film directed by Robert Wise and starring Julie Andrews. The screenplay by William Fairchild is based on the life and career of British performer Gertrude Lawrence.
Chicago (2002 film)
Chicago is a 2002 musical black comedy crime film based on the 1975 stage musical, which in turn originated in the 1926 play.[2] It explores the themes of celebrity, scandal, and corruption in Chicago during the Jazz Age.[5] The film stars an ensemble cast led by Renée Zellweger, Catherine Zeta-Jones, and Richard Gere. Chicago centers […]
Spider-Man Turn Off The Dark (2011)
Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark is a musical with music and lyrics by Bono and the Edge of Irish rock band U2 and a book by Julie Taymor, Glen Berger, and Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa. Based on the Marvel Comics character Spider-Man, the story incorporates elements of the 2002 film Spider-Man, the 2004 film Spider-Man 2 […]
Nine (1982)
Nine is a musical initiated by and with music and lyrics by Maury Yeston and a book by Arthur Kopit. Based on the film 8½, it tells the story of film director Guido Contini, who is dreading his imminent 40th birthday and facing a midlife crisis, which is blocking his creative impulses and entangling him […]
Richard Greenberg – Playwright (1958-2025)
Richard Greenberg (February 22, 1958 – July 4, 2025) was an American playwright and television writer known for his subversively humorous depictions of middle-class American life. He had more than 25 plays premiere on Broadway, off-Broadway, and off-off-Broadway in New York City and eight at the South Coast Repertory Theatre in Costa Mesa, California, including […]
Take Me Out – Play (2003)
Take Me Out is a play by American playwright Richard Greenberg. After a staging at the Donmar Warehouse in London, it premiered Off-Broadway on September 5, 2002, at the Joseph Papp Public Theatre. It made its Broadway debut on February 27, 2003, at the Walter Kerr Theatre, where it ran for 355 performances and won […]
Art (Play) Reviews
‘Art’ is a French-language play by Yasmina Reza that premiered in 1994 at Comédie des Champs-Élysées in Paris. The play subsequently ran in London in 1996 and on Broadway in 1998/2025.
To My Girls – Play (2022)
Ever since Mart Crowley’s “The Boys in the Band”, playwrights have been using social gatherings for status reports on a certain slice of the gay community.
Bob Fosse (1927 – 1987)
Robert Louis Fosse (June 23, 1927 – September 23, 1987) was an American choreographer, dancer, actor, filmmaker, and stage director. Known for his work on stage and screen, he is arguably the most influential figure in the field of jazz dance in the twentieth century.