The Tribute Artist by Charles Busch Directed by Carl Andress 59E59 Theaters, NYC Through March 29, 2014 Towards the end of this uproarious farce by veteran playwright and actor Charles Busch, Mr. Busch--as Jimmy Nichols, a long-in-the-tooth “female impressionist tribute artist” (a/k/a unemployed drag performer)--delivers a line that in any other play, comedy or otherwise, would befuddle the audience due to its complete nonsense. Proclaimed in tones of voice that would, in an era long gone by, indicate the pronouncement of a grand life-transforming revelation, Jimmy declares “The more honest you are, the more people believe you.” Without a doubt, only Charles Busch could make such an utterance not only appear reasonable, but in the process bring the house down shrieking with laughter.
The Tribute Artist could be designated a sort of penultimate culmination of Charles Busch’s three-decade career. In many wondrous permutations over the years, Mr. Busch has honored,...
The Tribute Artist could be designated a sort of penultimate culmination of Charles Busch’s three-decade career. In many wondrous permutations over the years, Mr. Busch has honored,...
- 3/23/2014
- by Jay Reisberg
- www.culturecatch.com
The 2013 Tony Awards brought out some of the best actors in the business, and was led by Neil Patrick Harris for the fourth time as host. Taking place at Radio City Music Hall Sunday June 9, some of the biggest winners of the night included Kinky Boots and Pippin. Check out the complete winners list below!
| Related: Check out the performances from the Tony Awards 2013! |
Best Performance By Actor In Leading Role In Play
Winner: Tracy Letts, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf
Other nominees: Tom Hanks, Lucky Guy; Nathan Lane, The Nance; David Hyde Pierce, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike; Tom Sturridge, Orphans
Best Performance By Actress In Leading Role In Play
Winner: Cicely Tyson, The Trip to Bountiful
Other nominees: Laurie Metcalf, The Other Place; Amy Morton, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?; Kristine Nielsen, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike; Holland Taylor, Ann
Best Performance By Actor...
| Related: Check out the performances from the Tony Awards 2013! |
Best Performance By Actor In Leading Role In Play
Winner: Tracy Letts, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf
Other nominees: Tom Hanks, Lucky Guy; Nathan Lane, The Nance; David Hyde Pierce, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike; Tom Sturridge, Orphans
Best Performance By Actress In Leading Role In Play
Winner: Cicely Tyson, The Trip to Bountiful
Other nominees: Laurie Metcalf, The Other Place; Amy Morton, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?; Kristine Nielsen, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike; Holland Taylor, Ann
Best Performance By Actor...
- 6/10/2013
- by Stephanie Webber
- Celebsology
Honoring the best and brightest on the Broadway Stage, stars gathered together on Sunday (June 9) for the 67th Annual Tony Awards.
Held in New York CIty's historic Radio City Music Hall, Neil Patrick Harris led the evening with his hilarious hosting antics and dazzled the crowd with his musical talents.
Big winners of the night included the cast and crew of "Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike" and "Kinky Boots" taking home the prize for Best Play and Best Musical, respectively.
Meanwhile, Tracy Letts and Cicely Tyson were honored with trophies for Best Performance by an Actor and Actress in a Leading Role in a Play.
Check out the complete list of winners from the 2013 Tony Awards below:
Best play
"The Assembled Parties" by Richard Greenberg
"Lucky Guy" by Nora Ephron
"The Testament of Mary" by Colm Toibin
Winner "Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike" by Christopher Durang
Best musical
"Bring It On,...
Held in New York CIty's historic Radio City Music Hall, Neil Patrick Harris led the evening with his hilarious hosting antics and dazzled the crowd with his musical talents.
Big winners of the night included the cast and crew of "Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike" and "Kinky Boots" taking home the prize for Best Play and Best Musical, respectively.
Meanwhile, Tracy Letts and Cicely Tyson were honored with trophies for Best Performance by an Actor and Actress in a Leading Role in a Play.
Check out the complete list of winners from the 2013 Tony Awards below:
Best play
"The Assembled Parties" by Richard Greenberg
"Lucky Guy" by Nora Ephron
"The Testament of Mary" by Colm Toibin
Winner "Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike" by Christopher Durang
Best musical
"Bring It On,...
- 6/10/2013
- GossipCenter
Despite a Broadway season that saw a 6-percent dip in attendance, theater fans still have cause for celebration at this Sunday’s Tony Awards. There’s a contest heating up for Best Musical, pitting the “revolting” children of Matilda against the fabulous drag queens of Kinky Boots.
And there’s some real suspense in other major categories: Will two-time Oscar winner Tom Hanks (above) add a Tony to his mantel for his Broadway debut in Lucky Guy? Will former Who’s the Boss star Judith Light win back-to-back Tonys in Best Featured Actress in a Play? EW critics Melissa Rose...
And there’s some real suspense in other major categories: Will two-time Oscar winner Tom Hanks (above) add a Tony to his mantel for his Broadway debut in Lucky Guy? Will former Who’s the Boss star Judith Light win back-to-back Tonys in Best Featured Actress in a Play? EW critics Melissa Rose...
- 6/3/2013
- by Thom Geier
- EW.com - PopWatch
BroadwayWorld's Richard Ridge was thrilled to sit down and speak with nearly all of this year's Tony Award nominees at the official Tonys Meet amp Greet on May 1, 2013, and we will be bringing you special coverage on all of them throughout the awards season. Today we bring you Anna Louizos, a nominee for Best Scenic Design of a Musical for The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Check out what she had to say below...
- 5/12/2013
- by BroadwayWorld TV
- BroadwayWorld.com
Tony Awards 2013 ‘Hollywood Snubs’ (photo: Scarlett Johansson in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof) [See previous post: "Tony Awards 2013: Cicely Tyson, Tom Hanks Nominated."] Among the movie celebrities who could have been nominated but weren’t, are The Avengers‘ Scarlett Johansson and Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter‘s Benjamin Walker for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (made into a 1958 movie directed by Richard Brooks, and starring Elizabeth Taylor and Paul Newman); and two-time Oscar nominee Jessica Chastain (The Help, Zero Dark Thirty) for The Heiress (in the role that earned Olivia de Havilland an Oscar). Here are a few more: Alien and Avatar‘s Sigourney Weaver for Vanya and Sonya and Masha and Spike; Bette Midler for John Logan’s I’ll Eat You Last: A Chat with Sue Mengers, about the powerful Hollywood agent whose clients ranged from Barbra Streisand to Tatum O’Neal; and Paul Rudd (Prince Avalanche) and Michael Shannon (Revolutionary Road) for Grace. (See also Tony...
- 5/1/2013
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
The nominations for the Tony awards 2013 are in. Musical Kinky Boots has 13 nods, followed by Matilda with 12. What have you seen – and who would you like to win?
Best play
The Assembled Parties by Richard Greenberg
Lucky Guy by Nora Ephron
The Testament of Mary by Colm Toíbín
Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike by Christopher Durang
Best musical
Bring It On: the Musical
A Christmas Story: the Musical
Kinky Boots
Matilda: the Musical
Best revival
Golden Boy
Orphans
The Trip to Bountiful
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Best revival of a musical
Annie
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Pippin
Rodgers + Hammerstein's Cinderella
Best book of a musical
A Christmas Story: the Musical by Joseph Robinette
Kinky Boots by Harvey Fierstein
Matilda; the Musical by Dennis Kelly
Rodgers + Hammerstein's Cinderella by Douglas Carter Beane
Best original score (music and/or lyrics) written for the...
Best play
The Assembled Parties by Richard Greenberg
Lucky Guy by Nora Ephron
The Testament of Mary by Colm Toíbín
Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike by Christopher Durang
Best musical
Bring It On: the Musical
A Christmas Story: the Musical
Kinky Boots
Matilda: the Musical
Best revival
Golden Boy
Orphans
The Trip to Bountiful
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Best revival of a musical
Annie
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Pippin
Rodgers + Hammerstein's Cinderella
Best book of a musical
A Christmas Story: the Musical by Joseph Robinette
Kinky Boots by Harvey Fierstein
Matilda; the Musical by Dennis Kelly
Rodgers + Hammerstein's Cinderella by Douglas Carter Beane
Best original score (music and/or lyrics) written for the...
- 4/30/2013
- The Guardian - Film News
The nominations for the 67th annual Tony Awards were announced Tuesday (April 30). "Kinky Boots," a musical from Cyndi Lauper and Harvey Fierstein, leads the way with 13 nominations. Actor Tom Hanks also received his first Tony nomination, for his work in the late Nora Ephron's "Lucky Guy."
The 2013 Tony Awards air live on CBS Sunday, June 9 at 8 p.m. Et/Pt.
The full list of nominees:
Best Musical
Bring It On: The Musical
A Christmas Story, The Musical
Kinky Boots
Matilda The Musical
Best play
Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike
The Testament of Mary
Lucky Guy
The Assembled Parties
Best revival of a play
Golden Boy
Orphans
Trip to Bountiful
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Best revival of a musical
Annie
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Pippin
Cinderella
Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play
Tom Hanks, Lucky Guy
Nathan Lane, The Nance
Tracy Letts,...
The 2013 Tony Awards air live on CBS Sunday, June 9 at 8 p.m. Et/Pt.
The full list of nominees:
Best Musical
Bring It On: The Musical
A Christmas Story, The Musical
Kinky Boots
Matilda The Musical
Best play
Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike
The Testament of Mary
Lucky Guy
The Assembled Parties
Best revival of a play
Golden Boy
Orphans
Trip to Bountiful
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Best revival of a musical
Annie
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Pippin
Cinderella
Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play
Tom Hanks, Lucky Guy
Nathan Lane, The Nance
Tracy Letts,...
- 4/30/2013
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Pop2it
The sex is in the heel, indeed! The Harvey Fierstein-Cyndi Lauper musical Kinky Boots (based on the 2005 British film) dominated the Tony nominations, garnering 13 Tony nominations, including a best score nod for Lauper for her first-ever musical. Trailing not far behind were Matilda (12 nods), whose four tweens sharing the title role will be recognized with a special award on Tony night, Pippin (10 nods), and Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella (9 nods).
On the play side, the celebrated revival of Clifford Odets’ Golden Boy proved strong as its boxer lead character, with 8 nods. Tom Hanks guns for Egot territory with a...
On the play side, the celebrated revival of Clifford Odets’ Golden Boy proved strong as its boxer lead character, with 8 nods. Tom Hanks guns for Egot territory with a...
- 4/30/2013
- by Jason Clark
- EW.com - PopWatch
The 2013 Tony Award nominations were announced this morning by actor Jesse Tyler Ferguson and five-time nominated Broadway regular Sutton Foster.
The musical "Kinky Boots" nabbed the most nominations with a total of 13 Tony nods, making the fetish footwear-themed production this year's leading favorite. Its chief rival -- the kid-friendly "Matilda" -- followed close behind with a respectable 12. In the play category, the "Golden Boy" revival secured the highest number of mentions with a total of eight nominations, while Nora Ephron's "Lucky Guy" starring Tom Hanks earned six.
Big names in the acting nominations department included Hanks, Nathan Lane, Laurie Metcalf and Cicely Tyson. Notably missing were Bette Midler, Jessica Chastain, Scarlett Johansson and Alec Baldwin, just a handful of celebrities who graced the Broadway stage this season but were snubbed when it came to the Tony announcements.
The 67th annual Tony Awards will be broadcast live on June 9, 2013 from Radio City Music Hall,...
The musical "Kinky Boots" nabbed the most nominations with a total of 13 Tony nods, making the fetish footwear-themed production this year's leading favorite. Its chief rival -- the kid-friendly "Matilda" -- followed close behind with a respectable 12. In the play category, the "Golden Boy" revival secured the highest number of mentions with a total of eight nominations, while Nora Ephron's "Lucky Guy" starring Tom Hanks earned six.
Big names in the acting nominations department included Hanks, Nathan Lane, Laurie Metcalf and Cicely Tyson. Notably missing were Bette Midler, Jessica Chastain, Scarlett Johansson and Alec Baldwin, just a handful of celebrities who graced the Broadway stage this season but were snubbed when it came to the Tony announcements.
The 67th annual Tony Awards will be broadcast live on June 9, 2013 from Radio City Music Hall,...
- 4/30/2013
- by Katherine Brooks
- Huffington Post
The 2013 Tony Awards air June 9 at 8 p.m. on CBS! Did your favorites score nominations?
The official nominees for the 2013 Tony Awards were released on April 30, and Kinky Boots takes the lead with 13 nods. From Tom Hanks and Laurie Metcalf to Tom Sturridge and Judith Light, see who’s got a spot in this year’s Tony race.
2013 Tony Award Nominations — Full List
Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play
Tom Hanks, Lucky Guy
Nathan Lane, The Nance
Tracy Letts, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
David Hyde Pierce, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike
Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play
Laurie Metcalf, The Other Place
Amy Morton Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Kristine Nielsen, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike
Holland Taylor, Ann
Cicely Tyson, Trip to Bountiful
Best Performance by an Actor in a...
The official nominees for the 2013 Tony Awards were released on April 30, and Kinky Boots takes the lead with 13 nods. From Tom Hanks and Laurie Metcalf to Tom Sturridge and Judith Light, see who’s got a spot in this year’s Tony race.
2013 Tony Award Nominations — Full List
Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play
Tom Hanks, Lucky Guy
Nathan Lane, The Nance
Tracy Letts, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
David Hyde Pierce, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike
Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play
Laurie Metcalf, The Other Place
Amy Morton Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Kristine Nielsen, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike
Holland Taylor, Ann
Cicely Tyson, Trip to Bountiful
Best Performance by an Actor in a...
- 4/30/2013
- by Christopher Rogers
- HollywoodLife
The Drama Desk Awards — commonly known as the theater world’s Golden Globes, though nominees are represented across all NYC productions in a season — are the last precursor to the Tony Awards (check EW.com tomorrow morning for a full list of those). And judging by the list below, it’s going to be quite a competitive year, with some pretty heavy-hitters mixed in with longshots, not to mention some major snubs (Alan Cumming, Cyndi Lauper, Fiona Shaw, Chaplin’s Rob McClure to name a few). The winners will be announced at NYC’s Town Hall on May 19. Below is...
- 4/29/2013
- by Jason Clark
- EW.com - PopWatch
Burke-Cohen EntertainmentJimmy Burke, Jeff Cohen presents American Idol finalist Crystal Bowersox and Oscar and Emmy Award nominee Annette O'Toole starring in the Broadway premiere of Ted Swindley's Always Patsy Cline, directed by Tony Award winner John Rando. The scenery will be designed by Anna Louizos, who is currently represented on Broadway with 'Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella.' Performances begin in July with an August opening.
- 3/26/2013
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
The Mystery of Edwin Drood The Roundabout Theatre, NYC
I was a real fan of the 1985 Broadway production of The Mystery of Edwin Drood and have been eagerly looking forward to the Roundabout revival. For the most part, it did not disappoint.
Drood, of course, is based on Charles Dickens's final, unfinished novel.
To tell the story onstage, composer/author Rupert Holmes has devised an ingenious conceit. The show takes place in 1895 in a British music hall, called London's Music Hall Royale. The troupe is giving a performance of its new musical production based on the Dickens novel. It allows a delightful mix of a dark, Gothic, melodramatic story along with the boisterous comedy of the British music hall. The results are highly atmospheric and great fun. Since the Dickens novel was never finished, the ending of the show is determined by audience votes on several matters, another nifty idea from Holmes,...
I was a real fan of the 1985 Broadway production of The Mystery of Edwin Drood and have been eagerly looking forward to the Roundabout revival. For the most part, it did not disappoint.
Drood, of course, is based on Charles Dickens's final, unfinished novel.
To tell the story onstage, composer/author Rupert Holmes has devised an ingenious conceit. The show takes place in 1895 in a British music hall, called London's Music Hall Royale. The troupe is giving a performance of its new musical production based on the Dickens novel. It allows a delightful mix of a dark, Gothic, melodramatic story along with the boisterous comedy of the British music hall. The results are highly atmospheric and great fun. Since the Dickens novel was never finished, the ending of the show is determined by audience votes on several matters, another nifty idea from Holmes,...
- 11/17/2012
- by James Miller
- www.culturecatch.com
The challenge in translating a hit one-man stage show to the screen is retaining the element of immediacy that contributed to its success in the first place.
That actor-activist David Drake's "The Night Larry Kramer Kissed Me" makes the transition more successfully than most is all the more remarkable given that the politically charged performance piece opened off-Broadway in 1992 at a less hopeful time in the history of AIDS, which claimed so many of Drake's friends.
In revisiting the finely honed material, Drake offers more than a snapshot of a particular time and place. Working in collaboration with energetic documentary filmmaker Tim Kirkman ("Dear Jesse"), he manages to keep the reflective piece very much of the moment with only a scant minimum of updating.
Screened at Los Angeles Outfest 2000 and recently opening theatrically in New York, "Kramer" serves up a reasonable facsimile of the Obie Award-
winning stage show.
Drake kicks off his collection of interconnected monologues with a triptych of moments of personal awareness marked by his attendance at various stage performances, including seeing a production of "West Side Story" when he was 6, going to "A Chorus Line" at 16 with a secret high school crush and, most notably, a consciousness-raising viewing of Kramer's "The Normal Heart" in 1985 on Drake's 22nd birthday.
From there he surveys various aspects -- humorous and poignant -- of the urban gay male experience. And while some things work better than others, the best bits, including the insightful "Why I Go to the Gym" and a revised fantasy epilogue set on New Year's Eve 2017 in the wake of the Gay Crusades, mix humor and social politics with dramatic efficiency and a minimum of props and set decoration.
Shot over a period of six live performances, the film benefits greatly from the involvement of director Kirkman, who pulls off the feat of bringing viewers right up on stage with Drake thanks to rapidly cut close-ups and interesting camera angles that go a long way in breaking up the boxiness that usually goes with the territory.
THE NIGHT LARRY KRAMER KISSED ME
FilmNext/Montrose Pictures
Producers: Michael Kaplan,
Kirkland Tibbels
Director: Tim Kirkman
Screenwriter: David Drake
Director of photography: James Carman
Production designers: Anna Louizos,
Craig Young
Editor: Caitlin Dixon
Music: Steve Sandberg
Color/stereo
Cast:
Himself: David Drake
Running time - 79 minutes
No MPAA rating...
That actor-activist David Drake's "The Night Larry Kramer Kissed Me" makes the transition more successfully than most is all the more remarkable given that the politically charged performance piece opened off-Broadway in 1992 at a less hopeful time in the history of AIDS, which claimed so many of Drake's friends.
In revisiting the finely honed material, Drake offers more than a snapshot of a particular time and place. Working in collaboration with energetic documentary filmmaker Tim Kirkman ("Dear Jesse"), he manages to keep the reflective piece very much of the moment with only a scant minimum of updating.
Screened at Los Angeles Outfest 2000 and recently opening theatrically in New York, "Kramer" serves up a reasonable facsimile of the Obie Award-
winning stage show.
Drake kicks off his collection of interconnected monologues with a triptych of moments of personal awareness marked by his attendance at various stage performances, including seeing a production of "West Side Story" when he was 6, going to "A Chorus Line" at 16 with a secret high school crush and, most notably, a consciousness-raising viewing of Kramer's "The Normal Heart" in 1985 on Drake's 22nd birthday.
From there he surveys various aspects -- humorous and poignant -- of the urban gay male experience. And while some things work better than others, the best bits, including the insightful "Why I Go to the Gym" and a revised fantasy epilogue set on New Year's Eve 2017 in the wake of the Gay Crusades, mix humor and social politics with dramatic efficiency and a minimum of props and set decoration.
Shot over a period of six live performances, the film benefits greatly from the involvement of director Kirkman, who pulls off the feat of bringing viewers right up on stage with Drake thanks to rapidly cut close-ups and interesting camera angles that go a long way in breaking up the boxiness that usually goes with the territory.
THE NIGHT LARRY KRAMER KISSED ME
FilmNext/Montrose Pictures
Producers: Michael Kaplan,
Kirkland Tibbels
Director: Tim Kirkman
Screenwriter: David Drake
Director of photography: James Carman
Production designers: Anna Louizos,
Craig Young
Editor: Caitlin Dixon
Music: Steve Sandberg
Color/stereo
Cast:
Himself: David Drake
Running time - 79 minutes
No MPAA rating...
- 7/27/2000
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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