Jonathan Salant of Bloomberg News is the past president of the National Press Club. A profile on him at WashingtonJewishWeek.com begins: “I grew up during the protests for civil rights and the Vietnam War and I saw what journalists were
And now a word from an NFL owner: “And the game done chose me to bring pain to niggas and pussy holes, they one in the same.” – I’m Real, co-written by Jennifer Lopez, minority owner of the Miami Dolphins.
My ten-year-old daughter loves “So You Think You Can Dance.” I suspect most eight to eighteen-year-old girls do. So, my question to the producers of this hit show is: “Why are you pointing my daughter to a web page asking
Last night, David “I’m No Longer a Brain-Dead Liberal” Mamet’s “Oleanna” opened on Broadway. The production (a transfer from Los Angeles’ Mark Taper Forum) stars Bill Pullman and Julia Stiles. As discussed on these pages Friday, this play was originally
“I took the liberal view for many decades, but I believe I have changed my mind.” – David Mamet As I discussed in my very first post here at Big Hollywood, many in the theatre world were surprised to read
Playbill announced that the very successful Off-Broadway play “Next Fall” will be transferring from its home at the non-profit theatre “Naked Angels” to the Helen Hayes theatre in the Spring of 2010. In many circles this is seen as a
The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) is always one of the hottest topics in the theatre community. A huge amount of theatre in the US is created or presented at non-profit theatres that operate under the protection of or
During the 2008 campaign many of my earnest and passionate friends on the left kept bludgeoning me with the same mantra: “Obama is the first Presidential candidate to have an ARTS AGENDA!” This fact seemed to make him immune from
Other than the National Endowment for the Arts’ already tenuous reputation, the only casualty in the NEA conference call episode has been Yosi Sergant, the former Director of Communications for the public agency charged with funding arts organizations in America.
I’m not sad today. I’m not melancholy. I’m not remembering the first time I saw a sunset reflected off the west-facing side of the towers. Today doesn’t elicit any of those feelings in me. This day makes me pissed off.
I bet that headline got your attention! But, as you’ll see a little later in this post, the scene in question is not really a “rape” at all. But that didn’t keep the NY Daily News from running this headline
The NY International Fringe Festival is in full swing in New York. The festival runs now through August 30th. What is the Fringe Festival? Well, their web page helpfully describes themselves this way: …the largest multi-arts festival in North America,
So Rocco Landesman is the new chairman of the NEA. The gregarious and outspoken producer and theatre executive has long been known for his bold risk-taking, his penchant for publicity and his leftward lean. As it is no big surprise
Summer is the slow time on Broadway as theatre pros recover from their Tony Award hang-overs and try to rush out to the Island for a few days of R & R before the new season begins. This year it
The New York Post ran a story this weekend with a very encouraging headline: RIGHT TURN ON B’WAY? Michael Riedel’s article revolves around two new plays that are being shopped around for a home. One is a one-man play about
Back in January you couldn’t watch any entertainment “news” show or read any Arts & Culture section of a newspaper without seeing something about the death of Broadway. There were so many shows closing all at once that the imminent
I’m tempted to brag about how close I was with my Tony Award Predictions and make that the biggest story coming out of Sunday’s Tony Award Show, but instead I’ll stay humble. From the perspective of the Broadway industry (the
Here at Big Hollywood, the film folks get all the fun by previewing film trailers in their posts. But, since the upcoming “Nine” is a film adaptation of a Broadway musical, I’m claiming this one! [youtube 55pDYPtL4g4 nolink] Directed by
Join Gary Graham, Tim Slagle, Moxie X. Cathedra, Stage Right and many more as Big Hollywood live-blogs the West Coast feed of the Tony Awards. Tonight, 8:00 PM Pacific Time, Telecast on CBS. It’s often said during Oscar season that
Pop some popcorn, tune in to CBS, and fire up the laptop… We’ll be live-blogging the Tony Awards during the West Coast tape delay starting at 8:00 PM Pacific Time, tomorrow night! Come and join me, Stage Right and a
– Summer, 1987: In a stunning and unprecedented move, President Walter Mondale has stepped in and saved the Broadway musical “42nd Street” from eviction at the Majestic Theatre. The theatre’s owners had earlier announced that they were using a standard
Here’s something you don’t hear from bloggers very often: “I was wrong!” Back in January I wrote about the announced revival of “Ragtime” at the Kennedy Center. I described the extreme leftist views of E. L. Doctorow upon whose novel
I’ve already risked losing any credibility I might have in the theatre community by defending Andrew Lloyd Webber and his conservative politics, but I have to go back to that well once again because Webber has written an op-ed piece
In what is becoming an annual rite of self-destruction, Broadway has once again chosen to snub many of the big-name stars who have put their film careers on hold to trudge onto the boards eight times a week, take a
1984’s landmark musical “Sunday in the Park with George” was one of the most polarizing and debated shows to reach Broadway in the past thirty years. It marked Stephen Sondheim’s first collaboration outside of the watchful artistic and commercial gaze
Part 1 of what I half-jokingly called my “Manifesto.” In a fiscal conservative’s utopian dreamworld, there would be no federal funding for the arts (or so many other government agencies or programs for that matter). This has been our position
March 16 will mark the 40th anniversary of the Broadway opening of “1776.” Written by Sherman Edwards and Peter Stone, it went on to run for 1,217 performances. It’s hard to believe that forty years ago it was still popular
There is a problem with the American Theatre. The vast majority of plays produced on our stages are intimidating, antagonistic and often downright offensive to 50% of Americans. I know this because I am one of them and I see
for the Tony Awards in June…. right?
and let him know that President Obama is AGAINST same-sex marriage? Will someone from the Hollywood Press Corps bring this up to him?
Shame on you people who did not want to change the millenia old definition of marriage… SHAME! You all deserve to lose your jobs! http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/sright/2009/01/09/im-spartacus-no-im-scott-eckern/
… just sayin’
That looks like a back stage.. Why not just turn the worklights on and show everyone the backstage?
But, have you noticed how the slear facades on all of the railings in the interior of the Kodak match the podium and elements of the set design? That’s right they have replaced all of the railings and partitions in
FOr these exterior shots, how did they clear away the guy in the spangled thong who roller blades up and down the sidewalk in front of the Kodak…? Oh, that’s right, Gutfeld is here with us.
it’s 7:15 and already my children have seen men kissing on the lips, an award winner saying his mother was pressured not to love him because he is gay, and now a midget challenge their belief in God. Thank you
yeah yeah … it’s all about you Bill. Goog Lord how did this half-talent get up on the stage?
I’ll say it again… it’s time for you to write a rock musical!
That means Phoebe might be there….. Oh…. Phoebe….. Phoebe……
I think I’ll take this opportunity to re-watch that Mickey Rourke video Mason posted earlier today.