Trish's Theater Blog March 2009 Archive

While total ticket sales were down slightly on Broadway for the week ending March 29, hit shows continued to perform. The well-reviewed God of Carnage jumped up to 94 ... Read More

The world's longest-running musical is about to get four new cast members in one night. Snapple Theater Center's production of The Fantastiks is welcoming Ramona Mallory as Louisa; Jonathan ... Read More

Mention Nelson Eddy and Jeanette MacDonald to a roomful of young musical fans, and you're likely to get a collective, "Who?" But this pair of screen sweethearts (and real-life ... Read More

Producers of Speed-the-Plow and the Actors' Equity Association have agreed to a June 8-9 date for an arbitration hearing on the early departure of Entourage star Jeremy Piven from ... Read More

With volumes like these, it must be spring break. More than half of the 29 shows on or preparing to open on Broadway topped 90 percent attendance for the ... Read More

Here's something to start the week off right. Ever wonder if successful actors lose the passion that first burned in their hearts and drove them to get on stage? Wonder ... Read More

Natasha Richardson, wife of actor Liam Neeson, and a star of stage and screen, died Tuesday after suffering a head injury while skiing. She had been flown to New ... Read More

Disney's The Lion King can lay claim as the top-grossing single show on the road after earning more than $1.5 million at Seattle's Paramount Theatre, according to tracking by ... Read More

Following its successful run last year at Minneapolis' Guthrie Theatre, Little House on the Prairie, a new musical based on the belowed Laura Ingalls Wilder books, will tune up ... Read More

Last month, producers of Shrek the Musical dropped a Wednesday performance in favor of two Sunday shows to take advantage of higher weekend traffic. Now they're headed back. Beginning the ... Read More

The search is on for the next Eugene Levy, the central character in Neil Simon’s Brighton Beach Memoirs, which is being revived on Broadway. The 1983 play ran over ... Read More

Impressionism, a new play starring Jeremy Irons and Joan Allen, is pushing its Broadway premiere back 12 days, from March 12 to March 24. Producer Bill Haber said, "We did not ... Read More

Being a Texan, I mark the passing of Horton Foote with a particular wistfulness. What he wrote, I’m thinking especially of The Trip to Bountiful, based on fictional versions ... Read More

New York critics were less than kind to the latest revival of the classic musical comedy Guys and Dolls, which opened Sunday at the Nederlander Theatre. The main finger-pointing seemed ... Read More