Entries from Gothamist tagged with 'lajollaplayhouse'
January 16, 2008
Playwright David Mamet (pictured) will be maintaining a blog to promote his new Broadway play, November, which stars Nathan Lane as contemporary American president Charles Smith and Laurie Metcalf as his lesbian speech writer. What’s interesting, perhaps, is that Mamet will be writing the blog – which he says he’ll update for the duration of the open-ended run – as President Smith. Sample entry from Monday:CONGRESSIONAL PAGE SEX SCANDALS It seems to me that, at......
Continue Reading "It Takes Brass Blogs to Sell Broadway"June 28, 2007
In advance of an official press conference at The Palace Theater today, The Times and The Post have reported that Spike Lee will be make his Broadway debut next spring with the 1951 play Stalag 17; a dramedy about camaraderie and betrayal between American airmen stuck in a German P.O.W camp (later made into a film by Billy Wilder.) Sources say that Clive Owen will once again be Spike’s inside man on the project. (Though......
Continue Reading "Spike's Got Broadway Fever"March 22, 2007
Wayne Coyne recently told EW that the Flaming Lips 2002 album "Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots" will be hitting Broadway in the future. Not too unusual given the bands often colorful and outrageous stage shows. Not only will we see the album come to life, but Aaron Sorkin will be teaming up with band to make it a reality. You know Sorkin as the creator of the West Wing and Studio 60 on the Sunset......
Continue Reading "The Flaming Lips Take Broadway"
