NEW YORK – Sheryl Crow will compose the music and lyrics for new Broadway show 'Diner'.
The 'All I Wanna Do' hitmaker has announced plans to work on the musical adaptation of the 1982 movie with Academy Award winning screenwriter Barry Levinson, who wrote the original script and Tony Award-winning director-and-choreographer Kathleen Marshall.
HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — Ashlee Simpson-Wentz is back on the job.
The 25-year-old actress will make her Broadway debut as she reprises the role of Roxie Hart in the Tony Award-winning musical Chicago, the production announced Monday.
NEW YORK — Scarlett Johansson is headed for the bright lights of New York City.
The 24-year-old actress will make her Broadway debut in a revival of playwright Arthur Miller's A View from the Bridge, the show's organizers announced Monday.
Johansson will also star alongside Tony Award-winner Liev Schreiber in the drama, which is set in 1950s America.
Schreiber will portray a Brooklyn longshoreman who becomes obsessed with his 17-year-old orphaned niece, played by Johansson, after she falls in love with a newly arrived Italian immigrant.
Johansson is the latest Hollywood star to head for Broadway, following the likes of Jude law, Hugh Jackman, Daniel Craig, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Katie Holmes and most recently, Sienna Miller.
Previews for A View from the Bridge will begin Dec. 28, with the show beginning a limited 14-week run at the Cort Theatre on Jan. 24.
Last month, Johansson released an album with Pete Yorn titled Break Up. She next stars as the Black Widow in the highly-anticipated Iron Man sequel, due out next spring.
NEW YORK — Sienna Miller is a day away from making her Broadway debut in After Miss Julie.
Based on August Strindberg's 1888 play about sex and class, After Miss Julie is set in an English country house on the eve of the Labour Party's historic landslide win in 1945.
Miller, 27, plays Miss Julie, a rich lady in her twenties who becomes involved with a family manservant.
"She is a very strong, very damaged, multi faceted character and its really fun to play somebody who operates under extremes," Miller says. "So as an actor its a very challenging role and I love a challenge."
The production opens Thursday at Roundabout Theatre's American Airlines Theatre on New York's famed 42nd Street.
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NEW YORK — Sienna Miller is headed for the bright lights of New York City.
The 27-year-old actress will make her Broadway debut this fall by starring in "After Miss Julie," according to The Associated Press.
Miller's Miss Julie character is one of only three roles in the production, which will be directed by Mark Brokaw.
HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — Jeremy Piven has abruptly left the cast of the Broadway's "Speed-the-Plow" due to health concerns, according to Variety.
After missing a Tuesday evening performance and a Wednesday matinee, the 43-year-old Piven informed the show's producers that he was suffering from a high mercury count. However, playwright David Mamet expressed skepticism about Piven's condition.
HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — Evan Rachel Wood is slinging herself into a new role.
In an interview to promote her new film, "The Wrestler," the 21-year-old Wood tells IESB.net that she has signed on to star in Marvel Entertainment's "Spider-Man" the musical.
Wood, best known for her role of Lucy in "Across the Universe," will reportedly star as Mary Jane Watson in the Broadway adaption.
NEW YORK — Katie Holmes said it felt like "Christmas" when she made her Broadway debut Thursday night in front of husband Tom Cruise and a pack of close friends that included Jada Pinkett Smith.
"I was very, very excited!" the 29-year-old actress told People after the show. "We had my whole family. Tom's whole family. Friends flew in. It's exciting."
Holmes made her long-awaited debut in Arthur Miller's "All My Sons," in which she stars alongside Oscar winner Dianne Wiest, Tony winner John Lithgow and Patrick Wilson. The play is based on a true story about a businessman named Joe Keller who knowingly sold faulty airline parts to the U.S. government during World War II. It was first performed on Broadway in 1947.
After several weeks of previews, Holmes said last night had "a lot more energy." She told the magazine that she's thankful to have her husband nearby for support.
"He came to the dress rehearsal. I was so nervous, and I saw him out there, and he made me feel so much better," she said. "Every time he's there, I just feel like it's going to be okay."
HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — Katie Holmes stepped onto the grandest stage of them all Thursday night when she made her Broadway debut in Arthur Miller's "All My Sons." The moment left her husband Tom Cruise buzzing prior to the opening curtain at New York's Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre.
"I'm so proud of her," he told People. "This means so much to her."
NEW YORK — Katie Holmes is officially headed for the grandest stage of them all.
The 29-year-old actress will be making her Broadway debut in Arthur Miller's "All My Sons," the show's producers announced Monday.
