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Straits Times
25-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Straits Times
Stars James Corden, Neil Patrick Harris and Bobby Cannavale lead Broadway show Art
NEW YORK – Broadway's run of starry plays shows no signs of slowing down. English comedian James Corden and American actors Neil Patrick Harris and Bobby Cannavale will return to Broadway in a revival of Art, a Yasmina Reza comedy that explores what happens to a three-way friendship when one of the men spends a lot of money on a painting that is mostly a white canvas. First staged in France in 1994, the show made it to Broadway in 1998, and won the Tony Award for best play that season. It has been widely staged in the years since its debut. The revival is scheduled to begin performances on Aug 28 and to open Sept 16 at the Music Box Theatre. It is expected to run through Dec 21. The new production will be directed by Scott Ellis, a Broadway regular who is currently serving as interim artistic director of Roundabout Theater Company and who directed the 2025 production of Pirates! The Penzance Musical. The show is being produced by Sand & Snow Entertainment, a company founded by Michael Shulman, as well as by ATG Productions, led by Adam Speers, and Gavin Kalin. This star-led production is the latest example of a growing trend: Broadway producers are turning to limited-run plays featuring TV and film celebrities because those shows seem more likely to succeed. At a time when almost every new musical is failing financially, six of this season's plays have become profitable: Oh, Mary!, All In: Comedy About Love, Romeo + Juliet, Othello, Glengarry Glen Ross and Good Night, And Good Luck. Among those, Othello, Good Night, And Good Luck, and Glengarry Glen Ross star Oscar winners Denzel Washington, George Clooney and Kieran Culkin respectively. Corden, Harris and Cannavale are not just stars of the big and small screen – all three are experienced and accomplished stage performers. Corden and Harris are Tony winners – Corden in 2012 for One Man, Two Guvnors, and Harris in 2014 for Hedwig And The Angry Inch. Cannavale is a two-time Tony nominee. NYTIMES Join ST's Telegram channel and get the latest breaking news delivered to you.
New York Post
02-05-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Post
What do tickets cost to see Sarah Snook in ‘Dorian Gray' on Broadway?
Vivid Seats is the New York Post's official ticketing partner. We may receive revenue from this partnership for sharing this content and/or when you make a purchase. Featured pricing is subject to change. Sarah Snook is stretching the definition of 'one-woman show' on a nightly basis. The Emmy Award-winning 'Succession' actress — who was just nominated for a Tony — performs a whopping 26 (!) roles in 'The Picture of Dorian Gray' at Broadway's Music Box Theatre. Those parts include 'aristocrats, a bumbling artist, a cuckoo starlet and a vengeful brother' according to The Post, in their glowing 3.5-star review of the multimedia, Olivier-winning production that tells the story of a young man that makes a Faustian bargain to remain forever young in exchange for his soul. Advertisement 'It's an often breathtaking show with risk coursing through its veins,' The Post continued. 'If any of the army of cameras are on the fritz, if a single cue is missed, if sensational Snook skips a few lines, the whole impressive experiment comes crashing down.' While Snook is alone onstage, the high-flying show is anything but minimalist. Larger-than-life projections, pre-recorded videos, costume changes and props make for a one-of-a-kind theatrical experience dreamed up by Tony-nominated Kip Williams, who dreamed up the play in the depths of COVID, took it to Sydney's Roslyn Packer Theatre, then London's West End and now Broadway. If you want to see an inventive reimagining of Oscar Wilde's classic text before the Tony Awards on June 8 or before 'The Picture of Dorian Gray' officially closes on July 2, tickets are available for all upcoming performances. At the time of publication, the lowest price we could find on tickets for any one show was $139 before fees on Vivid Seats. Advertisement Other shows have tickets starting anywhere from $141 to $431 before fees. For more information, our team has everything you need to know and more about 'The Picture of Dorian Gray' on Broadway below. All prices listed above are subject to fluctuation. 'The Picture of Dorian Gray' ticket prices As of now, there are 63 performances of 'The Picture of Dorian Gray' remaining at the Music Box Theatre including quite a few 2 p.m. and 3 p.m. matinees. Below you'll find dates and start times of the ten shows with the cheapest ticket prices listed chronologically. Advertisement 'The Picture of Dorian Gray' dates Ticket prices start at Friday, May 9 7 p.m. $139 Sunday, May 11 3 p.m. $147 Tuesday, May 13 7 p.m. $147 Wednesday, May 14 7 p.m. $147 Thursday, May 15 7 p.m. $147 Friday, May 16 7 p.m. $147 Friday, June 20 7 p.m. $145 Saturday, June 21 8 p.m. $141 Sunday, June 22 3 p.m. $145 Wednesday, June 25 2 p.m. $146 The show runs two hours without an intermission. (Note: The New York Post confirmed all above prices at the publication time. All prices are in US dollars, subject to fluctuation and, if it isn't noted, will include additional fees at checkout.) Vivid Seats is a verified secondary market ticketing platform, and prices may be higher or lower than face value, depending on demand. Advertisement They offer a 100% buyer guarantee that states your transaction will be safe and secure and your tickets will be delivered prior to the event. Still curious about Vivid Seats? You can find an article from their team about why the company is legit here. About 'The Picture of Dorian Gray' 'There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about,' Oscar Wilde wrote in his timeless 1890 novel that inspired the show. In the years since, the once-controversial text has continued to stay a part of the cultural conversation. Over the past 135 years, the book has been adapted for the stage, film and even television in 'Penny Dreadful.' For the uninitiated, the story centers on Basil Hallward's portrait of Gray. He's enchanted by Dorian's appearance and paints the young man. With the universal knowledge that his looks will fade with time, Dorian decides to sell his soul and asks that, in return, the portrait ages in his place. Snook and director Williams' latest version of the show brings this vapidity to the 21st century, employing multiple cameramen to pull off the stunt where the actress — who goes broad here rather than subtle like she did so expertly in 'Succession' — can play multiple roles at once. 'At one absurd point, like a scene out of a 1990s comedy movie, seven Snooks eat dinner together,' The Post explains. Big stars on Broadway There's never a shortage of star power in midtown Manhattan. Advertisement If you're hoping to see a film or TV icon live onstage, here are just five shows featuring household names currently running on The Great White Way and elsewhere in the Big Apple. • Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal in 'Othello' • George Clooney in 'Good Night, and Good Luck' • Kieran Culkin, Bill Burr and Bob Odenkirk in 'Glengarry Glen Ross' Advertisement • Leslie Odom Jr. in 'Hamilton' • Idina Menzel in 'Redwood' Want to catch another decorated production or two, too? Take a look at our list of all the cheapest tickets for Tony-nominated 2025 shows to find the one for you. This article was written by Matt Levy, New York Post live events reporter. Levy stays up-to-date on all the latest tour announcements from your favorite musical artists and comedians, as well as Broadway openings, sporting events and more live shows – and finds great ticket prices online. Since he started his tenure at the Post in 2022, Levy has reviewed a Bruce Springsteen concert and interviewed Melissa Villaseñor of SNL fame, to name a few. Please note that deals can expire, and all prices are subject to change
AU Financial Review
23-04-2025
- Entertainment
- AU Financial Review
Dorian Gray is a homegrown Broadway smash. Local investors missed out
The Picture Of Dorian Gray has become the most successful Australian show in six years on Broadway, yet hardly any of its investors are Australian – with a lack of local incentives for theatre investment being blamed. The adaption of Oscar Wilde's classic by former Sydney Theatre Company artistic director Kip Williams, featuring Adelaide-born Succession star Sarah Snook in all 26 roles, is the first show to gross more than $US1 million ($1.6 million) a week at the 104-year-old Music Box Theatre on 45th Street, where it has played since March 10.
Sydney Morning Herald
22-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Sydney Morning Herald
Sarah Snook goes from Succession to success
Sarah Snook, the Adelaide girl made good, burst into the big leagues with her depiction of Roy family middle child Shiv on HBO hit Succession. Now, her star turn in a solo production of Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray, adapted for the stage by former Sydney Theatre Company artistic director Kip Williams, has wowed audiences in the theatre capitals of the world. After a huge run on London's West End, Snook's show hit Broadway this year, and a few big names have already popped up at New York's Music Box Theatre. Last week, terrifying fashion matriarch and Conde Nast boss Anna Wintour was seen at the New York show, as was underwear mogul Calvin Klein, both in row F. Wintour snuck out during curtain calls, presumably to avoid being mobbed by the next generation of aspiring Andy Sachs. Plenty of other celebrities have also popped up at the show in recent weeks, including Kylie Minogue. More layers of the onion CBD is thrilled to see Fox Corp director Tony Abbott livening up this snorefest election campaign. The onion-eating former PM blessed the fair shores of Victoria's bayside suburb of Frankston and continued his fine tradition of gaffes by referencing 'He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named' (Donald Trump). Australia is the best country in the world, Abbott told a gathering for local Liberal candidate Nathan Conroy, but the Liberals were best for 'making our country great'. Again. Abbott continued that the Best Country In The World™ is home to a 'green left' who 'just don't like Australians very much' and are 'in every sense' making our country 'poorer, weaker and more divided'. Time will tell whether insulting people will help the Libs win this federal election.
Chicago Tribune
17-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Chicago Tribune
‘Secret Mall Apartment' review: When an extra-special shopping trip lasts 4 years
Puccini's struggling poets and dreamers had their Parisian Latin Quarter in 'La Bohème,' which begat 'Rent' a century later, with its Lower East Side New York squatters singing of pricey, boutique Santa Fe, for some reason. The real world tells myriad stories of similar artistic spirits, finding a place to call their own. For example: In 2003, a group of Providence, Rhode Island, artists embarked on a project combining installation art and surreptitious living arrangements. The year before, they'd been booted out of the city's Eagle Square neighborhood, lined with decrepit but tantalizing old mill warehouses. The one they called home was in Fort Thunder, demolished for redevelopment like so many beautiful, usable ruins in so many other parts of America. What to do? Four of these Providence residents located a strange little tucked-away space in the bowels of the newly built Providence Place mall. For them, the mall exemplified everything not right with city officials and developers displacing entire waves of young artists, squatting or legally renting, in the name of better living through upscale retail. They found the space and sneaked in, wondering: Could they evade mall security for an entire week? They could. Four years later, their adaptive reuse project came to an end. The delightful and finally rather moving documentary 'Secret Mall Apartment,' opening April 18 at the Music Box Theatre, combines footage shot between 2003 and 2007 of this adventure with director Jeremy Workman's contemporary interviews with the key participants. It was, says one of the four down-low residents, a 'funny kind of teenage mall existence.' With Michael Townsend, a longtime instructor with the Rhode Island School of Design, as the seriously committed front man, Adriana Valdez-Young (married to Townsend at the time), Andrew Oesch, Jay Zehngebot and Townsend figured out the best ways to access their secret lair, one being through the mall's movie theater security doors. They ate a lot of popcorn during those four years. They 'borrowed' some furniture from the stores and eventually bought dozens of cinderblocks, matching their windowless cinderblock surroundings, walling off their apartment to keep security guards from discovering them too easily. Their weirdly cozy 750-square-foot studio layout, a tiny dot in a 3.5 million-square-foot hunk of capitalism, was to these bohemian commandos a rebuke to the city's destruction of their old neighborhood close to the mall. Townsend describes the off-the-books apartment this way: 'Like a barnacle on a whale.' If 'Secret Mall Apartment' stuck to a sardonic comic groove, it'd probably still be worthwhile. But director Workman and company find more than that, in a true story of a truly nutty living situation. Townsend and company's artistic endeavors during those four years truly meant something: They developed far-flung 'tape art' projects — silhouettes and Keith Haring-style graphic illustrations using masking tape — as part of site-specific work memorializing Sept. 11 and the Oklahoma City bombing, as well as dressing up a children's hospital interior. The mall project, which brought in a small, trusted group of other artist friends who came and went, served as their ironically unsafe safe space, while they poured their energy into some challenging and highly public work outside. Issues of urban renewal, the value of public art, the difficulty of being married to an obsessive artist and lots more run through Workman's film. It's consistently, thoughtfully engaging. And, yes, often very funny in its open-hearted embrace of the DIY spirit, legal or otherwise. 'Secret Mall Apartment' — 3.5 stars (out of 4) No MPA rating (some flagrant trespassing, nonviolent)
