Three Stage Adaptations Bring Intimate Stories to Screen — And Hopes for a Return to Live Theater (Guest Blog)

Leading the charge this week in streaming and specialty titles is Netflix with two films that have been garnering awards season buzz with their star wattage and prestige storytelling.

Much of Ryan Murphy’s star-studded “The Prom” is set in Indiana, around the high school that is the location of the film’s title event. But the first 13 minutes of the movie take place on a block of the Broadway theater district in New York.

Kate Aurthur editorWhen filmmakers gather these days, the conversation tends to turn to how the coronavirus pandemic has decimated movie theaters — as well as to the related topic of Warner Bros.’ bombshell decision to stream its entire 2021 slate on HBO Max the same day they’re to be released theatrically. During a panel among screenwriters for Variety‘s inaugural FYC Fest, Judd Apatow (Universal’s “The King of Staten Island”), Aaron Sorkin (Netflix’s “The Trial of the Chicago 7”), Emerald

Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorWhen Ryan Murphy called Broadway choreographer Casey Nicholaw to oversee the dance numbers on his film adaptation of “The Prom,” about a group of self-absorbed theater actors who go to a conservative Indiana town to support a lesbian high school student’s dating choice, it was a sort of return engagement.

Actress Ann Reinking has died aged 71. The dancer and actress, who won a Tony award for choreographing the hit Broadway revival of Chicago in 1997, passed away in Washington on Saturday.

Peyton List, who appeared in the first three seasons, returns for the season opener.Set in the fictional titular town,follows 12-year-old Griffin Campbell (Preston Oliver), whose world has been upended by his father's decision to move the family from Chicago to take over an abandoned hotel property, The Tremont. The Campbells, which includes Griffin's mother and his younger twin siblings, move into The Tremont in hopes of restoring it to the vacation destination it once was.

Indiana Jones 5 will be the last in the franchise, Disney has revealed.Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy confirmed the news at Disney’s Investor Day yesterday (December 10), saying that the upcoming movie would be the “fifth and final” film in the series.Logan filmmaker James Mangold will be directing the upcoming film, making this the first Indiana Jones film directed by someone other than Steven Spielberg.Harrison Ford will be returning to reprise his role as the titular character in the

Harrison Ford will be reprising one of his most famous role for the newest installment of “Indiana Jones”.

Broadway has been dark since mid-March, when the coronavirus pandemic began surging in the New York area and forced mass gatherings to take an extended pause.

Also Read: Legendary Signs 'Y: The Last Man' and 'Runaways' Creator Brian K. Vaughan to Multi-Year Overall Deal“Buck Rogers” has been adapted into various comic strips, a movie serial, radio and television shows.

Paul Phillips, a stage manager on such legendary Broadway productions as Sweet Charity, Mame, Pippin and Chicago, died Saturday of natural causes in Naples, Florida, a family spokesman said. He was 95.

Paul Phillips, whose long career as a Broadway stage manager included work on such notable productions as Sweet Charity, Mame, Chicago and, in 1967, the now historic Judy Garland at Home at the Palace, died Dec. 5 of natural causes in Naples, Florida. He was 95.

Dionne Warwick gained a lot of attention in the past few weeks for her Twitter posts.

Dionne Warwick engaged in a friendly back and forth with Chance The Rapper on Twitter this weekend, after asking the Chicago MC about his stage name.Last night (December 5), the legendary singer tweeted Chance about the redundancy of his rap alias.“Hi, @chancetherapper,” Warwick wrote. “If you are very obviously a rapper why did you put it in your stage name? I cannot stop thinking about this.”She followed it up with another tweet that said: “I am now Dionne the Singer,” before adding that

Despite its all-star pedigree, Ron Howard's Hillbilly Elegy, starring Amy Adams and Glenn Close, has been criticized online since it debuted on Netflix last week.

A group of Florida teens has reportedly apologized to a restaurant owner after vandalizing the business over its mask policy over the weekend. Four teenagers were denied entry to Ms.