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Spinning the saga of Spider-Man

Try to recreate that on stage ... scene from Spider-Man 3 The theme song to the Spider-Man animated series celebrates its arachnid hero with the lines: "Wealth and fame/He's ignored/Action is his reward." Perhaps someone should trill those words into ...

From ALEXIS SOLOSKI, Guardian Unlimited,  23 Nov 2009

Squealing with Glee: why kids love Fox TV's new high school musical | Alexis Soloski

Meet the glee club kids ... the cast of season one. Photograph: 20th Century Fox/Everett/Rex Set in the brutish environs of a midwestern American high school, Glee centres on the jocks, cheerleaders and musical-theatre geeks who constitute the Glee ...

From ALEXIS SOLOSKI, Guardian Unlimited,  19 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Lea Michele,  Kristin Chenoweth,  Idina Menzel,  CBC,  Ryan Murphy

Not quite butchered on Broadway

Sienna Miller comes on stage in Patrick Marber's After Miss Julie shortly after 8pm. At the same time, a few blocks away, two of Miller's former beaus, Jude Law and Daniel Craig, are also stepping on stage, in Hamlet and A Steady Rain, respectively. ...

From ALEXIS SOLOSKI, Guardian Unlimited,  23 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Sienna Miller,  Patrick Marber,  Jude Law,  Daniel Craig,  James Franco

Alexis Soloski reviews Daniel Craig and Hugh Jackman in A Steady Rain on Broadway

I – possibly like women everywhere – have cheered myself with thoughts of Daniel Craig and Hugh Jackman on many a dull evening. Now, on Broadway, we have both for the price of one: the pair are starring together in Keith Huff's A Steady Rain, a ...

From ALEXIS SOLOSKI, Guardian Unlimited,  1 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Daniel Craig,  Hugh Jackman,  John Crowley

Does Mamet still matter?

Into the mystic ... Elizabeth McGovern in Mamet's The Shawl at the Arcola Theatre. Photograph: Robert Workman "How right is John Heilpern anyway?" you might ask, and New York audiences now have ample opportunity to answer. This season boasts no fewer ...

From ALEXIS SOLOSKI, Guardian Unlimited,  28 Sep 2009
Related Topics: Elizabeth McGovern

How does theatre see theatre?

Blood on the stage ... In plays such as Six Characters in Search of an Author, metatheatre leads to violence. Photograph: Tristram Kenton One doesn't like to quibble with Shakespeare, but I'm not certain all the world's a stage. (Or maybe I merely lack ...

From ALEXIS SOLOSKI, Guardian Unlimited,  22 Sep 2009
Related Topics: George S. Kaufman,  Euripides,  Quentin Tarantino

Woodstock the Musical coming to Broadway

A great big song and dance... can Broadway capture the Woodstock spirit? Photograph: Bill Eppridge/Time Life Pictures It's been a while since Uptown audiences could expect a psychedelic experience on the Great White Way (though I suppose some could ...

From ALEXIS SOLOSKI, Guardian Unlimited,  16 Sep 2009
Related Topics: Great White (musician),  Joan Baez,  Pete Townshend,  Grace Slick,  Ang Lee

Should Broadway be banking on West End transfers? | Alexis Soloski

With lower production costs and proven success, loyalists of the Great White Way should celebrate British theatre imports – not be anxious A soaring success ... Kiril Kulish as Billy Elliot, left, and Stephen Hanna perform in the Broadway production of ...

From ALEXIS SOLOSKI, Guardian Unlimited,  27 Aug 2009
Related Topics: New York Times Company,  Jude Law,  Patrick Marber,  Daniel Craig,  Sienna Miller

Theatre festival fatigue in New York | Alexis Soloski

Made in Manhattan … A Christo & Jeanne-Claude art installation in Central Park. Photograph: Timothy A Clary/AFP/Getty While the British theatre scene prepares for Edinburgh, in New York, the International Fringe festival begins on 14 August, and I've ...

From ALEXIS SOLOSKI, Guardian Unlimited,  4 Aug 2009

Gender bias exists in the theatre, but not in the way you might think | Alexis Soloski

In his 1916 work, A Book About the Theatre, the estimable scholar Brander Matthews offered a succinct explanation for why women should not write plays. Ladies, he wrote, do not possess "the inexhaustible fund of information about life which is the ...

From ALEXIS SOLOSKI, Guardian Unlimited,  29 Jun 2009

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