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British veteran actor, Sir Ian McKellen, has been taken to hospital after falling off the stage during a fight scene while performing in London's West End last night. McKellen was playing John Falstaff in “Player Kings,” a production of Henry IV, parts one and two, adapted and directed by Robert Icke, at the Noel Coward Theatre. Some in the audience reportedly thought it was part of the act, while others gasped as the 85-year-old lost his footing and fell off the stage in a scene with the Prince of Wales and Henry Percy. Doctors say McKellen is in "good sprits" and is expected to make a full r...
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New York (AFP) - Coming-of-age musical "The Outsiders" and "Stereophonic," a play about a 1970s band putting together an album, earned top honors Sunday at the Tony Awards, the highest accolades in American theater. The Broadway community celebrated its best and brightest at New York's Lincoln Center, hosted by Oscar winner Ariana DeBose for the third year running. "The Outsiders," a stage adaptation of the S.E. Hinton novel about class conflict between two high school gangs in Oklahoma in the 1960s, took home the award for best musical -- its fourth on the night, after best director, lighting...
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New York (AFP) - La comédie musicale "The Outsiders" et la pièce "Stereophonic", qui raconte l'histoire d'un groupe de musique des années 1970, ont été récompensées dimanche par les Tony Awards, les plus hautes distinctions du théâtre américain. Broadway a couronné ses meilleurs éléments au Lincoln Center de New York sous la houlette, pour la troisième année consécutive, de l'actrice oscarisée Ariana DeBose. "The Outsiders", adaptation théâtrale du roman de S.E. Hinton sur les conflits de classe entre deux gangs de lycéens dans l'Oklahoma des années 1960, a remporté les prix de la meilleure co...
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New York (AFP) - Chita Rivera, who electrified Broadway stages over six decades in shows including "West Side Story" and "Chicago" as one of the foremost entertainers of her generation, died Tuesday at age 91, her publicist said. Rivera -- a singer, dancer and actress -- died in New York after a "brief illness," her daughter Lisa Mordente said in a statement released by publicist Merle Frimark. Trained in voice, piano and ballet from a young age, Rivera was dancing on Broadway before she was 20 and kept at it all the way into her early 80s. Rivera became one of the most nominated actors in the...
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New York (AFP) - Tom Stoppard's play "Leopoldstadt," a look at how one Jewish family confronts anti-Semitism and loss, and intimate tragicomic musical "Kimberly Akimbo" earned the top prizes Sunday at the Tony Awards, the highest honors in American theater. Inclusion and identity were key themes on a night at which history was made -- J. Harrison Ghee in "Some Like It Hot" and Alex Newell in "Shucked" became the first openly nonbinary actors to win trophies for their work on Broadway. Winners, performers and presenters alike at the United Palace theater in Manhattan's Washington Heights neigh...
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New York (AFP) - After 35 years and almost 14,000 performances, the curtain fell for the final time Sunday on the longest-running show in Broadway history -- "The Phantom of the Opera." Since opening in January 1988, Andrew Lloyd Webber's megahit musical has wowed New Yorkers and tourists alike, becoming a symbol of the famous theater district. The melodrama about a masked musical genius who haunts the Paris Opera House and whose heart aches for the young soprano Christine has been seen by 20 million people and grossed over $1.4 billion in ticket sales. But producers decided it was time to end...
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New York (AFP) - A new Pulitzer Prize-winning musical about a young artist's inner demons is leading this year's Tony nominations announced Monday, with 11 chances at the highest honors in American theater. "A Strange Loop" will compete for the coveted best musical prize with "Girl From The North Country," a Depression-era show using the songs of Bob Dylan; "MJ," a jukebox musical about Michael Jackson; "Mr. Saturday Night," which remakes the beloved Billy Crystal film; "Six," a retelling of the lives of Henry VIII's wives; and "Paradise Square," about 19th-century era race relations in New Yo...
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New York (AFP) - Legendary Broadway songwriter Stephen Sondheim, widely credited with revolutionizing American musical theater, died Friday at the age of 91. Sondheim -- a lyricist and composer known for works including "West Side Story" and "Sweeney Todd" -- died suddenly in his Connecticut home the day after celebrating Thanksgiving with friends, his attorney F. Richard Pappas said. The publicist for the ongoing Broadway production of Sondheim's musical "Company" at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre, Rick Miramontez, confirmed the news to AFP. "We have lost the Shakespeare of musical theatre," s...
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New York (AFP) - Broadway on Sunday finally honored its best and brightest at the Tony Awards, more than a year late due to the coronavirus pandemic, with jukebox musical "Moulin Rouge!" sweeping the competition with 10 trophies. The event took on a new look this year: most of the awards were handed out in a two-hour ceremony livestreamed before the main event -- a concert celebrating the return of live theater in New York after an 18-month hiatus. "Everyone here is vaxxed and tested, and everyone is wearing a mask -- every Broadway theater is going to look like this for a while and that's ok...
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New York (AFP) - Broadway is not due to return until September but New York's longest-running play is already back thanks to its indomitable lead who has played the same role over 13,500 times. Catherine Russell, 65, is the driving force behind "Perfect Crime," a rollicking whodunit that has been on Big Apple billboards since 1987. "I'm very determined. And whenever people tell me, you can't do something, I'm like, 'Screw you. Watch me do it,'" she tells AFP. Not only is Russell the show's main actor, she is also the manager of the Theater Center that puts on the play and a "dynamo" according ...
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