Tony Goldwyn joins 'Network,' and more theater news
Tony Goldwyn will co-star with Bryan Cranston and Tatiana Maslany in "Network," which opens on Broadway in December. Credit: Getty Images/Michael Tran
THE SHOW "Network"
THE DEAL Tony Goldwyn has joined the cast of the stage adaptation of the 1976 film satirizing television news, alongside the previously announced Bryan Cranston and Tatiana Maslany. He will play Max Schumacher, the veteran news executive played on-screen by William Holden, who has an affair with shameless producer Diana Christensen (Maslany) and watches as newsman Howard Beale (Cranston) undergoes a mental breakdown. Previews begin at Broadway's Belasco Theatre on Nov. 10 and the show officially opens on Dec. 6.
THE SHOW "Where the Wild Things Are"
THE DEAL Maurice Sendak’s classic children’s book has already been adapted into a 1984 opera and a 2009 film. Now it will now be turned into a stage play, to be produced by Off-Broadway’s New Victory Theater, which imports kid-friendly productions from around the world each year. In a statement, Arthur Yorinks, who will pen the adaptation, said, “Maurice and I believed that good theater for a family audience should not talk down to its audience and should in no way diminish what is presented for the sake of its audience.” The stories comprising Sendak’s “The Nutshell Library” previously served as the basis for the children’s musical “Really Rosie.”
THE SHOW "They’re Playing Our Song"
THE DEAL Lucie Arnaz and Robert Klein, the original stars of the 1979 hit two-person musical “They’re Playing Our Song,” which had a score by Marvin Hamlisch and Carole Bayer Sager and a book by Neil Simon, will headline a 40th anniversary reunion concert of the musical Feb. 11 at Broadway’s Music Box Theatre. The event will serve as a benefit for The Actors Fund, which last year produced a reunion concert of “Thoroughly Modern Millie."
THE SHOW "Great Performances"
THE DEAL It's showtime for another edition of "Broadway's Best" on the venerable PBS series Friday nights in November. This season's lineup consists of "An American in Paris: The Musical" on Nov. 2, "Rodgers & Hammerstein's The Sound of Music" on Nov. 9, and the documentaries "John Leguizamo's Road to Broadway" on Nov. 16 and "Harold Prince: The Director's Life" on Nov. 23. Each show will air at 9 p.m. on WNET/13.
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