Topic: Des McAnuff
Veteran stage and screen actor Christopher Plummer has rarely delivered anything less than a great performance whatever the project. However, he really brings his A-game to the role of Prospero, the central character of William Shakespeare's last - and arguably greatest - play ...
Gounod's Faust was once one of the most performed operas in the repertoire. It is the opera in which the award-winning Canadian-American director Des McAnuff, famous for Jersey Boys and The Who's Tommy, makes his UK opera d??but. In ...
LONDON (Reuters Life!) - Not everyone can walk from an opera house where he is directing Gounod's "Faust" half a mile to the theater where his musical "Jersey Boys," about the Four Seasons pop group, is in the third year of its ...
Christopher Plummer will tackle `The Tempest' at Stratford Shakespeare FestivalChristopher Plummer already has tackled such indelible and diverse roles as King Lear, Julius Caesar and John Barrymore at Canada's Stratford Shakespeare Festival.Next up for the Tony-winning actor is Prospero, the ...
When you see a guy heave a long-winded sigh, you can bet that he's coming from Guys and Dolls. Call it dumb, call it clever-but it's a so-so endeavor, this uneven revival of Guys and Dolls.. This tour of Damon ...
A high-concept, high-tech, yet disappointing 'Guys and Dolls' hits Times SquareNicely-Nicely Johnson. " Unfortunately, the curiously bland results don't translate into high entertainment.What's missing in this ambitious production, which opened Sunday at Broadway's Nederlander Theatre, is the raffish charm ...
'Guys and Dolls' is set for a spring return to Broadway with Des McAnuff directingSky Masterson, Nathan Detroit, Sarah Brown and Miss Adelaide are returning to Broadway.A revival of " Guys and Dolls," the classic musical about the raffish Damon Runyon denizens ...
Theatrical director Des McAnuff, 55, has earned both popular and critical success for such Broadway hits as Big River (1985), The Who's Tommy (1993) and the Four Seasons musical Jersey Boys, which opened in 2005. A two-time Tony Award winner, McAnuff ...
Aaron Sorkin Will Return to Broadway This Fall With `The Farnsworth Invention'Aaron Sorkin is trading the Sunset Strip for Broadway.The creator of television's "The West Wing" and "Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip" will return to Broadway this fall ...