http://www.newser.com/2008 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorThu, 20 Nov 2008 1:54:50 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/43029/south-park-duo-to-skewer-mormons-on-broadway.html?refid=rss_all_defaultCanadians can rest easy. The creators of South Park are ready to offend an entirely new population—Mormons, reports the New York Post . This time, though, they will do so not on the big screen or the small screen but on Broadway. Trey Parker and Matt Stone are bringing the Mormon Musical to the Great White Way with the help of Avenue Q creator Robert Lopez.http://www.newser.com/story/43029/south-park-duo-to-skewer-mormons-on-broadway.html?refid=rss_all_defaultTue, 18 Nov 2008 14:31:54 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/42724/billy-elliot-dazzles-in-debut.html?refid=rss_all_defaultThe Broadway opening of Billy Elliot has critics dancing in the aisles—or at least wishing they could. The "smashingly realized" show "traffics in a particularly British brand of bitter treacle, wallowing in the glory of the bravely defeated and the pathos of small, trapped lives," writes Ben Brantley in the New York Times . But the story of a coal-miner's son who loves to dance turns "tripe into triumph." In fact, it's a "hard-times musical," says Brantley, which makes its US debut a good fit for today's times.http://www.newser.com/story/42724/billy-elliot-dazzles-in-debut.html?refid=rss_all_defaultFri, 14 Nov 2008 12:15:19 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/40181/holmes-holds-own-on-stage.html?refid=rss_all_defaultIn a perfect world, stars John Lithgow and Dianne Wiest would be the center of attention in the Broadway revival of Arthur Miller’s All My Sons . “In this world, however, Mrs. Tom Cruise is playing a supporting role,” writes Natalie Finn of E!. So with tabloid-lovers watching and Anonymous protesting outside, how did Katie Holmes do in her Broadway debut? Not bad, critics say, but not great.http://www.newser.com/story/40181/holmes-holds-own-on-stage.html?refid=rss_all_defaultFri, 17 Oct 2008 12:37:28 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/39338/broderick-to-return-to-broadway.html?refid=rss_all_defaultMatthew Broderick will return to Broadway next spring in a revival of "The Philanthropist," a comedy by English playwright Christopher Hampton. Broderick, in his first Broadway appearance since the 2005 revival of "The Odd Couple," portrays Philip, an insular college professor. Directed by David Grindley, the Roundabout Theatre Company production will open April 26, 2009.http://www.newser.com/story/39338/broderick-to-return-to-broadway.html?refid=rss_all_defaultTue, 07 Oct 2008 8:05:27 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/38502/revealing-radcliffe-carries-equus.html?refid=rss_all_defaultDaniel Radcliffe takes on a “mothball-preserved, off-the-rack part” as a teenage stable boy who blinds horses in the Broadway debut of Equus , and “wears it like a tailor’s delight,” writes Ben Brantley of the New York Times . Radcliffe’s “beautifully understated” acting and his “luminously intense eyes" dominate the dark psychodrama about our inner madness, Clive Barnes agrees in the New York Post.http://www.newser.com/story/38502/revealing-radcliffe-carries-equus.html?refid=rss_all_defaultFri, 26 Sep 2008 12:17:48 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/37879/scientology-protests-greet-katie-on-broadway.html?refid=rss_all_defaultKatie Holmes made her Broadway debut in All My Sons last night, but not before about 30 anti-Scientology protesters put on a show of their own outside Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre. The protesters, some masked, chanted "Scientology kills! and carried "FREE KATIE" placards. And, yes, her famous hubby showed up for moral support.http://www.newser.com/story/37879/scientology-protests-greet-katie-on-broadway.html?refid=rss_all_defaultFri, 19 Sep 2008 6:47:29 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/37537/gere-winger-may-reunite-on-broadway.html?refid=rss_all_defaultRichard Gere is weighing an offer to play the Spencer Tracy role in a Broadway production of Guess Who's Coming to Dinner? —opposite Debra Winger. The famously feuding co-stars of An Officer and a Gentleman haven't worked together since that 1982 smash hit. The production is stalled as producers search for a replacement for Bill Pullman, Fox News reports.http://www.newser.com/story/37537/gere-winger-may-reunite-on-broadway.html?refid=rss_all_defaultTue, 16 Sep 2008 7:28:38 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/37557/kushner-first-to-win-200k-prize-for-playwrights.html?refid=rss_all_defaultTony Kushner will be the first recipient of a new biennial prize for playwriting, with a whopping $200,000 purse the benefactors hope will allow recipients to focus full-time on not-so-lucrative theater. Although Kushner is widely regarded as one of America's greatest dramatists, he has spent the past several years writing screenplays in Hollywood, the New York Times reports.http://www.newser.com/story/37557/kushner-first-to-win-200k-prize-for-playwrights.html?refid=rss_all_defaultTue, 16 Sep 2008 6:30:30 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/36833/its-curtains-for-rent-after-12-years.html?refid=rss_all_defaultTwelve years and 5,124 performances later, Broadway bids adieu today to Rent , the New York Daily News reports. The beloved musical, which follows a group of bohemians and street folk through AIDS-ravaged, early-1990s East Village, “speaks to people's hearts," an original cast members tells the AP. It also spoke their wallets: The award-winning musical has grossed more than $280 million on Broadway.http://www.newser.com/story/36833/its-curtains-for-rent-after-12-years.html?refid=rss_all_defaultSun, 07 Sep 2008 15:56:49 CDT