POPCULTURE

Grammy Awards 2012: Bigger Audience than for the Oscars

One night after the music world lost one of its biggest stars, Whitney Houston, audiences flocked to the Grammy Awards on CBS, which drew in the neighborhood of 40 million viewers – a 28-year high for the show and a larger audience than four of the last six Academy Awards telecasts.

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Diner: From Screen to Stage

Barry Levinson and Cheryl Crow have teamed on a stage musical based on Levinson’s best picture to date, 1982 “Diner,” with the tuner aiming to land on Broadway in fall 2012.
Levinson pens the book with Crow on board for the music and lyrics. Kathleen Marshall, helmer of the Roundabout’s current hit revival of “Anything Goes,” [...]

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Sundance Institute Theatre Lab

New York, NY, Sep 16, 2011–The Sundance Institute Theatre Program is now accepting submissions for the 2012 Sundance Institute Theatre Lab, which will return to the Sundance Resort in Sundance, Utah for the first time since 2009. Under the supervision of Philip Himberg, Producing Artistic Director, and Associate Director Christopher Hibma, the three-week Lab (July 9-29, 2012) is the centerpiece of the Theatre Program’s year-round work and is designed to develop emerging and established artists and to create a place where their original work can be effectively mentored and challenged

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Chicago: Longest-Running American Musical

Next week, on August 27, 2011, Chicago will become the longest-running American musical in Broadway history.
The show, which features a score by John Kander and Fred Ebb and a book by Ebb and Bob Fosse, will play its 6,138th performance on August 27, passing A Chorus Line for the fourth spot on the all-time Broadway [...]

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