Photo Flash: Opening Night of Signature Theatre's The Fix - Mark Evans, Christine Sherrill and More!
Signature Theatre presents The Fix, directed by Signature Artistic Director Eric Schaeffer Broadway's Gigi, Follies, Million Dollar Quartet. Featuring a book by John Dempsey and music by Dana P. Rowe the creators of Brother Russia and The Witches of Eastwick, the show quickly became a favorite among Signature's artistic team during its U.S. premiere at the Theatre in 1998, cementing a longstanding relationship with Dempsey and Rowe. Running in the Max Theatre now through September 20, the inside-politics musical satire is the first production of Signature Theatre's 20152016 season. Check out a first look at the opening night shots below...
- 8/25/2015
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Signature Theatre presentsTHE Fix,directed by Signature Artistic Director Eric Schaeffer Broadway's Gigi, Follies, Million Dollar Quartet. Featuring a book by John Dempsey and music by Dana P. Rowe the creators of Brother Russia and The Witches of Eastwick, the show quickly became a favorite among Signature's artistic team during its U.S. premiere at the Theatre in 1998, cementing a longstanding relationship with Dempsey and Rowe. Running in the Max Theatre now throughSeptember 20, the inside-politics musical satire is the first production of Signature Theatre's 20152016 season. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the cast in action below...
- 8/19/2015
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Signature TheatrepresentsThe Fix, directed by Signature Artistic Director Eric Schaeffer Broadway's Gigi, Follies, Million Dollar Quartet. Featuring a book by John Dempsey and music by Dana P. Rowe the creators of Brother Russia and The Witches of Eastwick, the show quickly became a favorite among Signature's artistic team during its U.S. premiere at the Theatre in 1998, cementing a longstanding relationship with Dempsey and Rowe. Running in the Max Theatre tonight, August 11, throughSeptember 20, the inside-politics musical satire is the first production of Signature Theatre's 20152016 season.
- 8/11/2015
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Signature Theatre has announced the cast of The Fix directed by Signature Artistic Director Eric Schaeffer Broadway's Gigi, Follies, Million Dollar Quartet. Featuring a book by John Dempsey and music by Dana P. Rowe the creators of Brother Russia and The Witches of Eastwick, the show quickly became a favorite among Signature's artistic team during its U.S. premiere at the Theatre in 1998, cementing a longstanding relationship with Dempsey and Rowe. Running in the Max Theatre August 11 - September 20, the inside-politics musical satire is the first production of Signature Theatre's 20152016 season.
- 7/20/2015
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
It turns out it is all about who you know, after all – as Academy Award winner Stephen Gaghan is about to demonstrate, by bringing new drama White City to AMC. He will direct the pilot and serve as co-executive producer on the geo-political drama about Western diplomats and journalists in Afghanistan.
The central character will be Jon Liston, described as a ‘war junkie’ who has spent most of a decade in Kabul, up close and personal to the violence and destruction. The notable thing about this new series is that it comes from individuals who have done just that – and have spent time living in the same situation as their leading character.
Co-writers and co-executive producers Nick McDonell and John Dempsey have, it seems, pooled their collective experiences to create a thrilling new drama for the network. McDonell is a novelist and journalist with experience in Iraq and Afghanistan for Time Magazine,...
The central character will be Jon Liston, described as a ‘war junkie’ who has spent most of a decade in Kabul, up close and personal to the violence and destruction. The notable thing about this new series is that it comes from individuals who have done just that – and have spent time living in the same situation as their leading character.
Co-writers and co-executive producers Nick McDonell and John Dempsey have, it seems, pooled their collective experiences to create a thrilling new drama for the network. McDonell is a novelist and journalist with experience in Iraq and Afghanistan for Time Magazine,...
- 8/23/2014
- by Sarah Myles
- We Got This Covered
AMC has found a director for Afghanistan drama White City. The project, recently ordered to pilot, will be helmed by Stephen Gaghan. The writer and director, perhaps best known for his Oscar-winning adapted screenplay for Steven Soderberg's Traffic, also will serve as an executive producer on the project, which comes from novelist Nick McDonell and politico John Dempsey. Chris Mundy and Tom Freston also serve as executive producers. "Nick and John were actually staying at my house, fresh out of Kabul, when they were going around pitching the show," said Gaghan, who had exceptionally flattering words for
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- 8/22/2014
- by Michael O'Connell
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The tangled, complex nature of American foreign policy in the Middle East has proven to be extremely fertile ground for filmmakers over the past few years. FX’s Tyrant is currently exploring the geopolitics of a fictional Middle Eastern nation with shades of Iraq and Afghanistan, The Hurt Locker won an Oscar for tackling the dangerous days of a bomb squad in Iraq and Syriana dealt with issues of oil politics, to name a few of many. Now, AMC is gearing up for its own geopolitical drama by ordering a pilot for White City.
Hailing from co-writers and co-executive producers Nick McDonell, a journalist and novelist who has written about Iraq and Afghanistan for Time, and John Dempsey, senior advisor on Afghanistan to the late U.S. diplomat Richard C. Holbrooke, White City is described as “an adventure story set in the somewhat surreal ex-pat world of near-present Afghanistan.” More specifically,...
Hailing from co-writers and co-executive producers Nick McDonell, a journalist and novelist who has written about Iraq and Afghanistan for Time, and John Dempsey, senior advisor on Afghanistan to the late U.S. diplomat Richard C. Holbrooke, White City is described as “an adventure story set in the somewhat surreal ex-pat world of near-present Afghanistan.” More specifically,...
- 7/26/2014
- by Isaac Feldberg
- We Got This Covered
Signature Theatre is excited to announce that the 25th anniversary 201415 season will culminate in an all-new production of The Fix, the inside-Washington musical satire. Featuring a book by John Dempsey and music by Dana P. Rowe the creators of Brother Russia and The Witches of Eastwick, the show quickly became a favorite among Signature's artistic team during its U.S. premiere at the Theatre in 1998, cementing a longstanding relationship with Dempsey and Rowe.
- 12/18/2013
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Today we are talking to a familiar face to theatre fans who has appeared in a number of memorable roles on Broadway and elsewhere, in roles ranging from Les Miserables to The Fix to A Tale Of Two Cities and beyond - the passionate and thoughtful Natalie Toro. Discussing many of the details in the painstaking process in bringing her spectacular new holiday-themed album to life, song selection to overall style and sound, Toro shares stories from the studio as well as from her own life, having spent the better part of the last year preparing, recording, mastering and now finally releasing the album to the world - along with a few music videos, too. Speaking of which, Toro shines a light on the talented guest stars and collaborators that appear on the release, including Jon Secada and Ryan Kelly, with whom she stars in the new music video for Baby,...
- 12/5/2013
- by Pat Cerasaro
- BroadwayWorld.com
Breaking Bad’s home stretch has a premiere date, and is getting a talk show.
The final eight episodes of AMC’s acclaimed meth-drama will get underway starting Sunday, Aug. 11, the network announced at its upfront presentation to advertisers on Wednesday. The episodes technically represent the second half of the fifth season of the show.
AMC also announced its adding a post-episode chat show, Talking Bad. The network hopes to continue the success that it has enjoyed with its post-Walking Dead talk show, The Talking Dead. No word yet who will host.
The network is also developing a sci-fi drama titled Ballistic City,...
The final eight episodes of AMC’s acclaimed meth-drama will get underway starting Sunday, Aug. 11, the network announced at its upfront presentation to advertisers on Wednesday. The episodes technically represent the second half of the fifth season of the show.
AMC also announced its adding a post-episode chat show, Talking Bad. The network hopes to continue the success that it has enjoyed with its post-Walking Dead talk show, The Talking Dead. No word yet who will host.
The network is also developing a sci-fi drama titled Ballistic City,...
- 4/17/2013
- by James Hibberd
- EW - Inside TV
iTunes has released today the original off-Broadway cast recording of John Dempsey amp Dana P. Rowes production of Zombie Prom. Zombie Prom has music by Dana P. Rowe, book and lyrics by John Dempsey, based on a story by Dempsey and Hugh M. Murphy. Directed by Philip William McKinley, Orchestrations by Michael Gibson with musical direction by Darren R. Cohen.
- 8/15/2012
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Today we are talking to the composing half of one of the most talented and consistently exciting songwriting teams in musical theatre, DempseyRowe - the force behind Zombie Prom, The Fix, The Witches Of Eastwick, and, now, the brand new rock musical at Washington, D.C.s lauded and progressive Signature Theatre, Brother Russia - Dana Rowe. Discussing the finer details of his previous collaborations with John Dempsey on the West End iterations of The Fix and The Witches Of Eastwick, as well as their subsequent American premieres at the Signature, Rowe and I dissect his career thus far, with a particular focus on his edgy new hard rock theatre piece, Brother Russia, directed by frequent DempseyRowe director, previous InDepth InterView participant Eric Schaeffer. In addition to all about the boundary-breaking and genre-spanning Brother Russia and his other notable musicals, Rowe and I also outline his influences and his own personal favorite scores,...
- 3/31/2012
- by Pat Cerasaro
- BroadwayWorld.com
Today we are talking to one half of the supremely talented composing team responsible for Zombie Prom, The Fix, The Witches Of Eastwick, and, now, Brother Russia, the lyricist of the formidable DempseyRowe himself, John Dempsey. In this career-spanning conversation, Dempsey and I discuss major and minor details of his handful of skillfully written and entertaining shows written with the collaboration of composer Dana Rowe who will also be highlighted in this column next week, in particular their affiliation with legendary producer Cameron Mackintosh and Signature Theater founder and director Eric Schaeffer, director of the Us premieres of three of their musicals, including the most current one opening later this month - as well as touch on his work with Boublil amp Shonberg on The Pirate Queen and his musical adaptation of the religious-themed film Saved As if all of that were not enough, Dempsey and I also dissect the...
- 3/10/2012
- by Pat Cerasaro
- BroadwayWorld.com
The story of the controversial Mad Monk, Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin is now the subject of the new rock musical Brother Russia, which makes its world premiere at the Tony Award-winning Signature Theatre. The new musical features Music by Dana Rowe and Book and Lyrics by John Dempsey - the award-winning creators behind The Fix 1998 and The Witches of Eastwick 2007. Directed by Signature's Artistic Director Eric Schaeffer, the production will star John Lescault Signature's Art and The Lieutenant of Inishmore as the infamous and enigmatic Rasputin, Natascia Diaz Kiss of the Spider Woman at Signature, and Savage in Limbo at MetroStage, Doug Kreeger Signature's The Visit, Amy McWilliams Signature's The Witches of Eastwick and Urinetown, and Tracy Lynn Olivera Les Misrables and Merrily We Roll Along at Signature. Erin Driscoll, Stephen Gregory Smith, Rachel Zampelli, Russell Sunday, Kevin McAllister, and Christopher Mueller round out the cast for this world premiere event.
- 3/6/2012
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Buzz Bissinger received a torrent of abuse for saying the NBA's popularity is declining without white superstars. Now comes Jimmer Fredette, who's dominating March Madness chatter not because he's the best-but because he's white.
A couple of weeks ago I wrote a column about the specter of race in the National Basketball Association. I said the league's popularity was being affected because some white fans were turned off to a game in which there was not a single white American superstar.
Related story on The Daily Beast: January 10: 7 Best Moments from Sunday Talk
It was not pretty. Most of the cuts have healed except for the one on my elbow.
I fervently believe what I wrote. There was supporting evidence I should have put in but did not because a column is an opinion and space isn't unlimited at The Daily Beast. I have since discovered more compelling evidence.
A couple of weeks ago I wrote a column about the specter of race in the National Basketball Association. I said the league's popularity was being affected because some white fans were turned off to a game in which there was not a single white American superstar.
Related story on The Daily Beast: January 10: 7 Best Moments from Sunday Talk
It was not pretty. Most of the cuts have healed except for the one on my elbow.
I fervently believe what I wrote. There was supporting evidence I should have put in but did not because a column is an opinion and space isn't unlimited at The Daily Beast. I have since discovered more compelling evidence.
- 3/23/2011
- by Buzz Bissinger
- The Daily Beast
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