Spring Awakening Co-Stars Groff and Michele Reunite on Fox's Glee
Here’s your daily dose of theater nerd news: Yesterday, EW’s Hollywood Insider announced that actor Jonathan Groff will appear in a few upcoming episodes of Fox’s new hit drama Glee. Groff, who starred for several years in the anachronistic Broadway revival of Frank Wedekind’s Spring Awakening (and recently appeared in Ang Lee’s Taking Woodstock) will play the leader of Vocal Adrenaline, the unmatched rival of McKinley High’s fledgling glee club.... read more
Found in: Culture, NewsGreen Day Play Moves Forward, as Movie Rumors Fly
In 2004, Green Day released American Idiot, a punk-rock opera that was written as an anthem to a generation fed up with the Bush Administration and everything that went along with it. For a while now, the band has been plotting a musical based on the album, to open early next month at California’s Berkeley Repertory Theatre. It was an unforeseen turn of events, to be sure (even frontman Billie Joe Armstrong told the New York Times, "It doesn't make a lot of sense."), but it's definitely going to happen, as the actors who will bring St. Jimmy, Jesus of... read more
Found in: Culture, NewsDuncan Sheik: Whisper House
Six albums in, Duncan Sheik deserves credit for... read more
Found in: Music, ReviewsDuncan Sheik talks Whisper House, covers album, more
Only two years after including "I Don't Believe in Ghosts" on... read more
Found in: Culture, NewsColin Meloy, Spring Awakening team in musical talks
Last week, we told you about the Decemberists' new album Hazards of Love and its past life as a would-be musical. We also mentioned that frontman Colin Meloy was "still working with" some producers on "another project” for the stage, and while we didn't expect to hear much else about it for a while, well, we have. ... read more
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