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Billy Corgan Considering Writing Music for Broadway?

An article published yesterday in the New York Post reported that The Smashing Pumpkins' lead singer, lead guitarist and songwriter Billy Corgan is interested in composing music for musical theater, specifically a Broadway production.  read more

"The Wii Plays" Presents Videogames, Adapted to the Stage

For many there remains a stubborn and irrational fear of looking at the common roots videogames share with other art forms. Call it a lingering inadequacy complex—an anxiety over being seen as inadequate when the creative scope is widened from fun and quirk to issues of love, identity, moral dilemma, and death anxiety. These have been the emotional fixations of art yet they’re subjects videogames remain hesitant to address....  read more

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

Neil Gaiman's Coraline to hit off-Broadway, on-screen

In Coraline, the 2002 young adult novella by acclaimed fantasy author Neil Gaiman, the young title character discovers an alternate universe populated by the mysterious doppelgangers of her loving but distant parents, and must scrape by on her own wits to escape. Often compared to Alice In Wonderland, it’s a compelling story—and sturdy enough, one hopes, to be retold in three different way throughout the next year.   ...  read more