The Stage

STARSTRUCK, the eccentric space opera comedy by Elaine Lee and Wm. Michael Kaluta has led a varied multimedia history -- while it's now coming...

On Friday, KCRW will replay a 1991 radio adaptation of Vince Waldron's AMERICAN SPLENDOR stage play, starring Dan (Homer Simpson) Castellaneta. The original stage play (which we saw in person) was a wonderful adaptationof the late Harvey Pekar's work, and this version is has a lot of the same charms. The play will be available ONLY on air and by live stream and will not be available for download, so set those tape recorders.

The Boston Globe has a full report on a new comics/dance collaboration, to wit: Art Spiegelman, lit comics mainstay, is teaming with the famed Pilobilus dance troupe for a "multimedia homage to early-20th-century cartoons" called “Hapless Hooligan in ‘Still Moving’,’’ which premieres Thursday at Dartmouth College’s Hopkins Center for the Arts. The piece will feature characters based on Happy Hooligan, and Little Lulu and includes an homage to early animator Oskar Fischinger. Pilobilus is known for its abstract, athletic dance, and this piece includes dancers interacting with projected word balloons and other comics elements.

EW reports that Alan Cumming, who was slated to play the Green Goblin, has dropped out of the Spider-Man musical due to actually working,...

Via the Jack Kirby Museum, the tale of Jack Kirby's foray at costume design for the stage: In 1969, Sheldon Feldner contacted Marvel Comics, asking...

Disney, which has been a major player on Broadway since Beauty and the Beast and on with The Lion King, Mary Poppins and many...

http://www.youtube.com/v/D5xIJAD-Mec&hl=en_US&fs=1& If this doesn't make you smile, nothing will.

Last week's Spider-Man musical showdown seems to have had a successful conclusion, inasmuch as it resulted in positive press releases being sent out. Former...

UPDATE: It seems that today is the day of decision, as the NY Times and Post report. Today a meeting is being held to...

MAN WATCH: EW has a first look at Daniel Craig and Hugh Jackman in the Broadway play 'A Steady Rain', which, we're told, is...

One of the events we were most sorry to miss while away was the workshop premiere of A CHECKROOM ROMANCE by cartoonist/storyteller Ben Katchor...

http://www.indymogul.com/embed/player Up until now, Hugh Jackman has been able to keep his love of musical theater and his love of slicing people with his claws...