Tuesday, October 27, 2009 10:35 PM
Scarlett on Broadway
J. Kelly Nestruck
The parade of Hollywood stars on Broadway just never ends: Scarlett Johansson will be making her debut on the Great White Way in January.
Following in Katie Holmes' footsteps, she will be doing so in an Arthur Miller play. She'll be playing opposite Liev Schreiber in A View From the Bridge.
Celebrity casting is all the rage on the Rialto right now, so much so that you can't throw a rock without hitting Sienna Miller or one of her ex-boyfriends. (Miller's in After Miss Julie, while Jude Law is doing Hamlet and Daniel Craig is starring with Hugh Jackman in A Steady Rain. My reviews of the two latter productions are here and here .)
While the starlets flock to Broadway, Canadians continue to congregate off-Broadway. A press release popped into my inbox this afternoon announcing that Tracey Erin Smith's The Burning Bush! , a popular Fringe show about a stripping Rabbi, will have a run in New York come Spring, venue and dates pending.
Don't want to make the trek? Smith will present her solo show for one night only in Toronto on November 16 at the Young Centre for the Performing Arts.
While I'm here blogging, here's an interesting chat between two of my favourite journalists: Dan Savage of Savage Love and Frank Rich, former theatre critic for the New York Times.
The occasion for this interview is that Rich was in Savage's Seattle to interview Stephen Sondheim on Monday night.
The famed musical composer - who has two shows at Stratford still running, and another still on at Shaw - has now popped north across the border to Vancouver. He'll be interviewed by critic Jerry Wasserman at the Vogue Theatre this very night at 7:30pm. More details on Wasserman's indispensible website, Vancouver Plays .
