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Woody Allen returns to Broadway next year, for his first ever stage musical. Directed by Susan Stroman and starring Zach Braff, Allen’s 1994 film Bullets Over Broadway will get the song and dance treatment. Due to open 11 March 2014, tickets will go on sale 31 August 2013. Work is definitely moving along. Rehearsals have […]
News Bits: Our twice monthly round-up of Allen news from around the web. It’s a relatively quiet couple of weeks for news bits, but here’s what we have. Buzzfeed have picked up on a new Woody Allen map. There have been many guides to Woody Allen’s New York, but this is by far one of […]
‘Scrubs‘ star Zach Braff has been announced as the star of the Bullets Over Broadway Musical, the Broadway adaptation of Woody Allen’s 1994 film. The musical is set to open in 2014 at the St James Theatre. Braff will play playwright David Shayne, a role originated by John Cusack. Vincent Pastore (‘The Sopranos‘) will play […]
Not one to ever stay still, Woody Allen is bringing his 1994 film Bullets Over Broadway to Broadway – as a musical. We’ve already announced the theatre and the creative crew behind the new production. An Equity casting notice has now revealed the progress of the production, due to debut in 2014. This week, the […]
We’ve been searching out old Celebrity-era interviews since we reviewed it, and came across this – a 45 minute, full show interview between Allen and Michael Parkinson. Parkinson is one of the most revered TV hosts in the UK, and was granted very special access to Allen. The fascinating interview is highlighted by Parkinson’s brave […]
A brief update on Bullets Over Broadway musical, the Broadway update of Woody Allen’s 1994 crime-comedy. We now have a theatre and a new opening date, thanks to multiple sources. The new production is directed by Susan Stroman and produced by Julian Schlossberg (who worked with Allen on ‘Relatively Speaking‘) and Letty Aronson, Allen’s long […]
We have reached into Bullets Over Broadway in our series of reviews, which truly begins the era of Woody Allen surrogates. Some good, some bad – they are a long line of people doing Woody Allen impersonations. It got us thinking about the very best ones – and these two came to mind. Hailing from […]
Woody Allen said in Manhattan that art is what living is for. But is it worth killing for? That’s the big question at the heart of this delightful film. Full of humour and crazy characters, but also deeply resonate and with big ideas. It has a style and substance that is part of all his […]
Don’t Drink The Water is sometimes left off some lists of Woody Allen films because of one reason – it was made for TV. And in many ways it looks like it, with a clearly reduced budget. It’s also not a new script – it’s a Woody Allen play from 1966 newly adapted for the […]
Bullets Over Broadway is coming to, well, Broadway. Set for the 2013-2014 season, it will take the 1994 Woody Allen comedy to the stage with music of the period. We now have more details of the Tony Award winning production team behind it. Five time Tony Award winner Susan Stroman (who previously worked on ‘The […]
LOCO Film Festival are an organisation that supports and promotes comedy in British film. But this year, they’ve found time to celebrate Woody Allen, and are holding the first ever Woodystock at Hackney Picturehouse in London. A night of film, comedy, readings and music, it will be held on December 1 – Woody Allen’s 77th […]
The wonderful film magazine/blog TotalFilm make great lists. Their latest list is very dear to our hearts. They’ve picked and listed the 50 Greatest Woody Allen Characters. It’s the first such poll we’ve seen. There’s plenty of lists of greatest Woody Allen films, but to focus on characters is very clever and refreshing. The full […]
News Bits from around the web. Usually monthly but with so much going on, we thought we’d do a mid-month update. Meets Obsession, a fashion blog, has picked Annie Hall to feature in it’s Icon Archives series. They discuss a bit about Annie Hall’s fashion and style, including it’s influence on Marc Jacobs. Talenthouse has […]
The excellent Flavorwire recently made this video, and it’s a lot of fun. With Woody Allen appearing less and less on screen as the years pass, Flavorwire has compiled all the Woody Allen surrogates into one video. Some are Woody when he was young (such as Seth Green in Radio Days). Others, such as Michael […]
Woody Allen’s 1994 film Bullets Over Broadway is heading to Broadway – as a musical. The show will be directed and choreographed by Susan Stroman, who took the same role for the Tony Award winning The Producers. ‘Bullets Over Broadway‘ tells the story of David Shayne, a struggling playwright who gets involved with the mob. […]