Carol Burnett Is Recipient of 2013 Mark Twain Prize
The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts will award the 16th annual Mark Twain Prize for American Humor to stage and screen star Carol Burnett. The evening will be filmed for future broadcast on PBS stations nationwide.
"On Stage Across America," a new monthly series uniting Playbill Magazine and Time Warner Cable news channel NY1, will launch in June, bringing in-depth theatre coverage to television viewers across the U.S.
Amanda Green, who received her first Tony Award nomination this season for the Best Original Score of Hands on a Hardbody, fused the worlds of Hardbody and her Tony-nominated Best Musical Bring It On: The Musical with a concert version of her first Broadway outing, the short-lived rock show High Fidelity.
Musical theatre fans began rejoicing when Deadline.com recently reported that 20th Century Fox had acquired the rights to a film remake of the musical Guys and Dolls.
This month's column looks at Blu-ray releases of the Chaplin classic, "Monsieur Verdoux"; Laurence Olivier's stunning "Richard III"; and the Douglas Fairbanks swashbuckler, "The Thief of Bagdad."
