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3 May 2012 9:31 AM, PDT | backstage.com | See recent Backstage news »

The first time Robert Falls and Brian Dennehy collaborated on a Eugene O'Neill play was in 1990, on "The Iceman Cometh" at Chicago's Goodman Theatre, where Dennehy played salesman Theodore "Hickey" Hickman -- a character he calls the "Mount Everest of American roles."Twenty-two years later, the dynamic duo's sixth O'Neill collaboration is a return to their first, but they're not doing it for each other. They're doing it for Nathan Lane."If you read the description of Hickey, it actually fits Nathan Lane to a tee," says Falls, who received a call from Lane saying he was obsessed with O'Neill's plays and wanted to do the role. "If you only know Nathan from his work in comedies and particularly musicals, you wouldn't realize what a great dramatic actor he is. I knew that it would be perceived as unconventional, compared to the other actors who played it, who've been principally tragic. »

- help@backstage.com (Suzy Evans)

9 April 2012 8:00 AM, PDT | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »

It has been a year since Sidney Lumet passed away on April 9, 2011. Here is our retrospective on the legendary filmmaker to honor his memory. Originally published April 15, 2011.

Almost a week after the fact, we, like everyone that loves film, are still mourning the passing of the great American master Sidney Lumet, one of the true titans of cinema.

Lumet was never fancy. He never needed to be, as a master of blocking, economic camera movements and framing that empowered the emotion and or exact punctuation of a particular scene. First and foremost, as you’ve likely heard ad nauseum -- but hell, it’s true -- Lumet was a storyteller, and one that preferred his beloved New York to soundstages (though let's not romanticize it too much, he did his fair share of work on studio film sets too as most TV journeyman and early studio filmmakers did).

His directing career stretched well over 50 years, »

- Oliver Lyttelton

16 March 2012 9:57 AM, PDT | backstage.com | See recent Backstage news »

Paul Giamatti is scheduled to take on the role of the pained Danish prince for the 2012-13 season at the Yale Repertory Theatre in New Haven, Ct. The Academy Award nominee ("Cinderella Man") and graduate of the school's theatre program will be conquering the role for the first time, a representative told The New York Times. This will be the actor's first appearance on the Yale Rep stage since his performance as Jaques in Shakespeare's "As You Like It" in 1994.The actor's noted works include the Emmy-award winning film "Sideways," "Cinderella Man," and HBO's "John Adams." His theatre credits include the 1997 revival of “Three Sisters” and the 1999 Broadway revival of "The Iceman Cometh.”Giamatti’s casting in the part came from an "ongoing dialogue" between Giamatti and the theater’s artistic director and dean of the Yale School of Drama, James Bundy, according to Steven Padla, a representative for the theater. »

- help@backstage.com (Briana Rodriguez)

15 March 2012 8:15 PM, PDT | Vulture | See recent Vulture news »

An alumnus of the university and its drama school, the 44-year-old Oscar nominee (Cinderella Man) is onboard to play the aggrieved Prince of Denmark at the Yale Repertory Theater in New Haven, Connecticut, in a run scheduled for March 15 through April 13, 2013. A rep for the theater told Arts Beat that the actor, whose theater credits include roles in The Iceman Cometh and Arcadia, has never played Hamlet before. But Giamatti is pretty remarkable at the disgruntled and sullen type and thus particularly well-equipped to portray a man suffering through the deaths of his father, lover, mother, and pretty much all of his friends. »

- Brett Smiley

6 February 2012 8:41 AM, PST | EW.com - PopWatch | See recent EW.com - PopWatch news »

Honeymoon in Vegas, a new musical based on the 1992 film starring Nicolas Cage and Sarah Jessica Parker, will open on Broadway in the spring of 2013, following a limited “pre-nuptial” engagement this Nov. in Toronto.

Tony Danza (Taxi, Who’s the Boss?) will star as Tommy Korman, a wealthy Vegas wise guy (played in the film by James Caan) who tries to break up the whirlwind Sin City wedding of a commitment-phobe and his fiancee, who bears an uncanny resemblance to Korman’s late wife.

Danza first appeared on Broadway in 1998 in A View from the Bridge before starring alongside Kevin Spacey »

- Marc Snetiker

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