Time Stands Still At Broadway's Friedman Theatre Tonight

Time Stands Still, the new play by Pulitzer Prize winner Donald Marguilies (Dinner With Friends), begins performances at the Manhattan Theatre Club's Samuel J. Friedman Theatre tonight. The drama stars Laura Linney (most recently on Broadway in Roundabout Theatre Company's Les Liaisons Dangereuses) and Brian d'Arcy James (the original man behind the big green costume in Shrek on Broadway) as a couple, a photographer and a journalist, who have been covering war-torn lands. But, ironically, their lives are turned upside down when an injury means that they have to settle down into a more conventional lifestyle at home in New York City. Time Stands Still, which is directed by Daniel Sullivan, also stars Alicia Silverstone (Clueless, The Graduate on Broadway) and playwright/performer Eric Bogosian (Law & Order: Criminal Intent). The limited-run production will have its official Broadway opening on January 28 and has an expected closing date of March 21.

Guess Who's Coming to Broadway?

The 1967 Oscar-winning film Guess Who's Coming To Dinner? will be coming to Broadway in 2008 in a production directed by Kenny Leon and adapted for the stage by Todd Kreidler (from William Rose's screenplay). The movie starred Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn as a married couple who are surprised to find that their daughter is marrying a black man, famously played by Sidney Poitier.

Columbo Investigates Broadway

Yesterday in his New York Post column, Michael Riedel reported that TV detective Lt. Columbo may be bowing on Broadway in a new mystery soon. William Link, co-creator of the iconic character, has written a play called Columbo Takes the Rap, which was well received at the International Mystery Writers festival recently and is now expect to come to Broadway. Actor Norm Boucher has taken on the role of Columbo, which was played on TV so memorably by Peter Falk.

Claire Danes To Make Broadway Debut

Roundabout's upcoming Broadway revival of the George Bernard Shaw classic Pygmalion (which inspired the beloved musical My Fair Lady) will star Claire Danes as Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle. The production will begin performances on Broadway at the American Airlines Theatre on September 14.

Rock 'n' Roll on Broadway

Shortly after Tom Stoppard's trilogy The Coast of Utopia secured 10 Tony nominations comes the news that his latest play, Rock 'n' Roll, will open on Broadway on November 4. The cast of the London production, which includes Brian Cox, Rufus Sewell, and Sinead Cusack, will reprise their roles on Broadway. Rock 'n' Roll will begin preview performances on October 19 at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theater.

Journey's End Coming to a Close

Sadly, the excellent Broadway revival of R.C. Sherriff's WWI drama Journey's End has just announced it will be closing on June 10. The acclaimed production, starring Hugh Dancy and Boyd Gaines, received critical accolades and several Tony nominations, but it just couldn't find an audience.