Lonny Price: Last News

Gabriel Byrne's Broadway show Walking with Ghosts will close early amid poor box office returns.Producers Anne Clarke, Mara Isaacs, and Neal Street revealed the news about the solo show at the Music Box Theatre, Deadline reported Wednesday.Walking with Ghosts opened October 27, and is slated to wrap up November 20; it had been scheduled originally to run through December 30. The latest: Gabriel Byrne's Broadway show Walking with Ghosts will close early amid poor box office returns.

Merrily We Roll Along. Sondheim acolytes are well versed in the show’s difficult past that dates back to the original 1981 Broadway production.Hal Prince, a longtime collaborator with Sondheim, mounted the show with a teenage cast who played the characters as both their younger and adult selves. It didn’t work.

Gordon Cox Theater Editor Jason Alexander’s latest theater project, the new comedy “The Cottage,” opened on Broadway last night — and it’s just the first of a string of theater projects that stand poised to keep the former “Seinfeld” star busy in the theater for the next year or more. Listen to this week’s “Stagecraft” podcast below: Alexander revealed what he’s got coming up on the latest episode of “Stagecraft,” Variety‘s theater podcast.

Gabriel Byrne’s Broadway solo show Walking With Ghosts will play its final performance on Sunday, November 20, a week shy of a month after its Oct. 27 opening at the Music Box Theatre.

Actor Gabriel Byrne will bring his solo show Walking with Ghosts to Broadway this Fall, with a limited engagement of the production, directed by Lonny Price, beginning performances on Oct. 18 at the Music Box Theatre.

Nearly 35 years after the original Dirty Dancing hit theaters, a new sequel is in the works, with Jennifer Grey slated to return.Lionsgate made the announcement during their CinemaCon presentation on Thursday evening, via EW.While no further details were given, a voiceover during the presentation simply said, 'Jennifer Grey returns to Kellerman's in the next chapter,' with Kellerman's the upscale Catskills resort where the original 1987 classic was set. Sequel:Nearly 35 years after the original Dirty Dancing hit theaters, a new sequel is in the works, with Jennifer Grey slated to return Baby returns:While no further details were given, a voiceover during the presentation simply said, 'Jennifer Grey returns to Kellerman's in the next chapter,' with Kellerman's the upscale Catskills resort where the original 1987 classic was setThe original movie followed Grey's character, Frances 'Baby' Houseman, who spends the summer of 1963 at Kellerman's with her family.During her stay, she starts falling for the resort's dance instructor, Johnny Castle, played by the late great Patrick Swayze, who passed away from stage IV pancreatic cancer in 2009 at 57 years of age.The film also starred Jerry Orbach, Cynthia Rhodes, Jack Weston, Kelly Bishop, Jane Brucker, Lonny Price and Wayne Knight.

By Greg Evans