Broadway magic? A new play is in the works for Broadway, set on the rivalry and friendship between NBA legends Magic Johnson and Larry Bird. The play is in its casting phase right now, which The Wall Street Journal noted was a blessing for the vertically-blessed. | And if you like your hardwood stories with […]
6 minutes with … kristin chenoweth
Really though, “it must be love.” (Photo by Benjamin Snyder) If you’re not a New Yorker then chances are you aren’t familiar with the brilliance that is New York magazine. Yes, it has a good national presence, so perhaps you’ve at least heard of these folks. But they have a running feature in their mag […]
short balls: finals weekend awaits
Two to go. Before we turn the corner to the weekend, there’s plenty happening outside of Paris that has caught our eye the last few days. The June/July issue of Tennis View has Andre Agassi on its cover (full disclosure: I wrote one of the articles in the mag), talking about the American’s upcoming induction into […]
now opening on (tsf’s) broadway: tennis, the musical
We found a picture of a tennis net on a stage. No, don’t get too excited. It’s just visual enhancement. (Photo by alliancetheatre via flickr.) Just in time for the US Open, TSF presents our interview with tennis/Broadway expert, Bob Kim. This interview is about the two worlds of tennis and Broadway colliding and the […]
tennis gets nod on stage in ‘pool boy’
A new musical in previews, Pool Boy, gives a nod to the sport of tennis in this shot from its run in Pittsfield, Mass. Broadway’s Jay Armstrong Johnson and Sarah Gettelfinger star in the show about a pool attendant trying to make it big in show biz. Johnson, at right, is pictured with John Hickok. […]