Zero Mostel News

In a biographical solo play about a celebrity, you can usually count on a few things.

Jim Brochu channels Zero Mostel in 'Zero Hour,' his solo show about the outsized performer, at Theater at St.

One of my all-time favorite movies is the 1968 Mel Brooks comedy "The Producers," and this probably explains the soft spot I've always held in my heart for impresarios.

If ever there were a Broadway overachiever, it is Mel Brooks a outlandish a oeThe Producers,a a musical adaptation of his 1968 film comedy that starred Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder .

I bumped into Tony Walton, looking terrific, at the opening Wednesday night of "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum" at the Goodspeed Opera House in East Haddam.

Arrow Rock Lyceum Theatre officials recently unveiled the lineup of shows for the 2010 season, the theatre's 50th anniversary, according to an Oct.

When: Previews tonight until Wed., opens May 22 and continues until July 13 Tickets: Various prices at 604-687-1644 Jay Brazeau can turn a sushi lunch-break into a sight gag about getting a chopstick in the eye, while Josh Epstein talks about the case of nerves he had earlier this year producing his first stage show.

Though the members of the House Committee on Un-American Activities had a copy of Lucille Ball's signed 1936 communist registration card, they accepted her excuse that she joined the party just to please her grandfather, because her name wasn't Jaffe, Chodorov, Berman or Phillip Loeb.

ZERO MOSTEL WAS hailed as the greatest performer on the American stage, but his star has receded since his 1977 death.

On September 8, 1977, the Brooklyn-born comedic actor Zero Mostel died at the age of 62.

Here we are, back at Madame Tussauds's School of Drama. You may recall some of the other recent exhibitions: Valerie Harper at Arena Stage as Tallulah Bankhead ('Looped'), Emily Skinner at Signature Theatre in the guise of Mae West ('Dirty Blonde').

The fascination with celebrity impersonation goes on and on. And actors, being actors, seem to love nothing more than slipping into the skins of other actors. So now, the writer-performer Jim Brochu is moving among us, as the embodiment of the great Broadway clown Zero Mostel, in a polished if predictable solo show at Theater J.

It is no wonder Zero Mostel was a substantial man. No mere ectomorph could contain such a mass of contradictions.

" Peterborough comedian Sean Cullen will be stepping in play the role of Pseudolus in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival, it was announced yesterday.

Thirty-three years ago, a fragile, fetching actress made her film debut in a haunting little picture: 'The Front' with Woody Allen and Zero Mostel.

How big a bastard can Woody Allen build a screenplay around and still generate a modicum of audience goodwill? The answer: not this big.

By Susan L. Pe?a Reading Eagle Correspondent EPHRATA - When the 1968 Mel Brooks movie "The Producers," starring Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder, was still relatively new, I felt it was the funniest movie of all time.

There's one thing Woody Allen's protagonist in Whatever Works wants us to know about him: "Right off, I'm not a likable guy." In that spirit, let me say that Whatever Works is not a likable movie.

Plays by Neil Simon, Itamar Moses, Judy Gold, David Ives and more will punctuate the 2009-10 season at Theater J, the Washington, DC, company devoted to Jewish voices, stories and audiences.

Woody Allen needs no introduction. Love him or hate him, he's been making movies since 1966 and has been a major factor in our cultural consciousness.

To see or not to see? Should Ceal Phelan, playing the role of the insufferably righteous Sister Aloysius in the People's Light & Theatre Company stage version of Doubt, check out Meryl Streep's take on the same character in the recent movie? Should the two Bens - as lead actors Ben Lipitz and Ben Dibble are being referred to at the Walnut Street ...