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Cast for Broadway Musical 'Doctor Zhivago' Announced: West-End London's Tam Mutu to Play Lead

The long-awaited musical "Doctor Zhivago" has finally announced the cast for its up-and-coming broadway debut. Tam Mutu, a newcomer to the U.S. Broadway stage, will play the title role of Yurii Zhivago in this newest adaptation.Mutu, known as a West End of London stage actor, has been in Love Never Dies and the upcoming revival of Donmar Warehouse’s "City of Angels." He also had a recent role as Javert in "Les Miserables.""Doctor Zhivago" is based on the 1957 famous, epic, historical romance novel by Boris Pasternak and focuses on romance and upheaval in Russia during World War I. It tells the story of a political idealist who must choose between his devoted wife and mysterious lover. The famous novel was made into a film in 1965 and the original stage adaptation appeared at the La Jolla Playhouse in San Diego, California, in 2006. After its closing, it was reworked and ran at the Lyric Theater in Sydney, Australia, until 2011.
By Jaime Prisco

  • Step Toward Progress: Children's Theatre Updates 'Peter Pan's' Lost Boys to Girl Gang, NBC to Premiere Thursday

    In these progressive times, concerns over old productions — like the 100-year-old classic "Peter Pan" — are subject to revision. With a live production on NBC this Thursday, Dec. 4, starring Christopher Walken, Music Theatre International is considering updating the play's undertones of post-colonialism to a more politically correct version.Playwright and choreographer Larissa FastHorse felt it fit to produce a counterpoint to the famous "Lost Boys," which some feel is a crude assimilation of early Native American anxieties. Thus, she created a new gang of powerful and diverse girls, per (Minneapolis) "Star Tribune," now known as "The Pounce."Interesting, indeed.But the new idea became so immediately accepted by Music Theatre International, a licensing company that controls the performance rights to "Peter Pan," that it has been adopted as the new standard for any future staging.
    By Ian Holubiak

  • Dylan Baker ('The Good Wife,' 'Spider-Man 2'), Judith Ivey Joining Helen Mirren in Broadway's 'The Audience'

    Baker will play John Major and Ivey will channel Margaret Thatcher opposite Mirren's Queen Elizabeth II in the London import.
    By Jon Sobel