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The times may change, but the streets of New York remain the same for the Irish Repertory Theatre’s holiday production of “The Streets of New York,...

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Irish Repertory Theatre brings back its adaptation of Dion Boucicault's play 20 years after its premiere.

Chris Pine is set to portray legendary CBS news anchor Walter Cronkite on the big screen. Pine, 38, will play the central role in the movie Newsflash, which has a script from Ben Jacoby.

Irish Repertory Theatre announced today casting and additional creative team members for The Streets of New York by Dion Boucicault, featuring adaptation, songs & direction by Charlotte Moore. The Streets of New York will begin previews on December 4, 2021, with an opening night scheduled for December 14 and a limited run through January 30, 2022.

ESSEX — Tonight, the Essex Experience will give Vermont Broadway fans a taste of the theater with the launch of the “T-Rex Broadway Series” at the Double E Performance Center.

The shows are part of the Double E Performance Center’s T-Rex Broadway Series

Scarface and the Untouchable series in development at Showtime Al Capone and Elliot Ness will once again battle as Deadline reports that Showtime is developing Scarface and the Untouchable, a series lawman Ness’ crusade to bring down infamous gangster Capone in Prohibition-era Chicago. The series comes from producer Alex Kurtzman ( Star Trek: Picard) and writer Ben Jacoby ( Newsflash). Scarface and the Untouchable will be based on Scarface and the Untouchable: Al Capone, Eliot Ness and the ...

Posted on Monday, May 3rd, 2021 by Chris Evangelista The story of Al Capone and Eliot Ness will be dramatized yet again, this time for the Showtime series  Scarface and the Untouchable. The series is based on the non-fiction book by Max Allen Collins and A. Brad Schwartz, and “chronicles the lives of gangster Al Capone and his lawman nemesis, Eliot Ness in Prohibition-era Chicago.” The tale of Capone and Ness has been told before in multiple forms of media, including the  Untouchables ...

Scarface and the Untouchable: Showtime Lands Capone/Ness Mob Series Posted on Al Capone and Eliot Ness seems to get a new retelling every 30 years or so. Scarface and the Untouchable is the latest version, a TV series being developed for Showtime by Alex Kurtzmans Secret Hideout, run by Heather Kadin and CBS Studios. The series is based on the nonfiction book Scarface and the Untouchable: Al Capone, Eliot Ness and the Battle for Chicago by Max Allen Collins and Ben Jacoby ( Newsflash, F...