all my sons

‘Strangely Shrill’ Katie Holmes Hijacks Broadway

2:40AM STV | The Katie Holmes Road Show and Protester Revival landed last night near Times Square, where the star made her Broadway debut amid a devoted crowd of tourists, family and Scientology nemeses flanking 45th Street. The reviews — and the heartfelt pleas for calm — are in after the jump. More »

Rave Broadway Review Confirms Katie Holmes ‘Knows Her Lines’

4:40AM STV | T-minus 48 hours and counting until theatre critics can officially digest the spectacle of Katie Holmes’s Broadway debut in All My Sons. Can’t! Wait! But while the amateur pundits have already gotten a jump on the show’s previews and Anonymous protesters have hammered out the kinks in their own play in front of the Schoenfeld Theatre, one perennially-trustworthy perspective has trickled out onto the Web this morning for everyone to parse: That of Fox crack gossip and drama wonk Roger Friedman, who hastens to note that today’s column is a “report,” not a “review,” lest Holmes might have been saving her A-game for Thursday’s premiere. More »

Anonymous Fails To Rain On Katie Holmes’s Broadway Parade

6:50AM Seth | Last night was the first preview of the Katie Holmes-starring revival of All My Sons—a critic-proof production that will be remembered less for bringing new insights to the classic Arthur Miller text than it will be for hosting the most spectacular female celebrity disappearance since the days of Amelia Earhart and Shelley Long. (She’ll first have to figure out a way to sever the 3000-mile-long, indestructible microfiber restraint tethered to her ankle, rigged to reel her in at the press of the button if she so strays so much as 15 feet from her Church-approved, “apartment-Barneys-theater” travel route.) Tom Cruise was largely credited with captaining the deafening standing ovation that met her bows—rich in first-pumps, index-finger #1s, and “It’s all you tonight!” points towards the stage—until one handler had to pull the actor aside to quietly explain that the 78-year-old emphysema-sufferer seated in a wheelchair next to him was physically unable to, quote, “C’mon—get on your feet grandma and show my little lady some love!” From the AP report: More »