Tag: David Ng

William Shatner is standing in a mostly bare rehearsal room in Hollywood, his arms outstretched as he recites the closing lines to his Broadway-bound one-man show. Naturally, the subject of the moment is his career — that strange, constantly mutating accumulation of TV series, movies, guest spots, online projects, commercials and more. “It’s easy to say no,” he says, addressing an invisible audience. “Saying yes carries more danger to it. Saying yes is risky business — but how much richer my life has been because of it.” If there is one inviolable law of the Shatnerverse, it is simply that: Say yes. Shatner’s career is defined by a bottomless capacity to try it all. Nothing is too weird or outlandish; selling out is nothing to be ashamed of. His oddball career choices form the backbone of “Shatner’s World: We Just ...

David Ng at our sister blog, Culture Monster, has been keeping tabs on Broadway’s $65 million “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark” to see if the new musical can in fact do whatever a spider can…  On Sunday, Broadway’s “Spider-Man: Turn off the Dark” began preview performances at the Foxwoods Theatre in New York. The event marks the first time that a paying public audience was able to experience the long-delayed stage musical. But according to reports in the New York press, the first performance was marred by a number of technical mishaps. New York Post columnist Michael Riedel reported that “overhead stage wires dropped on the audience, scenery appeared on stage missing pieces — and the show’s star [Reeve Carney] was even left swaying helplessly over them midair during what was supposed to be the climatic end to the first ...