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On Broadway, 'Network' Goes From Satire To Tragedy

The 1976 movie Network struck a nerve with its darkly comic predictions about celebrity news anchors and the rise of infotainment. Now, a stage adaptaion is one of the hottest tickets on Broadway.
Bryan Cranston takes his opening night curtain call in the Broadway version of <em>Network.</em>

One of the hottest tickets on Broadway this season is , the stage adaptation of the 1976 movie about a news anchor who cracks up on the air and the executives who exploit his ravings for ratings. Ivo Van Hove is directing the stage show. He says he first saw in a Belgian movie theater when he was a young man. "My memory of it is that it felt like science fiction," he says. "Something which

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