Tuesday, August 14, 2012
Overall, Broadway grosses are down. With fewer productions playing, grosses slip about $2.5 million, while average capacity remains the same. The Lion King holds onto the top spot this week …
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 10:39AMMonday, August 13, 2012
A new production of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella will arrive on Broadway this season with previews set for January 21, 2013 prior to Opening Night on February 21 at the Broadway …
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 12:20PMFriday, August 10, 2012
The hit musical adaptation of Elf will return to Broadway this holiday season at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre. Performances will begin on Friday, November 9, 2012. The production will play a …
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 11:41AMThursday, August 9, 2012
Meet some of the creative team members of Broadway’s new musical Chaplin. Watch director/choreographer Warren Carlyle, Rob McClure, who stars as Charlie Chaplin, set designer Beowulf Bor…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 11:42AMTwo-time Tony Award winner Norbert Leo Butz is geared up to star as Jack in the production of Theresa Rebeck’s Dead Accounts opposite previously announced Katie Holmes. Performances are sc…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 11:15AMTony Award nominee Daniel Sunjata has joined the cast of the upcoming season of “Smash.” It may have seemed like Debra Messing’s character Julia and her husband Frank (Brian D’Arcy J…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 09:47AMWednesday, August 8, 2012
The Broadway community mourns the loss of celebrated composer, performer, arranger, musical coordinator, orchestrator, and musical supervisor, Marvin Hamlisch, who passed away August 6, 2012…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 11:43AMTuesday, August 7, 2012
John C. McGinley of the Emmy-nominated hit television series “Scrubs” will join the cast of the Broadway revival of David Mamet’s acclaimed Pulitzer Prize-winning drama Glengarry Glen …
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 08:54AMMonday, August 6, 2012
Broadway Grosses remain relatively steady for the week ending August 2, 2012. The Lion King edged out Wicked by just $384, while both productions took in more than $2 million in box office s…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 07:35PMScott Zeiger and Brian Becker, co-CEOs of BASE Entertainment, have announced that the new musical Diner has postponed its previously announced pre-Broadway engagement scheduled to play San F…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 09:32AMFriday, August 3, 2012
Performers from the London Production of Stomp are gearing up to appear during the London summer Olympics closing ceremony on August 12. More than 40 cast members from the long-running produ…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 02:25PMThe LABrinth Theater Company’s 2012-2013 season is set to feature a lineup of three world premiere productions, including A Family for All Occasions, directed by Academy Award winner Phili…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 01:57PMAs announced on the Thursday, July 19 edition of NBC “Today,” this fall, celebrated stage actress and two-time Tony Award nominee Carolee Carmello (Parade, Mamma Mia!, Sister Act…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 09:26AMThursday, August 2, 2012
Bring It On: The Musical opened on Broadway August 1 at the St. James Theatre to surprisingly promising reviews. It may not be in line to be the next great American musical, but it is certai…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 01:48PMThe Broadway community mourns the loss of celebrated writer Gore Vidal, who passed away July 31 at age 86. The marquees of Broadway theatres in New York will be dimmed in his memory on Frida…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 11:40AMWednesday, August 1, 2012
The acclaimed Broadway production of End of the Rainbow, written by Peter Quilter and directed by Tony Award winner Terry Johnson, will play its final performance on Sunday, August 19. The…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 12:30PMThe Public Theater has announced that there will be a special family-friendly matinee of the free Shakespeare in the Park production of Into the Woods on Wednesday, August 22 at 3 p.m. at th…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 12:15PMThe New York Musical Theatre Festival (NYMF) has announced the winners of the NYMF 2012 Awards for Excellence. Awards are voted on by the NYMF jury. The NYMF 2012 Awards for Excellence are a…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 11:56AMTuesday, July 31, 2012
The producers of the 2010 Tony Award-winning Best Musical Memphis have announced that the production will recoup its $12 million investment as of its final performance on Broadway on Sunday,…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 09:04AMWicked reclaims the top spot for the week ending July 29, 2012, putting an end to The Lion King’s reign as the highest grossing Broadway production by grossing $2,055,433. The Lion King, S…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 08:37AMMonday, July 30, 2012
Ben Toth and Sam Forman have been named the new composer and lyricist of Sleepless In Seattle – The Musical. They join the previously announced Lonny Price as director, Jeff Arch as book w…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 08:30AMFriday, July 27, 2012
Christmas Story, The Musical! will arrive on Broadway at The Lunt-Fontanne Theatre just in time for the 2012 holiday season. The producers have announced that the new musical, based on th…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 11:18AMThursday, July 26, 2012
The Nutty Professor began performances at Nashville’s Tennessee Performing Arts Center on July 24. The world premiere musical adaptation is based on the 1963 movie of the same name. Direct…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 11:37AMWednesday, July 25, 2012
The producers of Ghost The Musical announced today that the show will play its final performance on Broadway on Saturday, August 18th at 8pm after 39 previews and 136 regular performances. …
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 11:38AMTuesday, July 24, 2012
The Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) and The Dodgers, the producers of Matilda the Musical, have announced that the show will begin previews on March 4 2013 and open on Thursday April 11 at …
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 12:30PMAudiences continue to flock to long-running Disney musical The Lion King; and at an average ticket price of $146.99, the production is raking it in. It grossed a massive $2,219,534. Wicked c…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 11:31AMMonday, July 23, 2012
The June 2011 broadcast of the 65th Annual Tony Awards was honored with five Prime Time Emmy Award nominations in the categories of: Outstanding Special Class Programs – Ricky Kirshner, Ex…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 08:30AMThis fall, two-time Tony Award winner Al Pacino will be joined on stage Tony Award nominee David Harbour, Emmy Award winner Richard Schiff and Tony Award nominee Jeremy Shamos in the Broadwa…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 01:48AMSaturday, July 21, 2012
Katie Holmes has signed on to star in Dead Accounts, the five-character comedy written by Theresa Rebeck and directed by three-time Tony Award winner Jack O’Brien. The play will open on Br…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 10:54AMFriday, July 20, 2012
Tickets for the Broadway Premiere of Grace, the acclaimed American play written by award-winning writer Craig Wright (Mistakes Were Made, “Six Feet Under”) and directed by Dexter Bullard…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 12:15PMThursday, July 19, 2012
The Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess, the Tony Award winning revival will close a bit earlier than expected. The production’s run, which was originally scheduled to run through September 30, at…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 09:28AM 
