Thursday, 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 09:28AMAuditioning for the roles of young Michael Jackson, little Steve Wonder and pre-teen Berry Gordy in Motown the Musical, coming to Broadway in 2013, is easy as 1, 2, 3. Music legend Berry Gor…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 08:00AMWednesday, July 18, 2012
The Broadway community mourns the loss of Celeste Holm, who passed away on Sunday at age 95. The marquees of Broadway theatres in New York will be dimmed in her memory on Wednesday, July 18t…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 10:00AMKimberly Stern is returning to the cast of Off-Broadway’s SILENCE! The Musical today, July 18th in the role of Buffalo Bill’s plus-sized victim, Catherine Martin. Today also marks th…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 08:00AMBroadway continues to go green! After the successes of their past several collection events, The Broadway Green Alliance (BGA) has announced that they will hold another E-Waste Collection Ev…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 07:30AMTuesday, July 17, 2012
Last season’s critically acclaimed smash hit is returning to the stage for a one-week limited engagement. Encores! is offering audiences a second chance to see its 2011 production of Duke …
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 09:32AMMonday, July 16, 2012
Grosses are up about $1 million this week and there were 5,500 more people in the seats this week as well. Eight shows worked their way into the millionaire club by this week’s end. And Th…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 10:14PMTony, Emmy and Golden Globe Award winning actress Glenn Close will be featured in the Public Theater’s upcoming production of Into the Woods at Shakespeare in the Park. Close will voice Th…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 01:11PMFriday, July 13, 2012
The longest running revival to ever play the West End has set its closing date. After a record15 year run, Chicago will play its final performance at London’s Garrick Theatre on September …
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 11:39AMStephen Daldry, the Tony Award winning director of Billy Elliot: The Musical is reportedly in talks to direct Universal’s film adaptation of blockbuster musical Wicked. Just as Disney unve…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 11:11AMThursday, July 12, 2012
According to The New York Times, Tony Award nominated actor Patina Miller is expected to participate in the American Repertory Theater’s developmental workshop of the 1972 musical “Pippi…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 10:30AMWednesday, July 11, 2012
Kristin Chenoweth was rushed to a New York hospital after show was injured on the Brooklyn set of “The Good Wife” Wednesday afternoon, TMZ repots. A source told TMZ that “Kristin was s…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 11:23PMThe raucous, irreverent, and unfiltered new Off-Broadway musical comedy The Last Smoker in America, with book and lyrics by Tony Award Nominee Bill Russell (Side Show) and music by Drama Des…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 09:38AMTuesday, July 10, 2012
Tony Award winner Judith Ivey will join Academy Award nominee Jessica Chastain, Academy Award nominee and Emmy Award winner David Strathairn and the leading man of “Downton Abbey” Dan St…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 04:29PMThe Lion King finds itself on top during the holiday week. The show saw ticket sales just shy of the $2 million mark. Wicked came in as a not so close second with $1,920,563 is grosses. Spid…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 11:58AMMonday, July 9, 2012
Craig Wright’s Grace, starring Paul Rudd and Michael Shannon, will play the Cort Theatre on Broadway this fall. The Broadway Premiere of the acclaimed American play by Award-winning wr…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 02:47PMMore casting news for the musical TV series “Smash.” Raza Jaffrey’s (Karen’s boyfriend, Dev) exit leaves room for a new roommate. Krysta Rodriguez will play that roommate. Ro…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 10:44AMFriday, July 6, 2012
Rising British actress Andrea Riseborough is in talks to star as Karen in the forthcoming film adaptation of August: Osage County, Tracy Letts’s Pulitzer Prize winning play. Meryl Streep a…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 11:45AMThursday, July 5, 2012
The off Broadway production will not have the extraordinarily long run that its successful Broadway incarnation had. Producers of the recent production of Rent have announced that the musica…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 10:30AMTuesday, July 3, 2012
54 BELOW, the new performance venue situated just under the legendary Studio 54 at 254 West 54th Street, launches July with some of Broadway’s brightest stars. For two performances only…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 12:46PMGrosses are down again, $1,658,726.92 less than last week’s end. However, audiences continue to flock to Wicked. The show pulled in more than $2 million in ticket sales, firmly securing it…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 12:17PMMonday, July 2, 2012
Sigourney Weaver, David Hyde Pierce and Kristine Nielsen will star in the New York premiere of Christopher Durang’s Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike. The new comedy will run at Lincoln …
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 01:33PMFriday, June 29, 2012
Attention Tony Award fans: For the first time ever, the entire 2012 Tony Awards Telecast is downloadable through iTunes and Amazon.com. Starting now, the telecast can be purchased. By loggin…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 09:20AMThe full cast and creative team for the World Premiere of Kinky Boots has been announced. The new musical brings together four time Tony Award winner Harvey Fierstein (Book) and Grammy Award…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 09:11AMThursday, June 28, 2012
Alec Baldwin will return to Broadway next spring in Lyle Kessler’s Orphans, directed by Daniel Sullivan and produced by Frederick Zollo and Robert Cole. This will mark the first Broadway s…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 10:31AMCBS has announced another addition to “The good Wife” cast. Emmy Award and Tony Award winning actor Nathan Lane (The Producers) has been cast in a reoccurring role for season fou…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 10:17AMWednesday, June 27, 2012
Emmy Award and Tony Award-winning actress Kristin Chenoweth (“Pushing Daisies,” “GCB”) has been cast in a recurring role in season four of The Good Wife. She will make her debut in S…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 09:42AMAndy Mientus, last seen in the recent off Broadway production of Carrie, has signed on to play Kyle, an aspiring musical theater writer from Brooklyn, on the second season of “Smash.” Mi…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 09:25AMProducers of the 2010 Tony Award winning Best Musical Memphis announced that the production will play its final performance at the Shubert Theatre on Broadway on August 5, 2012. At the time …
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 08:58AMTuesday, June 26, 2012
The Tony Award winning revival of Chicago will welcome singer, songwriter, actor and father of Miley Cyrus, Billy Ray Cryus in his Broadway stage debut as the slick criminal Billy Flynn. Cyr…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 09:21AMGrosses are down just a bit for the week ending June 24, 2012. Two weeks out and the big Tony Award winners continue to sellout. Both Newsies and Once break into the millionaire club this we…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 08:30AM 
