Tuesday, June 26, 2012
Grosses 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 08:30AMMonday, June 25, 2012
Oscar Award winner Jennifer Hudson will join NBC’s musical series “Smash” in its upcoming second season. Hudson will appear in a multi-episode arc as Veronica Moore, a Tony-winning act…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 09:22AMFriday, June 22, 2012
Glengarry Glen Ross, the Pulitzer Prize winning drama led by two-time Tony Award winner Al Pacino, will also star Emmy Award winner an two-time Tony Award nominee Bobby Cannavale in the the …
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 10:22AMShe not have taken home the American Idol prize last May, but the vocal powerhouse might come out on top of another Fox program. Jessica Sanchez is reportedly in talks for a multi-episode ar…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 10:03AMDiane Paulus, director of the Tony Award winning revival The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess has another project n the works. According to the New York Times, producers Barry and Fran Weissler a…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 09:45AMThursday, June 21, 2012
The Broadway production of Sister Act, the Tony Award nominated musical currently starring Raven Symone, will end its run August 26, producers Whoopi Goldberg and Stage Entertainment announc…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 09:38AMWednesday, June 20, 2012
Five-time Tony Award winning actress Audra McDonald has been put on complete vocal rest under doctor’s orders and will not perform with the Tony Award winning Broadway revival of Porgy and…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 10:22PMSmokehouse Productions’ George Clooney and Grant Heslov have joined Harvey Weinstein to produce the upcoming film adaptation of Tracy Lets’ Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize winning play Aug…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 11:00AMTony Award nominated Jesus Christ Superstar revival has hinted at a closing date. Should business not pick up, July 1 will be the production’s final performance. At the time, Jesus Christ …
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 08:17AMTuesday, June 19, 2012
Yes, you read that correctly. Mike Tyson’s one-man show, Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth, is on its way to Broadway. The Spike Lee directed production will play six performances only at the L…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 11:33AMNewsies star Jeremy Jordan will join season two of NBC’s musical series “Smash,” according to TVLine.com. Jordan, a 2012 Tony Award nominee for his portrayal of Jack Kelly in the a…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 10:28AMEmmy Award winner and two-time Academy Award nominee Woody Harrelson will direct the American premiere of Bullet for Adolf, a play he co-wrote with friend Frankie Hyman. The play, received i…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 10:08AMIn the week folowing the Tony Awards telecast, grosses are up! The night’s biggest winner, Once, scored big at the box office, working its way well into the top ten. The production gro…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 09:32AMThursday, June 14, 2012
Tony Award winning revival of Anything Goes, currently starring Stephanie J. Block and Joeal Grey, has begun its final eight weeks of performances. The production opened on April 7, 2011 and…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 11:01AMThe Broadway revival of Tennessee Williams’s Streetcar Named Desirewill end its run at the Broadhurst Theater on July 22 as originally planned. The production had previously announced an e…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 10:24AMThe upcoming revival of Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? has found a Broadway home in the Booth Theatre. The production, directed by Pam MacKinnon and starring Tony Award w…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 09:59AMWednesday, June 13, 2012
Al Pacino’s portrayal of the ruthless salesman Ricky Roma in the 1992 film version of Glengarry Glen Ross earned him an Oscar nomination, and now he’s ready to try for a Tony. Pacino is …
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 11:55AMAdditional casting has been announced for the Public Theater’s upcoming one-night-only benefit reading of Romeo and Juliet, starring Meryl streep and Kevin Kline. The June 18 gala celebrat…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 11:36AMEmmy Award nominees John Stamos, Golden Globe Award winner Cybill Shepard, Emmy Award nominee Kristen Davis and Tony Award winner Elizabeth Ashley will join the cast of the Tony Award nomina…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 11:24AMThe Broadway revival of Stephen Schwartz’s Godspell has officially announced a closing date. The final performance will be June 24 at the Circle in the Square Theatre. It will have played …
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 10:48AMTuesday, June 12, 2012
Afrobeat bio musical Fela! will return to Broadway this summer for a limited run at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre. Producers Shawn ‘JAY Z’ Carter, Will & Jada Pinkett Smith, Ruth & …
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 11:54AMThis year’s most Tony Award nominated productions saw a slight bump in ticket sales in the week leading up to the ceremony. The acclaimed musical Once, which was nominated for 11 Tony…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 08:53AMMonday, June 11, 2012
Once, not surprisingly, won big last night, raking in a total of eight Tony Awards, including Best Musical Direction, Best Lead Actor in a Musical and high honors for Best Musical overall. T…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 09:11AMFriday, June 8, 2012
Three-time Academy Award nominee Debra Winger will be making her Broadway debut in the American premiere of The Anarchist, a new play written and directed by David Mamet. Winger will star al…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 10:10AMProducers Debbie Bisno, Fox Theatricals and Paula Wagner have announced the Broadway Premiere of Grace, the acclaimed American play by Award-winning writer Craig Wright (Mistakes Were Made, …
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 09:31AMEnd of the Rainow, starring Tony Award nominated Tracie Bennet, has launched a first-of-its-kind guided tour of Judy Garland’s New York City. Foursquare users can now take guided tour of t…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 08:55AMThursday, June 7, 2012
The Fred & Adele Astaire Awards, established in 1982, recognize outstanding achievement in dance on Broadway each season. The award was designed to honor Fred Astaire his sister, Adele. …
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 09:49AMAfter a successful run Off Broadway, Lincoln Center Theater’s critically acclaimed production of Jon Robin Baitz’s Other Desert Cities opened November 3rd at the Booth Theatre on 45th S…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 08:57AMLast yea’s winner of Best Musical and Broadway’s hottest ticket, The Book of Mormon, will perform live at the 2012 Tony Awards on Sunday, June 10th. The 66th Annual Tony Awards will repo…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 08:22AMWednesday, June 6, 2012
The Broadway League has just released the 2010-2011 Broadway’s Economic Contribution to New York City report—the eight biennial report in the series. The report measures the full economi…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 12:48PMTuesday, June 5, 2012
Royal Caribbean International will partner with the Tony Awards to include a live broadcast from the middle of the Caribbean Seas, where the line’s Oasis of the Seas’ cast of Hairspray w…
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