Monday, April 30, 2012
Don’t Dress for Dinner happened to be the final play of the Broadway season to open. The production opened on Thursday, April 26, at the American Airlines Theatre under the direction of Jo…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 10:26AMSunday, April 29, 2012
So, it’s a wrap. The Broadway season has concluded with an especially crowded spring. Leap of Faith, which opened on Thursday night at the St. James Theater, was one of two holdouts—push…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 07:18PMFriday, April 27, 2012
Pulitzer and Tony Award winner David Auburn’s play, The Columnist, opened Wednesday night (April 25) at the Samuel J. Friedman Theater. The play, presented by the Manhattan Theater Club, s…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 09:47AMThursday, April 26, 2012
Voca People, the musical featuring eight snow-white ruby –lipped aliens with perfect harmony, will welcome “Police Academy” star and “The man of 10,000 sound effects” Michael Winsl…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 09:21PMWednesday, April 25, 2012
The 26th Annual Easter Bonnet Competition raised $3,677,855, the result of six weeks of intensive fundraising for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS by 51 Broadway, Off-Broadway and national…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 11:29AMTony winner Judy Kaye and Tony nominees Michael McGrath and Jennifer Laura Thompson join Broadway veterans Matthew Broderick and Kelli O’Hara in the new musical with an old-time charm. Wit…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 11:09AMTuesday, April 24, 2012
The talk on twitter is eerily positive, but the critics have a different take of the new musical adaptation of “Ghost.” It appears that Ghost, The Musical has more wrong with it than a t…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 08:18PMThere’s a hefty list of Broadway plays this season and the Tony Awards are going to be a tight race. Acclaimed black comedy “The Lyons” is intent on making that race even more difficul…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 02:33PMStreetcar Named Desire, starring Blair Underwood, opened on Sunday night at the Broadhurst Theatre. The production has gotten quite a bit of attention for its multiracial cast, but that choi…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 12:30PMGrosses are down with only one week left in the 2011-2012 theater season. Total revenue is about $4 million less than last week’s end. The Lion King, however, had a good week. It edged out…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 11:36AMMonday, April 23, 2012
Judges have been announced for the 4th Annual August Wilson Monologue Competition, to be held on Monday, May 7th at the August Wilson Theatre. The event, which is free and open to the public…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 10:30AMFriday, April 20, 2012
The 26th Annual East Bonnet Competition has announced its line-up of presenters, judges, and participants. The list includes a four-time Tony Award winner, eight Tony Award nominees and more…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 10:00AMClybourne Park, the Pulizter Prize-winning play by Bruce Norris, opened on Broadway Thursday night at the Walter Kerr Theatre. Pam MacKinnon directs the sharp comedy that spins the events of…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 09:30AMThursday, April 19, 2012
Roundabout Theatre Company’s If There Is I Haven’t Found It Yet, by Nick Payne, will star Oscar nominee Jake Gyllenhall in his US stage debut. Directed by Michael Longhurst, the producti…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 02:13PMOne Man Two Guvnors, Richard Bean’s adaptation of the 18th-century Italian farce by Carlo Goldoni, requires two directors, one just for the physical comedy. The slapstick production evokes…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 01:21PMWednesday, April 18, 2012
The Lion King celebrates another milestone today, as it plays its 6,000th performance at 2:00 p.m. There are only five other shows in Broadway history to have achieved this feat. Coinciding …
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 12:19PMNew star of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, Nick Jonas, headed to the studio February 19, to record a new Broadway cast album of the 50th anniversary revival of the product…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 11:38AMTuesday, April 17, 2012
The Public Theatre will hold a special, one-night only, gala event on Monday, June 18, in honor and celebration of the 50th Anniversary of Shakespeare in the park at the Delacorte Theatre. T…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 07:14PMThe Drama League has announced that Megan Hilty and Justin Long will co-host the announcement of the 2012 Drama League Nominees Distinguished Production of a Play, Distinguished Production o…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 10:00AMMonday, April 16, 2012
Wicked lands on top again this week at the box office. Both Wicked and The Lion King took in more than $2 million dollars each again this week end. Ten shows made it into the millionaire clu…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 08:00PMThe imaginative new American play about the boy who wouldn’t grow up by Rick Elice, directed by Roger Rees and Alex Timbers, opened at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre April 15. Peter and the S…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 06:00PMFriday, April 13, 2012
Title and Deed, a new play by Will Eno and directed by Judy Hegarty Lovett, has extended its run at the Alice Griffin Jewel Box Theatre at off-Broadway’s Pershing Square Signature Center. …
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 01:00PMThursday, April 12, 2012
Tony Award and Emmy Award winner and current star of ABC’s GCB Kristin Chenoweth and Emmy and Golden Globe winning actor Jim Parson will co-host the announcement of the 2012 Tony nominatio…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 02:38PMNew bio-drama Magic/Bird opened Wednesday, April 11 at The Longacre Theatre and it’s no slam-dunk. While the show is described as sufficiently informative, it provides little revelatory hi…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 12:49PMWednesday, April 11, 2012
The complete casting for the Carnegie Hall production of The Sound of Music has been announced. Joining Laura Osnes, who will play Maria Rainer, will be Mary Michael Patterson of Anything Go…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 06:27PMAaron Carter has signed on to extend his run in off-Broadway’s The Fantasticks. The former teen sensation and recording artist has played the rebellious young romantic Matt at the Snapple …
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 11:51AMTuesday, April 10, 2012
The Tony Awards Administration Committee has announced this year’s recipient for the Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre. This year’s award will be presented to pr…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 07:32PMPreview performances for Second Stage’s production of Lonely, I’m Not begin today, April 10. The production is scheduled to open on Monday, May 7. This is a limited engagement to May 27.…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 12:28PMMonday, April 9, 2012
It was a big week at the box office this week end, with several monumental achievements. Death of a Salesman and The Book of Mormon each break house records and The Lion King, Broadway’s s…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 05:06PMBroadway productions of Wit by Margaret Edson and Wicked by Stephen Schwartz and Winnie Holzman have been award New York Education Grants by The Broadway League. Each production receives a $…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 12:18PMFriday, April 6, 2012
According to the New York Times, performer Richard Kobak is taking legal action against the Spider-Man, Turn Off The Dark producers for injuries sustained while working on the show. Kobak pl…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 03:22PM 
