Friday, May 18, 2012
Earlier this week, producers of “Peter and the Starcatcher” announced that the play will take to the road beginning in August of next year for a national tour. The move marks the relativ…
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 08:00PMThursday, May 17, 2012
The current Broadway revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s “Evita” will hit the road for next year for a national tour, producers announced recently. The tour will kick off at …
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 08:00PMHolding a rare summer opening, a musical adaptation of the 2000 film “Bring It On” is headed to Broadway this July. The musical and the movie featuring battling high school cheerleading …
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 12:03PMWednesday, May 16, 2012
“Priscilla, Queen of the Desert” will end its Broadway run, but will then continue on in the form of a national tour. Producers announced yesterday that the show will close on June 24. A…
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 08:00PMFriday, May 11, 2012
Last night at Nashville’s historic Ryman Auditorium, Loretta Lynn announced that Zooey Deschanel will play her in an upcoming Broadway musical about Lynn’s life called “Coal Miner’s …
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 10:00AMThursday, May 10, 2012
In the span of just two days, it was revealed that “How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying,” “Leap of Faith” and “Magic/Bird” would all be ending their respective Broad…
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 01:13PMWednesday, May 9, 2012
“Once,” the Broadway play that was recently nominated for 11 Tony Awards, will hit the road next year for its first national tour. The play is based on the 2006 film of the same name tha…
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 10:00AMJust a few days after receiving a slew of Tony Award nominations, it has been announced that the Broadway musical “Nice Work if You Can Get It” musical will undertake a national tour nex…
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 09:00AMThursday, May 3, 2012
This Friday, moviegoers can see Scarlett Johansson star in “The Avengers,” which promises to be the first big blockbuster of this coming summer movie season – but it looks like the sta…
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 10:00AMTuesday, May 1, 2012
There will be some upcoming lineup changes in the current touring version of “Wicked” as Nicole Parker and PJ Benjamin will be added to the cast this month. Both will join the cast in De…
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 10:00AMAccording to New York magazine, Angela Lansbury will join James Earl Jones for an Australian touring version of “Driving Miss Daisy” next winter. Lansbury, 86, currently is starring in �…
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 09:00AMThursday, April 26, 2012
Producers recently announced that Patrick Breen and Luke Macfarlane will be among the cast of the new touring version of Larry Kramer’s “The Normal Heart,” which will launch at Arena S…
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 10:00AMJake Gyllenhaal has signed on to make his American stage debut later this year. Gyllenhaal will appear in British playwright Nick Payne’s comic drama “If There Is I Haven’t Found It Ye…
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 09:00AMTuesday, April 17, 2012
The cast national tour of “Hair” will take part in the upcoming Cabaret for a Cause concert event in New York. The evening is being billed as a “night of music and love with cast membe…
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 10:00AMAfter her latest Broadway outing in the recent revival of “Follies,” Bernadette Peters has embarked on a solo concert tour that will keep her on the road for much of the rest of this yea…
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 09:00AMMonday, April 9, 2012
When the 25th anniversary touring version of Cameron Mackintosh’s “Les Miserables” hit East Lansing, Mich. over the weekend, it was with a major cast shake up. Peter Lockyer, who man…
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 11:00AMThursday, April 5, 2012
Producer Ken Davenport announced yesterday that the current Broadway revival of Stephen Schwartz’s “Godspell” will hit the road for a national tour during the 2013-2014 season. Though …
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 09:00AMFriday, March 30, 2012
Tony nominee Gavin Creel has been tapped to play Elder Price in the upcoming national tour of “The Book of Mormon.” The announcement is the first casting announcement for the upcoming to…
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 10:00AMTuesday, March 27, 2012
Rachel York has been tapped to play Reno Sweeney in the upcoming national tour version of “Anything Goes.” The tour will be presented by the Roundabout Theatre Company and will begin in …
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 01:00PMR&B singer Deborah Cox will join Tony nominee Constantine Maroulis on a trek around the country when the musical version of “Jekyll & Hide” goes on a national tour later this yea…
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 12:00PMMonday, March 26, 2012
Dolly Parton has announced that the Tony nominated “9 to 5: The Musical,” will head out on a tour of the U.K. later this year. The tour is expected to kick off in October of this year wi…
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 01:00PMWednesday, March 21, 2012
The current revival of “The Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess” will launch a national tour beginning in the fall of 2013, according to Playbill. “Porgy and Bess” first appeared on Broadway…
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 11:00AMThe touring stage show “Batman Live” first premiered last Summer in the U.K., and now producers have announced a North American tour for later this year. Billed a “crime-fighting arena…
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 10:00AMMonday, March 19, 2012
At his 86th birthday celebration in New York on Friday, comedian Jerry Lewis announced plans to bring his classic film “The Nutty Professor” to Broadway later this year, the Wall Street …
SOURCE: broadway.me at 12:00PMThough Mike Tyson’s one-man Las Vegas show has yet to debut, already the former Heavyweight boxing champion is thinking about taking the performance to Broadway. The autobiographical show,…
SOURCE: broadway.me at 11:00AMPlaywright Mike Daisey, the man behind the Off-Broadway one-man show “The Agony and Ecstasy of Steve Jobs,” has come under widespread and well-publicized scrutiny recently because of cla…
SOURCE: broadway.me at 10:00AMTuesday, March 6, 2012
Yesterday marked the 30th anniversary of the death of legendary comedic actor John Belushi, and it also was the day chosen to reveal details about an upcoming musical based on one of his bes…
SOURCE: broadway.me at 10:00AM“Tuck Everlasting,” the musical adaptation of Natalie Babbitt’s 1975 children’s book of the same name, is set to make its pre-Broadway world premiere in June of next year at Boston�…
SOURCE: broadway.me at 09:00AMMonday, March 5, 2012
Just last month, “Phantom of the Opera” played its 10,000th performance on Broadway, and this week its sequel will hit U.S. theaters. “Love Never Dies,” also composed by Andrew Lloyd…
SOURCE: broadway.me at 01:00PMLawyers for former “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark” director Julia Taymor have filed papers in federal court responding to a countersuit by the show’s current producers. The new papers …
SOURCE: broadway.me at 12:00PMFriday, March 2, 2012
Justin Long, the star of “He’s Just Not That Into You” and Apple television ads, will be making his Broadway debut when he joins “Seminar” later this year. He will take over the ro…
SOURCE: broadway.me at 11:00AM 
