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Monday, November 21, 2022

‘Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol’: Jefferson Mays Gifts Broadway A Miracle – Review by Greg Evans

There are more than the usual number of miracles to be observed with the latest version of A Christmas Carol to hit Broadway. The usual suspects are here, all the ghosts and spirits and flig…

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Friday, November 18, 2022

Darren Criss, Lena Hall, Ramin Karimloo & Solea Pfeiffer To Perform ‘Chess’ In One-Night Benefit by Greg Evans

EXCLUSIVE: Darren Criss, Lena Hall, Ramin Karimloo and Solea Pfeiffer will perform a one-night-only benefit concert of the 1986 Benny Andersson-Björn Ulvaeus-Tim Rice musical Chess next mon…

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Thursday, November 17, 2022

‘& Juliet’ Broadway Review: Hit-Maker Max Martin’s Jukebox Musical Roars For The Balcony by Greg Evans

What if Juliet had lived? What if she had not given her 14-year-old life for a wild boy she barely knew? What if she had not let brash youthful narcissism deformed by the patriarchy and male…

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Jessica Hecht To Join Laura Linney On Broadway In ‘Summer, 1976’ This Spring by Greg Evans

Jessica Hecht, a 2010 Tony Award nominee, will join the previously announced Laura Linney on Broadway this spring in the Manhattan Theatre Club’s world premiere of Summer, 1976, the new pl…

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‘KPOP’ Broadway Musical Delays Opening By A Week Due To Covid by Greg Evans

KPOP, the Broadway musical celebrating the international musical phenomenon, is delaying its official press opening by a week due to COVID among the principal cast. Critics initially were in…

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Wednesday, November 16, 2022

Jessica Chastain Returning To Broadway This Spring In Amy Herzog Adaptation Of Ibsen’s ’A Doll’s House’ by Greg Evans

Jessica Chastain will return to Broadway this spring as Nora in Amy Herzog’s “radical new production” of Henrik Ibsen’s landmark drama A Doll’s House, to be directed by Jamie Lloyd…

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Tuesday, November 15, 2022

Actors’ Equity Plans NYC Rally For Contract Changes by Greg Evans

Actors’ Equity Association says it will stage a rally in Manhattan’s theater district Thursday to support contract changes in its agreement with The Broadway League, the trade organizati…

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Strong Opening Weeks Fill Seats For ‘Kimberly Akimbo’, Mike Birbiglia – Broadway Box Office by Greg Evans

A busy week on Broadway saw three official openings (including the Take Me Out return) and three additions to the line-up of previewing productions, with grosses for the 34-show roster jumpi…

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Broadway Rebounds In Grammy Nominations: First Time In Years For Clean Sweep In Musical Theater Category by Greg Evans

Broadway cast albums have made a clean sweep of this year’s Grammy nominations for Best Musical Theater Album, the first time in at least several years that the competition hasn’t includ…

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‘Prima Facie’ Starring Jodie Comer In Broadway Debut Sets Opening Date, Venue by Greg Evans

Prima Facie, the new Suzie Miller play starring Killing Eve‘s Jodie Comer, will begin Broadway previews on Tuesday, April 11, 2023, at the Golden Theatre, with an opening night set for Sun…

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Monday, November 14, 2022

Black Theatre United Announces New Exec Leadership Committee, With LaChanze As President by Greg Evans

Black Theatre United has announced its new Executive Leadership Committee, with Broadway’s Trouble in Mind star LaChanze moving from Vice President to President. Also named to the committe…

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New Musical ‘Shucked’ Headed To Broadway This Spring With Songs By Nashville Hitmakers Brandy Clark & Shane McAnally by Greg Evans

Producers Mike Bosner and Jason Owen announced today that Shucked, a new original musical comedy with a book by Tony winner Robert Horn (Tootsie) and music by Nashville’s hit songwriting t…

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Sunday, November 13, 2022

‘The Old Man & The Pool’ Review: Mike Birbiglia Makes Another Broadway Splash by Greg Evans

With his latest solo show The Old Man & the Pool, Mike Birbiglia cements his reigning position as Broadway’s greatest comic storyteller – stand-up comic just doesn’t quite fit him …

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Friday, November 11, 2022

Broadway’s Playbill Joins Twitter Exodus Citing Platform’s “Hate, Negativity, And Misinformation” by Greg Evans

Playbill, the monthly magazine that serves as official programs for Broadway, most of Off Broadway and other arts institutes, is signing off Twitter for good, citing the platform’s “grea…

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Thursday, November 10, 2022

‘Kimberly Akimbo’ Broadway Review: Growing Up And Growing Old In A Musical Stunner by Greg Evans

Kimberly Akimbo, one of the unlikeliest, most exhilarating and unfailingly moving musicals to hit New York in years, opens on Broadway tonight having lost none of its immense charm since its…

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‘Bob Fosse’s Dancin’ Returns To Broadway This Spring by Greg Evans

Bob Fosse’s Dancin’ will return to Broadway this spring, 41 years after the original hit production left the stage. The musical revival will begin previews at The Music Box Theatre on Th…

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Wednesday, November 9, 2022

Gabriel Byrne’s Broadway Solo Show ‘Walking with Ghosts’ To Close Early After Box Office Struggle by Greg Evans

Gabriel Byrne’s Broadway solo show Walking With Ghosts will play its final performance on Sunday, November 20, a week shy of a month after its Oct. 27 opening at the Music Box Theatre. The…

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Dwyane Wade, Gabrielle Union & RuPaul Join Co-Producing Team Of Broadway’s ‘Ain’t No Mo’’ by Greg Evans

Broadway’s Ain’t No Mo’ producer Lee Daniels announced today that NBA champ Dwyane Wade, actor Gabrielle Union and Drag Race star RuPaul will join the co-producing team of the comedy t…

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Tuesday, November 8, 2022

Newcomers ‘A Beautiful Noise’, ‘Some Like It Hot’, ‘& Juliet’ And ‘Kimberly Akimbo’ Pull In Audiences – Broadway Box Office by Greg Evans

Two of the fall Broadway season’s buzzy new musicals – A Beautiful Noise, The Neil Diamond Musical and Some Like It Hot – began previews last week, both doing solid business in their f…

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Monday, November 7, 2022

‘The Music Man’ Extends Broadway Run By Two Weeks by Greg Evans

Broadway’s hit revival of The Music Man starring Hugh Jackman and Sutton Foster is extending its run by two weeks, with a closing date now set for Sunday, Jan. 15, 2023. “The hunger of a…

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Friday, November 4, 2022

Douglas McGrath Dies: ‘Emma’ Filmmaker, Writer Of ‘Beautiful: The Carole King Musical’, Oscar-Nominated Co-Author Of Woody Allen’s ‘Bullet by Greg Evans

Douglas McGrath, the director and writer whose work spanned film, stage and television and earned him a Tony nomination for Beautiful: The Carole King Musical and an Oscar nomination for the…

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Thursday, November 3, 2022

Sienna Miller Says She Was Told To “F*ck Off” By Broadway Producer In Equal Pay Dispute by Greg Evans

Sienna Miller says in a new interview with British Vogue that she once was told by an “extremely powerful” Broadway producer to “f*ck off” when inquiring about why she was “offered…

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Terrence McNally Foundation Launches To Support Emerging Playwrights, LGBTQ+ Causes by Greg Evans

Tom Kirdahy, Broadway producer and husband of the late theater icon Terrence McNally, announced today the creation of the Terrence McNally Foundation, “continuing the legendary playwright�…

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Wednesday, November 2, 2022

Tony-Winning Director Anna D. Shapiro Signs With CAA by Greg Evans

EXCLUSIVE: Tony Award-winnning director Anna D. Shapiro has signed with CAA for representation. CAA also will represent multimedia venture Highwire Media which includes principals Shapiro, L…

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Colin Quinn Announces New Off Broadway Show: ‘Small Talk’ Sets January Start by Greg Evans

EXCLUSIVE: Colin Quinn has announced a new stage show – his seventh – and an opening night. Colin Quinn: Small Talk will play the Lucille Lortel Theatre Off Broadway beginning January 6 …

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Tuesday, November 1, 2022

Jimmy Fallon To Reprise ‘Almost Famous’ Film Role For Broadway Musical In Surprise Performances by Greg Evans

EXCLUSIVE: More than three years ago, when writer-director Cameron Crowe appeared with David Crosby on NBC’s Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon – the duo were plugging their documentary …

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Mike Birbiglia’s ‘The Old Man & the Pool’ Sells Out First Week, Gets Two-Week Extension – Broadway Box Office by Greg Evans

EXCLUSIVE: Comic monologist Mike Birbiglia has made an early Broadway splash with his new show The Old Man & the Pool, selling out his first four previews last week – the only other pr…

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Phillipa Soo, Andrew Burnap & Jordan Donica To Lead Cast Of Broadway’s ‘Camelot’ Revival by Greg Evans

Lincoln Center Theater’s upcoming Broadway revival of Lerner & Loewe’s Camelot will star Andrew Burnap as Arthur, Phillipa Soo as Guenevere, and Jordan Donica as Lancelot Du Lac, LCT…

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Lea Michele & Cast Of ‘Funny Girl’ Set For Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade; Other Broadway Shows Include ‘The Lion King’, ‘A Beautiful Nois by Greg Evans

This year’s Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade will include the traditional line-up of Broadway performances, with Lea Michele and the cast of Funny Girl scheduled to be among the holiday re…

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Thursday, October 27, 2022

Anna D. Shapiro, Ian Barford Among Quartet Launching Highwire Media Production Company For Film, Theater, TV; Jane Lynch, Chris Rock Projects In Pipel by Greg Evans

EXCLUSIVE: Tony Award-winning director Anna D.Shapiro (August: Osage County), Oscar-nominated producer Leelai Demoz (On Tip-Toe), Tony-nominated actor/writer Ian Barford (Linda Vista) and en…

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Wednesday, October 26, 2022

New Kander & Ebb Musical ‘New York, New York’ Sets Spring Broadway Opening, Venue by Greg Evans

The new Kander & Ebb stage musical New York, New York, inspired by the 1977 Martin Scorsese film starring Liza Minnelli and ‎Robert De Niro, will begin performances Friday, March 24, 2…

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