Trying to find a way to keep cool this June? Well, look no further. Starry benefits, underground solo shows and a new musical about reality TV dating top this week’s Datebook. Read on …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:00AMThe movie version of Grease turns 35 years old on June 15. Since it premiered, generations have grown up with Rydell High's Pink Ladies and T-Birds. And if you’re like us, you…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:12AMThe short-lived off-Broadway musical The Last Smoker in America will record an original cast album featuring Farah Alvin, Natalie Venetia Belcon, John Bolton, and Jake Boyd. Released through…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:28AMAll hail the new Queen of the Night, Beverley Knight. The award-winning British soul singer will replace Tony winner and Olivier Award nominee Heather Headley this September in the big-budge…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:07AMFantasia Barrino is coming back to Broadway this October. The Grammy winner unveiled her plans to return to the Great White Way on The Today Show on June 12. No word yet on wh…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:49PMTony nominee Joshua Henry will play Sutton Foster’s forbidden love Flick in Encores!' one-night-only presentation of Violet. The Leigh Silverman-helmed musical will also featu…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:09PMSilence! The Musical will end its current run on July 7, after two years off-Broadway. At the time of closing, Silence! will have played eight previews and 529 performances. After the show c…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:30PMNew works from Bruce Norris, James Lapine and Anthony Giardina, as well as the previously speculated production of Macbeth, starring Ethan Hawke, will top the new season at Li…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:01PMSeven-time Emmy-winning comedian Tracey Ullman is in talks to join Disney’s Into the Woods as Jack’s Mother, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Ullman would join a cast that in…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:04PMTony winner Eddie Redmayne has made quite an impression on Hollywood with stellar performances in My Week with Marilyn and Les Miserables. Now word comes from Deadline.com that Redmayne may …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:09AMHarry Potter star Emma Watson has grown from child star to screen siren, but can Broadway baby be next? Watson, who is currently promoting her new flick The Bling Ring, told USA Today that s…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:32AMFamily drama abounds in Sidney Howard’s 1926 play The Silver Cord, which centers around a female villain named Mrs. Phelps. In the first major New York revival, which opened off-Broadw…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:05PMAnn, written by and starring Emmy winner and 2013 Tony nominee Holland Taylor, will end its run at Broadway's Vivian Beaumont Theatre earlier than expected. The one-woman play about late…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:35PMTony and Broadway.com Audience Choice Award winner Alice Ripley will lead the Balagan Theatre’s fall production of Carrie. Ripley will star as Carrie’s religious fanatic mot…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:18PMMCC Theater had reasons to be celebrating on June 11 as they presented the latest work from playwright and screenwriter Neil LaBute. Reasons to Be Happy, a companion piece to his Tony-nomina…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:23PMAfter putting his unique spin on icons like President Andrew Jackson, Peter Pan, Imelda Marcos and Rocky Balboa, Tony-nominated director Alex Timbers is turning his attention to The Muppets.…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:39PMThe Tony-winning Best Musical Kinky Boots will strut its way into a town near you as the crowd-pleasing Cyndi Lauper/Harvey Fierstein tuner launches a national tour. The production kicks off…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:32PMThe bloody Shakespeare classic Macbeth is enjoying a New York resurgence with two major productions in the past year, including a solo production on Broadway starring Alan Cumming. Now word …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:03PMGet ready for a classic family drama as a revival of the 1926 hit The Silver Cord heads to the Theatre at St. Clement's. Penned by Gone with the Wind’s Oscar-winning scre…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:06PMCinderella fans are in for a treat straight from the twisted, genius mind of Tony nominee Santino Fontana. The cast of the Tony-nominated revival busted out their best hip-hop skills for the…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:30PMThree-time Emmy nominee Amy Poehler (Saturday Night Live, Parks and Recreation) dropped by Lincoln Center Theater’s Vivian Beaumont Theatre to chat with Ann star and playwright Holland…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:15PMFour-time Tony nominee Raul Esparza will return to the New York stage as Larry Foreman in Encores! staging ofThe Cradle Will Rock. Directed by Sam Gold and choreographed by Chase Brock, the …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:07AMThe world premiere of Neil LaBute’s Reasons to Be Happy officially opens off-Broadway at the Lucille Lortel Theatre on June 11. The MCC Theater production stars Jenna Fischer, Josh Ham…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:48AMTony winner Julie White will join the cast of Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike on July 30 for the Tony-winning Best Play's second and final Broadway extension. Whi…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:24AMAtlantic Theater Company’s world premiere production of John Guare’s 3 Kinds of Exile officially opens off-Broadway at the Linda Gross Theatre on June 11. Directed by the company…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:23AMJust because the Tony Awards are over doesn’t mean we have to stop obsessing about them, right? Get your ongoing Tony Awards fix with a complete roundup of all Broadway.com’s cov…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:20AMThe big winner at the 2013 Tony Awards was the Cyndi Lauper/Harvey Fierstein musical Kinky Boots. A stage adaptation of the British indie film, this heartwarming tale of a Northampton factor…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:31AMAfter the excitement of Tony weekend, what's left to do? Plenty! Although the 2012-2013 season has officially come to an end, New York is already bustling with new openings, solo concert…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:10PMBefore the awards are given out on June 9, Broadway.com is looking back on the shocking secrets, compelling confessions and awesome advice offered up by this year’s nominees. From nast…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:11AMGo behind the scenes at the Kinky Boots recording session with Tony-nominated star Billy Porter, Tony-nominated composer Cyndi Lauper and the acclaimed cast as they lay down the track for th…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:02PMThe new rock musical F#%king Up Everything will play its final performance at off-Broadway’s Elektra Theatre on June 13. The hipster musical directed and choreographed by Jen Wineman a…
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