Friday, March 1, 2013
Tonight is the night! Tom Hanks will finally grace the Broadway stage as previews for Nora Ephron’s Lucky Guy begin at the Broadhurst Theatre on March 1. Lucky Guy will play a limite…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 09:58AMThe Music Box Theatre box office will open Saturday, March 2nd for the much anticipated American Repertory Theatre production of Roger O. Hirson and Stephen Schwartz’s Pippin, directe…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 09:40AMThursday, February 28, 2013
Tony Award winning actress, Idina Menzel, will be back on Broadway next spring. The New York Times reports that Menzel is slated to star in a new musical, If/Then, penned by composer Tom Kit…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 04:24PMAll of the drama surround the upcoming Broadway production of Orphans, starring Alec Baldwin, Ben Foster and Tom Sturridge, has forced producers to push back its start date. The play has res…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 12:57PMRattestick Playwright Theatre’s production of The Revisionist, written by and starring Jesse Eisenberg, opens today, February 28 at the Cherry Lane Theatre. Tony Award winner Vanessa Regra…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 11:36AMOn April 12, 2013, Tony Award nominee and star of “Smash” Jeremy Jordan, Tony Award nominee Norm Lewis, Julia Murney, Tony Award nominee Jennifer Laura Thompson and Judith Clurman’…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 09:52AMWednesday, February 27, 2013
Last season Matilda The Musical was winner of a record-breaking seven Olivier Awards, including Best Musical. Based on the novel by best-selling author Roald Dahl, Matilda tells the story…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 03:37PMProducers of the new documentary that captures the life of Tony Award winning actress Elaine Stritch have launched a public fundraising campaign so that they can complete the final phases of…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 09:38AMTuesday, February 26, 2013
You can now get your tickets for The Broadway Beauty Pageant. The seventh annual beauty contest is set for Monday evening, May 20th, 8p.m., at the NYU Skirball Center for the Performing Ar…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 03:09PMMonday, February 25, 2013
The Lion King claimed the top spot for the week ending February 24, 2013. Unfortunately, overall Broadway grosses dropped and there are only 6 productions in the millionaire club this week, …
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 04:54PMAlec Baldwin, currently in rehearsals for Broadway’s Orphans, will be a guest on “The Late Show with David Letterman” tonight Monday February 25. Perhaps he will address the recent d…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 01:35PMQunvenzhane Wallis didn’t take home the big prize last night for her performance in “Beasts of the Southern Wild,” but the youngster has plenty to celebrate. Wallis, who is the…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 01:27PMFriday, February 22, 2013
Jeremy Jordan and Anna Kendrick Tapped to Star in "The Last Five Years" Film Adaptation
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 12:48PMBen Foster will join the cast of Orphans immediately in the role of “Treat,” formerly assumed by Shia LaBeouf. Producers Frederick Zollo and Robert Cole said, “We are delighted that B…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 09:10AMThursday, February 21, 2013
Emmy Award-winning actress Jane Lynch, who stars in the hit FOX television show “Glee” as ruthless cheerleading coach Sue Sylvester, will take on another great tyrannical role as evil …
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 09:45AMDue to creative differences, the producers of Orphans and Shia LaBeouf will be parting ways and he will not be continuing with the production. An announcement on the replacement for the …
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 09:35AMThe New York premiere production of Paul Downs Colaizzo’s Really Really, directed by David Cromer (the Obie Award and Lucille Lortel Award-winning director of hits Our Town, Adding Ma…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 09:29AMWednesday, February 20, 2013
Academy Award winners Jennifer Hudson, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Russell Crowe join this year’s Oscar nominees Hugh Jackman and Anne Hathaway along with Amanda Seyfried, Eddie Redmayne,…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 01:36PMMotown fans rejoice. In conjunction with the opening of Broadway’s Motown: The Musical, Universal Music Enterprises (UMe) will release Motown Originals: The Classic Songs That Inspired …
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 11:30AMCameron Mackintosh has announced that his acclaimed new production of Alain Boublil & Claude-Michel Schönberg’s Tony Award-winning musical masterpiece Les Misérables will come to Br…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 09:52AMTuesday, February 19, 2013
Broadway Bounces Back After Snow Storm After last week’s low grosses due to Winter Storm Nemo, Broadway recovered with high numbers for the week ending February 17. Wicked came out on top…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 02:16PMCasting for the New World Stages production of Peter and the Starcatcher, which will begin performances on Monday, March 18, 2013, has been announced. The cast includes returning Broadway…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 11:30AMThe Schoenfeld Theatre box office opens Tuesday, February 19 at 10:00 AM for Lyle Kessler’s Orphans, starring Alec Baldwin, Shia LaBeouf and Tom Sturridge and directed by Daniel Sull…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 10:00AMFriday, February 15, 2013
So maybe Broadway isn’t in the works for the “Fast and Furious” star, Vin Diesel. However, the actor did give singing a try yesterday when he dedicated Rihanna’s …
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 01:39PMThe York Theatre Company’s season opener, Two By Two, with book by Peter Stone, lyrics by Martin Charnin, music by Richard Rodgers and starring Broadway veterans Jason Alexander and Tov…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 10:04AMTony Awards Eligibility for 2013 The Tony Awards Administration Committee met on February 14 for the second time this season to decide the eligibility of Broadway productions for 2013 Tony A…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 09:47AMThursday, February 14, 2013
Producers of the new musical, The Man, which chronicles the rise and fall of a fictional music superstar, are setting things in motion. The musical, which has an estimated budget of $35 mill…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 09:51AMWednesday, February 13, 2013
Tony Award winners Len Cariou, Brian Stokes Mitchell, and Karen Ziemba have joined the star-studded lineup for this year’s Broadway Backwards, a one-night-only performance produced by…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 11:13AMTuesday, February 12, 2013
At last year’s Oscar Awards ceremony, the two nominated songs weren’t even performed on the telecast. This year, the shows producers plan to make up for that exclusion. Producers Craig Z…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 04:35PMMonday, February 11, 2013
New York City was covered in a blanket of white over the weekend and unfortunately, Broadway suffered. Soft sales were reported across the board for the week ending February 10, 2013. Only f…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 05:22PMOnce, winner of eight Tony Awards including Best Musical, has received the 2013 Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album, it was announced last night at the 55th Annual Grammy Awards in …
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