Sunday, May 20, 2018
After failing to hit it big as a Hollywood actress, Ms. Morison became a star of the musical stage in “Kiss Me, Kate” and “The King and I.”
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The disagreement over the characterization of Atticus Finch expands to a second lawsuit between the producers and the Lee estate.
Linked From The New York Times SubscriptionThe Kennedy Center said customers would be charged the amount cited during the transaction, not the higher amount.
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John Legend, Sara Bareilles, 'Hamilton' veteran Brandon Victor Dixon and Alice Cooper headline NBC's Easter Sunday special, performing the 1971 rock opera by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice.
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Which might sound weird to say, if you haven’t seen him onstage.
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These 10 sexy chorus gals will set hearts pumping in this spring’s Broadway musicals
Linked From Time OutThese 10 sexy chorus guys will set hearts pumping in this spring’s Broadway musicals
Linked From Time OutWednesday, March 21, 2018
The Parrotheads were after me.
Parrotheads are fans of the singer-songwriter Jimmy Buffett and I am the co-chief theater critic for The New York Times. Normally our flight paths would not…
Linked From The New York Times SubscriptionTheater and football may have something in common. The League of Professional Theatre Women, an advocacy group for women in theater, is taking a note from the National Football League and as…
Linked From broadway.newsBruce Springsteen will extend his “Springsteen on Broadway” one-man show until December 15, he announced today. Eighty-one additional shows will go on sale for performances July 10 thro…
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photographed by ANNIE LEIBOVITZ On a wintry morning, I find myself in an airplane hangar–size soundstage in Astoria, Queens. It’s one of the few spaces in New York City vast enough to ac…
Linked From VogueAs any faithful Smash fan/foe knows, Katharine McPhee is currently poised to assume the lead role in Waitress this April. Did their former star’s rise to actual Broadway inspire the creato…
Linked From New York MagazineA real moment of dread came early in the rehearsals for “Cambodian Rock Band.” In Lauren Yee’s new play, a musician trapped in a country ripped apart by revolution and genocide announc…
Linked From Los Angeles TimesFive credentialed writers have bucked the trend of arts journalism cutbacks to create a new review website.
Linked From American TheatreIn theatre, issues of appearance affect women both on and off-stage, and on both sides of the curtain. We spoke to Tala Ashe, Laura Benanti, Sierra Boggess, Halley Feiffer, Anne Kauffman, N…
Linked From The IntervalMonday, March 19, 2018
Lyricist Nell Benjamin on adapting Tina Fey’s 2004 teen classic without losing the movie’s biting humor—or its heart.
Linked From Vanity FairSeth Shelden, starring in “Disgraced” at Cape Fear Regional Theatre, is part of a group awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
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It took plenty of innovation and renovation. Interview with Thomas Schumacher About Frozen the Broadway Musical - Bringing Disney's Frozen to Broadway
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Hamilton mastermind Lin-Manuel Miranda isn't even nominated for a 2017 Tony Award, and he's already blowing us all away. The first official teaser trailer for Mary Poppins Returns ai…
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David Ogden Stiers, best known for his role as the arrogant surgeon Major Charles Emerson Winchester III on “MASH,” died Saturday. He was 75. His agent, Mitchell K. Stubbs, tweet…
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He wrote the music. A former college friend, Tom Jones, wrote the words. What resulted was the world’s longest-running musical (and a lasting partnership).
Linked From The New York Times SubscriptionMartin McDonagh may well win an Oscar Sunday night for his screenplay for “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.” But his chance at a Tony will have to wait. The transfer of McDonag…
Linked From The New York PostThe Broadway League is hoping to bring a younger generation, and their parents, to Broadway shows using discounts and experiential activities. Fifteen Broadway shows are currently participat…
Linked From broadway.news“Bye Bye Birdie Live” won’t be taking flight on NBC until 2019 at the earliest. NBC’s planned live event production of the classic musical with Jennifer Lopez in the …
Linked From VarietyWednesday, February 28, 2018
Theatre is a vocation and people are motivated, first and foremost, by the sheer love of doing it. But you can’t live
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Rob Meiksins had a piece on Non-Profit Quarterly that discussed what the non-profit Second Stage Theater’s recent ownership of the Helen Hayes Theater on Broadway might portend in term…
Linked From Butts In The SeatsMichael Riedel is leaving the New York Post after 20 years as its theater columnist. Riedel is leaving the paper to work at radio station 710 WOR as the co-host of a morning talk show alongs…
Linked From broadway.newsShe made her name on the TV drama “Six Feet Under.” But her last musical? That was “Oklahoma!” — in high school. Now she’s playing Eliza Doolittle in “My Fair Lady.”
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“Frozen” on Broadway is one hot ticket. Disney Theatrical Productions’ new stage version of the animated smash exploded out of the gate in its first week, raking in $926,84…
Linked From VarietyThe Geffen Playhouse has yanked its planned production of Neil LaBute’s “Fat Pig,” which would have starred Chrissy Metz of “This Is Us,” soon after Off Broadwa…
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They are young. They are bold and self-confident. They are articulate. They are passionate. They are leading a national movement. And they are theatre kids.
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Michael Schulman on how the Tony Award-winning rock musical ”Spring Awakening” relates to the experience of the student survivors of the Parkland, Florida, school shooting.
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The season begins with Jason Robert Brown’s Songs for a New World.
Linked From Playbill“Dear Evan Hansen” producer Stacey Mindich is partnering with David Mirvish, a Canadian producer, to bring the musical to Toronto. The show will play Royal Alexandra Theatre in March 201…
Linked From broadway.newsBrandon Victor Dixon has been cast as Judas in NBC’s upcoming live staging of “Jesus Christ Superstar,” the network announced Thursday. Dixon won a Tony in 2014 as a produc…
Linked From VarietyAudiences love the classic songs. And producers love filling seats. But in this #MeToo moment, what to make of musicals like “My Fair Lady” and “Carousel”?
Linked From The New York Times SubscriptionThe Brooklyn songwriters Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez talked about the new song “Monster” in an interview this week.
Linked From The New York Times SubscriptionCameron Mackintosh’s theatrical licensing company Music Theatre International has reshuffled its senior leadership, appointing president Drew Cohen as global chief executive. Alongside
Linked From The Stage Registration“Junk,” Mr. Akthtar’s ambitious study of 1980s Wall Street, receives an honor previously won by Taylor Mac and Lin-Manuel Miranda.
Linked From The New York Times SubscriptionThe highly anticipated new stage adaptation of the hit Disney film Frozen begins performances at Broadway's St. James Theatre on February 22. Directed by Tony winner Michael Grandage and…
Linked From Broadway.comWednesday, February 21, 2018
Actresses can lie about their weight, boob jobs and affairs — but they can no longer fudge their age. A federal judge on Tuesday ruled that a California law forcing the Internet Movie Data…
Linked From The New York PostIt’s been a good year for Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, the songwriting and composing duo better known as Pasek and Paul. After landing an Academy Award for their song, “City of Dreams” …
Linked From VarietyThe Tony Award nominee will temporarily replace Gavin Creel in role of Cornelius Hackl beginning March 13.
Linked From PlaybillOnce on This Island's Michael Arden will direct the performances.
Linked From TheaterManiaPreviews begin March 29 at New Jersey’s Paper Mill Playhouse.
Linked From PlaybillThe Los Angeles Philharmonicannounces its 97thsummer season at theHollywood Bowl, featuring a roster of world-class artists in genres ranging from classical and pops to jazz, rock, and world…
Linked From BroadwayWorldBroadwayWorld is saddened to report that Scott J. Campbell, who most recently starred on Broadway as Gerry Goffin in Beautiful.
Linked From BroadwayWorldThe Broadway home for “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child’ has been rebuilt in the hope that it will run for many, many years. So why is J.K. Rowling worried?
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I don’t know if the Russians have infiltrated the White House yet, but they were all over the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, last weekend for “Chess.” So what did they think of that…
Linked From The New York PostGet to know the playwright Hammaad Chaudry, the 13-year-old actress Rileigh McDonald and the actor Andrew Burnap.
Linked From The New York Times SubscriptionNine other shows surpassed $1 million in the week ending February 18.
Linked From PlaybillThe revival of Harvey Fierstein’s multipart play about the life of a drag performer will open at the Helen Hayes Theater in November.
Linked From The New York Times SubscriptionThe show is a Broadway spectacular for people who prefer cartoons.
Linked From www.vice.comThe spring theater season has officially begun, and a slew of highly anticipated musicals and plays, both brand new and revisited, are set to bow. Broadway.com's Spring Preview series ca…
Linked From Broadway.comThe MTC revival will begin performances this spring.
Linked From PlaybillThough it may have burnt out on Broadway in the wake of a casting controversy last September, Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812 will soon reappear overseas. The boundary-pushing …
Linked From New York MagazineAndrew Garfield sits in the break room of a Brooklyn rehearsal complex extolling the virtues of a quilt. “That quilt is maybe my favorite piece of art,” he says of the Names Project AIDS…
Linked From VarietyFans at the debut of Jimmy Buffet’s Broadway musical wanted to waste away in Magaritaville, but the bar ran out of booze.
Linked From New York Daily NewsListen: World Trade Arts Center Finds Director, Serial Litigators Targeting Broadway, and “Lin-Manuel Miranda, the Next Lion of New York.” “Today on Broadway” is a da…
Linked From BroadwayRadioAfter winning two Oscars, she stopped acting for decades to fight Thatcherism. Now, at 81, she’s tackling an Edward Albee classic. But she insists, “I lead a very dull life.”
Linked From The New York Times SubscriptionBroadway producers have the ability to reach out to a large, untapped pool of investors, but few have taken up the option. Under the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act, known as the JOBS Ac…
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While most producers struggle to break even on Broadway, one Florida attorney has figured out a sure-fire way to make money.
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Peter Filichia, James Marino, Julie Musbach, and Jan Simpson talk with Katrina Lenk. Reviews include Bernadette Peters In Hello, Dolly, Porto @ Women’s Project, Reunion Concert of Th…
Linked From BroadwayRadioFriday, February 16, 2018
Harry Connick Junior’s daytime talk show is drawing to a close. “‘Harry’ is ending it’s run after two seasons,” a spokesperson for NBCUniversal Domestic Telev…
Linked From VarietyThe longtime artistic director will leave to lead the Ronald O. Perelman Center for Performing Arts at the World Trade Center in New York City.
Linked From American TheatreThe new artistic director of the Perelman Center will be Bill Rauch, the theater director who currently leads the Oregon Shakespeare Festival.
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Here's a quick roundup of stories you may have missed today.
Elton John Is Writing a New Lion King Song for Beyoncé
Tony winner Elton John is penning a new song for hit singer B…
Linked From Broadway.comThe recipients will be honored at a private event March 19 in Manhattan.
Linked From PlaybillJeff Daniels will play the inimitable lawyer Atticus Finch in Aaron Sorkin’s forthcoming Broadway adaptation of Harper Lee’s classic novel “To Kill a Mockingbird,” a spokesman for th…
Linked From Los Angeles TimesTony nominees Tony Yazbeck (On the Town) and Peter Friedman (The Treasurer) will star in the new musical adaptation of Henry James' novella The Beast in the Jungle. Susan Strom…
Linked From Broadway.comMCC Theater, the non-profit, Off Broadway theater company where Neil LaBute has been a playwright-in-residence for several years, has abruptly terminated its relationship with the writer-dir…
Linked From VarietyWednesday, February 14, 2018
The production of “Harry Clarke,” a one-man show starring Billy Crudup, is the latest step in the audiobook maker’s investment in contemporary theater.
Linked From The New York Times SubscriptionThe upcoming season will also include the world-premiere musical A Strange Loop by Jonathan Larson Award-winning writer Michael R. Jackson.
Linked From Playbill“Scorpion” star Katharine McPhee will step into the lead role of “Waitress” this summer, marking the Broadway debut of the “American Idol” contestant who&…
Linked From VarietyEncores Artistic Director Jack Viertel today announced casting for the Encores production of Grand Hotel, The Musical, directed and choreographed by Josh Rhodes.
Linked From BroadwayWorldThe world premiere will be directed by Tyne Rafaeli.
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