Wake Up With BWW 6/19: FREESTYLE LOVE SUPREME and GIRL FROM THE NORTH COUNTY on Broadway, and More!

Today's top stories: Freestyle Love Supreme and Girl From The North Country are heading to Broadway, and more!

Photo Coverage: Vanessa Carlton Previews Her Upcoming Broadway Debut in BEAUTIFUL - THE CAROLE KING MUSICAL

Three-time Grammy Award® nominated singersongwriter Vanessa Carlton will make her Broadway debut this summer as Carole King in the hit musical Beautiful - The Carole King Musical. Carlton w…

The Light in the Piazza, RFH review - Broadway musical looks good and sounds even better by Matt Wolf

Renée Fleming and Dove Cameron align in starry London debut for six-time Tony-winner A Broadway show as melodically haunting and sophisticated as it is niche, The Light in the Piazza has t…

Courtyard Theatre criticised for late payments, ‘filthy’ conditions and aggressive behaviour by Giverny Masso

East London venue the Courtyard has come under fire from a series of theatremakers claiming to have experienced issues including non-payment, unprofessionalism,

Sweeney Todd creative team reunite for reopening of London’s Boulevard Theatre by Giverny Masso

The creative team behind the 2015 pop-up pie shop production of Sweeney Todd are reuniting for the opening show of the newly

Newly Restored Boulevard Theatre Will Open With Dave Malloy’s Ghost Quartet by Andrew Gans

The London venue will open in October.

Can a Kung Fu Musical Get (Way) Off the Ground? by Devin Yalkin, Reggie Ugwu and Mohamed Sadek

“Dragon Spring Phoenix Rise,” the unlikely offspring of a Chinese-American opera impresario and the writers of “Kung Fu Panda” — with songs by Sia — aims to show just how high th…

Photo Coverage: Inside the 2019 Off Broadway Alliance Awards Reception

The Off Broadway Alliance, an organization of Off Broadway producers, theaters, general managers, press agents, and marketing professionals announced the winners of the 9th Annual Off Broadw…

The Light in the Piazza review at Royal Festival Hall, London – ‘Renée Fleming is sublime’ by Tim Bano

Maybe the reason it’s taken 15 years for Adam Guettel’s multiple Tony award-winning show to make it to London is because it’s

Lin-Manuel Miranda Announces Freestyle Love Supreme on Broadway by Andy Lefkowitz

On the heels of an acclaimed off-Broadway run, Lin-Manuel Miranda has announced a Broadway engagement of Freestyle Love Supreme, the high-energy show that blends hip-hop, improvisational th…

Editor’s View: ATG boss is right – audiences deserve better by Alistair Smith

Mark Cornell’s forceful words about audience experience mark a welcome intervention from the Ambassador Theatre Group boss. Since joining as ATG chief

Lin-Manuel Miranda’s ‘Freestyle Love Supreme’ Is Coming to Broadway by Michael Paulson

The improv show will begin a 16-week run in September.

Lynette Linton: ‘This is what I always wanted, it’s all I have ever wanted’ by Sam Marlowe

Director and playwright Lynette Linton stepped into Madani Younis shoes as artistic director of the Bush last year. She tells Sam Marlowe

Education vs Learning by Joe Patti

Seth Godin had a post recently where he made the distinction between education and learning. The way he differentiated the two was that education is  based in compliance and authority–you…

When Kathleen Turner Brought Maggie the Cat Back to Broadway by Harry Haun

In honor of the Tony and Oscar nominee's birthday, we look back at a 1990 interview about starring in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.

David Benedict: What’s in name? The key to a box office hit… by David Benedict

It was songwriter Irving Berlin who, in 1946 for his Annie Get Your Gun, taught the world that: “There’s no business like

Chief Executive Officer, YR Media by Artsjournal

YR Media seeks a Chief Executive Officer to lead a unique, state-of-the-art multi-media organization that is building a network of young adults across the country to change the face of publi…

On the Couch with Ruthie Henshall by Arts Review

Who is Ruthie Henshall? Whoever you need her to be! What would you do differently to what you do now? If I wasn’t an actress, I’d be a midwife! Who inspires you and why? Julie Walters. H…

FREESTYLE LOVE SUPREME To Land On Broadway This Fall!

Lin-Manuel Miranda announced live on Jimmy Fallon tonight that freestyle love supreme, the hip-hop, improv, live music experience from Thomas Kail, Lin-Manuel Miranda, and Anthony Veneziale,…

Photo Flash: Jenn Colella, Jarrod Spector and More Join Amanda Green At Birdland

Full cast announced for the award winning musical The Beautiful Game by Arts Review

Manilla Street Productions has announced the complete cast of 24 actors who have been chosen for the Australian premiere production of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Ben Elton’s award winning mu…

Freestyle Love Supreme announces Broadway run this fall by Caitlin Huston

Freestyle Love Supreme is coming to Broadway this fall. The freestyle-improv comedy group will play a limited engagement at the Booth Theatre beginning Sept. 13, 2019 and ending Jan. 5, 2020…

Winnipeg General Strike inspires a movie musical love story Stand by Kelly Geraldine Malone - The Canadian Press

Movie musical personalizes the sacrifices of immigrants and labour leaders in Winnipeg, some of whom died and several of whom were arrested in a police crackdown.