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Tony-nominated Eclipsed director Liesl Tommy has signed on to direct a movie adaptation of Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood, the best-selling memoir of political commenta…
Current Tony-winning Dear Evan Hansen star Rachel Bay Jones has landed a role in God Friended Me, a comedy pilot being developed for CBS, according to Variety. Jones will take on a gues…
The new Broadway-bound bio-musical The Cher Show has found its star! Two-time Tony nominee Stephanie J. Block will be one of three actresses portraying iconic Oscar-winning star Cher in…
Rocktopia, an acclaimed concert that has seen great success on international tours, officially opens at the Broadway Theatre on March 27. Created by maestro Randall Craig Fleischer and stage…
Original Anastasia company member Zach Adkins takes over the role of Dmitry full-time on March 27. Derek Klena played his final performance in the hit musical at the Broadhurst Theatre …
Casting is complete for the highly anticipated new West End production of Chess. The tuner featuring music by ABBA songwriters Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus, lyrics by Tim Rice and …
Stage-and-screen star Orlando Bloom will return to the West End this spring, taking on the central role of Joe Cooper in a new production of Tony and Pulitzer winner Tracy Letts' dark co…
Producers Ken Davenport and Kurt Deutsch have announced that they have optioned the musical rights to the Griswolds, the characters from the hit Vacation film franchise. The special arrangem…
It's a hit! Farinelli and the King, Claire Van Kampen's new play which concluded its Broadway premiere engagement on March 25, made back its full main-stem investment, producers anno…
Tony and Emmy Award winner Stockard Channing will return to the New York stage this fall in the off-Broadway premiere of Apologia, a new work by Drama League-nominated playwright Alexi Kaye …
The first Broadway production of Kenneth Lonergan’s 2001 play Lobby Hero officially opens on March 26. Starring Chris Evans and Michael Cera, Lobby Hero is the first Broadway show…
A new musical adaptation of the 1984 film The Flamingo Kid has scheduled a world premiere production with Hartford Stage. Featuring a book and lyrics by Tony winner Robert L. Freedman (A Gen…
The new revival of Tony Kushner's two-part drama Angels in America officially opens at the Neil Simon Theatre on March 25. Directed by two-time Tony winner Marianne Elliott, the producti…
Casting is complete for the new musical comedy Gettin' the Band Back Together! Golden-voiced Broadway alum Kelli Barrett (Doctor Zhivago) is among the full cast slated to debut the tuner…
A new production of Tony Kushner and Jeanine Tesori's Tony-nominated and Olivier-winning musical Caroline, or Change is headed to London's West End. The musical will play an engageme…
Veteran Broadway scene-stealer Alli Mauzey steps into the role of Ernestina in the Tony-winning revival of Hello, Dolly! on March 23. Mauzey replaces original cast member Jennifer Simard, wh…
Tony and Oscar winner Denzel Washington returns to the Broadway stage on March 23 in a new production of Eugene O'Neill's classic work The Iceman Cometh. Tony winner George C. Wolfe …
Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS has announced another talent-packed docket of celebrity performers for the 2018 edition of Broadway Backwards, the annual gender-bending performance celebra…
Kristolyn Lloyd, the talented star who recently concluded her run in Tony-winning hit Dear Evan Hansen, is among the newly announced cast of Dominique Morisseau's New York premiere …
The first-ever Broadway revival of Mark Medoff's Children of a Lesser God, which begins performances today, has announced three ways for deaf and hard-of-hearing audiences to e…
This news is just loverly! Lincoln Center Theater's new Broadway revival of My Fair Lady will be preserved on an original cast album from Broadway Records. The musical's classic Lern…
A new production of Mark Medoff’s Tony-winning 1980 play Children of a Lesser God begins Broadway performances at Studio 54 on March 22. Kenny Leon directs the revival, scheduled to of…
The highly anticipated new stage adaptation of the hit Disney film Frozen officially opens at Broadway's St. James Theatre on March 22. Directed by Tony winner Michael Grandage and chore…
That was quick! The recently reported Alice by Heart, a musical adaptation of Alice in Wonderland, has announced a world premiere engagement with off-Broadway's MCC Theater, accordi…
Multi-platinum music star Robin Zander, lead singer of Cheap Trick, will make his Broadway debut as a special-guest vocalist in Rocktopia at the Broadway Theatre. Zander will appear in the s…