3,585 stories by "Andy Lefkowitz"
ABC is taking a roll in the hay! The network has announced Young Frankenstein Live! as its newest live musical event, to be produced by Mel Brooks, according to Deadline.
Based on the 20…
Leslie Odom Jr. is headed back to the big screen. The Tony-winning original star of Hamilton most recently seen on-screen in Harriet will portray the late legendary singer Sam Cooke in the u…
Five main-stem works were honored by the media advocacy organization GLAAD on January 8 with nominations for the 31st Annual GLAAD Media Awards. The shows fill out the Outstanding Broadway P…
ABC is taking a roll in the hay! The network has announced Young Frankenstein Live! is its newest live musical event, to be produced by the show and original film's creator, Mel Brooks, acco…
Full casting is set for the Kennedy Center's upcoming staging of the Pulitzer-winning musical Next to Normal. Original director Michael Greif will repeat his work for the previously annou…
Sing Street is headed to the Great White Way. The new stage musical based on John Carney's Golden Globe-nominated film, currently making its world premiere at off-Broadway's New York Theatre…
The Vineyard Theatre's hot-ticket return engagement of Tina Satter's Is This a Room has added one more performance, on January 19 at 7:00pm. The encore run was originally slated to conclude …
Casting is complete for Noah Haidle's upcoming Broadway-debut play Birthday Candles. The previously announced production of Roundabout Theatre Company, directed by Obie winner Vivienne Benes…
Complete casting is here for The Hot Wing King, a new comedy by Katori Hall set to make its world premiere with off-Broadway's Signature Theatre this winter. The recently extended production…
More casting is here for the upcoming Michael Jackson musical MJ. The previously announced production will begin previews on July 6 and open on August 13 at Broadway's Neil Simon Theat…
Warner Bros. Entertainment has recruited rising writer Jeremy O. Harris to turn Ales Kot's graphic novel The New World into a film, according to Deadline. Harris is currently represented …
Freestyle Love Supreme, the high-energy show that blends hip-hop, improvisational theater, music and vocal stylings, has recouped its Broadway investment after 14 weeks, producers announced …
Full casting has been announced for All the Natalie Portmans, a new play by C.A. Johnson set to make its world premiere with MCC Theater this winter. The previously announced off-Broadway…
Pearl Sun, a standby in the Broadway hit Come From Away, takes over the role of Janice in the musical for a limited run beginning on January 7. Sun will continue in the role through March 29…
Miguel Cervantes is headed home to Broadway. The Hamilton alum who recently closed out the Chicago production will return to the title role in the main-stem staging at the Richard Rodgers Th…
Full casting has been announced for All the Natalie Portmans, a new play by C.A. Johnson set to make its world premiere with MCC Theater this winter. The previously announced production, dir…
The upcoming revival of The Music Man has officially found its Broadway home. As previously rumored, the starry new production will set up shop at the Winter Garden Theatre, current home …
The upcoming Michael Jackson bio-musical MJ has announced a national casting call for actors to take on the title role at various points in his life. These auditions have been scheduled o…
Second Stage Theater's upcoming Broadway revival of Richard Greenberg's Tony-winning play Take Me Out has added Tyler Lansing Weaks and Eduardo Ramos to the cast. They will take over the rol…
Casting is complete for the upcoming U.K. debut of Pretty Woman: The Musical. The previously announced West End transfer is scheduled to begin its run on February 13 at London's Piccadilly T…
The Tony-winning hit revival of Chicago welcomes Erika Jayne and Paulo Szot to the production on January 6. Jayne takes over the role of Roxie Hart from Charlotte d'Amboise while Szot steps …
A slew of stage stars were honored for their work on-screen at the Hollywood Foreign Press Association's 2020 Golden Globe Awards on January 5. Ricky Gervais hosted the event from The Beverl…
Tony Goldwyn returns to Broadway on January 5, stepping into the role of Henry Wilcox in Matthew Lopez's two-part drama The Inheritance. Goldwyn assumes the role for a four-month limited run…
Four-time Tony-nominated actress Laura Linney heads back to Broadway on January 4 in the new solo drama My Name Is Lucy Barton. Richard Eyre directs the production of Manhattan Theatre Club,…
Celebrated writer and actor John Cariani is turning his highly produced play Almost, Maine into a young adult novel. Feiwel & Friends, an imprint of Macmillan, is publishing the book,…
