152 stories by "Jamie Wetherbe"
“Orphans” could not find a home on Broadway.
Girl power didn't last long on stage: Producers announced Thursday the Spice Girls musical will close early in London after a lackluster six-month run. The final performance is June 29.
Actress Amanda Peet has added some star power to her debut as a playwright. Blythe Danner and Sarah Jessica Parker will play mother and daughter facing family and fiscal troubles in Peet&rsq…
Stage and screen star Jonathan Groff has joined the cast of Ryan Murphy's "The Normal Heart," an HBO film about the early days of the AIDS epidemic in New York City.
Zachary Quinto is going from sci-fi to the stage.
Recalling an age of highly crafted public personas, the new Broadway play “I’ll Eat You Last: A Chat with Sue Mengers” reflects on a Hollywood era when movie deals were mad…
"Broadway is and has always been a tough place for new shows to succeed, and we want to get this right," Thomas Vierte, one of the musical's producers, told the New York Times. Vierte added …
More than 25 years after Roddy Doyle wrote "The Commitments," the bestselling book-turned-movie is bound for London’s West End.
Producers have again rotated the lead lovers in the Tony-winning musical “Once.”
Joe Mantello, who was nominated for a Tony Award for his performance as Ned Weeks in the 2011 Broadway production of "The Normal Heart,” has signed on for a different role in Ryan Murp…
Actress Brooke Shields this summer will make her first move from stage to director’s chair for the Hollywood Bowl’s production of “Chicago.”
“The Nance,” a new play that deals in sexual identity on and offstage, opened Monday at the Lyceum Theater.
How you doin', Broadway? Daytime talk-show host Wendy Williams announced Monday that she’ll join the cast of the Tony-winning revival of "Chicago.”
“Matilda: The Musical,” the stage incarnation of Roald Dahl’s famed storybook, made its Broadway debut Thursday at the Shubert Theatre.
“Hands on a Hardbody,” the new musical about cash-strapped Texans competing for a truck, couldn’t pick up speed on Broadway.
Comedic actor Jack Black and composer Andrew Lloyd Webber could soon have a bond. The seven-time Tony winner said he'd like to bring Black's comedy "School of Rock" to the stage.
“Kinky Boots,” a new Broadway musical about a sole-saving drag queen, high-stepped Thursday night into the Al Hirschfeld Theatre.
"I Am Harvey Milk," a new oratorio from Tony and Grammy nominee Andrew Lippa, will make its world premiere in June at the Nourse Auditorium in San Francisco as part of the San Francisco Gay …
A much-anticipated first and last happened Monday night when Tom Hanks made his Broadway debut in Nora Ephron’s final play, "Lucky Guy," at the Broadhurst Theatre.
Orlando Bloom and Tony nominee Condola Rashad will star in a Broadway production of “Romeo and Juliet” that transports Shakespeare’s star-crossed lovers to modern times wit…
Actor Shia LaBeouf, who exited the Broadway play “Orphans” under unusual (and tweetable) circumstances, turned up in the front row Tuesday night for the show’s first previe…
The hit musical "The Book of Mormon," which opened in London’s Prince of Wales Theatre on Thursday night, set a record for the biggest single day of sales in West End and Broadway hist…
“Hands on a Hardbody,” a musical about cash-strapped Texans competing for a shiny new pickup truck, pulled into Broadway on Thursday at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre in Manhatta…
Andrew Lloyd Webber’s "Love Never Dies," the sequel to his megahit "The Phantom of the Opera," will return to the London stage.
