366 stories by "jackson McHenry"
It took until March 1 " 354 days after Broadway shut down " for the theater industry to start voting on the best of the 2019"20 season that COVID cut short, and there's still no planned cere…
Photographs by Erik Tanner. Welcome to Tony Awards season, when the stars of Broadway's biggest shows are honored while still, in many cases, performing eight times a week. The day after the…
Danny Burstein hid a GoPro in a hat won by Kerstin Anderson, who plays a reveler in the scene (and is the Eliza alternate for Laura Benanti).
Rita Moreno won the O in her EGOT from playing Anita in the film version of West Side Story, and she's not about to let anybody mess up the movie's legacy with the remake. Moreno has a small…
You would think that the Grammys would know better than to get on the wrong side of someone who wrote a whole album about how she'll be fine without you. The Associated Press published an in…
Disney's next movie-to-theater adaptation is arriving in an unexpected format. After premiering big, yet conventional, movie-to-theater adaptations like Frozen and Aladdin on Broadway (and s…
A journey to the past can only last so long. Broadway's musical adaptation of the 1997 animated movie Anastasia has announced that it will close on March 31 this year. The musical, with a bo…
Midway through Skittles Commercial: The Broadway Musical, which performed on the Great White Way Sunday afternoon, Michael C. Hall dies. To be clear, that's not the Michael C. Hall you know …
Ever since Merrily We Roll Along premiered and then quickly closed on Broadway in 1981, people have been trying to find a way to resurrect Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's showbiz musical…
And we're here to remind you that they made a musical around the songs from Alanis Morissette's album Jagged Little Pill. Today, the musical's producers announced that after premiering at Bo…
On Sunday night, Fox had promised to air a live staging of Rent, but after a cast member was injured, the network decided to air footage from a dress rehearsal instead, up until the closing …
When live TV musicals go well, they can be fantastic. When things go awry, like when one of your leads injures himself in the dress rehearsal and can no longer run up and down all the stairs…
The movie-to-musical stage adaptations just keep, uh, coming. Today, the producers of the long-gestating Magic Mike musical " including Channing Tatum, Steven Soderbergh, Gregory Jacobs, Nic…
If you were looking for a good 80th birthday present, you could do worse than having Audra McDonald and Michael Shannon star in one of your plays on Broadway. That's the gift Terrence McNall…
After the success (well, minus that murder) of last year's production of Carrie: The Musical, the clearly very theater-nerdy teens of Riverdale High have chosen their next big production. Ac…
A Broadway season stuffed with plays is getting a very exciting new addition. What the Constitution Means to Me, in which playwright and star Heidi Schreck re-creates the lectures she gave o…
A dangerous triumvirate of things capable of making you cry has united together: Ingrid Michaelson, Nicholas Sparks, and This Is Us. Michaelson has teamed up with Bekah Brunstetter, a produc…
In Auckland, New Zealand, a very expensive musical is not doing very well at the box office, which, to be fair, happens all the time. But according to the New Zealand Herald, this one is doi…
That classic musical Oklahoma! is coming back to Broadway, though in a form unlike any you've seen before (unless you had a really cool high-school theater teacher or something). Daniel Fish…
Nicole Kidman is currently filming the upcoming Roger Ailes movie that also stars Charlize Theron as Megyn Kelly, Margot Robbie as a producer at the news network, and presumably much hairspr…
In what's generally referred to as "intense actressing news," Faye Dunaway will soon be playing Katharine Hepburn. Dunaway will star in a new production of Matthew Lombardo's play about Hepb…
Everyone in Hollywood is getting cast in the Cats movie, but not Lucas Hedges " not yet. In an interview with Stephen Colbert last night, Lady Bird's resident theater devotee started talking…
You caught all the film references in Ariana Grande's "Thank U, Next" video " Legally Blonde! Bring It On! Mean Girls! 13 Going on 30! " and definitely couldn't miss the cameos (we see you, …
That trademark blue polo shirt might soon be seen on the big screen. According to Deadline, Tony-winning Best Musical Dear Evan Hansen, which follows an awkward high schooler who attempts to…
Once Bruce Springsteen leaves the the Walter Kerr Theatre, a different kind of legend will take his place. Hadestown, the folk-music-inflected tale of the Greek myths surrounding Orpheus and…
