Musician Lisa Loeb logged onto a Zoom of former Brown musical theater students and listened as people reminisced about shows and talked about how COVID-19 had affected their plans and hopes.…
SOURCE: www.seattletimes.com at 12:13PMThe Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington, D.C. announced Thursday that it will stage “Once Upon a One More Time,” featuring Spears’ tunes, including “Oops!… I Did It Again,”…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:35AMProducers announced Monday that tickets will go on sale June 11 for the eight-time Tony Award winning musical and that the production will resume playing the Walter Kerr Theatre weeks before…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 10:27AMKristin Chenoweth, Laura Benanti, Sierra Boggess, Michael Cerveris, Victoria Clark, Santino Fontana, Judy Kuhn, Howard McGillin, Norm Lewis, Kelli O’Hara and Sally Wilfert will perform in …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:23AMThe Grammy-nominated leader of Florence + The Machine is supplying the lyrics and co-writing music for a stage musical adaptation of “The Great Gatsby,” it was announced Wednesday. No ca…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 09:51AMThe move comes more than a week after The Hollywood Reporter’s cover story on Rudin contained accounts of the producing heavyweight throwing glass bowls, staples and baked potatoes at form…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:54AMHow have Hollywood and Broadway responded to an exposé detailing routine abuse and bullying by producer Scott Rudin? Mostly, with crickets.
SOURCE: apnews.com at 09:00AMThe series kicks off Thursday with “The Thanksgiving Play” by Larissa FastHorse, directed by Leigh Silverman starring Reeves, Bobby Cannavale, Heidi Schreck and Alia Shawkat.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:11PMSidelined ‘Mean Girls’ musical won’t reopen on Broadway
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 07:23AMAnn Reinking, the Tony Award-winning choreographer, actress and Bob Fosse collaborator who helped spread a cool, muscular hybrid of jazz and burlesque movement to Broadway and beyond, has di…
SOURCE: www.seattletimes.com at 07:31PMNEW YORK (AP) — Jawan M. Jackson recently got to do something he’s been yearning to do for months — sing and dance again with his Broadway cast. Jackson is one of the stars of “Ain�…
SOURCE: www.seattletimes.com at 10:57AMNEW YORK (AP) — Andrew Lloyd Webber is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the release of his “Jesus Christ Superstar” album with the first single from his latest musical, “Cinderell…
SOURCE: www.seattletimes.com at 03:30PMThe hourlong, nonpartisan “Act Out: Vote 2020” will be performed by Yvette Nicole Brown, Ryan J. Haddad, Brian Tyree Henry, Lloyd Knight, Sandra Oh and Ephraim Skyes.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 10:50AMAlthough an exact date for various performances to resume has yet to be determined, Broadway producers are now offering refunds and exchanges for tickets purchased for shows through May 30.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 09:43AM“Viva Broadway! Hear Our Voices” will be held online Oct. 1 and will be hosted by Andréa Burns. It will be directed and choreographed by Sergio Trujillo.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 10:40AMTony Award Productions said Friday that the celebration of live theatre will be digital but offered no date or streaming platform.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 02:03PMNEW YORK (AP) — Tony Award-nominated actor Nick Cordero, who specialized in playing tough guys on Broadway in such shows as “Waitress,” “A Bronx Tale” and “Bullets Over Broadway,…
SOURCE: www.seattletimes.com at 09:29PMThe shutdown on Broadway has been extended again — until at least early January. Although an exact date for performances to resume has yet to be determined, Broadway producers are now offe…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 03:16PMAlthough an exact date for performances to resume has yet to be determined, Broadway producers are now offering refunds and exchanges for tickets purchased for shows through Jan. 3.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 03:11PMBroadway producers are now offering refunds and exchanges for tickets purchased for shows through Jan. 3.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:33AMJoining the Oscar- and Tony-winners for virtual tutorials are Tony award-winning Broadway director Jerry Zaks and Tony-nominee Judy Kuhn. Broadway director Stephen Brackett, composer Joe Ico…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:58PMKramer’s husband, David Webster, told The New York Times that Kramer died of pneumonia on Wednesday.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 04:33PMLarry Kramer, the playwright whose angry voice and pen raised theatergoers’ consciousness about AIDS and roused thousands to militant protests in the early years of the epidemic, has died …
SOURCE: Denver Post at 03:06PMThe Disney show opened in March 2018 and placed among the top five Broadway productions for both gross and attendance over both years it ran, often pulling in over $1 million, and even $2 mi…
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 02:16PMAlthough an exact date for performances to resume has yet to be determined, Broadway producers are now offering refunds and exchanges for tickets purchased for shows through Sept. 6.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:27PMIt is still not clear when performances will resume.
SOURCE: www.seattletimes.com at 12:14PMNEW YORK (AP) — When Broadway theaters finally reopen, at least one musical theater fan will show up. But she’ll look a little different. “I would wear a mask and gloves,” said actre…
SOURCE: www.seattletimes.com at 12:27PMThe winning contestant will be introduced onstage by Lloyd Webber at either the home of “The Phantom of the Opera” on Broadway or London — whichever opens first — and sing after the …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:13PMThe Canadian actor entered the intensive care unit at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles on March 31 and has been on a ventilator and unconscious after contracting COVID-19.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 12:00PMMusical theatre stars are taking to social media to sing, offering fans a front seat to a Broadway show and a much needed intermission amid the coronavirus pandemic.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 12:58PMThe American playwright, known for plays like “Master Class” and musicals such as “Ragtime,” was a lung cancer survivor who lived with chronic inflammatory lung disease.
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