Wednesday, October 2, 2019
We’re guessing the cast members of the Almost Famous musical weren’t wishing for a river to skate away on when Joni Mitchell showed up at their show.
The iconic folk singer made a rare p…
SOURCE: Entertainment Weekly at 03:28PMTuesday, September 17, 2019
“Everybody wants to be us,” says Miranda Priestly, the fashion magazine maven who gives The Devil Wears Prada its imposing title. And soon fans who can’t quite be Miranda will at least…
SOURCE: Entertainment Weekly at 06:41PMFriday, September 13, 2019
Skintight, now making its West Coast premiere at Los Angeles’ Geffen Playhouse, is an acerbic, neurotic, heart-achingly funny meditation on family, love, and beauty – and how we quantify…
SOURCE: Entertainment Weekly at 01:25PMThursday, September 5, 2019
UPDATE: It turns out Harry Potter and the Cursed Child has a new tagline courtesy of J.K. Rowling — “Sometimes, darkness comes from unexpected places” — and new marketing artwork…
SOURCE: Entertainment Weekly at 06:36PMThursday, August 29, 2019
From this point on, not a day goes by when Richard Linklater isn’t thinking about Stephen Sondheim’s musical Merrily We Roll Along.
That’s because the filmmaker plans to spend the next…
SOURCE: Entertainment Weekly at 09:43PMWednesday, August 28, 2019
You might want to kneel for this news.
Fleabag, which began as a one-woman play and then became a hit Emmy-nominated TV series, is headed to the big screen. National Theatre Live, which regu…
SOURCE: Entertainment Weekly at 07:12PMThursday, August 1, 2019
Don’t lose your head — a musical about Henry VIII’s six wives is headed for Broadway.
Six, the musical which has drawn a cult following after successful runs in London and Chicago, is…
SOURCE: Entertainment Weekly at 04:22PMTuesday, July 23, 2019
A spectacular (spectacular) new musical is born with the buzzy adaptation of Baz Luhrmann’s lush 2001 film Moulin Rouge, which calls on Broadway veterans Aaron Tveit and Karen Olivo to rei…
SOURCE: Entertainment Weekly at 02:35PMThursday, July 4, 2019
As of August 18, the street Pretty Woman: The Musical is walking down will no longer be Broadway.
On Wednesday, producers announced it will play its final performance on Broadway at the Ne…
SOURCE: Entertainment Weekly at 01:45AMWednesday, July 3, 2019
There are a lot of reasons an actor might miss a theatrical performance — calling out due to illness, a death in the family, etc. But two-time Tony winner Norbert Leo Butz once missed a pe…
SOURCE: Entertainment Weekly at 11:00AMFor theater lovers, Norbert Leo Butz and Sherie Rene Scott are as iconic a duo as Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, PB&J, or Ethel Merman and things coming up roses.
The award-winning perf…
SOURCE: Entertainment Weekly at 09:30AMThursday, June 27, 2019
We’re having trouble staying Loki about this news…
Tom Hiddleston, beloved for his portrayal of the mischievous Loki in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, will make his Broadway debut later …
SOURCE: Entertainment Weekly at 03:43PMTuesday, June 25, 2019
Do you believe in Broadway after The Cher Show?
You’re gonna have to because the musical, which traces the life of recording icon Cher and features her most beloved songs, has set its clo…
SOURCE: Entertainment Weekly at 10:30PMThursday, June 13, 2019
Vanessa Hudgens is once again finding the music in her.
The former High School Musical star, who has impressed critics and audiences with her work in live TV musicals like Grease: Live and R…
SOURCE: Entertainment Weekly at 10:15AMWednesday, June 12, 2019
Paula Vogel’s Indecent uses the production history of a little-known Yiddish play to get at haunting truths about the paradoxical nature of storytelling. In the world of Indecent, theater …
SOURCE: Entertainment Weekly at 04:39PMIt looks like the cast of Beetlejuice said Catherine O’Hara’s name three times.
The Schitt’s Creek actress attended the Broadway production of Beetlejuice on Saturday before intro…
SOURCE: Entertainment Weekly at 02:38PMFiddler on the Roof is an essential part of Broadway traditions at this point — as crucial to the American songbook and stage as Oklahoma or West Side Story. And yet, for a time, it see…
SOURCE: Entertainment Weekly at 11:00AMWednesday, May 8, 2019
Vanessa Carlton can feel the earth move under her feet.
Producers announced today that the pop singer is poised to make her Broadway debut this summer stepping behind the piano as Carole Kin…
SOURCE: Entertainment Weekly at 04:45PMTuesday, May 7, 2019
Jake Gyllenhaal has shared an Instagram video that is very “mysterio.”
The actor posted a mashed-up version of the trailer for his forthcoming Broadway play Sea Wall/A Life, in which h…
SOURCE: Entertainment Weekly at 09:23PMMonday, May 6, 2019
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The original Broadway cast of Rent found the project opened …
SOURCE: Entertainment Weekly at 11:00AMBruce Springsteen is no longer sick of sitting ’round here trying to write this .
On Sunday night at a Netflix FYSEE event on behalf of his special Springsteen on Broadway, the Boss reveal…
SOURCE: Entertainment Weekly at 02:06AMMonday, April 29, 2019
This news is so good it’s likely to make your chest burst.
The viral sensation Alien: The Play, an unofficial adaptation of the 1979 film Alien, can now be viewed in-full thanks to a v…
SOURCE: Entertainment Weekly at 07:13PMWednesday, April 24, 2019
It might take sugar, butter, and flour to make a perfect pie, but it took a lot more, including Sara Bareilles’ songwriting chops, to get to three years on Broadway.
Waitress is celebratin…
SOURCE: Entertainment Weekly at 09:00AMThursday, April 18, 2019
Since its Broadway debut in 1992, Falsettos has been hailed as a moving love story and a profound exploration of masculinity and sexuality. The 2016 Broadway revival continued to garner grea…
SOURCE: Entertainment Weekly at 07:28PMJake Gyllenhaal and Tom Sturridge are headed to Broadway.
Producers announced on Thursday that the duo will take the critically-acclaimed production of Sea Wall/A Life, which played to sol…
SOURCE: Entertainment Weekly at 07:18PMTuesday, April 9, 2019
What if going viral could get you to Broadway? Based on a novel by Ned Vizzini, with music and lyrics from Joe Iconis and a book by Joe Tracz, Be More Chill, which opened on Broadway March 1…
SOURCE: Entertainment Weekly at 12:00PMTuesday, November 1, 2016
"I like hiking — I realize that’s such an L.A. cliché," he says of reprising his Broadway role at the Pantages Theatre, opening Wednesday (which "is actually the worst time to go.")read…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 03:55PMFriday, August 12, 2016
by MAUREEN LEE LENKER
Williams could arguably be dubbed an American Shakespeare — a playwright who, in capturing a singular vision of the mid-twentieth century American South, also con…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 08:57PMThursday, July 14, 2016
by MAUREEN LEE LENKER
Johnny and June Carter Cash in Walk the Line to The Four Seasons in Jersey Boys, the musical biography is familiar fodder for storytelling. As neither screenplay no…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 03:33PMWednesday, June 15, 2016
interview by MAUREEN LEE LENKER
Disrupted, currently making its world premiere at the Hollywood Fringe Festival, is the first play from writer and memoirist Mary Anna King. King is the auth…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 09:14PMTuesday, May 17, 2016
by MAUREEN LEE LENKER
"Come on along and listen to, the lullaby of Broadway…"
man who wrote these words, lyricist Al Dubin, was himself tempted by the lullaby of Broadway — cutting …
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 06:35PM 
