It was announced in June that Ethan Hawke would be taking on the lead role in MacBeth at Lincoln Center starting in October 2013. And now news has broken that Kenneth Branagh will also bring…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 04:15PMThe limited engagement Beatles musical Let It Be is going to be even more limited. The original closing date of December 29 has been moved up to September 1. The musical, which came to Broad…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 11:44AMTony nominee Jessie Mueller will star as Carole King in Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, a biographical show on the early life and career of the iconic singer-songwriter. Originally annou…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 04:30PMOpera can be one of the most satisfying and fulfilling of art forms, combining music and theater to stir the deepest human emotions. But for the non-initiated, the prospect of attending thes…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 12:24PMTwo-time Oscar-winner Denzel Washington will return to Broadway in a revival of Lorraine Hansberry’s award-winning 1959 play A Raisin in the Sun. The actor told reporters at the premiere o…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 12:23PMEmmy nominee Dulé Hill returns to the stage in After Midnight, the new musical celebrating the Jazz Age, which begins preview performances at the Brooks Atkinson Theater on Oct. 18 in advan…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 10:21AMJeff Goldblum and Tony nominee Laurie Metcalf will star in Domesticated, a new play by Bruce Norris, who won the Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize for Clybourne Park. The play, which was commiss…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 12:21PMSebastian Arcelus, Fred Dalton Thompson, and John Douglas Thompson will be headlining A Time to Kill, Tony-winner Rupert Holmes’ stage version of John Grisham’s best-selling lega…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 01:49PMShia LaBeouf has reached a settlement with the producers of the Broadway production of Orphans over the actor’s firing. Producers Frederick Zollo and Robert Cole and LaBeouf made the a…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 03:19PMIn 2002, Sutton Foster exploded onto Broadway in the title role in the hit show Thoroughly Modern Millie. The beloved jazzy musical gave Foster her first big break, solidified her as a tripl…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 03:26PMThe synergy between Broadway and Hollywoodcontinues as 20th Century Fox forms a joint venture to bring its vast library of films to the stage. The venture will be headed by Tony-winning Bro…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 12:11PMMark your calendar. Theatergoers will get the chance to attend the tale of Sweeney Todd, when the New York Philharmonic presents a staged version of the Stephen Sondheim-Hugh Wheeler musical…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 04:11PMWhat’s more fun than seeing a Broadway show? Meeting the cast afterwards. At least, that’s the idea behind our new program, Connected to Broadway. Starting with Kinky Boots, we have team…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 04:14PMVanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, Christopher Durang’s Tony-winning comedy, has recouped in its entire investment of $2.75 million prior to the conclusion of its originally schedule…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 10:31AMThe sun will come out for two young actresses when Annie gets a pair of new leading ladies. Taylor Richardson and Sadie Sink, both 11, will share the title role of the scrappy orphan in the …
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 12:49PMGrammy Award and Pulitzer Prize winner Wynton Marsalis will bring the Swing Era to Broadway when the new musical After Midnight begins preview performances at the Brooks Atkinson Theater on …
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 04:53PMA Time to Kill, the first best-selling novel by John Grisham, will hit Broadway in a stage adaptation by Tony winner Rupert Holmes, with previews beginning Sept. 28 at the John Golden Theate…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 01:59PMAfter earning praise for his fourth stint as the host of the Tony Awards, Neil Patrick Harris will be stepping into some kinky boots of his own as a transgendered rock singer in the Broadway…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 05:28PMThere’s nothing like a big win at the Tony Awards to kick up a show’s box office. Kinky Boots is benefiting from its six Tonys, including the top prize of Best Musical, and not j…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 05:08PMThanks to rave reviews, a round of awards from the Drama Desk, Drama League, Outer Critics Circle, the New York Drama Critics Circle, and now the Tony for Best Play, Vanya and Sonia and Mash…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 04:29PMGet ready to cast for a Big Fish, as tickets for the Broadway musical go on sale on Sun., June 16. The show begins previews Sept. 5 at the Neil Simon Theater and opens on Oct. 6. Five-time …
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 03:21PMIt was a night of surprises at the Tony Awards, as Kinky Boots kicked the competition to the curb, taking the most prizes in the night with a total of six (including Best Musical) and making…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 06:47AMTheater lovers, along with the entire Broadway community, are on pins and needles in anticipation of this Sunday’s Tony Awards, airing at 8pm on CBS and hosted again by Neil Patrick Harris…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 04:50PMLast Thursday, the stars came out for the premiere of Kinky Boots starring Stark Sands, Billy Porter and Annaleigh Ashford. Based on the 2005 movie and adapted by Tony winner Harvey Fierstei…
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