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Wednesday, May 8, 2019

Beatles Tribute Band Rain Announces One-Week Broadway Residence by Greg Evans

Abbey Road will cross Broadway in July when Rain, the long-running Beatles tribute band, takes the stage as part of the Residence On Broadway series. The tribute band, set for July 16-21 at …

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Broadway's 'Pretty Woman' Musical Announces 2020 North American Tour by Greg Evans

Pretty Woman: The Musical will launch a North American tour next year, kicking off at the Providence Performing Arts Center, Rhode Island, in October 2020. Other dates, cities and casting wi…

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Tuesday, May 7, 2019

New York Drama Critics Name 'The Ferryman' Best Play, 'Tootsie' Best Musical by Greg Evans

The Ferryman, What The Constitution Means To Me and Tootsie continued to build some awards momentum this week, with the New York Drama Critics Circle naming Jez Butterworth's The Ferryman th…

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Monday, May 6, 2019

'Hadestown' & 'Tootsie' Bounce Past $1M; Broadway Box Office Settles At $34M by Greg Evans

Hadestown and Tootsie joined Broadway's million dollar club last week, each show posting box office totals above the $1M mark, even as Broadway overall slipped from the previous week's sprin…

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Terry Allen Kramer Dies: Broadway Producer Of 'Hello, Dolly!', 'Kinky Boots' Was 85 by Greg Evans

Broadway producer Terry Allen Kramer, whose credits include Kinky Boots, the 2017 Bette Midler Tony-winning revival of Hello, Dolly! and The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia?, died May 2 at New York-P…

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'1776' Musical Revival To Land On Broadway After Runs In Boston, Los Angeles & Others by Greg Evans

Broadway can expect 1776 in 2021. But first the revival of this most American musical, to be directed by Diane Paulus (Waitress, Finding Neverland) will stage engagements in various cities f…

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Friday, May 3, 2019

Morrissey Rocks Broadway (And Brightens It, Believe It Or Not) by Greg Evans

Morrissey has never really been as gloomy as his reputation would suggest " no one is as gloomy as his reputation would suggest " but the former Smiths frontman seemed in especially good spi…

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'Magic Mike' Musical Loses Creative Team, Cancels Workshop by Greg Evans

The Magic Mike musical has lost some of its mojo. Book writer Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, composer Tom Kitt and lyricist Brian Yorkey have exited the project " "creative differences" is the offi…

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How Bryan Cranston Channeled A New Howard Beale For Broadway's 'Network' (And Will He Ever Break Bad?) " Tony Watch Q&A by Greg Evans

Bryan Cranston might have had to dig just a little deeper these last few days to get to the pit-bottom despair that has audiences at Broadway's Network recognizing a performance for our time…

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Telemundo Star Kate Del Castillo Set For Audible's Off Broadway Staging Of Isaac Gomez Play by Greg Evans

EXCLUSIVE: Kate del Castillo, whose wildly popular run as Teresa Mendoza in Telemundo's La Reina del Sure series even drew the headline-making attention of El Chapo, will return to the New Y…

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Broadway's 'Jagged Little Pill' Alanis Morissette Musical Sets Opening Date, Venue by Greg Evans

Broadway's Jagged Little Pill, the new musical based on Alanis Morissette's classic  '90s album, will begin previews Sunday, Nov. 3 at the Broadhurst Theatre, with an opening night set fo…

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Thursday, May 2, 2019

'Choir Boy', 'Beetlejuice' Broadway Newcomers Among 2019 Theatre World Honorees by Greg Evans

Broadway newcomers Gbenga Akinnagbe, Sophia Anne Caruso, Jeremy Pope and Paddy Considine are among this year's Theatre World Award winners. A New York theater tradition since 1945, the aw…

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'Sideways' Author Rex Pickett Developing Novel For Stage Musical by Greg Evans

Sideways novelist Rex Pickett has formed a joint venture with EFG-Renascence Productions to develop a stage musical based on the book adapted by Alexander Payne into the hit 2004 film. The p…

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DreamWorks' 'The Prince Of Egypt' Stage Musical Sets London Premiere Date by Greg Evans

The new stage musical version of DreamWorks' The Prince of Egypt will make its London premiere next year, with a West End production set to begin previews Wednesday, February 5, 2020 at the …

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Wednesday, May 1, 2019

Tony-Nominated 'The Ferryman' Announces U.S. Tour, Plans Australian Production by Greg Evans

Jez Butterworth's The Ferryman " the most Tony-nominated play of the season " has announced a national U.S. tour and is in advanced discussions for an Australian production. Producers Sonia …

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Dream Dances, Nightmare Snubs And Unforgettable Highlights Of The Broadway Season " Tony Watch by Greg Evans

Twenty-four hours haven't been nearly enough to settle, in my mind anyway, yesterday's Tony Awards Sorkin Snub, but for the most part, the nominations sit well. Certainly they represent a de…

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Tuesday, April 30, 2019

'To Kill A Mockingbird' Director Bartlett Sher On Tony's Sorkin Snub: "I Don't Have An Explanation For It" by Greg Evans

Broadway doesn't need Damon Runyon to prove yet again there's no such thing as a sure bet: The To Kill A Mockingbird snub from the Tony Awards' best play category today was easily the most s…

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Tony Awards Nominations Announced: Jeff Daniels, Bryan Cranston Score Lead Actor Noms (Updating Live) by Greg Evans

Refresh for updates The nominations for the 2019 Tony Awards are being announced live by Brandon Victor Dixon and Bebe Neuwirth at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Linc…

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Monday, April 29, 2019

Broadway Box Office Hits $38M With Final Four Shows Of Season; 'Tootsie' Takes $959,001 by Greg Evans

Broadway settled back a bit last week, slipping about 5% to $38,151,116 from the previous week's Easter-bumped receipts. Total attendance for the 36 shows during Week 48 (ending Sunday, Apri…

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'Sing Street' Musical From 'Once' Team Set For Off Broadway World Premiere by Greg Evans

A new stage musical based on John Carney's 2016 feature film Sing Street will have its world premiere at Off Broadway's New York Theatre Workshop during the 2019/20 season, the theater annou…

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Marin Mazzie To Receive Posthumous Special Tony Award; Other Honorees Announced by Greg Evans

The late Marin Mazzie, who starred in Broadway's Passion, Ragtime and the 2000 revival of Kiss Me, Kate, among many stage productions, will receive a Special Tony Award this year, the Tony a…

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Laura Linney Sets Broadway Return With 'My Name Is Lucy Barton' by Greg Evans

Laura Linney will return to Broadway next year in the American premiere of My Name is Lucy Barton, the hit 2018 London Theatre Company production of a solo play based on the novel by Elizabe…

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Jo Sullivan Loesser Dies: Broadway Actress, Manager Of Frank Loesser Catalogue Was 91 by Greg Evans

Jo Sullivan Loesser, a Broadway actress who scored a Tony Award nomination for her performance in 1956's The Most Happy Fella, married the show's composer Frank Loesser in 1959 and after his…

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Sunday, April 28, 2019

'To Kill A Mockingbird's Gbenga Akinnagbe Is Taking New York, From Broadway To Tribeca And An Intersection In Flatbush by Greg Evans

Every show night at Broadway's Shubert Theatre, Gbenga Akinnagbe resurrects Tom Robinson, bringing to life that most anguished of all the mockingbirds in Harper Lee's To Kill A Mockingbird. …

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Friday, April 26, 2019

The Inside Story Of Broadway's 'Gary': Fake Blood, Real Heartbreak And How A Cast United For The Season's Most Divisive Play " Tony Watch by Greg Evans

EXCLUSIVE: Taylor Mac's Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus opened on Broadway April 21, and to say it divided critics would be to employ an understatement neither Mac nor Gary would tolerate…

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Broadway's 'To Kill A Mockingbird' Recoups Investment After 19 Weeks by Greg Evans

To Kill A Mockingbird, Aaron Sorkin's Broadway stage adaptation of the Harper Lee novel produced by Scott Rudin, has recouped its entire investment 19 weeks after its Dec. 13, 2018, opening,…

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Thursday, April 25, 2019

'Beetlejuice' Broadway Review: It's Showtime, Ready Or Not by Greg Evans

Maybe if they'd said it a fourth time. Three times " "Beetlejuice! Beetlejuice! Beetlejuice!" " summons to life the stripe-coated, fright-wigged demon that made a superstar of Michael Keaton…

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'Oklahoma!' Revival Tops New York Drama Desk Award Nominations; 'To Kill A Mockingbird" Snubbed by Greg Evans

Daniel Fish's wildly re-imagined revival of Oklahoma! leads New York's Drama Desk Awards nominations with 12, including Revival of a Musical. No big surprise there " but the head-scratcher c…

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Tony Awards 2019 Lifetime Achievement Honorees Named: Rosemary Harris, Terrence McNally & Composer Harold Wheeler by Greg Evans

Actress Rosemary Harris, playwright Terrence McNally and composer Harold Wheeler " Tony Award winners all " each will received a Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre, t…

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Wednesday, April 24, 2019

'Ink' Broadway Review: The Rise And Rise Of Rupert Murdoch & The Rewriting Of Fleet Street by Greg Evans

Reflections on the heyday of scandalous Fleet Street likely won't stir Broadway audiences with the same vigor that roused the West End when Ink debuted there in 2017. Little matter. James Gr…

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Sting Slots Las Vegas Residency: Ex-Policeman Is Latest Sin City Classic Rocker by Greg Evans

Sting is headed to Vegas. The long-ago Police frontman has announced a concert residency at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace starting in May of next year, with shows set for the following Jun…

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