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When the 25th anniversary touring version of Cameron Mackintosh's "Les Miserables"Â hit East Lansing, Mich. over the weekend, it was with a major cast shake up. Peter Lockyer, who many ye…
Producer Ken Davenport announced yesterday that the current Broadway revival of Stephen Schwartz's "Godspell" will hit the road for a national tour during the 2013-2014 season. Though no cit…
Tony nominee Gavin Creel has been tapped to play Elder Price in the upcoming national tour of "The Book of Mormon." The announcement is the first casting announcement for the upcoming tour, …
Rachel York has been tapped to play Reno Sweeney in the upcoming national tour version of "Anything Goes." The tour will be presented by the Roundabout Theatre Company and will begin in Clev…
R&B singer Deborah Cox will join Tony nominee Constantine Maroulis on a trek around the country when the musical version of "Jekyll & Hide" goes on a national tour later this year be…
Dolly Parton has announced that the Tony nominated "9 to 5: The Musical," will head out on a tour of the U.K. later this year. The tour is expected to kick off in October of this year with a…
The current revival of "The Gershwin's Porgy and Bess" will launch a national tour beginning in the fall of 2013, according to Playbill. "Porgy and Bess" first appeared on Broadway in 1935 a…
The touring stage show "Batman Live" first premiered last Summer in the U.K., and now producers have announced a North American tour for later this year. Billed a "crime-fighting arena spect…
At his 86th birthday celebration in New York on Friday, comedian Jerry Lewis announced plans to bring his classic film "The Nutty Professor" to Broadway later this year, the Wall Street Jour…
Though Mike Tyson's one-man Las Vegas show has yet to debut, already the former Heavyweight boxing champion is thinking about taking the performance to Broadway. The autobiographical show, "…
Playwright Mike Daisey, the man behind the Off-Broadway one-man show "The Agony and Ecstasy of Steve Jobs," has come under widespread and well-publicized scrutiny recently because of claims …
Yesterday marked the 30th anniversary of the death of legendary comedic actor John Belushi, and it also was the day chosen to reveal details about an upcoming musical based on one of his bes…
"Tuck Everlasting," the musical adaptation of Natalie Babbitt's 1975 children's book of the same name, is set to make its pre-Broadway world premiere in June of next year at Boston's Colonia…
Just last month, "Phantom of the Opera" played its 10,000th performance on Broadway, and this week its sequel will hit U.S. theaters. "Love Never Dies," also composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber,…
Lawyers for former "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" director Julia Taymor have filed papers in federal court responding to a countersuit by the show's current producers. The new papers allege…
Justin Long, the star of "He's Just Not That Into You" and Apple television ads, will be making his Broadway debut when he joins "Seminar" later this year. He will take over the role of Mart…
The music of the late, great Tupac Shakur is coming to Broadway later this year. "Holler If Ya Hear Me" currently is casting, and selected actors will begin workshops in April, according to …
Former "Wicked" stars Kristin Chenoweth and Idina Menzel have both announced separate concert tours that will keep them on the road throughout North America later this year. Tony Award winne…
Topher Grace, best known for his work in the Fox television series "That '70s Show," will make his professional stage debut this spring in the comedy "Lonely, I'm Not," which will be perform…
The tour production of "CATS" has canceled a March 21 performance at Penn State University's Center for the Performing Arts. The show was to be held in the Eisenhower Theatre. Penn State's o…
Tony nominee Josh Gad, best known for his role in "The Book of Mormon," will star in the White House family comedy "1600 Penn." The actor also will co-write and executive produce the series.…
Woody Allen will adapt his 1994 film "Bullets Over Broadway" for the stage, and the production likely will appear on Broadway in 2013. Allen co-wrote the original script with Douglas McGrath…
"Galileo," a play by Bertolt Brecht that has rarely been seen in the United States, opened this week Off-Broadway at the Classic Stage Company and starred Oscar winner F. Murray Abraham as t…
"Kinky Boots," the new Broadway musical with music and lyrics by Cyndi Lauper, will get a tryout run in Chicago later this year, producers recently announced. Producers Daryl Roth and Hal Lu…
Producers announced yesterday that Off Broadway hit "The Lyons" will be transferring to Broadway in April, in time for eligibility for the 2012 Tony Awards. The play opened in the fall at th…