306 stories by "Jesse North"
Tweet While musicals have license for unbridled imagination to reach the most extravagant of conceits (and we thank them for that), sometimes they can have the most profound effects when the…
Tweet Tchaikovsky's classic ballet The Nutcracker has been given a burlesque makeover at the Minetta Lane Theater off-Broadway with Nutcracker Rouge. Created by Company XIV, this eye-popping…
Look at them, they’re the kings of New York! And Atlanta, Baltimore and Boston! The hit Disney musical Newsies will launch a national tour in October 2014, beginning in Schenectady bef…
We Will Rock You launched its national tour at Baltimore’s Hippodrome Theatre on October 15. Just as the audience thought the show was over, Queen guitarist Brian May joined the cast f…
They’re gonna baptize him! A.J. Holmes is set to join the second national tour of The Book of Mormon as Elder Cunningham. The member of StarKid Productions, the popular Chicago-based t…
The Tony Award-winning musical Once is currently busking its way around the country on its first national tour. Featuring an ensemble of actors who play their own instruments on stage, Once …
Cameron Mackintosh’s new production of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom of the Opera has found its stars. Mark Campbell and Julia Udine will light up the stage as The Phantom an…
The Tony-nominated revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s Evita is getting ready to tour the U.S., and we’ve got your first glimpse at the show! The musical, which charts …
All your favorite Queen songs are on one stage in the national tour of We Will Rock You. Go inside the rehearsal studio with the cast to find out more about the “fantastical world&rdqu…
As We Will Rock You prepares to set out on its first national tour, the cast of the Queen tuner met with members of the press on September 23. Before rehearsal, the young company members got…
Stuart Ward and Dani De Waal will make beautiful music in the national tour of Once. The pair will play Guy and Girl, respectively, in the Tony Award-winning musical when it hits the road on…
Step up to the pottery wheel! The national tour of Ghost the Musical will star Steven Grant Douglas and Katie Postotnik as passionate lovers Sam Wheat and Molly Jensen, respectively. Also jo…
John O’Hurley will once again star as the silver-tongued prince of the courtroom, Billy Flynn, in Chicago. The Dancing with the Stars and Seinfeld alum, who has played the role three t…
They will rock you! Justin Crum and Ruby Lewis have been cast as Galileo and Scaramouche, respectively, in the national tour of We Will Rock You. The musical, which features the hit songs of…
Tweet Self esteem and high school glory are once again on the line when it's time for the big game in Volleygirls. The new musical by Rob Ackerman, Eli Bolin, and Sam Forman, playing as part…
The captain’s got a whole new crew. The national tour of Peter and the Starcatcher will star Joey deBettencourt as Boy, John Sanders as Black Stache and Megan Stern as Molly. The tour …
A new Argentina indeed! Tony nominee Josh Young and Caroline Bowman have been tapped to star in the national tour of Evita as Che and Eva, respectively. The cast will also include Sean MacLa…
Tweet Bella's Dream, the debut play from Dana Boll, which runs through June 30 at the Flamboyan Theatre, follows the globetrotting journey of her grandparents as they flee Poland on the eve …
Everyone’s favorite redhead is going to see many more cities than just “N.Y.C.” The Broadway.com Audience Choice Award-winning (and Tony-nominated) revival of Annie is…
It’s possible! The Tony Award-nominated revival of Cinderella will take its horse-drawn carriage on a national tour during the 2014-15 season. The Rodgers and Hammerstein’s music…
The yellow brick road will stretch across the U.S. in the first national tour of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s new stage adaptation of The Wizard of Oz. The U.S. tour will launch at Las Vegas&…
Tony Award nominee Phillip Boykin will reprise his role as the villainous Crown in the national tour of Porgy and Bess. The cast includes Alicia Hall Moran and Nathaniel Stampley as the titl…
The world premiere production of the new musical Tuck Everlasting has postponed its pre-Broadway run in Boston due to "lack of theater availability in New York" for the show's …
Alison Luff and John Davidson will take over as Elphaba and the Wizard, respectively, in the national tour of the hit musical Wicked beginning April 30. They are joining the show during the …
The hardknock life of Americans battered down by lean financial times gets the musical treatment in the new show Hands on a Hardbody. Composed by Trey Anastasio (of Phish phame) and Amanda G…
