Roundabout to Stage 'Pirates of Penzance' and 'Yellow Face' on Broadway
Roundabout Theater Company, the biggest nonprofit on Broadway, said it would produce the three shows next season.
Roundabout Theater Company, the biggest nonprofit on Broadway, said it would produce the three shows next season.
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins is lined up to write the book, and Lileana Blain-Cruz will direct.
The Tony winner for best musical, about a high school girl with a rare genetic disorder and a criminally dysfunctional family, will begin a national tour in September.
The musicals of Stephen Sondheim often struggled at the box office during his lifetime, but since his death several have become huge hits on Broadway.
David Landay, an author of the 1982 stage musical, reworked a kidnapping scene for a 2021 production. Now he's suing the estates of his coauthors for the right to keep going.
The small theaters that help make the city a theater capital are cutting back as they struggle to recover from the pandemic.
The musical, now midway through a sold-out Off Broadway run at the Public Theater, will transfer to the Shubert Theater in March.
A show about the televangelist, with songs by Elton John and Jake Shears, had a run in London last year and plans to open in New York next season.
The production, a new translation by Heidi Schreck, will also star Alison Pill, William Jackson Harper, Alfred Molina and Anika Noni Rose.
"The Heart of Rock and Roll" is a romantic comedy featuring songs by the chart-topping 1980s band.
Rachel Chavkin of "Hadestown" will direct the show, which had developmental productions in Massachusetts and California.
A new production, directed by Kenny Leon, will feature a diverse cast and will aim to speak to contemporary America.
An acclaimed revival of the musical plans to open in March at the Nederlander Theater.
Heidi Schreck's play will have at least 16 productions around the country; last season's most-produced play, "Clyde's," came in second.
The musical, about early-20th-century efforts to win the right to vote for women, will open in April at the Music Box Theater.
The show said Thursday that it would play a final performance at the Nederlander Theater on Jan. 14, but did not rule out continuing elsewhere.
"Hell's Kitchen," a musical inspired by the singer-songwriter's teenage years in New York, is set to open Off Broadway.
Thomas Schumacher is relinquishing his role overseeing the division's business operations.
Starting with the next academic year, the drama school will eliminate an "unrealistic burden" for graduate acting students.
How hotshot directors are reimagining "Cats," "Evita," "Jesus Christ Superstar" and "Sunset Boulevard."
Sondheim said days before his death in 2021 that he did not know when it would be finished, but the musical, now called "Here We Are," begins performances Thursday.
The position is one of the few nonunion segments of the theater industry's work force.
His pending departure, in 2025, means that there are job openings for the top artistic positions at three of the four nonprofits operating Broadway theaters.
The nonprofit, a singular institution in New York's theatrical ecosystem, has presented acclaimed works like "Between Riverside and Crazy" and "Next to Normal."
The Congresswoman was asked to leave after being accused of being loud and recording the show at a moment when many theaters are debating how to deal with raucous audience behavior.