On this date in 1969, 1776 opened at the 46st Street Theatre (now the Richard Rodgers). The show, which portrayed the final weeks of debate leading to the signing of the Declaration of Indep…
Cynthia Erivo, who earned raves from U.K. and American critics for her performance in the plum lead role of Celie in the 2013 London production of The Color Purple, has been tapped to recrea…
Sweet Potato Queens, a new musical with a book by Tony-winning The Mystery of Edwin Drood writer Rupert Holmes and music by Grammy winning singer/songwriter Melissa Manchester, will get …
When Sutton Foster was 15 years old she made a wish list of things she wanted to accomplish in life. "The number one thing," she said, "was to sing at Carnegie Hall."
Audra McDonald's new musical project Shuffle Along, Or, The Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed, was just announced yesterday, but director George C. Wolfe and…
As the West End prepares for revivals of Sweeney Todd and Gypsy, the Times of London visited composer Stephen Sondheim at his home in Manhattan and asked a lot of the questions his fans have…
Twenty years after it was made and 15 years after it was released in cinemas, the film adaptation of The Fantasticks is finally getting a release in Blu-Ray format in a limited 3,000-…
One of the biggest hits of the spring is Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Off-Broadway musical, Hamilton, which is scheduled to move to Broadway this summer. But it will not be the fir…
Nathan Lane and Brian Dennehy appear on PBS's "The Charlie Rose" show today to tell what their current sold-out Brooklyn Academy of Music production of The Iceman Cometh me…
Broadway's Idina Menzel had a mega hit last year with the song "Let It Go" from the soundtrack of the animated Disney film "Frozen."
A powerhouse trio of director George C. Wolfe, choreographer Savion Glover and six-time Tony-winning star Audra McDonald will converge in the forthcoming new Broadway musical, Shuffl…
A powerhouse trio of director George C. Wolfe, choreographer Savion Glover and six-time Tony-winning star Audra McDonald will converge in the forthcoming new Broadway musical, Shuffl…
Disney has announced that it will make "Frozen 2," a sequel to its most successful animated film ever, Variety reported.
The producer of the new Broadway play Hand to God is offering a special themed discount for the first 15 previews, March 14-27. At those performances a limited quantity of tickets will b…
As On the Twentieth Century prepares to open its first Broadway revival, Hal Leonard Books is releasing Andy Propst's biography of the composer, "You Fascinate Me So: The Life and T…
Tim Burton, the Hollywood auteur responsible for dark-themed film musicals “Nightmare Before Christmas” and “Sweeney Todd,” has been chosen by Dis…
Forty-two years ago today Broadway woke up with a new superstar on its hands. By March 1973 Stephen Sondheim had already written lyrics to West Side Story, Gypsy and other shows and had …
Atlanta sure loves Wicked.
Emmy winner and Tony nominee Alec Baldwin is set to be the star of June revival of Arthur Miller's classic drama about responsibility, All My Sons this summer, according to a report in The N…
Emmy winner and Tony nominee Alec Baldwin is set to star in a June 9-28 revival of Arthur Miller's classic drama about responsibility, All My Sons.
Emmy winner and Tony nominee Alec Baldwin is set to be the star of June revival of Arthur Miller's classic drama about responsibility, All My Sons this summer, according to a report in The N…
A British entrepreneur is planning to elbow his way into one of the most exclusive clubs in New York"ownership of a Broadway theatre. The New York Post reports that Howard Panter of the Lond…
To celebrate its 25th anniversary--and just in time for composer Stephen Sondheim's 85th birthday--Signature Theatre has assembled a new revue of his work, Simply Sondhe…
Woody Allen’s yet-untitled forthcoming late 2015 film will star Jesse Eisenberg, Bruce Willis and Kristen Stewart, According to a report on Deadline.com.
Woody Allen’s yet-untitled forthcoming late 2015 film will star Jesse Eisenberg, Bruce Willis and Kristen Stewart, According to a report on Deadline.com.