Expertly Directed by Tracie M Jiggetts, with lively Musical Direction by Brandon Booth, the Spotlighters Theatre’s production of “The Wiz” is simply amazing! With its talen…
Kokandy director Lili-Anne Brown takes a literal stance on The Wiz, billing it as an urbanization of L. Frank Baum's beloved tale, setting it in the amongst the graffiti-strewn Kansas Homes.…
Paper Mill Playhouse,recipient of the 2016 Regional Theatre Tony Award, is hosting its largest fundraising event of the year, the Paper Mill Playhouse Gala on Friday, May 12, at the renowned…
Originally opening in October 1974 at the Morris A. Mechanic Theatre in Baltimore, MD, The Wiz, with music and lyrics by Charlie Smalls, is a reimaging of Frank L. Baum's novel, The Wonderfu…
'The Wiz,' a musical is staged at Theatre Wit, Chicago through April 23, 2017. 'The Wiz' is a compact, talent-packed staging of the 1975 musical updating of The Wizard of Oz b…
Judy Garland's 'Over the Rainbow' Barbra Streisand's 'People' and the original cast album of Broadway's THE WIZ are among the 25 titles which will be preserved by the Library of Congress' Na…
When a phenomenally talented Broadway composer dies young " the likes of Roger Miller ("Big River") or Jonathan Larson ("Rent") " you're left wondering what else they would have done for the…
After 16 years away, Tony and Grammy Award winner Heather Headley returned triumphantly to Broadway last summer inThe Color Purple. Having originated the role of Nala inThe Lion Kingand awar…
Hairspray Live! was big, (at times) blonde and beautiful, but the nicest kids in town did not reach as many people as Dorothy and her friends. NBC’s latest live musical venture drew ni…
Hairspray Live! was big, (at times) blonde and beautiful, but the nicest kids in town did not reach as many people as Dorothy and her friends. NBC’s latest live musical venture drew a …
NBC has just released early ratings results for last night's broadcast of HAIRSPRAY LIVE BWW will be updating these results as more numbersbecome available.
We may have reached a ratings plateau for live televised musicals. NBC's "Hairspray Live!" on Wednesday night pulled in a 5.9 household rating in Nielsen’s metered market overnight rat…
Tracy meets Dorothy Now that's something I gotta seeThe stars of last year's holiday hit THE WIZ LIVE Shanice Williams Dorothy and Elijah Kelley Scarecrow, stopped by to visit the cast and c…
Kokandy Productions announced the complete cast of "The Wiz" on Monday. Sydney Charles will ease on down the road as Dorothy with Gilbert Domally as Scarecrow, Steven Perkins as Tin Man, Chu…
As we saw throughout the two nights of the Creative Arts Emmys, theatrical programming and theatre performers have done very well taking home trophies so far this year. So, we wanted to take…
The Creative Arts Emmy Awards were held on September 10 and 11, and the stage got a lot of love on the small screen. The live telecasts of Grease and The Wiz took home trophies, as did a Ton…
NBC's holiday production of THE WIZ LIVE this year garnered six EMMY AWARD nominations. At tonight's Creative Emmy Awards ceremony, Paul Tazewell picked up the award for Outstanding Costumes…
