The Manhattan Theatre Club production of DOUBT, the critically acclaimed new play by John Patrick Shanley, will celebrate its Broadway opening tomorrow Thursday, March 31st at the Walter Kerr Theatre (219 West 48th Street, between Broadway and Eighth Avenue).
The production, directed by Doug Hughes, stars Cherry Jones as Sister Aloysius and Brían F. O’Byrne as […]
It was on. Then it was off. Now it’s back on again. Broadway will see Sweet Charity at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre on April 11 with Charlotte d’Amboise in the lead, and Christina Applegate joining the show on April 18, producer Barry Weissler told Playbill.com.
Opening night will be May 4.
Barry Weissler said in a statement: […]
Mexican film, television and recording star Jaime Camil will make his Broadway debut starring as Nestor Castillo in the new Broadway-bound musical, THE MAMBO KINGS, producers Daryl Roth and Jordan Roth announced today. Camil will star in THE MAMBO KINGS opposite Esai Morales, who will play his brother Cesar, along with Albita, Justina Machado and […]
Audrey II, that blood-thirsty little plant from Mushnick’s Flower Shop, just keeps growing.
Roger Corman introduced the pushy, people-eating plant in his 1960 B-film “Little Shop of Horrors.” Twenty years later, Audrey II popped up in a campy off-Broadway musical of the same name that blossomed into the 1986 movie version starring Rick Moranis and Steve […]
The Broadway bound production of Sweet Charity, announced to begin performances April 4th at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre, will play its final performance at Boston’s Colonial Theatre at 7:30 PM this Sunday, March 27th.
The show played at the Orpheum Theatre in Minneapolis February 8-20, and Chicago’s Cadillac Palace Theatre February 24-March 13.
Christina Applegate played the […]
Jeff Calhoun thought his career couldn’t go much lower when he was asked to direct a musical with deaf performers.
“I remember thinking, ‘So this is what my career has come to, to go to Studio City (in California) and direct a musical where half the cast is deaf.’ Now I’m ashamed that is what went […]
Chicago will welcome two new faces to the cast next month. Mary Testa has been cast as Matron Mama Morton, and Solange Sandy will play Annie, also known as the “Six” of “Cell Block Tango.”
Sandy will slink into her role on April 10th, replacing current Annie Christine Brooks. Testa will portray the raunchy female warden […]
More names have been added to create the melodious world of singer-songwriter John Lennon in the upcoming musical Lennon, now expected to open July 28 on Broadway.
Written and directed by Don Scardino (A Few Good Men), the new musical about the legendary music star will have its world premiere at San Francisco’s Orpheum Theatre (April […]
Sara Ramirez sure doesn’t look like a criminal.
Dressed in jeans and a long-sleeved T-shirt with her hair swept up in a ponytail, the 29-year-old actress and singer resembles more a laid-back beauty pageant contestant than a woman capable of theft.
But according to the buzz around Monty Python’s Spamalot, Ramirez has committed grand larceny, stealing the […]
In a major boost for Chicago tourism, Loop businesses and the Chicago theater community, the producers of the Broadway show “Wicked” are creating a dedicated Chicago company of the hit that will remain at the Oriental Theatre for months—and maybe even years.
“Wicked,” a $14 million musical based on the prequel about characters from “The […]
Shakespeare’s first truly independent play, Richard III, combined historical and Marlowe-like “overreacher” drama into one whole. Shakespeare, however, was more conservative than Marlowe. He followed Tudor custom and saw his Richard not only as evil, but also as the devil himself–created by the breaking of the royal line generations before with the murder of Richard […]