Brooks News

 Drury Lane Theatre will continue its 2024/25 Season with The Audience. Masterfully blending the personal and the political, The Audience gives a glimpse into the woman behind the crown and the leaders she outlasted.

With over 2 billion streams, almost 4 million downloads, and over 1 million physical units sold, the ensemble is known for their classical reinterpretations of pop hits, and their songs have been prominently featured in the Netflix and Shondaland Original series Bridgerton. Listen to their new album now!

Black Ensemble Theater has announced the next production in the 2024 Season of Affirmation: Protection – The Salon, written and directed by Michelle Reneé Bester.

As he prepares to release his highly anticipated new studio album, Blue Electric Light, this Friday, four-time GRAMMY® Award-winner Lenny Kravitz has announced an exclusive Las Vegas engagement, Blue Electric Light Las Vegas. Performances will be held October 18, 19, 23, 25 and 26, 2024 at Dolby Live at Park MGM. Find ticketing information here!

Don McLean, GRAMMY winner, Songwriter Hall of Fame, Musicians Hall of Fame, and Music City Walk of Fame honoree, is proud to celebrate the release of his latest album ‘American Boys’ an ode to the originators of modern rock ‘n roll. Listen to the album now!

Marietta Theatre Company will present HANDS ON A HARDBODY, a musical about 10 contestants competing for a truck. Learn how to purchase tickets.

 ONCE UPON A MATTRESS will open on Broadway this summer at The Hudson Theatre, starring Tony Award winner Sutton Foster! Foster will lead the Broadway cast, reprising her acclaimed performance as Winnifred the Woebegone.

On Monday night, Broadway’s Matt DeAngelis (Waitress), who lost his mother, Janice, in 2022 to metastatic breast cancer, gathered his dearest Broadway friends and industry colleagues together for THE JANICE JAM: BROADWAY FOR BREAST CANCER and raised over $52,000 for Breast Cancer Research Foundation (BCRF). Check out photos here!

Join PlayGround on May 24 for a Potrero Hill Community Celebration with a mural dedication by Natalie Contreras and performances from the 16th annual Young Playwrights Project featuring Bay Area high school students. Learn more about the event!

Peacock has just released the trailer for the upcoming nature documentary Queer Planet, narrated by Tony-Award-winning actor Andrew Rannells. Queer Planet traverses the world to uncover nature’s hidden LGBTQ+ community, witnessing extraordinary creatures and never-before-seen behaviors that shed new light on unconventional sexualities and genders in the natural world. Watch the trailer!

Get all the scoop on THE SIMPSONS Season Finale, airing on FOX on Sunday, May 19, 2024! Kerry Washington and Megan Mullaly Make Recurring Guest Voice Appearances. Bart makes a new friend. Watch a video clip now!

Based on the 1960 novella by Elizabeth Spencer, 'The Light In The Piazza' is set in the 1950s in Florence, Italy, where Margaret Johnson, a wealthy Southern woman, and her daughter Clara, who is developmentally disabled, are vacationing from the US. When Clara falls in love with a young Italian man, Margaret is forced to reconsider not only Clara's future, but her own deep-seated hopes and regrets as well.

THE PRODUCERS, dirigido por Àngel Llàcer y Manu Guix, tras pasar con éxito por el Teatro Tívoli de Barcelona y el Nuevo Teatro Alcalá de Madrid.

ACT Louisville reveals the cast for JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT at Iroquois Amphitheater.

Steppenwolf Theatre Company continues its 48th season with the Chicago premiere of Larissa FastHorse’s The Thanksgiving Play, a biting comedy about everything right, wrong and woke in America, directed by Jess McLeod. Check out photos from inside opening night here!

The 2024 Honorees have been announced for the Theatre World Award for an Outstanding Debut Performance in a Broadway or Off-Broadway Production. Learn more about the honorees here!

Last week, The Peabody Awards Board of Jurors announced the 34 winners elected to represent the most compelling and empowering stories released in broadcasting and streaming media during 2023. See the full list here!

Allan Stewart (Stones in His Pockets, West End, UK Tour, Toronto; STV Hello, Good Evening, Welcome) and Alex Bourne (Annie, West End, UK Tour, Toronto; Hairspray, UK Tour) will reprise their touring roles as The Wizard when The Wizard of Oz concludes its major UK and Ireland tour this summer. 

We chat with director Wayne R. Scott about Anne of Green Gables at LifeHouse Theater. He is a writer, composer, producer and director who has authored 30 original musicals and numerous other widely produced works.  He has also produced and directed nine musicals at the internationally known Redlands Bowl, including Annie, The Sound of Music, Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, The Wizard of Oz, Disney’s The Little Mermaid, and most recently, Disney’s Mary Poppins for the Redlands Community Music Association.

Beloved pop-culture inspired instrumentalists Vitamin String Quartet have announced their US tour performing the music of Taylor Swift, Bridgerton, and Beyond. With over 2 billion streams, almost 4 million downloads, and over 1 million physical units sold, the Billboard-charting ensemble is known for their classical reinterpretations of pop hits. Their songs have been prominently featured in the Netflix and Shondaland Original series Bridgerton, and the quartet will be performing at the show’s Season 3 premiere event this evening.