Casey Nicholaw News

According to The New York Times, songwriting team Chris Miller and Nathan Tysen are the recipients of the 2014 Fred Ebb Award for musical theater writing.

Disney is currently in talks with executives of the London Palladium theatre to bring the Broadway musical to the West End in early 2016.

Nashville has been blessed this week with the national touring production of The Book of Mormon. Since storming onto Broadway in 2011 and walking away with eleven Tony awards that season, The Book of Mormon has crossed from being a Broadway phenomenon to becoming a pop culture staple. If you ask anyone, chances are pretty good that they've at least heard of The Book of Mormon musical.

Two weeks after conservative Tennessee voters turned the Volunteer State a deeper shade of red and some three years after I was told The Book of Mormon likely would never play the Tennessee Performing Arts Center because its plot is too outlandish, its book too profane, its tenor too irreverent, the second national touring company of the nine-time Tony Award-winning musical came to Nashville and gave audiences a much-needed jolt of electricity that elicited one of the longest, uninterrupted standing ovations I've ever witnessed in TPAC's Jackson Hall.

THE BOOK OF MORMON, winner of nine Tony Awards including Best Musical, has announced a lottery ticket policy for the national tour, which begins December 2 at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County and plays a limited 2 week engagement through December 14. In Miami, the production will conduct a pre-show lottery at the box office, making a limited number of tickets available at $25 apiece - cash only.

Tyson Jennette has made it through his fair share of obstacles leading to his current Broadway gig in THE BOOK OF MORMON, which is playing at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre (230 West 49th Street). Below, Jennette tells his amazing story to PIX11!

Disney Theatrical Productions has announced a ticket exchange program for its Broadway musicals Aladdin and The Lion King, representing a breakthrough unprecedented in commercial Broadway theatre for its flexibility, scale and duration

The producers of the national tour of THE BOOK OF MORMON, winner of nine Tony Awards including Best Musical, and the FSCJ Artist Series, sponsored by Chase announced that single tickets will go on sale today, November 14, 2014 at 10AM for the limited one-week engagement from February 3-8, 2015 at Jacksonville's Times-Union Center . Tickets will be available at the FSCJ Artist Series' Box Office (501 W. State Street, Ste. #109, Jacksonville, FL 32202), by visiting www.artistseriesjax.org, or by calling (904) 442-2929.

On last night's WATCH WHAT HAPPENS LIVE, Andy Cohen gave IT'S ONLY A PLAY's Megan Mullally the names of some of her former co-stars, whom she must assign a show tune fitting of their personalities

THE BOOK OF MORMON, winner of nine Tony Awards including Best Musical, has broken the house record in Richmond, VA for the week ending November 9 the Altria Theater grossing $1,808,480.00.

The Alliance Theatre has announced the cast and creative team behind its upcoming world premiere musical, TUCK EVERLASTING. Based on the beloved best-selling novel by Natalie Babbitt, TUCK EVERLASTING is an exhilarating story about everlasting love, never-ending life, and discovering what it means to truly feel alive.

The producers of the national tour of THE BOOK OF MORMON, winner of nine Tony Awards including Best Musical, and the FSCJ Artist Series, sponsored by Chase announced today that single tickets will go on sale Friday, November 14, 2014 at 10AM for the limited one-week engagement from February 3-8, 2015 at Jacksonville's Times-Union Center . Tickets will be available at the FSCJ Artist Series' Box Office (501 W. State Street, Ste. #109, Jacksonville, FL 32202), by visiting www.artistseriesjax.org, or by calling (904) 442-2929.

Adam Jacobs welcomed twin boys, Jack and Alex, earlier this year, on the morning of the company's first rehearsal for the Broadway production of ALADDIN. For their first Halloween, the production's Tony-winning costume designer, Gregg Barnes, made mini-Aladdin costumes for the boys. Check out photos from the family's holiday below!

The producers of the national tour of THE BOOK OF MORMON, winner of nine Tony Awards including Best Musical, and BMO Harris Bank Broadway at the Marcus Center Series announced today that single tickets will go on sale Friday, December 5 at 12:00 pm. Tickets will be available at the Marcus Center box office (929 North Water Street), all Ticketmaster outlets, by visiting MarcusCenter.org, or by calling 414-273-7206. Group orders of 15 or more may be placed by calling 414-273-7121 ext. 210.

Feinstein's at the Nikko is proud to announce the upcoming lineup for November 2014. Performers include Tony Award winning actress and singer Betty Buckley; Tony Award winner Laura Benanti; jazz legend Freddy Cole; acclaimed performance artist Jeffrey Johnson; star of stage and screen Telly Leung; Award-winning cabaret singer -- and Bay Area native -- Carly Ozard. Additional performers for November 2014 will be announced at a later date.

Disney Theatrical Productions and Stage Entertainment announce the European premiere and second international production of Disney's Aladdin, the smash Broadway musical comedy. Performances will begin fall 2015 at The Stage Theatre Neue Flora in Hamburg, Germany

Der Broadway-Hit mit arabischen Nachten, einem Dschinni und drei Wunschen kommt in die Musical-Metropole Hamburg - Ab Herbst 2015 verzaubert die spektakulare Show die Hansestadt im Stage Theater Neue Flora.

Back by popular demand, THE BOOK OF MORMON, which played a record breaking 43 week run in 2012-2013, returns to Chicago for a limited engagement February 24 through May 17, 2015 at Broadway In Chicago's Bank of America Theatre (18 W Monroe). THE BOOK OF MORMON holds the record for the largest weekly gross in the history of the Bank of America Theatre and played to over 100 performance capacity during its 2012-2013 engagement.

Back by popular demand, THE BOOK OF MORMON, which played a record-breaking run in 2013, returns to Orlando for a limited engagement December 26 - January 4 at the Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts. Single tickets go on sale today, October 17 at 10 a.m.

The Second City is excited to host an exclusive and intimate talkback with cast members from the Toronto engagement of The Book of Mormon, including Gavin Creel (Elder Price), Chris O'Neil (Elder Cunningham), Peter Mitchell (Elder McKinley), and Stanley Wayne Mathis (Mafala Hatimbi); in conversation with The Second City's Ashley Botting (Rebel Without a Cosmos).