Larry Hochman News

?Pushcart Players, New Jersey's Emmy nominated and award-winning touring theater for young audiences presents "A Season of Miracles - Holiday Tales" throughout the region during the month of December, 2015. The delightful musical theater production will enchant audiences in New Jersey, New York and Maryland with this multi-cultural collection of stories celebrating Christmas, Kwanzaa and Chanukah.

The producers of the national tour of THE BOOK OF MORMON, winner of nine Tony Awards including Best Musical, and Broadway Theatre League announced today that single tickets will be on sale tomorrow, Friday, October 30 at 10 a.m.

Back by popular demand, THE BOOK OF MORMON, which played a record breaking 3 week run in 2014 returns to Cincinnati for a limited engagement March 29 - April 4, 2016 at the Aronoff Center. An exclusive online pre-sale for American Express Card-members will begin at 10 a.m. today, October 23. Single tickets will go on sale today, October 30 at 9:00AM. Tickets will be available at the Aronoff Center box office downtown at 650 Walnut Street, online at CincinnatiArts.org or by phone at 513.621.ARTS. Group orders of 10 or more may be placed by calling 513.369.4363. 

Back by popular demand, THE BOOK OF MORMON, which played a record breaking two week run in 2014, is pleased to announce a lottery ticket policy for the National Tour, which begins November 3, 2015 at the Hippodrome Theatre in Baltimore and plays a limited two week engagement through November 15, 2015. In Baltimore, the production will conduct a pre-show lottery at the box office, making a limited number of tickets available at $25 a piece.

$31 orchestra seats for three select performances of Something Rotten! (Friday, October 30 at 8PM; Saturday, October 31 at 2PM; and Saturday October 31 at 8PM) are available for purchase beginning today, Friday, October 23, for a limited time only, using the code SRHALL31, to celebrate Halloween. Only Nostradamus knows how long supplies will last - or does he? - so get your tickets now!

The Old Globe today shared its 2016 Summer Season, which will feature new and familiar works directed by four major American stalwarts. The season features the welcome return of Steve Martin (Bright Star) with the World Premiere of his new play Meteor Shower, an adult comedy, directed by Gordon Edelstein, in a co-production with Long Wharf Theatre, where he serves as Artistic Director. Paul Gordon's musical Sense and Sensibility will have its West Coast premiere, presented in association with Chicago Shakespeare Theater, where it had its world premiere in February 2015, directed by CST Artistic Director Barbara Gaines. The Summer Shakespeare Festival will include Macbeth, directed by Brian Kulick, Artistic Director of Classic Stage Company, and Love's Labor's Lost, directed by three-time Tony Award winner Kathleen Marshall.

BroadwayWorld has confirmed that Roundabout Theatre Company has set new dates for the upcoming starry musical She Loves Me. Preview performances will begin on February 19, 2016 and with the official opening on March 17, 2016. This is a limited engagement through June 5, 2016 at Studio 54 on Broadway (254 West 54th Street).

Back by popular demand, THE BOOK OF MORMON, which played a record breaking 2 week run in 2014, returns to Charlotte for a limited engagement Feb. 23-Mar. 6, 2016 at Belk Theater at Blumenthal Performing Arts Center. Single tickets will go on sale Friday, Nov. 6 at 10 a.m. Tickets will be available at the Belk Theater box office (130 N. Tryon St.), by visiting BlumenthalArts.org, or by calling 704-372-1000. Group orders of 15 or more may be placed by calling 704-348-5752.

Broadway in Boston has announced that tickets for the highly anticipated upcoming engagement of PIPPIN will go on sale to the public this Sunday, October 25th.  Following its acclaimed run at the American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge, MA this captivating new production comes straight from Broadway where it won the 2013 Tony Award for Best Musical Revival. PIPPIN will play a limited two week run at the Boston Opera House February 2 - 14, 2016 as part of the 2015-2016 Lexus Broadway In Boston Season.

Back by popular demand, THE BOOK OF MORMON, which played a record breaking two week run in 2013 returns to Seattle for a limited engagement from December 29 through January 10, 2016 at The Paramount Theatre.  Single tickets will go on sale on Monday, October 26 at 10 am.  Tickets will be available on-line at stgpresents.org and tickets.com, by calling 877-STG-4TIX (784-4849), at select Ticketmaster locations and in person at The Paramount Theatre Box Office (Monday through Friday, 10am to 6pm).

Appropriately enough, the supposedly haunted Plummer Auditorium in Fullerton is currently playing host to the happy spooks of 3-D Theatricals' regional production of THE ADDAMS FAMILY, which continues performances at this historic theater through October 25 before migrating south to the Redondo Beach Performing Arts Center for shows October 31 - November 8. Filled with gleeful, cheese-tastic one-liners and catchy, cleverly written tunes from Andrew Lippa (The Wild Party, Big Fish), this seemingly underrated stage musical gem is a lively, highly-amusing little comedy that celebrates individual uniqueness while poking lots of giddy fun at fragile family dynamics, pointing out that even the most creepy, kooky, mysterious, and spooky beings among us face the same kinds of OMG-drama that so-called 'normals' do. As an added bonus, 3DT's production features a stellar cast led by TV's Bronson Pinchot as Gomez and Broadway vet Rachel York as Morticia.

 Producers Dori Berinstein and Bill Damaschke announced today the complete cast for Gotta Dance, the new Broadway-bound musical about professional basketball's first ever aged 60-and-older dance team. The pre-Broadway World Premiere of Gotta Dance begins this winter at Broadway In Chicago's Bank of America Theatre (18 W Monroe St, Chicago). Gotta Dance begins performances on December 13, 2015 and runs through January 10, 2016.

THE BOOK OF MORMON currently holds the all-time record at Boston Opera House for the highest weekly gross (for an eight-show performance week) for the week ending April 28, 2013 during which the show grossed $2,416,438.00.  

Back by popular demand, THE BOOK OF MORMON, which played a record breaking 3 week run in 2014 returns to Cincinnati for a limited engagement March 29 - April 4, 2016 at the Aronoff Center. An exclusive online pre-sale for American Express Card-members will begin at 10 a.m. on Friday, October 23. Single tickets will go on sale October 30 at 9:00AM. Tickets will be available at the Aronoff Center box office downtown at 650 Walnut Street, online at CincinnatiArts.org or by phone at 513.621.ARTS. Group orders of 10 or more may be placed by calling 513.369.4363. 

Back by popular demand, THE BOOK OF MORMON, which played a record breaking four week run in 2013 returns to Fort Lauderdale for a limited engagement January 26 - February 7, 2016 at The Broward Center for the Performing Arts. Scroll down for a sneak peek at the tour cast in action!

Ring in the New Year with the South Bay premiere of the thrilling 2013 Tony Award-winning musical PIPPIN - hailed as "an eye-popping, jaw-dropping, VISUALLY STUNNING extravaganza. 

Chicago Shakespeare Theater (CST) announces today the release of the Chicago Shakespeare cast recording of the highly acclaimed world premiere production Sense and Sensibility, a musical adaptation of Jane Austen's beloved novel, with book, music and lyrics by Tony Award-nominated composer Paul Gordon.

Experience the thrilling 2013 Tony Award-winning musical PIPPIN - described as 'An eye-popping, jaw-dropping, VISUALLY STUNNING extravaganza. THE THRILL OF THE SEASON!' by NY1. PIPPIN, presented by Victoria Theatre Association, kicks off the 2015-2016 Premier Health Broadway Series with a one week engagement, tonight, Oct. 6, through Oct. 11, 2015 at the Benjamin & Marian Schuster Performing Arts Center.

In honor of next week's international holiday, World Egg Day, Something Rotten! will celebrate the inspiration for  Nick and Nigel Bottom's musical debut with a special morning of events at the St. James Theatre (246 West 44th Street) next Tuesday, October 6.

Back by popular demand, THE BOOK OF MORMON, which played a record breaking two-week run in 2013 returns to Atlanta for a limited, two-week engagement January 12-24 at the Fox Theatre as part of the 2015/2016 Fifth Third Bank Broadway in Atlanta series.