Stage Entertainment News

Producers Jeffrey Richards and John N. Hart Jr., in association with the American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.), have announced that the box office will open on Thursday, August 8th for the 17-week limited engagement of the critically-acclaimed revival of The Glass Menagerie at the Booth Theatre (222 W 45th Street) with performances beginning Thursday, September 5, 2013, and an opening night set for Thursday, September 26th. The production will star multiple Tony and Emmy Award-winner Cherry Jones as Amanda Wingfield, film and stage star Zachary Quinto as Tom, two-time Tony-nominee Celia Keenan-Bolger as Laura, and Brian J. Smith as Jim, the Gentleman Caller.

Trinity Rep is pleased to announce that popular stand-up comedian and Saturday Night Live veteran Colin Quinn will bring his one-man showColin Quinn Unconstitutional to Trinity Rep's Chace Theater on Saturday, September 28, 2013 at 8:00PM. Fast on the heels of an extended run at Manhattan's Cherry Lane Theater, Quinn is taking his show on the road, travelling to the original 13 colonies, in the spirit of the Constitution. General admission tickets are $35 and are on sale now at www.trinityrep.com, by phone at 401-351-4242, and at the Trinity Rep box office at 201 Washington St. in Providence. For more information about the show and The Original 13 Colonies Tour visit www.ColinQuinnUnconstitutional.com

Joop Van Den Ende and Henk Kivits have jointly agreed that Mr Kivits will step down as CEO of Stage Entertainment Group today, 31 July 2013. Mr Kivits decided not to accept Joop Van Den Ende's offer to extend his contract as CEO of the interNational Theatre Company by an additional two years. Kivits has been CEO since 1 August 2007.

Directed by five-time Tony Award winner Susan Stroman (Contact, The Producers, The Scottsboro Boys), with music and lyrics by Grammy and Tony Award nominee Andrew Lippa (The Wild Party, The Addams Family), and a book by Grammy and BAFTA Award nominee John August (Frankenweenie, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory), BIG FISH begins performances on Thursday, September 5, 2013 and will open Sunday, October 6, 2013 at the Neil Simon Theatre.

Nach zwolf Jahren Pause prasentiert Stage Entertainment in Hamburg ab Ende November 2013 wieder Andrew Lloyd Webbers DAS PHANTOM DER OPER. Das Coaching der neuen Hauptdarstellerin ubernimmt Musical-Star Anna Maria Kaufmann. Die kanadischdeutsche Sangerin, die die Rolle der „Christine" seit der Deutschlandpremiere am 29. Juni 1990 in Hamburg uber 500 Mal verkorperte, wird mit ihrem Konnen und ihrer Erfahrung die neue Hauptdarstellerin des Musicalwelterfolgs umfassend unterstutzen.

For one week only, Dutch musical actress Ana Milva Gomes, who plays Doloris van Cartier in the Vienna production of SISTER ACT, will be playing in the Dutch production of the same show at the Circustheater Scheveningen.

SISTER ACT, the family friendly, over the top spectacle with nuns that rock, opens at The Paramount Theatre on August 20th for a limited engagement!

Producers Whoopi Goldberg, Stage Entertainment and Troika Entertainment announce that SISTER ACT, the musical comedy smash direct from Broadway, play the Pantages Theatre in Hollywood for a 3 week engagement. Performances are now running through July 28, 2013. BroadwayWorld has a look at the opening night below!

20th Century Fox has formed a joint venture with top Broadway producer and Tony Award winner Kevin McCollum (Motown, Rent, Avenue Q, In the Heights), prolific film producer John Davis (Predator, The Firm, Grumpy Old Men, I Robot, Chronicle) and leading industry executive Tom McGrath, to develop live stage productions based upon the studio's vast library of films.

Producers Whoopi Goldberg, Stage Entertainment and Troika Entertainment announce that SISTER ACT, the musical comedy smash direct from Broadway, will play the Pantages Theatre in Hollywood for a 3 week engagement. Performances begin Tomorrow July 9 through July 28, 2013.

Following its recent sell-out season in London's West End, Stage Entertainment UK is delighted to announce that the critically acclaimed Chichester Festival Theatre production of the musical Singin' In The Rain will tour the UK and Ireland later this year. Opening at Manchester Opera House on Wednesday 13 November 2013 (with previews from Saturday 9 November), the show will play a Christmas and New Year season in Cardiff before visiting cities across the country.

Former West End 'Fantine' Celinde Schoenmaker will star in three concerts dedicated to the musical of Disney. Joining here will be Jamai Loman, Freek Bartels and Pearl Jozefzoon.

The Dutch version of BILLY ELLIOT will not be moved to a Dutch mining town, said Maurice Wijnen in the Parool newspaper today. It will remain as it is, set against the backdrop of the UK miners' strike of 1984-1985.

At a press event held on July 2, 2013, in Paris, Manon Taris and Yoni Amar performed the title song from BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, which will make its French-language premiere in France this October. Click below to watch their performance, accompanied by composer Alan Menken on the piano!

'Legends in Concert,' the original and largest tribute show in the world, makes it's Long Island debut at Bellport's Gateway Playhouse, today, July 2-20.

La compañia pionera en la produccion de musicales en España se alia con Microteatro por Dinero para explorar nuevas estrategias artisticas y comerciales.

'Legends in Concert,' the original and largest tribute show in the world, makes it's Long Island debut at Bellport's Gateway Playhouse, July 2-20.

El musical de Disney se encuentra a punto de celebrar su función 700, habiendo conseguido aforos completos en cada una de sus representaciones desde su estreno en octubre de 2011.