Today, producer Mark Goucher has confirmed that following the phenomenal success of the current UK tour, the new production of Hairspray will return at the end of summer 2017 to once again tour the UK. This second tour of the smash hit musical will visit venues across the country until the spring of 2018. Casting, dates and locations for the 2017/18 tour will be announced in due course.
Theater for the New City presents Steve Romagnoli's 'SKIP TO MY LOU,' Written by Steve Romagnoli and directed by S. C. Lucier.
The Movieguide Awards honored international entertainment icon Dolly Parton with the Epiphany Prize for the Most Inspiring TV Program of 2015 for her NBC TV movie “Dolly Parton's Coat of Many Colors.”
Golden Nugget Las Vegas remains the downtown destination for top-notch entertainment with 52 Fridays.
Some surprises are too hard to handle! Kitty doesn't want a smelly new dog, a drooling new baby, or Uncle Murray's unusual cat sitting. Kitty just wants to have Kitty's world back to normal. A world that revolves around the most important creature in Kitty's life … KITTY.
With the launch of the second season of OpenICE, a multi-year program to engage new listeners for contemporary music through an outpouring of programming that is free and open to the public, the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) announces the appointment of Ryan Muncy (ICE saxophonist) and Alice Teyssier (ICE flutist/vocalist) as the new Co-Directors of OpenICE. Muncy and Teyssier have been members of ICE since 2014 and, in addition to their musical roles, serve in the capacities of Director of Institutional Giving and Artistic Operations Associate, respectively.
Dion is in the middle of her nine-month engagement at the Colosseum at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas and while ringing in the new year with fans, she surprised New Year's Eve concert attendees with a performance of Adele's latest hit, 'Hello.' Check out the performance below, and let us know what you think of the cover!
Below, BroadwayWorld sends a fond farewell to those who passed away in 2015.
With the Beatles' full catalog recently made available to stream for the first time, listeners by the thousands are adding the band's songs to their playlists.
Get set for a high-octane ride with thrilling choreography, rockin' tunes and explosively colorful costumes - plus some really cool hairdos - when the Paramount Theatre, 23 E. Galena Blvd. in downtown Aurora, presents Hairspray - The Broadway Musical, January 20-February 21, 2016. Check out a first look at the characters below!
Finally, Beatlemania can reach the youths of the 21st century through their preferred medium.
The Metropolitan Atlanta Arts Fund of the Atlanta Community Foundation announced it has awarded Actor's Express a grant of $150,000 over the next two years. The funds will be used to expand the theatre's reach into new diverse audiences around Atlanta, support new work form nationally known playwrights, establish a financial reserve to ensure the long term health of the company.
The New York Virtuoso Singers, Harold Rosenbaum, Conductor and Artistic Director, will present ASCAP Foundation Morton Gould Young Composer Awards Concert, the first event of their 2015-16 concert season on Sunday, November 29 - 2:00 PM at National Sawdust, 80 North 6th Street in Brooklyn, NY.
The Spoken Word artists of QueerWise share intimate stories to remind you that AIDS is not over. Directed by Kearns, in honor of World AIDS Day 2015, We Laid Our Bodies Down vividly probes the immeasurable emotionality that continues to play out in the lives of LGBT individuals who grew up with the disease.
The Joyce Theater Foundation, Linda Shelton Executive Director, announced today the roster of its 2016 Spring and Summer Season, offering audiences the opportunity to experience talent from around the world both in its iconic Chelsea home, and in other New York City venues, large and small.
The Joffrey Ballet celebrates the 28th annual, and final, presentation of Robert Joffrey's The Nutcracker, Chicago's most popular holiday tradition, in a 24-performance engagement at the Auditorium Theatre of Roosevelt University, 50 E. Congress Parkway, December 4 – 27.
Poems and Songs of the Great War will feature singer-songwriter Declan O'ROURKE, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Paul MULDOON, and historian and broadcaster Myles DUNGAN in three special evenings of music, poetry, and memory inspired by "The War to End All Wars" at Irish Arts Center (553 West 51st Street, New York) on November 19th, 20th, and 21st at 8 pm.
?New York Festival of Song premieres SCHUBERT|BEATLES on Tuesday, December 8, 2015 at 8:00 p.m. at Merkin Concert Hall, as part of NYFOS's classic long-running Mainstage series.
The Irish Repertory Theatre (Charlotte Moore, Artistic Director and Ciaran O'Reilly, Producing Director) announces its first production of 2016, THE BURIAL AT THEBES written by Irish Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney, based on Sophocles' Antigone.
THE LION KING has surpassed the other feline-centric show to make Broadway history.
'[Thank you] to an incredible cast of British and American actors who make the Atlantic look like a little creek you can just kind of pop across,' said Dame Helen Mirren upon receiving her 2015 Tony Award. The stage and screen star reprised her critically-acclaimed performance in THE AUDIENCE after a West End run in 2013, and she was just one of many to 'pop across' an ocean for a stab at Broadway. An unprecedented amount of British talent took over Broadway last year, bringing us such productions as THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME, WOLF HALL: PARTS 1 & 2, and SKYLIGHT.
It doesn't seem like the trend is ending anytime soon.
This fall, Broadway will welcome a slew of British actors- some of whom will be making their US stage debuts in incoming productions. And it's not just performers. We're getting some complete British imports in shows like A VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE and KING CHARLES III. Below, we're taking a moment to shine a spotlight on this season's British imports.
Good news Midler fans- Bette is back!Good news Midler fans- Bette is back!
Actors' Theatre is kicking off its 35th season with the hit musical Heathers the Musical which got its start from the 1988 cult film Heathers starring Winona Ryder and Christian Slater, and became an Off-Broadway musical sensation in 2014. Check out photos from the show below!
After more than a quarter of a century, the long wait is over! From the creators of the beloved songbook Rise Up Singing, comes its much-anticipated companion Rise Again: A Group Singing Songbook, with preface by Pete Seeger and foreword by Billy Bragg.
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