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Review: SOME LIKE IT HOT at TPAC’s Jackson Hall
by Catherine Burford - Apr 23, 2026

What did our critic think of SOME LIKE IT HOT at TPAC’s Jackson Hall?

Review: SOME LIKE IT HOT at Broadway At The Hobby Center
by Jonathan Netek - Mar 25, 2026

Winner of four Tony Awards, including Best Choreography and Best Costumes, Some Like It Hot is set in Chicago during Prohibition, when everyone is thirsty for a little excitement.

Review: SOME LIKE IT HOT at Walton Arts Center in Fayetteville
by Theresa Bertram - Mar 23, 2026

What did our critic think of SOME LIKE IT HOT at Walton Arts Center?

Interview: Marc Shaiman Talks SOME LIKE IT HOT, His Just-Published Memoir, and More
by R. Scott Reedy - Jan 28, 2026

To say that the Tony Award-winning 2022 musical “Some Like It Hot,” which Broadway in Boston is presenting at Citizens Opera House through February 8, has quite a pedigree is putting it mildly.

SOME LIKE IT HOT North American Tour Recoups Investment
by Stephi Wild - Dec 12, 2025

The SOME LIKE IT HOT North American Tour has recouped. The production has been seen by more than 700,000 patrons across North America since its launch on September 20, 2024, at Proctors in Schenectady, NY.

Review: SOME LIKE IT HOT at National Theatre
by David Friscic - Nov 28, 2025

A sophisticated, slightly sweet, and satiric tone sweeps over the characters of the luxuriously professional production of the musical Some Like it Hot, now touring at the National Theatre. From the moment that the show opens with the ode to self-gratification and excess “What Are You Thirsty For?” to the hymn to misbehavior “Let’s Be Bad” to the rousing finale “Baby, Let’s Get Good” ---this show grabs the audience and never lets it go.

Interview: Theatre Life with Mark Binns
by Elliot Lanes - Nov 21, 2025

Today’s subject Mark Binns is currently living his theatre life on the road as the Musical Director for the National Tour of Some Like it Hot. The show will be here in DC at the National Theatre beginning November 25th and continuing through December 7th.

Review: SOME LIKE IT HOT at Overture
by Scott Rawson - Nov 13, 2025

Some Like it Hot, set in the 1930’s during prohibition and segregation, was a delight to behold.

Review: Tony-Winning SOME LIKE IT HOT Musical Adaptation Amuses at Segerstrom Center
by Michael Quintos - Oct 14, 2025

Nominated for 13 Tony Awards, the 2022 musical adaptation SOME LIKE IT HOT is a surprisingly delightful, hilariously fun, and gleefully silly musical comedy that also has an endearingly open-minded new twist that re-contextualizes the movie's main raison d'être into something more empowering and thoughtful. The infectiously joyful show's marvelous touring production—directed and choreographed with rousing, kinetic energy by Casey Nicholaw direct from its Broadway origins—continues performances at OC's Segerstrom Center for the Arts in Costa Mesa, CA through October 19, 2025.

Photos: The Queendom Reunites to Celebrate 4 Years of SIX
by Jennifer Broski - Oct 7, 2025

Broadway's global smash hit musical, SIX, honored the show's historical four-year reign with special guests Toby Marlow, Lucy Moss, and SIX Queens past and present. BroadwayWorld was there for the special day and you can check out photos from the epic reunion here!

Review: Everyone Will Like SOME LIKE IT HOT at the Eccles Theater
by Tyler Hinton - Oct 2, 2025

Everyone will like the top drawer national tour of SOME LIKE IT HOT, currently playing at the Eccles Theater in Salt Lake City. The classy design, tight choreography, and pastiche score recall the musicals of yesteryear to perfection while casting light on the story’s themes and dialogue through a stirring contemporary lens.

Review: SOME LIKE IT HOT at The Paramount Theatre
by Jay Irwin - Sep 18, 2025

Dear Readers, first off there were way too many empty seats at the Paramount last night for the new musical version of “Some Like It Hot”. Where were you all? Do you not like musicals? Do you not like fun? Were you trapped under something heavy? (I will only accept the last answer as a viable excuse.). At any rate, get your tickets and do not let this one get away. Secondly, for our performance we got the added opportunity to see the resilience of theater people and the power of the understudy. But more on that later.

SOME LIKE IT HOT North American Tour Finds Cast For Second Year
by Stephi Wild - Sep 15, 2025

Some Like It Hot has announced casting for the second year of the North American tour. The tour will continue for the 2025-26 season playing cities including Seattle, Washington DC, Boston, Toronto, and Nashville. 

Review: SOME LIKE IT HOT Sizzles at Broadway Sacramento
by Courtney Symes - Sep 11, 2025

Broadway Sacramento’s new season is sizzling with the arrival of the first national tour of Some Like it Hot. Based on the classic 1959 film of the same name, its reimagination on Broadway in 2022 garnered four Tony Award wins out of thirteen nominations. Now, it’s bringing the Golden Age to Sacramento for an unforgettable experience of glitz and glamour.

Review: SOME LIKE IT HOT at Keller Auditorium
by Krista Garver - Sep 4, 2025

What did our critic think of SOME LIKE IT HOT at Keller Auditorium?

Review: SOME LIKE IT HOT at Hollywood Pantages Theatre
by Harker Jones - Aug 2, 2025

It’s clever and smart but not smirking. It’s romantic and sweet, but never saccharine. Everything about SOME LIKE IT HOT fires on all cylinders, gleaming like a brass band.

Review: SOME LIKE IT HOT National Tour at Durham Performing Arts Center
by Jeffrey Kare - Jun 18, 2025

Based on Billy Wilder’s 1959 Academy Award-winning film of the same name, Some Like It Hot follows two musicians, Joe & Jerry, who are forced to flee Chicago after witnessing a mob hit. With gangsters hot on their heels, they’re on the run as the newest members of the swingingest big band ever to cross the country…disguised as Josephine & Daphne. This is the second musicalization of the classic comedy following the 1972 Tony-nominated Sugar.

SOME LIKE IT HOT to Make Philadelphia Debut at The Forrest Theatre
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Apr 24, 2025

Ensemble Arts Philly and The Shubert Organization will present the Philadelphia premiere of Some Like It Hot at the Forrest Theatre. Learn more and see how to attend.

Review: SOME LIKE IT HOT SIZZLES ON TOUR at Providence Performing Arts Center
by John McDaid - Apr 23, 2025

Some Like It Hot Sizzles on Tour at PPAC: Big band energy, tap-happy choreography, and sharp performances heat up the stage in this exuberant musical comedy

Review: SOME LIKE IT HOT Jazzes Up the Issues at Benedum Center
by Greg Kerestan - Apr 21, 2025

It's a wonder Some Like It Hot, the Billy Wilder film, has held up as well as it does without seeming totally creaky and outdated. This is, after all, a 1959 Hollywood comedy, albeit one that is remarkably fluid in its attitudes towards both gender and sexuality.