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Winter Park Playhouse Announces 2023 - 2024 Mainstage Series

The Winter Park Playhouse, Central Florida's professional musical theatre, has announced their 2023-2024 Mainstage Series of musical productions. This new lineup of productions boasts a wide variety of Broadway and Off-Broadway hits and regional premieres for the Central Florida area. 

SIMPLY BRILL, A Celebration Of The Biggest Hit Songs Of The 20th Century, Comes to Fringe 2023

Award winning cabaret artists Amelia Ryan, Michaela Burger and Michael Griffiths will reprise their acclaimed show Simply Brill for four performances only this February and March. Following a sell-out season at the 2022 Adelaide Cabaret Festival, this hit show shares the story of the American teenage songwriters who transformed 1960s rock 'n' roll forever, and the building in which they did it.

La Mirada Theatre For The Performing Arts Presents World Premiere Beatnik Horror Comedy Musical DID YOU SEE WHAT WALTER PAISLEY DID TODAY?

LA MIRADA THEATRE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS presents a very special event: the world premiere of the beatnik horror comedy musical, DID YOU SEE WHAT WALTER PAISLEY DID TODAY? with book, music, & lyrics by Randy Rogel, musical direction by Andrew Orbison, choreography by Connor Gallagher and developed and directed by BT McNicholl.  

BARBRA & LIZA LIVE! Starring Steven Brinberg and Rick Skye to Make New York Debut at Chelsea Table + Stage

CHELSEA TABLE + STAGE will present “Barbra & Liza Live!,” starring Steven Brinberg (“Simply Barbra”) and Rick Skye (“A Slice O’Minnelli”), on Monday, November 21 at 7:00 PM. After sell-out shows in London and Dublin, Brinberg and Skye are celebrating these two icons together for the first time in New York.

BEAUTIFUL: THE CAROLE KING MUSICAL to Return to Ogunquit Playhouse in May 2023

Ogunquit Playhouse has announced a 5-week return engagement of Beautiful: The Carole King Musical (May 11–June 10) as the bonus opening act for their 2023 season. Tickets go on sale Tuesday, November 1.

SOMEDAY AT CHRISTMAS: JOHN-MARK MCGAHA SINGS STEVIE WONDER to Play the Marriott Theatre in December

In SOMEDAY AT CHRISTMAS: JOHN - MARK MCGAHA SINGS STEVIE WONDER, the talented, joyful, and generous McGaha sheds a personal light upon the miraculous life of one of America's greatest singer/songwriters, with a set that includes Wonder’s Christmas songs along with some of his greatest hits.

Review: LISA VIGGIANO SINGS THE JANE OLIVOR SONGBOOK is a Heartfelt Tribute at Laurie Beechman Theatre

What Lisa Viggiano has as a performer that was not apparent in Jane Olivor’s work is a wry and ironic sense of humor. When Viggiano allows her spirit to come front and center, the show she has created with director Mark Nadler really flies. However, for much of the performance, it feels as if Ms. Viggiano is attempting to constrain her own ebullient personality into the earnest, serious personality of Jane Olivor. I left the show wanting less Jane Olivor and more Lisa Viggiano. In short, Jane is cramping Lisa’s style.

Review: Tilles Center's CELEBRITY AUTOBIOGRAPHY will have you 'Hooked on Phonics... I Mean Histrionics'

What did our critic think of CELEBRITY AUTOBIOGRAPHY at Tilles Center? Back in 2005, Comedy Central had a roast for Pamela Anderson. One of the roasters on the dais was the late, great Bea Arthur; she was there as both she and Anderson are advocates of P.E.T.A., which the roast was a fundraiser for. Instead of following the typical route of insulting Anderson and the other celebrities on the dais, Arthur decided to perform a live reading of Pamela Anderson's autobiographical novel Star Struck. Anderson's words mixed with Ms. Arthur's wry delivery and infamous glares led this to be one of the funniest sets of the evening. After seeing that performance, I literally thought 'My God, what a brilliant idea. Wouldn't it be amazing if Bea Arthur, or any celebrity, performed dramatic readings of celebrity memoirs?' Luckily, Emmy award nominee Eugene Pack capitalized on this idea with co-creator Dayle Reyfel and together they brought Celebrity Autobiography to life.

Asa Murphy's Dream Tribute To Bobby Darin Heads To Liverpool and St Helens

One of the world's greatest entertainers is being celebrated in an unmissable musical tribute which comes to Liverpool and St Helens this autumn.

Jackie Evancho, Krysta Rodriguez, and More to Play 54 Below Next Week

Next week, 54 BELOW, Broadway’s Supper Club & Private Event Destination, presents some of the brightest stars from Broadway, cabaret, jazz, and beyond. A recipient of the 2022 Tony Awards® Honor for Excellence in the Theatre, 54 Below celebrates Broadway musicals and writers of the past and present, promoting an ongoing engagement with their work. 

Toni Tennille To Lead HELLO, DOLLY! at Yavapai College Performance Hall in Prescott, AZ

Pop legend Toni Tennille will lead the Yavapai College Performing Arts Center production of HELLO, DOLLY!, starring as Dolly Levi, who turns New York City on its ear by juggling young love, old money, adventure, joy, and loneliness before the parade passes by.

VIDEO: Adam Rothenberg Takes Part in Richard Skipper's #StayHome Campaign

Richard Skipper has started a #StayHome campaign!

VIDEO: Get A First Look At BEAUTIFUL: The Carole King Musical in Manila

BroadwayWorld has a first look at the production of BEAUTIFUL: THE Carole King MUSICAL in Manila, which runs at Meralco Theatre now through July 7. The show is directed by Bobby Garcia.

The 2009 Drama Desk Award winner Celebrity Autobiography performed a special one-night-only Broadway themed edition-Celebrity Autobiography Salutes the Tony Awards-on Monday, June 6 at New York's Triad Theater with a cast including Mario Cantone, Rachel Dratch, Tovah Feldshuh, Eugene Pack, Dayle Reyfel, Julian Sands, Sherri Shepherd, Carol Kane and Alan Zweibel.

Andrew Lloyd Webber hosts a star-studded birthday party for the world-famous London Palladium, which celebrates its 100th anniversary on 26th December 2010.

Theatre icon Elaine Paige, the 'Queen of West End Musicals' who has created the roles of Eva Peron in 'Evita,' Grizabella in 'Cats,' Florence in 'Chess' and Edith Piaf in 'Piaf' and had a triumphant debut on Broadway in 1996 as Norma Desmond in 'Sunset Boulevard,' signed copies of her autobiography, 'Memories,' on Wednesday, September 22, at the Barnes & Noble Lincoln Triangle store. The event also featured a Q&A with Elaine conducted by theater columnist Peter Filichia. BroadwayWorld was on hand and brings you video below.

In the latest installment of Celebrity Autobiography at the Triad Theater, Mario Cantone, Sherri Shepherd and Jackie Hoffman took on Beyonce Knowles, Kelly Rowland, and Michelle Williams, respectively - the trio that made up one of pop music's most legendary outfits, Destiny's Child - reciting passages from their book: Soul Survivors, The Official Autobiography of Destiny's Child. Click below for the Cantone-Shepherd-Hoffman interpretation!

Celebrity Autobiography: In Their Own Words, the hit show that won the coveted 2009 Drama Desk Award for Unique Theatrical Experience, continues its sit-down, open-ended run November 23, 7:30 PM at New York's Triad Theater, 158 West 72 Street.

Celebrity Autobiography: In Their Own Words continues its sit-down, open-ended run at the Triad Theater, 158 West 72 Street, Monday evenings at 7:30pm. BWW TV spoke with Eugene Pack, the man who created the comedic concept about how it all came to hilarious life.