Broadway Across America News

The tour of the smash hit Broadway revival of WEST SIDE STORY is coming to Tempe. WEST SIDE STORY will close at ASU Gammage on October 2, 2011.

After breaking box office records and selling out in record time in 2008, WICKED, Broadway's biggest blockbuster, will return to Pittsburgh, with performances at the Benedum Center, from September 7 through October 2.

'CIRQUE DREAMS HOLIDAZE' A DELICIOUS CONFECTION OF CHARM, SPARKLE AND TALENT BY THE SLEIGHLOAD LIGHTS UP THE BROWARD CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS DECEMBER 27 - JANUARY 1, 2012 CREATED AND DIRECTED BY CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED DIRECTOR NEIL GOLDBERG TICKETS ARE ON SALE NOW

Seattle Theatre Group (STG) kicks off its 2011 - 2012 performance season at the historic Paramount, Moore, and newly leased Neptune Theatres.

Five-time Tony Award®-winning producer, Jon B. Platt (Wicked, The Book of Mormon), has announced the first ever North American tour of Gazillion Bubble Show, starring its creator and international sensation Fan Yang.

Directed by Daniel Goldstein and choreographed by Tony Award nominee Christopher Gattelli (South Pacific), GODSPELL begins preview performances at Circle in the Square Theatre on Thursday, October 13, 2011. Opening Night is Monday, November 7. The company of Godspell met the press yesterday, September 27. Below, we bring you interviews with the cast and crew!

The company of Godspell met the press yesterday, September 27. Below, we bring you complete photo coverage of the performance preview event!

Grammy and Emmy Award winner, Tony Award nominee and multi-platinum recording artist Harry Connick, Jr. will star as Dr. Mark Bruckner in the newly imagined production of ON A CLEAR DAY YOU CAN SEE FOREVER opening December 11, 2011 on Broadway at The St. James Theatre, 246 W. 44th Street.

La Cage Aux Folles, starring film and TV actor George Hamilton and two-time Tony Award nominee and St. Paul native Christopher Sieber, runs at the State Theatre Oct. 18-23, 2011, kicking off Hennepin Theatre Trust's 2011/12 Broadway Across America-Minneapolis Season.

'CIRQUE DREAMS HOLIDAZE' A DELICIOUS CONFECTION OF CHARM, SPARKLE AND TALENT BY THE SLEIGHLOAD LIGHTS UP THE BROWARD CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS DECEMBER 27 - JANUARY 1, 2012 CREATED AND DIRECTED BY CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED DIRECTOR NEIL GOLDBERG TICKETS ARE ON SALE NOW

The tour of the smash hit Broadway revival of WEST SIDE STORY comes to Tempe. WEST SIDE STORY opens tonight at ASU Gammage and runs through October 2, 2011. Tony Award-winning librettist Arthur Laurents' Broadway direction will be recreated for the tour by David Saint, the Associate Director on Broadway. The original Jerome Robbins choreography is reproduced by Tony Award-nominee Joey McKneely (The Boy from Oz, The Life).

NETworks Presentations presents a new production of Richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein's Pulitzer Prize-winning musical SOUTH PACIFIC, which launches its national tour at the Boston Opera House for one week only, today through October 2, 2011.

Directed by Daniel Goldstein and choreographed by Tony Award nominee Christopher Gattelli (South Pacific), GODSPELL begins preview performances at Circle in the Square Theatre on Thursday, October 13, 2011. Opening Night is Monday, November 7 (7 p.m.). The company met the press today, September 26, and BroadwayWorld brings you the very first look at the show in rehearsal below!

STOMP, the international sensation, is making its triumphant return to the Southern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium from November 22-27, 2011.

Casting has been announced for the Omaha engagement of the Tony®, Grammy® and Olivier Award-winning hit musical JERSEY BOYS, the story of Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons, playing the Orpheum Theater, September 7 through 25.

Hennepin Theatre Trust today announced a new season of Broadway Confidential, a series of engaging talks by local experts delving into the background of the musicals coming to the Orpheum and State Theatres during the 2011/12 Broadway Across America-Minneapolis Season.

Directed by Daniel Goldstein and choreographed by Tony Award nominee Christopher Gattelli (South Pacific), GODSPELL begins preview performances at Circle in the Square Theatre (1633 Broadway at 50th Street) on Thursday, October 13, 2011. Opening Night is Monday, November 7 (7 p.m.).

On Sunday, September 18, the company of the upcoming revival of the legendary rock musical GODSPELL celebrated the birth of its first 'Broadway Baby,' as director Daniel Goldstein and his wife Melissa welcomed their first child, daughter Gracie Eloise Lee-Goldstein, into the world at 6:17 a.m.

On last night's DANCING WITH THE STARS result show on ABC, Harry Connick, Jr. crooned out the title song from his upcoming Broadway musical - ON A CLEAR DAY YOU CAN SEE FOREVER. Connick said that it was his first time singing the song publicly. How'd he do? Click below to play!

Broadway In Chicago has announced that MEMPHIS, the 2010 Tony® Award Winner for Best Musical, and the show that's currently blowing the roof off Broadway, opens in Chicago at the Cadillac Palace Theatre (151 W. Randolph St.) on Nov. 22, 2011 for a limited two-week engagement! Individual tickets for MEMPHIS go on sale Sunday, Sep. 18, 2011 at 10 a.m.