Broadway Across America News

JERSEY BOYS opened at the August Wilson Theatre on Broadway to critical acclaim on November 6, 2005. The JERSEY BOYS National Tour opened to rave reviews in San Francisco on December 1, 2006, played a record breaking run in Los Angeles and is still breaking house records in cities across North America. There are six current productions of JERSEY BOYS: New York, London, Chicago, Las Vegas, Toronto, a US National tour, and a seventh production will open in Melbourne, Australia in July, 2009.

On Sunday, April 5th, HAIR the Musical will be featured on CBS 'Sunday Morning.' CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric will speak with the creators and cast of the Broadway revival as they discuss the past and future of the classic musical with a message that still packs an emotional punch.

On Sunday, April 5th, HAIR the Musical will be featured on CBS 'Sunday Morning.' CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric will speak with the creators and cast of the Broadway revival as they discuss the past and future of the classic musical with a message that still packs an emotional punch.

The New Broadway Cast of West Side Story will take a break from 'rumbling' and will be LIVE-TWEETING from the Recording session for the New Broadway Cast Album on Monday April 6th beginning at 9:00am.

Sony Masterworks proudly announces the upcoming release of the New Broadway Cast Recording of WEST SIDE STORY. The recording will be available nationwide on June 2, 2009. The official opening of WEST SIDE STORY, which took place at the Palace Theatre in New York City on Thursday, March 19, 2009, has been greeted with great critical acclaim and sold-out performances. The opening followed a pre-Broadway engagement at the National Theatre in Washington, D.C., where the musical made its original world premiere in 1957.

Dora the Explorer Live! Search for the City of Lost Toys, the touring production starring TV's most famous young and intrepid Latina explorer, will play six performances at Hennepin Theatre Trust's State Theatre, Friday, May 15 through Sunday, May 17, 2009.

The producers of HAIR announced today that the new Broadway production was on track to sell upwards of $500,000 in tickets today, following yesterday's triumphant opening night performance at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre. The producers also distributed checks today representing a return of 10% to the show's investors.

HAIR began preview performances on Friday, March 6th, and celebrated its official opening last night, Tuesday, March 31, 2009. After a smash-hit run at Central Park's Delacorte Theater last summer, HAIR returns to Broadway for the first time in over 30 years. BroadwayWorld.com's cameras partied down with the cast as the post show celebration began!

The story of a group of young Americans searching for love and peace during the Vietnam era, HAIR is a timeless portrait of a movement that changed the world. Its groundbreaking rock score paved the way for some of the greatest musicals of our time.

HAIR began preview performances on Friday, March 6th, and celebrated its official opening last night, Tuesday, March 31, 2009. After a smash-hit run at Central Park's Delacorte Theater last summer, HAIR returns to Broadway for the first time in over 30 years.

HAIR began preview performances on Friday, March 6th, and celebrated its official opening last night, Tuesday, March 31, 2009. After a smash-hit run at Central Park?s Delacorte Theater last summer, HAIR returns to Broadway for the first time in over 30 years.

John Gore, Owner and CEO of Key Brand Entertainment Inc. announced today that Miles C. Wilkin has been named CEO of Broadway Across America and will assume the position immediately. Broadway Across America is owned and operated by Key Brand Entertainment. Mr. Wilkin, a pioneer of the theatrical touring industry in the United States, will be at the helm of Broadway Across America, the premiere producer and presenter of live theatrical events in the United States and Canada.

HAIR began preview performances on Friday, March 6th, and celebrates its official opening tonight, Tuesday, March 31, 2009. After a smash-hit run at Central Park's Delacorte Theater last summer, HAIR returns to Broadway for the first time in over 30 years.

West Side Story has returned to Broadway in a new production directed by its two-time Tony Award winning librettist Arthur Laurents.

The producers of HAIR: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical have announced that the 37-member cast and band will go into the studio on Monday, April 6th, to record the show's new Broadway cast album. Production is being rushed for the highly anticipated recording which will be released officially this Spring by Ghostlight Records. The CD will be produced by Kurt Deutsch, Joel Moss & Galt McDermott with Bill Rosenfield acting as Executive Producer.

HAIR began preview performances on Friday, March 6th, and celebrates its Opening Night on Tuesday, March 31, 2009. After a smash-hit run at Central Park's Delacorte Theater last summer, HAIR returns to Broadway for the first time in over 30 years. The cast of HAIR are featured in amNewYork's spring fashion story pictorial, to see all the groovy fun, click here!

The Rent touring company and Hennepin Theatre Trust are pleased to announce that a limited number of $20 seats in the front two rows of the main floor/orchestra will be made available through a lottery drawing for every performance of Rent. The Pulitzer Prize and Tony(r) Award-winning musical starring Adam Pascal and Anthony Rapp returns to the Twin Cities to play the Orpheum Theatre in Minneapolis from Wednesday-Sunday, March 25-29, 2009.

West Side Story is back on Broadway in a new production directed by its two-time Tony Award winning librettist Arthur Laurents. West Side Story opened at the Palace Theatre (1564 Broadway) on Thursday, March 19, 2009.

West Side Story opened at the Palace Theatre (1564 Broadway) on Thursday, March 19, 2009. The original Jerome Robbins choreography is restaged by Tony Award nominee Joey McKneely (The Boy from Oz, The Life).

On March 28 from 6 to 7 p.m., 25 incarcerated women, ages 18 to 50 from Estrella Jail will participate in ASU Gammage's Journey Home Program. Journey Home is an arts residency program designed to enable incarcerated women to discover a personal sense of constructive identity through performance, visual arts, creative writing and storytelling.