Brooks Atkinson News

An additional North American tour of SIX called the “Boleyn Tour” will launch at The Smith Center in Las Vegas, NV with performances beginning September 20, 2022. 

Today's top stories include the SAG Awards, which were held this past weekend. Plus, The Book of Mormon has announced a new National Tour, casting has been announced for the Broadway run of for colored girls who have considered suicide/ when the rainbow is enuf, and more!

The Broadway producers of SIX, the hit musical by Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss, will welcome Joy Woods in the role of Catherine Parr beginning Monday, March 14, 2022 at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre (256 W 47th St, NYC). Anna Uzele plays her final performance on Sunday, March 13, 2022.

The Kimmel Cultural Campus will present Waitress as part of its 2021-22 Broadway Series, playing at the Campus’ historic Academy of Music from Tuesday, March 29 – Sunday, April 3, 2022.

Today's top stories include the casting of Lana Gordon in the role of Persephone in Hadestown beginning Tuesday, February 22 at Broadway’s Walter Kerr Theatre. Plus, watch the premiere of the new web series, The Aging Ingenue! In today's episode: Claire gives a killer audition! ... but for which role? Starring Sara Jean Ford, Vishal Vaidya, Ashley Blanchet, and Will Reynolds.

New Haven's Shubert Theatre celebrates its way-off Broadway beginnings and Women's History Month with Waitress, the hilarious hit Broadway musical lauded for insightful writing, unforgettable music, and the first-ever all-female creative team for a Broadway musical.

Some of the new queens took to TikTok to share their experience auditioning for the tour and ultimately booking it, including some heartfelt calls to parents and visiting the Brooks Atkinson Theatre to celebrate. Watch their videos below!

The North American tour cast features Khaila Wilcoxon as Catherine of Aragon, Storm Lever as Anne Boleyn, Jasmine Forsberg as Jane Seymour, Olivia Donalson as Anna of Cleves, Didi Romero as Katherine Howard, and Gabriela Carrillo as Catherine Parr.

Sara Bareilles' hit musical Waitress returns to Playhouse Square this May for a limited 5-week engagement at the intimate 550-seat Hanna Theatre. Playhouse Square launched the first national Waitress tour at the Connor Palace in 2017.

Blumenthal Performing Arts announced that the hit Broadway musical Waitress will return to Charlotte for a special 5-week engagement, April 19 - May 22, 2022, in the intimate 442-seat Booth Playhouse. Charlotte is the opening city on this special tour hitting just a handful of markets around the country.

Chelsea Halfpenny will lead the cast as Jenna in the smash hit romantic musical comedy WAITRESS when the show comes to Theatre Royal Brighton from Mon 11 to Sat 16 July 2022. Full casting alongside Chelsea is to be announced in due course.

Theatre Royal, Glasgow has confirmed that the international smash hit musical SIX will return to the Hope Street venue this summer with a brand-new cast. Performances will run Tuesday 14 - Sunday 19 June 2022.

Celtic Illusion, (www.CelticIllusion.com) the modern Irish dance and magic stage show, created, choreographed, and starring Anthony Street (Lord of the Dance), comes to Shea's Buffalo Theatre May 3, 2022.

The multi award-winning musical phenomenon SIX, written by Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss, today announces a new cast for the UK tour. The current company will play their final performance on Sunday 6 March with the new company taking over from Tuesday 8 March at the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre in Guildford.

Smash-hit musical SIX today announces a new booking period at its London home at the Vaudeville theatre. The sell-out intoxicating Tudor take-off is here to stay as more than 300,000 seats go on sale from Tuesday 2 May, 2022 to Sunday 2 April, 2023.

Drummer Elena Bonomo, who performs nightly in the all-female band, The Ladies in Waiting, in Broadway’s hit musical SIX, and whose new single is entitled “Together,” will appear on “Late Night with Seth Meyers” throughout the week of January 24 when she sits in for bandleader Fred Armisen as guest drummer with the 8G Band.

The American Theatre Guild will present the hilarious hit Broadway musical WAITRESS at the Stranahan Theater in Toledo.

Broadway In Detroit has announced WAITRESS will play Music Hall for a limited one-week engagement! The diner opens up March 15 and runs until March 20, 2022. Tickets start at $29 and will be available for sale starting Friday, January 21 online at Ticketmaster.com, by phone at 800-982-2787, and in person at the Fisher Theatre Box Office.

Amy Di Bartolomeo, Amanda Lindgren, Claudia Kariuki, Dionne Ward-Anderson, Tsemaye Bob-Egbe and Meesha Turner are starring in SIX at the Vaudeville Theatre. Check out all new photos of them in action!

The American Theatre Guild has announced the hilarious hit Broadway musical WAITRESS is coming to the Bank of America Performing Arts Center. WAITRESS is part of the BROADWAY IS BACK IN THOUSAND OAKS SERIES and takes place on January 20-23, 2022.