Vicki Quade brings her hit holiday comedy, Christmas Bingo: It's a Ho-Ho-Holy Night, to Houston, for three weeks only, at the Chelsea Market Theatre, 4617 Montrose, starting December 6, for the 2018 holiday season.
A new block of tickets for PRETTY WOMAN: THE MUSICAL for performances through Sunday, September 1, 2019, goes on sale exclusively through Broadway Direct (www.broadwaydirect.com) beginning Thursday, December 6, 2018, at 10am (EST). The new block of tickets will be available at www.ticketmaster.com (877.250.2929) beginning Thursday, December 13, 2018, at 10am (EST).
A mainstay of the Belmont Theater District, Mercury Theater Chicago's critically acclaimed production of AVENUE Q moves into its final weeks with a closing date of December 30. With incredible runs on the Mercury stage in 2014 and 2018, this lovingly revived Broadway musical comedy appealed to the heart and humor of more than 40,000 audience members, earning widespread critical acclaim with coverage from the Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun Times, WTTW's "Chicago Tonight" and WGN Radio, and awards from Broadway World and the Joseph Jefferson awards, including 12 Broadway World Award nominations for the 2018 production. By its closing date, AVENUE Q will have played 355 performances over 12 months, placing it as one of the longest-running homegrown musicals in Chicago history.
Drury Lane Theatre's Disney's Beauty and the Beast, with music by Alan Menken, lyrics by Howard Ashman and Tim Rice, book by Linda Woolverton, direction by Alan Souzaand choreography by Ron De Jesus runs November 9, 2018 - January 27, 2019, at Drury Lane Theatre, 100 Drury Lane in Oakbrook Terrace. Get a first look at the cast in action!
Chris's new book, Rise Up!, looks at Broadway and American society from Angels in America to Hamilton. In an interview with fellow critic Matt Wolf, at the Bloomsbury Institute yesterday, Chris talked about what makes a show successful, how the theatre has changed in American and Britain, and what we can expect to see in the future.
American Idol's Eric Anthony Lopez, who is currently starring opposite Janet Ulrich Brooks (Chicago Premiere of Peter Morgan's The Audience, Divergent,) in Terrence McNally's MASTER CLASS in Chicago, for which he received rave reviews from The ChicagoSunTimes, Chris Jones of The Chicago Tribune, BroadwayWorld & StageCinema Magazine.
-A small theater company moves into an abandoned Chicago storefront. Led by their adventurously thirsty artistic director, they embark on an explosive new play with the hope of finally breaking it big. When the ensemble realizes their source material might not be as original as once assumed, they are thrust into an intense confrontation with residents of their new community, who not only want them out, but will take their story back by any means necessary. Red Rex is the sixth play in Ike Holter's seven part 'Rightlynd Saga," which also includes Exit Strategy, Prowess, and The Wolf at the End of the Block.
The Holiday Hootenanny Radio Hour is pleased to announce Nick Thornton's heart warming new radio play CRICKET ON THE MANTLE, with music directed and arranged by Mike Mazzocca, as its inaugural presentation. All proceeds from this pay what you will production will go to benefit the Chicago chapter of American Veterans for Equal Rights (AVER).
Pretty Woman the Musical's original Broadway cast recording is available in stores nationwide today! To mark the CD release, Barnes & Noble hosted an exclusive 'Live at Barnes & Noble' event featuring members of the Pretty Woman: THE MUSICAL cast yesterday, November 15th, at Barnes & Noble's Upper East Side location. BroadwayWorld was there and you can check out the photos below!
Did Santa babysit the baby Jesus? Why were the Three Wise Men so lost? Do you know what the holiday classic Silent Night first sounded like? The answers to these and other humorous questions are answered in the hit holiday comedy CHRISTMAS BINGO: IT'S A HO-HO-HOLY NIGHT.
Vicki Quade brings her hit holiday comedy, Christmas Bingo: It's a Ho-Ho-Holy Night, to Houston, for three weeks only, at the Chelsea Market Theatre, 4617 Montrose, starting December 6, for the 2018 holiday season.
Interrobang Theatre Project is pleased to announce casting for its Chicago premiere of Jonas Hassen Khemiri's drama I CALL MY BROTHERS, a day in the life of an Arab-Swedish man who must dodge suspicion after a car bomb rattles Stockholm, translated by Rachel Willson-Broyles and directed by guest director Abhi Shrestha,