Colin Callender News

PBS and MASTERPIECE have announced they will team with Colin Callender's Playground and the BBC for a television adaptation of Louisa May Alcott's coming-of-age classic, LITTLE WOMEN.

Good morning, BroadwayWorld! This weekend's big news: The curtain rises on CLUE: ON STAGE, bowing Saturday at Bucks County Playhouse, and Taran Killam hosts the 2017 Lucille Lortel Awards on Sunday!

Sonia Friedman, Colin Callender and Harry Potter Theatrical Productions, producers of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, have today confirmed that the production will have its Broadway premiere in the Spring of 2018 at the newly renovated Lyric Theatre in New York.

The Drama League has announced the 2017 Drama League Awards Nominees for Outstanding Play, Outstanding Revival of a Play, Outstanding Musical, Outstanding Revival of a Musical, and the much-coveted Distinguished Performance Award. Scroll down for the full list of nominees!

In the next episode of THE WHITE PRINCESS titled  'Hearts and Minds', King Henry VII sets out on Royal Progress, in an attempt to establish himself as the new sovereign, but finds a dangerous, deeply divided kingdom.

Starz announced today that the highly-anticipated STARZ Original Limited Series  THE WHITE PRINCESS – a follow-up to the Golden Globe® and Emmy® award-nominated STARZ Original Miniseries “The White Queen”

NYU Tisch School of the Arts hosted its 2017 gala, themed Aspire and Inspire, on Monday, April 3, 2017, at Cipriani 42nd Street.

Rehearsals began this week for the new West End cast of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child who will start their performances at the Palace Theatre in London's West End on 24 May 2017 following the final performance from the current cast on 21 May 2017. 

Following the enormously successful opening of James Macdonald's new production of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? starring Imelda Staunton, Conleth Hill, Imogen Poots and Luke Treadaway, producers today announced the forthcoming live broadcast of the play to cinemas throughout the UK and beyond as part of National Theatre Live.

Starz, with the BBC, will co-produce the limited series “Howards End,” based on the classic E.M. Forster novel. Academy Award®-nominated screenwriter and playwright Kenneth Lonergan (Manchester by the Sea, Gangs of New York, You Can Count on Me) brings the beloved novel from the page to the screen in his first television adaptation.

Starz announced today that the highly-anticipated STARZ Original Limited Series  THE WHITE PRINCESS – a follow-up to the Golden Globe® and Emmy® award-nominated STARZ Original Miniseries “The White Queen”

Good morning, BroadwayWorld! Today's big news: THE GLASS MENAGERIE, starring Sally Field, begins on Broadway!

The Dallas premiere of the 2014 Tony Award-winning Best Musical Revival HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH, is pleased to announce a lottery ticket policy for the National Tour. The lottery begins Today, February 7, 2017 at the Winspear Opera House in the downtown Dallas Arts District and plays a limited one-week engagement through Sunday, February 12, 2017.

As BroadwayWorld previously reported, Cirque du Soleil's PARAMOUR will be vacating Broadway's Lyric Theatre for renovations commencing in May 2017, and rumor has it that  producers Sonia Friedman and Colin Callender, with J.K. Rowling have been in exclusive talks to bring HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD to fill the vacancy. Now according to an Equity casting notice, auditions are about to commence for the Broadway transfer, which will reportedly arrive in Winter 2018.

The Dallas premiere of the 2014 Tony Award-winning Best Musical Revival HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH, is pleased to announce a lottery ticket policy for the National Tour. The lottery begins Tuesday, February 7, 2017 at the Winspear Opera House in the downtown Dallas Arts District and plays a limited one-week engagement through Sunday, February 12, 2017.

The 2014 Tony Award-winning Best Musical Revival Hedwig & The Angry Inch will make its Detroit premier at the Fisher Theatre, February 21 - March 5, 2017. Tickets are now on sale at all Ticketmaster locations, by phone at 1-800-982-2787, online atwww.broadwayindetroit.com or www.ticketmaster.com, and at the Fisher Theatre Box Office.

Broadway In Chicago has announced that individual tickets for the Chicago premiere of the 2014 Tony Award-winning Best Musical Revival Hedwig and the Angry Inch will go on sale Friday, January 6 for a limited two-week engagement at the Oriental Theatre (24 W. Randolph) March 7-19, 2017.

Lionsgate, a premier next generation global content leader, earned 17 Golden Globe nominations, spanning its feature film and television businesses this morning, led by an industry-best seven nominations, including Best Motion Picture Musical or Comedy, for Damien Chazelle's critically-acclaimed LA LA LAND.

STARZ was nominated for three Golden Globe® awards by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association this morning at the 74th Annual Golden Globe Awards nomination ceremony at the Beverly Hilton Hotel.

Producer Stacey Mindich announced today that beginning tomorrow, Wednesday, December 7, Dear Evan Hansen will launch a digital lottery, which will allow users to enter the lottery for a chance to purchase specially-priced tickets to that day's performance.