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The critically acclaimed new Broadway musical THE BAND'S VISIT opened officially just last night, November 9, 2017, at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre (243 West 47th Street). BroadwayWorld was on hand for the big night and you can check out photos from the curtain call and after party festivities below!

If there were any concerns that David Yazbek and Itamar Moses' exquisitely melodic and introspective musical, THE BAND'S VISIT would have lost any of its understated beauty while moving from the intimate confines of its Off-Broadway home provided by The Atlantic Theater Company to its new Broadway digs at Broadway's Barrymore, have no fear.

The critically acclaimed new Broadway musical THE BAND'S VISIT opens tonight, November 9, 2017, at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre (243 West 47th Street).

The critically acclaimed new Broadway musical THE BAND'S VISIT opens tonight, November 9, 2017, at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre (243 West 47th Street). Get ready for tonight's official bows and scroll down to learn more about the company, plus watch highlights from the show!

A friendly reminder that last season's critically-acclaimed best new musical, THE BAND'S VISIT, opens on Broadway tomorrow, November 9, 2017, at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre (243 West 47th Street), featuring music and lyrics by three-time Tony Award nominee and Drama Desk Award winner David Yazbek, a book by NY Drama Critics Circle, Lortel and Outer Critics Circle awards winner Itamar Moses, based on the screenplay by Eran Kolirin, and direction by Drama Desk, Lortel, Joe A. Callaway & Obie Award winner David Cromer.

The critically acclaimed new Broadway musical THE BAND'S VISIT will open later this week, on November 9, 2017, at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre (243 West 47th Street). THE BAND'S VISIT features music and lyrics by three-time Tony Award nominee and Drama Desk Award winner David Yazbek, a book by NY Drama Critics Circle, Lortel and Outer Critics Circle awards winner Itamar Moses, based on the screenplay by Eran Kolirin, and is directed by Drama Desk, Lortel, Joe A. Callaway & Obie Award winner David Cromer. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the cast in action below!

Playwrights Horizons today announced SPACE on Ryder Farm as the third theater company to join its Resident Company Program. Playwrights is a writer's theater dedicated to the support and development of contemporary American playwrights, composers and lyricists and to the production of their new work.

Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation (SDCF), the not-for-profit foundation of Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, just presented its first annual 'SDC Foundation Awards: A Celebration of Excellence in Directing and Choreography.'

It's a new month and that means a brand-new batch of shows opening up on the Great White Way.

A raucous, zany beach party, complete with swimming pools, Tiki Bar and beach balls, awaits audiences in an 80-minute holiday adaptation of Pirates of Penzance having its New York premiere November 29 - December 10 at NYU Skirball.

Playwrights Horizons has announced complete casting for Mankind, the world premiere of a new play written and directed by two-time Obie Award winner Robert O'Hara (Bootycandy, Bella: An American Tall Tale at Playwrights; Barbecue, In the Continuum, The Brother/Sister Plays).

Producers have just announced the Original Broadway Cast Recording of the critically acclaimed new musical, THE BAND'S VISIT, will be released on Ghostlight Records later this year. Kurt Deutsch will serve as album executive producer; David Yazbek and Dean Sharenow will serve as producers. For more information and to sign-up for updates on the record's release, visit Sh-K-Boom.com/The-Bands-Visit or TheBandsVisitMusical.com.

The critically acclaimed new Broadway musical THE BAND'S VISIT will open November 9, 2017, at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre (243 West 47th Street). BroadwayWorld has a first look at the cast in action below!

Today Ari'el Stachel speaks with BWW about making his Broadway debut and explains why THE BAND'S VISIT has been 'utterly life-changing' on a very personal level.

I will be in Hell because I don't love my mom, the central character of Max Posner's comedic drama THE TREASURER causally admits to the audience with unemotional matter-of-factness.

Playwrights Horizons announced today that stage and screen star Jesse Tyler Ferguson ('Modern Family,' Fully Committed, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee) has joined the cast of LOG CABIN, the world premiere of a new play by Pulitzer Prize finalist Jordan Harrison (Marjorie Prime, Maple and Vine, Doris to Darlene at Playwrights; 'Orange Is the New Black').

dick clark productions announced today that previous Hollywood Film Awards recipient, Sam Rockwell, will receive the Hollywood Supporting Actor Award for his role in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, and Emmy Award-winning actress, Allison Janney, will receive the Hollywood Supporting Actress Award for her turn as Tonya Harding's mother in I, Tonya at the 21st Annual Hollywood Film Awards.

The New York Pops, under the baton of Music Director Steven Reineke, pays tribute to female composers and lyricists of the stage and screen on Friday, November 17 at 8:00 p.m. in Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage at Carnegie Hall.

The critically acclaimed new Broadway musical THE BAND'S VISIT begins previews on Broadway at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre (243 West 47th Street) on Saturday, October 7, 2017, at 8pm, and opens November 9, 2017. THE BAND'S VISIT will have twenty $40 Rush Tickets available for each performance, available only day of the performance at the Barrymore box office.

Tony Award nominee and one of the stars of the upcoming Twentieth Century Fox film The Greatest Showman, Keala Settle, as well as cast members of Broadway's Miss Saigon, and Drama Desk nominee Ari'el Stachel and Etai Benson of The Band's Visit, have been added to the line up of this year's Elsie Fest - the first outdoor music festival celebrating the songs from the stage and screen.