Dreamworks News

The Palace Theatre and Opera House, Manchester has announced its new jam-packed season of theatre productions with the publication of its brand new brochure. The What's On Guide for August-November 2018 also introduces Price Promise tickets, giving access to the very best of UK theatre from as little as £13.*

Based on the hugely popular Dreamworks animation, Madagascar The Musical brings the much-loved film to life in an energetic whirl of funky dance routines and quirky characters. After becoming disillusioned with his life in a Manhattan zoo, Marty the zebra escapes to see the outside world. Fearful for his safety, his friends Alex the lion, Melman the giraffe and Gloria the hippo follow him, but are captured and sent to a Kenyan nature reserve. After the boat they are travelling on capsizes, they become stranded on strange and madcap island of Madagascar where they meet King Julien XIII and his tribe of lemurs.

Author Tom Clancy's renowned CIA analyst returns this August when the new series “Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan” debuts on Amazon.  In anticipation, fans can catch up on all of the celebrated character's cinematic exploits when a new 4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo Collection arrives on August 21, 2018 from Paramount Home Media Distribution

PLANET CONNECTIONS' PLAYWRIGHTS FOR A CAUSE: This year, this event, designed to address a powerful social and topical issue facing our society today through engaging stage works, will explore the distinctions between gender and sexuality. The event will benefit THE ALI FORNEY CENTER.

While Will McMillan may not (yet) be a household name, his creativity and musical genius are more familiar than one might know. McMillan, Minister of Music at i5 City Church in Baltimore, Maryland, has collaborated with such Gospel music luminaries as Tasha Cobbs, Jason Nelson, Jonathan Nelson and William McDowell. McDowell, along with Travis Greene, has also entrusted McMillan with music director duties along the way. A self-taught artist and musician, McMillan's creative sensibilities bridge tradition with a contemporary and fresh approach that appeals to Gospel music fans of all ages.

Dinosaurs will once again roam international soil when the globally-acclaimed production, WALKING WITH DINOSAURS - THE ARENA SPECTACULAR, based on the award-winning BBC Television Series, returns in 2018, starring Michaela Strachan as 'Huxley' the paleontologist.

Wicked has released the first pictures of new principal cast members David Witts as Fiyero and Chris Jarman as Doctor Dillamond (who join the London production from Monday 23 July 2018), together with current cast members Alice Fearn as Elphaba, Sophie Evans as Glinda and Rosa O'Reilly, who takes over the role of Nessarose.

Netflix, the world's leading internet entertainment service, today announced its first slate of films and series based on the stories of Mark Millar. Netflix acquired Millar's company, Millarworld, last year and since then has been developing projects with Mark and Lucy Millar, including The Magic Order, which has been published as Netflix's first comic book and was the biggest selling new comic-book franchise in nearly 20 years.  

Bay Street Theater is pleased to announce Confessions of a Mormon Boy as a special Mainstage Season bonus production this summer, written and performed by Outer Critics Circle Award Nominee Steven Fales and directed by Bay Street Theater's Artistic Director, Scott Schwartz.

On November 15, 1949, in Hollywood, California, an up-and-coming young actress met a handsome movie star for dinner -- a blind date that changed history.

Find your one true love with Second Street Players this summer as they present “Shrek The Musical.”

Behind every tradition lies a revolution. This year, “Halloween Horror Nights” at Universal Studios Hollywood bears witness to “The First Purge” with an all-new maze based on Universal Pictures' all-new thriller that unleashed the country's inaugural government-sanctioned lawlessness, making all crime legal once a year for 12 hours.

Avery Products Corporation, a leading manufacturer of school and office supplies, including binders, dividers, highlighters, labels and more, announced their newest collection of organization products with designs featuring the DreamWorks Trolls. The products are available on avery.com and amazon.com, and for a limited time, consumers can take advantage of Amazon Prime Day deals and get 30% off these Durable View Fashion Binders from July 16th - 17th on Amazon.

Avery Products Corporation, a leading manufacturer of school and office supplies including binders, dividers, highlighters, labels and more, introduced their newest collection of organization products featuring officially licensed designs inspired by Illumination and Universal's Despicable Me record-setting franchise. The products are available on avery.com and amazon.com, and for a limited time, consumers can take advantage of Amazon Prime Day deals and get 30% off these Durable View Fashion Binders from July 16th-17th on Amazon.

Broadway's Corey Cott (Bandstand) and Hannah Elless (Bright Star) star in two newly released music videos from the new musical Rebel/Genius. With book, music and lyrics by Peabody Award-winning composer Matthew Puckett, Rebel/Genius is inspired by the early life of scientific genius, Albert Einstein. Cott and Elless perform 'Faster' and 'What Love Looks Like,' singing the roles of Einstein and his first wife Mileva Mari?, respectively.

The fractured fairy tale about a grumpy ogre learning to believe in his unique self is back with a new cast of youthful actors at Area Stage Company. In ASC's Conservatory production of Shrek the Musical, Jr., twenty plus student actors, ages 11 to 18, perform this irrepressible show July 20 to 22 at the troupe's Coral Gables theatre.

Stages Theatre Company (STC) is inviting patrons to 'move it, move it' with the regional-premiere of DreamWorks Madagascar: A Musical Adventure. The musical production follows the tale of Alex the Lion, Marty the Zebra, Melman the Giraffe, and Gloria the Hippo, as they make their escape from New York's Central Park Zoo to explore the world. With an imaginative set and colorful costumes, DreamWorks Madagascar: A Musical Adventure is a high energy, dance-filled musical celebration perfect for a family summer outing!

Find your one true love with Second Street Players this summer as they present “Shrek The Musical.”

UNBROKEN: PATH TO REDEMPTION has moved up its theatrical release date to Sept. 14, 2018. The film follows the second half of Laura Hillenbrand's New York Times best-selling book,Unbroken. It tells the inspiring and powerful Louis "Louie" Zamperini's post-World War II story and his struggle to find peace and forgiveness after his ruthless treatment as a Japanese prisoner of war. In theaters nationwide Sept. 14, 2018.

What do you get when you mix a few displaced New Yorkers, a couple of hungry foosas, a fanciful lemur leader, and an enormous dancing steak? A crackalackin' romp of a good time, that's what!