Hans Christian Andersen News

During the pandemic, arts organizations did the difficult pivot from their usual staged, in-person productions to online offerings innumerable times – but how many times have they spun the opposite way? Ballet Co.Laboratory, whose mission pushes the envelope of the classical art form, takes their original sparkling holiday production The Snow Queen from screen to stage this winter.

BroadwayWorld chats with 17-year-old classical music phenom about her opera 'Cinderella' which she will be conducting in Opera San Jose's lavish production November 12 to 27.

Scottish Ballet’s spectacular and much-loved production of The Snow Queen returns to the stage, after its sell-out tour in 2019. 

Launching Shakespeare’s Globe’s Winter Season, Henry V opens in the candlelit Sam Wanamaker Playhouse on 10 November, running until 4 February.

The LOS ANGELES NEW PLAY PROJECT, founded to support original works presented on the Los Angeles stage, will award each of the selected playwrights $20,000, with an additional $20,000 going to each of the four producing entities that have agreed to produce the winning plays.

The official film poster for Disney's upcoming The Little Mermaid live action remake has been released. The photo features a new look at Halle Bailey as Ariel. The movie will also star Daveed Diggs as Sebastian, Melissa McCarthy as Ursula, Jacob Tremblay as Flounder, Jonah Hauer-King as Prince Eric, Awkwafina as Scuttle, and more.

Metro Theater Company (MTC), St. Louis' premier professional theater for youth and families and St. Louis' third-oldest professional theater company, continues its 22/23 50th Anniversary Season with SEEDFOLKS, adapted from the favorite middle school book by Newbery Medal-winning author Paul Fleischman.

Minneapolis Musical Theatre has announced its first full season since before the COVID-19 pandemic, featuring three contemporary musicals that all put imaginative spins on classic tales. The season includes a special holiday production and two area premieres.

Tickets to the Singapore debut of the hit Broadway musical 'Frozen' are now on sale, producer Disney Theatrical Productions and presenter Base Entertainment Asia have just announced. Starting at SGD 88, excluding the booking fee, 'Frozen' opens at the Sands Theatre, Marina Bay Sands, from February 5, 2023.

For its first musical of the 2022-23 season, Temple Theaters brings one of the most beloved shows in Broadway history, ONCE ON THIS ISLAND, to the intimate Randall Theater.

Based on Disney's 2013 Academy Award-winning animated movie musical of the same name as well as Hans Christian Andersen's 1844 fairy tale, The Snow Queen, Frozen follows two royal sisters named Anna and Elsa. Read our review of the stage show, based on the blockbuster film, which eventually became the highest-grossing animated movie of all time at the worldwide box office (before it was eventually dethroned by Frozen II six years later).

The hit Broadway musical 'Frozen,' based on the Disney animated film and Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Snow Queen,” or more widely recognized for its anthem 'Let It Go,' makes its only stop in Southeast Asia, in Singapore, in 2023. Producer Disney Theatrical Productions and presenter Base Entertainment Asia have jointly announced this strictly limited engagement.

The Orange Tree Theatre has announced the full cast for Jack Thorne's The Solid Life of Sugar Water. JMK Award Winner Indiana Lown-Collins directs Katie Erich and Adam Fenton.

Lookingglass Theatre Company announces that tickets for the beloved holiday tradition, The Steadfast Tin Soldier, go on sale at 10AM on Friday, September 9! 

Set sail with Victory Theatrical's new main stage season at The Players Theatre in the West Village. Just a few minutes from Washington Square Park, on storied MacDougal Street, the company invites audiences to go along on adventures with original musical versions of Frankenstein, A Christmas Carol and The Little Mermaid.

Puppets are for kids, right? Well, in one sense, yes. Because kids have intense and untamed imaginations.  When they see a painted piece of polystyrene talk and fly (and sing) they are utterly transported.  We grown-ups less so. 

Rorschach Theatre’s explosive new season will immerse audiences in things new and reimagined. For over twenty years the award-winning and nationally recognized company has been known for its bold use of theatrical space and its dedication to impossible fantastical realism. 

City Lit Theater announced its lineup for the 2022-23 season. The season will begin in October with the world premiere of THE MARK OF KANE, by Mark Pracht, and conclude in late spring with the world premiere of Kingsley Day and Philip LaZebnik’s musical AZTEC HUMAN SACRIFICE.

The 2022-23 Season will mark Creative Cauldron’s twenty year-anniversary and its first season of producing entirely original works.

Wolverhampton Grand Theatre has announced a brand-new season of shows on sale on Friday 19 August, with priority booking for Friends of the Grand and members from Wednesday 17 August at 8am online.