Harvey Fierstein News

Since its world premiere in Ljubljana nearly three years ago, the Mini teater (Ljubljana, Slovenia) / Novo kazalište Zagreb (Croatia) co-production of Heiner Müller's controversial Macbeth after Shakespeare has garnered critical praise and awards all over the world, including such far-flung locales as Seoul and Havana.

Viewers from across the country will get a preview of the eagerly anticipated new Broadway musical Newsies during the 85th Anniversary Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. Newsies will take to the streets to perform the show-stopping tap number 'King of New York' live in Herald Square during the first hour of the television broadcast, beginning at 9AM Eastern on NBC.

Pioneer Theatre Company presents the holiday family musical Annie from December 2 through December 23, 2011.

Bloomingdale's 59th Street unveils its 2011 holiday windows with entertainment that includes the powerful voice of Martha Wash and cast members from Broadway's Tony Award winning hit Priscilla Queen of the Desert The Musical performing the song they recorded for the 2011 Broadway's Carols for a Cure, Vol. 13.

NEWSIES ran earlier this year at Paper Mill Playhouse in New Jersey this September - October, opening to great reviews and sold out audiences. Now, the New York Times is first to report that NEWSIES will hit Broadway running from March 15 - June 10 at the Nederlander Theater in a new, $5 million dollar limited run production.

Nick Jonas will climb the corporate ladder as Broadway's next ‘J. Pierrepont Finch' in the Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical comedy HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS WITHOUT REALLY TRYING beginning Tuesday, January 24, 2012 through Sunday, July 1, 2012. Tickets for HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS WITHOUT REALLY TRYING are currently on sale through Sunday, July 1, 2012. Jonas, who began his career on stage at age 8, returns to Broadway for the first time since the launch of the international sensation The Jonas Brothers. In the video below, Jonas chats with VH1 about everything from his upcoming role to touring in South America.

The Gallery Players announces cast and crew for its production of Craig Lucas', Reckless. Directed by The Gallery Players' Artistic Director, Heather Siobhan Curran and produced by the theatre's Executive Director, Neal J. Freeman, Reckless opens at The Gallery Players Saturday December 3.

The Broadway smash musical adaptation of John Waters' 1988 film, "Hairspray," has settled in for a four-week run at Seattle Musical Theatre. With book by Mark O'Donnell and legendary comedy writer Thomas Meehan and music and lyrics by Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman, it has all the ingredients to be a toe-tapping, finger-snapping success.

Christopher Sieber and George Hamilton lead the cast of the must-see touring production of LA CAGE AUX FOLLES, currently playing in Cleveland.

John Bucchino's 'It's Only Life,' featuring the Australian Cast (Christian Cavallo, Phoebe Coupe, Zack Anthony Curran, Madeleine Featherby, Laura Fitzpatrick, Sam Rabbone and Cameron Thomas) with John Bucchino at the piano plays BIRDLAND on Monday, November 14 at 7pm.

The final performance of Ping Chong's ANGELS OF SWEDENBORG -- his 1985 dance theatre piece being performed by La MaMa's Great Jones Repertory Company-- will be live-streamed on Sunday, November 13 starting at 2:30 p.m., it has been announced by La MaMa's Artistic Director Mia Yoo.

The final performance of Ping Chong's ANGELS OF SWEDENBORG -- his 1985 dance theatre piece being performed by La MaMa's Great Jones Repertory Company-- will be live-streamed on Sunday, November 13 starting at 2:30 p.m., it has been announced by La MaMa's Artistic Director Mia Yoo.

According to Variety, two-time Tony nominee Tom Wopat is set to join the cast of the upcoming Quentin Tarantino film, DJANGO UNCHAINED. The actor joins previously announced cast members Leonardo DiCaprio, Jamie Foxx, Samuel L. Jackson, Anthony Lapaglia, and Kerry Washington.

Porchlight Music Theatre, American Musicals. Chicago Style, presents the Chicago premiere of John Bucchino and Harvey Fierstein's A Catered Affair, directed by Nick Bowling with music direction by Doug Peck, at Stage 773, 1225 W. Belmont Ave.

The critically acclaimed production of LA CAGE AUX FOLLES, starring George Hamilton and Christopher Sieber, arrives at PlayhouseSquare November 8 - 20, 2011, as part of the KeyBank Broadway Series.

You can hardly swing a cat in Nashville without hitting someone in costume as Edna Turnblad or her dancing progeny Tracy, so popular has the show become with local theaterati. But, truth be told, if I never live to see another Hairspray, I can now die a happy man: Because I saw director/choreographer Justin Boccitto's exceptional, extraordinary and exhilarating take on the show, starring a phenomenal cast of Lipscomb University theatre students who so brilliantly bring the now-iconic characters of 1962 Baltimore to life with thorough commitment and so much energy you can't help but leave the theater with a spring in your step and a song in your heart.

Christopher Sieber shines as Albin. George Hamilton...not so much.

With Broadway's fall offerings celebrating their opening nights, attention has turned to what shows are slated to open for the 2012 spring season. It hasn't yet been set as a particularly full season for new musicals, but as the New York Times reports, that could easily change by the time the spring rolls around.

The Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation, Inc. announced today that in celebration of the Statue of Liberty's upcoming 125th Anniversary on October 28th, Macy's has committed the proceeds from the sale of its newly recorded song 'Gift of Light' to benefit the Foundation's non-profit mission for projects at Liberty and Ellis Islands, working in partnership with the National Park Service.