Hoffman News

USA Network and Universal Cable Productions (UCP) today announced that the Season 7 finale of SUITS, airing in the first quarter of 2018, will serve as a potential spinoff that would center around powerhouse lawyer Jessica Pearson (Gina Torres).

The Kitchen, founded in 1971, has continued to serve as an important catalyst for a broad community of groundbreaking artists working across disciplines. In today's landscape, where contemporary artists and arts institutions are collaborating in new ways and generating new contexts for the continuing evolution of multi-disciplinary art, The Kitchen, as a nimble, smaller-scale organization, plays an especially vital role: it provides emerging and established artists a hot-house environment for the presentation and discussion of their work, supporting and seeking to foster a vibrant, living dialogue among artists from every field and area of culture.

Producers Nelle Nugent, Steve Traxler, Kenneth Teaton, Benjamin Feldman, Doug Morris and Spencer Ross today announce full casting for the first Broadway revival of David Henry Hwang's Tony Award®-winning play, M. BUTTERFLY, directed by Tony Award® winner Julie Taymor.

From writer/director Noah Baumbach, THE MEYEROWITZ STORIES (New and Selected) is the emotional and comic intergenerational tale of adult siblings (Adam Sandler, Ben Stiller, and Elizabeth Marvel) contending with the long shadow their strong-willed father (Dustin Hoffman) has cast over their lives.

The Capitol Theatre presents Gin Blossoms on Sunday, December 10 at 7:30 pm. Tickets go on sale Friday, August 18 at 10 am.

Wynonna & The Big Noise return to the Capitol Theatre on Sunday, April 15 at 7:30 pm, for the first time since 2015. Tickets go on sale Saturday, August 19 At 10 am.

The Capitol Theatre announces that due to overwhelming demand, Art Garfunkel: In Close-Up has added a second show on Friday, January 12 at 8 pm. Tickets go on sale Friday, August 18 at 10 am. The show on Saturday, January 13 at 8 pm is sold-out.

On the heels of a sold-out critically acclaimed summer tour, longtime Fleetwood Mac members Lindsey Buckingham and Christine McVie announced today the second leg of their North American tour which includes a stop at Ruth Eckerd Hall on Thursday, November 9 at 7:30 pm.  Tickets go on sale Friday, August 18 at 10 am.  The second leg of their North American tour kicks off in San Jose, California.  For a full itinerary of newly added tour dates please visit www.buckinghammcvie.com.  The duo also announced a new single going to radio this week Lay Down For Free.   

Ruth Eckerd Hall announces Star Wars Live In Concert with The Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra performing A New Hope, the Oscar-winning composer John Williams' musical score live to film on Tuesday, October 10 at 8 pm.  Tickets go on sale Saturday, August 19 at noon.

With their second PBS Special RISE set to air across the country and albums topping the Billboard charts, The Texas Tenors have announced tour dates, which includes a stop at the Capitol Theatre on Sunday, March 11 at 7:30 pm.  Tickets go on sale Saturday, August 19 at 10 am. Recently, their second PBS special RISE aired on WEDU. For a complete list of tour dates, please visit www.thetexastenors.com.

Good morning, BroadwayWorld! Today's big news: Lin-Manuel Miranda will be stopping by the LATE LATE SHOW tonight and more!

In an all-new video, FEUD star Jackie Hoffman calls the other Emmy-nominated actresses in her category to make a compelling offer! The actress can currently be seen starring in CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY on Broadway.

Producer Joshua Goodman is tickled pink to announce the return of HOWARD CRABTREE'S WHEN PIGS FLY, conceived by Howard Crabtree and Mark Waldrop, book and lyrics by Mark Waldrop, music by Dick Gallagher, directed by Mark Waldrop, choreographed by Tony Award-nominee Denis Jones (Holiday Inn) and costumes by legendary nine-time Emmy Award-winner Bob Mackie ('The Carol Burnett Show').

According to the show's official announcement, Bob Mackie will be returning to New York to design the costumes for the upcoming revival of the campy musical review, Howard Crabtree's When Pigs Fly. The show features book and lyrics by Mark Waldrop and music by Dick Gallagher.

Black Button Eyes Productions presents the Chicago storefront premiere of SHOCKHEADED PETER, the silly and sinister musical based on Heinrich Hoffmann's popular German children's book The Struwwelpeter. Directed by Producing Artistic Director Ed Rutherford with music direction by T.J. Anderson and choreography by Derek Van Barham, SHOCKHEADED PETER was created for the stage by Julian Crouch and Phelim McDermott with original music and lyrics by The Tiger Lillies. SHOCKHEADED PETER runs now through September 16, 2017 at The Athenaeum Theatre, 2936 N. Southport Ave., in Chicago. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the cast in action below!

Stage and screen actor, director and screenwriter Joe Bologna passed away yesterday, August 13th in CA at the age of 82.

In Animal Planet's new series, RESCUE DOG TO SUPER DOG, shelter dogs are given a second chance to become a service dog in training to a person with a disability who needs assistance. RESCUE DOG TO SUPER DOG premieres on Animal Planet today, August 12th at 10 PM ET/PT.

For over forty years, Henry Threadgill has been celebrated as one of the most forward-thinking composers and multi-instrumentalists in American music. The New York Times has called him 'perhaps the most important jazz composer of his generation.' Born in 1944 in Chicago, Threadgill was an early member of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM).

Cleveland Public Theatre (CPT) Executive Artistic Director, Raymond Bobgan, presents Pandemonium 2017 - CPT's annual benefit and theatrical spectacular - on Saturday, September 9, 2017, from 7:00pm through midnight. The Pandemonium 2017 theme is "Unleash."

The new Broadway musical Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory will launch a digital lottery on Friday, August 11, 2017, making a limited number of $40 tickets available for all performances.