Howard Ashman News

Halloween se acerca y hoy BWW quiere recomendaros algunos de los musicales más terroríficos y divertidos para escuchar en esta época del año y que también conozcáis sus adaptaciones en España.

The Off-Broadway production of LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS – which re-opened its doors on September 21, 2021 – kicks off Halloween weekend today with a cast performance on the Special Halloween Episode of ABC-TV's national morning show “The View” at 11:00AM ET. 

Spectacularly reimagined using the latest theatrical innovations, this beloved ‘tale as old as time’ will be brought to life on stage like never before…

Find out what the most popular plays and musicals were in high school according to Educational Theatre Association’s annual high school play survey.

In his one-man show, Menken will lead the audience through a journey of more than 35 years of hit songs, movies and musicals – Little Shop of Horrors, Sister Act, The Little Mermaid, Aladdin, Beauty & the Beast, Enchanted, Tangled and many more!

Sometimes performing her own spoof lyrics to familiar numbers and other times belting the songs as intended with power and panache, Jakie moved from the 1950s to the modern-day stopping off in each era to make fantastic costume changes and a hilarious mishmash out of the television wasteland.

Skylight Music Theatre presents the hit musical Little Shop of Horrors November 19, 2021 – January 2, 2022, offering hilarious entertainment for the whole family during the holidays and New Year.

Skylight Music Theatre will present the hit musical Little Shop of Horrors November 19, 2021 – January 2, 2022, offering hilarious entertainment for the whole family during the holidays and New Year. In-person performances take place in the beautiful Cabot Theatre at the Broadway Theatre Center, 158 N. Broadway, in Milwaukee’s Historic Third Ward.

THE PRODUCERS, the first post-lockdown Desert Theatreworks (DTW) show, is perfect to welcome eager audiences back - a true winner. Ron and Lance Phillips, the married couple that operates DTW, took the opportunity of the hiatus to completely rework the Indio Performing Arts Center, adding a new 250-seat main stage for musicals. As most people know, the Mel Brooks show is loaded with bad taste, but is hilarious nonetheless.

Join the Beast (Michael Giddens), Belle (Celia Blanchard), Gaston, Le Fou (Michael Vick), Lumiere (Joseph McDonald), Mrs. Potts (Janie Giddens), Chip (Anna Theilacker), Cogsworth (Keeghan Messer), Babette (Allison Terrell), and friends as they embark on a grand journey filled with adventure, cheer, and learning to love.

The nationally regarded Fulton Theatre in partnership with Greenfield is proud to announce the Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Accessibility (IDEA) Speaker Series. The Series of four events throughout the season kicks off Sunday, October 10, with Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS Executive Director Tom Viola. Tickets are FREE to the community, but reservations are required.

Theatre satire site The Broadway Beat - known as 'Satirical Broadway News for Real Broadway Newsies' - is set to perform the latest iteration of their live show, Act Three, on Monday October 18th, 7:30pm at Asylum NYC.

Feinstein’s/54 Below, Broadway’s Supper Club, will present The Songs of Howard Ashman, a special concert celebrating lyricist Howard Ashman. A portion of ticket sales will benefit Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. 

Disney's beloved Olivier Award-winning stage musical Beauty and the Beast - re-imagined and re-designed in a completely new production staged by members of the original award-winning creative team – will come to Birmingham in 2022, as part of the recently opened UK & Ireland Tour.

PRESENTAZIONE DELLA NUOVA STAGIONE del TEATRO BRANCACCIO Grandi ritorni e grandi novità nella nuova stagione del Teatro Brancaccio

Following last night's reopening, Disney's Aladdin on Broadway at the New Amsterdam Theatre has announced that tonight's performance has been canceled due to breakthrough Covid-19 cases detected within the company.

Disney’s Aladdin will reopen on Broadway tonight at the New Amsterdam Theatre. New production photos are available, featuring the show’s new Aladdin and Jasmine, Michael Maliakel and Shoba Narayan, along with returning cast member Michael James Scott as Genie.

This week on the 'For Scores' podcast, Disney legend Alan Menken dropped some new details on the making of the live action adaptation of The Little Mermaid. 

In the new interview, Menken touched on Fantasia, Disney on Broadway, Little Shop of Horrors, and more. Hosted by Variety's Jon Burlingame, the series gives voice to award-winning visionary composers, exploring the challenges and emotional journeys of these musical storytellers.   

Photos have been released of the re-opening cast of the critically-acclaimed, award-winning Off-Broadway production of LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS, starting performances tonight, “on the twenty-first day of the month of September” at the Westside Theatre (407 West 43rd Street).