Extra, Extra! NEWSIES Is Now Available For Licensing!
by Nicole Ciravolo
- Mar 1, 2018
Check the headlines! The beloved Disney musical Newsies, featuring songs like 'Seize The Day', 'Santa Fe', and 'King of New York', could be coming to your stage! Music Theatre International announced that they would be exclusively licensing this New York tap extravaganza! Set in New York City at the turn of the century, Newsies is the rousing tale of Jack Kelly, a charismatic newsboy and leader of a ragged band of teenaged 'newsies,' who dreams only of a better life far from the hardship of the streets. But when publishing titans Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst raise distribution prices at the newsboys' expense, Jack finds a cause to fight for and rallies newsies from across the city to strike for what's right.
Des Moines Playhouse Unveils 100th Season
by A.A. Cristi
- Feb 26, 2018
The Des Moines Community Playhouse has the most celebrating, eye-popping, song-singing, 100-year loving, big-doings season ever. The theatre's 100th season includes six musicals, plus drama, comedy, and family shows. Playhouse season tickets go on sale Apr. 3, 2018, online at dmplayhouse.com and at the Playhouse ticket office.
Amplified Theatre's Accessible Event SIX Returns To The Bunker
by Stephi Wild
- Jan 31, 2018
Following a highly successful debut, Amplified Theatre returns to The Bunker with its unique new writing event Six, presenting six new, short plays written by six emerging writers, inspired by six songs, donated by six musicians.
Jeremy Jordan Joins Broadway Concert Series in San Francisco
by Julie Musbach
- Jan 17, 2018
Producer Mark Cortale's Broadway concert series, hosted by Sirius XM radio star Seth Rudetsky, has announced that Tony Award nominee and star of The CW's Supergirl Jeremy Jordan will join the internationally acclaimed series at the Herbst Theatre in San Francisco this season on Sunday.
BWW Interview: Audience Choice Awards Prove Delightful Antidote to Maine Winter
by Carla Maria Verdino-Süllwold
- Jan 6, 2018
On a bitter cold blizzard day in January, the Maine theatre community was deriving some warmth and cheer by celebrating its achievements with the 2017 Broadway World Audience Choice award winners. The sixteen theatre artists voted by Maine theatre-goers as the best in each category of performing and technical achievements were selected from a group of 69 finalists, culled from over 9000 nominees rwho epresented less than % of all those in contention for the accolades, and voting for the winners was close and competitive to the very end of the process.
Jeremy Jordan, Christine Ebersole and Rachel Bay Jones Set for Seth Rudetsky's BROADWAY CONCERT SERIES at Parker Playhouse
by BWW
News Desk
- Jan 6, 2018
The Broward Center for the Performing Arts and Mark Cortale announce the return of the Broadway Concert Series hosted by Seth Rudetsky to Parker Playhouse. The afternoon host on Sirius/XM Satellite Radio's On Broadway channel will deliver three intimate evenings of incredible music and hilarious conversation with Jeremy Jordan, Tony Award nominated star of Newsies and NBC's Smash and CW's Supergirl (Today, January 6), Rachel Bay Jones, 2017 Tony winner for Dear Evan Hansen (Friday, February 16) and Christine Ebersole, two-time Tony Award-winning star of War Paint, Grey Gardens and 42nd Street (March 24).
Review Roundup: NEWSIES at Pioneer Theatre Company
by Alan Henry
- Dec 7, 2017
Pioneer Theatre Company has added four performances, including an ASL (American Sign Language) performance, to its traditional performance schedule for NEWSIES. Evening performances (7:00 p.m.) have been added for December 18 through 20.
BWW Review: DISNEY'S NEWSIES at The Maltz Jupiter Theatre Shines
by Sofia Carianna
- Dec 1, 2017
Great theatre, simply put, relies on drive. Any production can have the ingredients of a show worth watching, but not many have the plain ol' gumption it takes to use them to their full potential. The Maltz Jupiter Theatre's Newsies does. It overflows with passion and determination, as infectious as the cartoonish charm that's become synonymous with the show's title.
PTC presents Disney's Hit NEWSIES This December
by BWW
News Desk
- Dec 1, 2017
Pioneer Theatre Company presents the Disney hit Newsies. The Tony-winning musical opens Today, Dec. 1, and runs through Wednesday, Dec. 20, 2017. Newsies occupies the traditional holiday spot. Keeping with what is now a seven-year tradition of collecting donations for local nonprofits, PTC will partner with Granite Education Foundation to collect new books for 'Santa Sacks' for children ages K-12.
Stepinac Among Only Five High Schools in the U.S. to Stage NEWSIES
by BWW
News Desk
- Dec 1, 2017
The acclaimed Stepinac Theatre, White Plains, NY, continues to make news as a producer of award-winning musicals. The latest big headline is that Stepinac was one of only five high schools in the U.S (and the only one in New York State!) that was granted permission by Walt Disney Theatricals to produce Newsies, the 2012 Tony-winning musical.
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