The producers of Broadway's Waitress announced that following the performance on Tuesday, March 6 at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre, acclaimed #1 New York Times bestselling author Jodi Picoult will join Waitress choreographer Lorin Latarro in conversation at a talkback to kick off the hit musical's month-long campaign celebrating Women's History Month.
92nd Street Y has announced an exciting spring lineup of theatre-centric programming, featuring many of today's Broadway favorites.
The producers of the hit Broadway musical Waitress have announced that Ben Thompson will join the cast in the role of Earl beginning tonight, February 27, 2018, opposite Sara Bareilles.
Today the Orpheum Theatre Group unveiled the 2018-2019 Broadway Season during an announcement party at the historic Orpheum Theatre. Attendees were the first to hear about next season's exciting offerings that includes July 2019 dates for HAMILTON.
The 2018/19 Mirvish season will feature six Canadian premieres, one North American premiere, one pre-Broadway engagement and five new productions. A total of 16 shows will play at Mirvish theatres from June 2018 to July 2019. The main subscription season will feature seven shows and the Off-Mirvish season three shows. There will be six bonus shows that will not be on subscription.
Nearly three years after it premiered at the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, and while still enjoying a successful run on Broadway, the national tour of WAITRESS is serving customers at the Boston Opera House as part of the Lexus Broadway In Boston 2017-2018 season. The Diane Paulus-driven and directed production is adapted from the 2007 motion picture of the same name written by Adrienne Shelly, with book by Jessie Nelson, and music and lyrics by Sara Bareilles. The Broadway designers are on board to bring the same creative elements to the tour, and a handful of the cast has also performed with the show on the Great White Way.
The producers of Broadway's smash Waitress announced that they will celebrate National Women's History Month at the show by hosting a month-long campaign in March. As the first Broadway musical with an all-female creative team, the production will celebrate women through a variety of efforts including post-show talkbacks centered around women-centric themes, educational social campaigns, and fundraising efforts benefitting the National Women's History Museum in Washington D.C.
Broadway Grand Rapids will celebrate 30 years of bringing the best of Broadway to West Michigan when the new season begins next fall. The 2018-19 season will include some of the freshest and liveliest shows on tour.
A Nederlander and Civic Center Foundation Presentation is delighted to announce its 2018 - 2019 Season lineup. Broadway's newest and biggest hits join the previously announced engagement of HAMILTON to complete one of the most exciting seasons yet to come for Oklahoma City theatre-goers at the Civic Center Music Hall. Plus - two of the biggest Broadway blockbusters are back by popular demand and available as added attractions to your season package!
Sensational seven-show season includes DEAR EVAN HANSEN, Disney's ALADDIN, WAITRESS, COME FROM AWAY, SCHOOL OF ROCK - The Musical, CATS and IRVING BERLIN'S WHITE CHRISTMAS
As BroadwayWorld reported this morning, Katharine McPhee will soon make her Broadway debut in Waitress, joining the company at the diner beginning April 10th.
Celebrating 35 years of bringing Broadway and more to Tulsa, Celebrity Attractions is proud to announce an extraordinary lineup of six national Broadway tours coming in the Celebrity Attractions' 2018-2019 Broadway Season to the Tulsa Performing Arts Center. This special anniversary season includes the return of Tulsa's most popular musical, WICKED, the spellbinding sequel to The Phantom of the Opera with LOVE NEVER DIES, Broadway's funniest and longest-running play THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG, an irresistible slice of musical theatre heaven with WAITRESS, the joyous classic to raise a cup to with FIDDLER ON THE ROOF, and the season concludes with HAMILTON, making its Tulsa debut.
Celebrating 35 years of bringing Broadway and more to Tulsa, Celebrity Attractions is proud to announce an extraordinary lineup of six national Broadway tours coming in the Celebrity Attractions' 2018-2019 Broadway Season to the Tulsa Performing Arts Center. This special anniversary season includes the return of Tulsa's most popular musical, WICKED, the spellbinding sequel to The Phantom of the Opera with LOVE NEVER DIES, Broadway's funniest and longest-running play THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG, an irresistible slice of musical theatre heaven with WAITRESS, the joyous classic to raise a cup to with FIDDLER ON THE ROOF, and the season concludes with HAMILTON, making its Tulsa debut.
Order up! Katharine McPhee is making her Broadway debut in Waitress. Since vaulting to fame as a captivating singer on 'American Idol,' Season 5, she's become a successful recording artist, landing numerous songs and albums on Billboard's pop, jazz, holiday and adult-contemporary charts. Her latest album of timeless American standards 'I Fall in Love Too Easily' was released by BMG in 2017. As an acclaimed actress, she was the breakout star of the 2013 NBC-TV musical series, 'Smash,' Executive Produced by Steven Spielberg with music and lyrics by Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman (Hairspray). She's currently starring in the hit CBS dramatic series 'Scorpion.' Katharine has long dreamed of appearing on Broadway, and wishes to thank her friends, family and especially her fellow Waitress cast members for this life changing opportunity.
WAI TRESS composer Sara Bareilles is currently serving up eight performances per week as Jenna in the fresh baked Broadway hit. Sadly, everything changes, and Sara will have to pass on her pie to the next actress to take on the role soon.
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Coming to North Texas this spring and summer, the hit Tony Award-nominated musical WAITRESS is looking for four young girls to perform the role of "Lulu" for the duration of the engagements. Presented by Dallas Summer Musicals, the show will appear at the Music Hall at Fair Park March 28-April 8, 2018. From June 19-24, 2018, the show will be at Bass Performance Hall as part of Performing Arts Fort Worth's Broadway at the Bass series.
The two-time Billboard Dance Chart Top 10 singer-songwriter Karine Hannah continues to emerge as a category-eluding nightclub torch singer as she returns for the third time to Feinstein's/54 Below, 254 West 54th Street, on Thursday April 19 at 9:30pm. The one-night-only engagement marks the premiere of Hannah's audacious if inevitable tribute to Barbra Streisand, a singer and presence to whom she is often compared.
A successful Broadway musical has always been anchored by an engaging story augmented by a great score. Over the years the formula hasn't changed much but the sound of the music certainly has, as popular music changes and evolves The 30's had Cole Porter, Burt Bacharach and his synthesizers appeared in the 60's, and Elton John's pop score succeeded for THE LION KING , so no one should be surprised that Sara Bareilles and her unique style of song writing could be next on the list. Her 2016 score to WAITRESS, now playing for a one week engagement at Shea's, earned her a TONY nomination and the show has a been a hit ever since.
The Kravis Center for the Performing Arts' 11th season of Kravis On Broadway will rock and roar, serving up a sensational line-up of seven Broadway blockbuster hits including multiple Tony Award winners and Kravis Center debuts.
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