Manuel News

BWW catches up with Guido García Lueches to chat about bringing Playing Latinx to the 2023 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

Today's top stories: Check out our recap of last week's Tony Awards, listen to our Broadway Father's Day playlist, and more!

Birdland Jazz Club and Birdland Theater have announced all jazz programming June 19 through July 2.

Lin-Manuel Miranda, John Kander, Susan Stroman, and more discuss the sound and story of New York, New York!

Concord Theatricals Recordings has digitally re-released the fourth wave of albums from the former Fynsworth Alleytheatrical recorded music catalog, including 12 titles that have not previously been available to stream or download.

theSpaceUK is announcing the full 2023 programme with over 360 shows on sale at this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe. The 2023 line-up features the return of Fringe favourites along with a packed programme of new writing and new companies. 

Celebration Theatre and Greenway Arts Alliance present a limited return engagement of TALES OF THE TRANSCESTORS, with a collection pf original vignettes directed by Shaan Dasani (he/they).  

The Palace Theater presents the 2023 – 2024 2nd Act Series and “I Wrote That!” Author Talk Series.

All new production photos have been released from The Third Man which opens next week at the Menier Chocolate Factory.

Donmar Warehouse Artistic Director Michael Longhurst and Executive Director Henny Finch have announced full casting for the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning musical Next To Normal.

Artistic Director Alison Pollard-Mansergh, Producer Jared Harford, and the whole team at Interactive Theatre International have announced that Faulty Towers The Dining Experience, the critically acclaimed international immersive phenomenon about to celebrate its fifteenth year in the UK in August, is celebrating summer with a new menu, new cocktails, a new show and stay package available at The President Hotel and 'Summer Sundays' with 10% off all Sunday tickets until 10 September.

Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival launches it's Main Stage summer season with the Tony Award-winning musical In the Heights with a fabulous cast including VENEZUELAN PERFORMER, OSCAR ANTONIO RODRIGUEZ.

Ten new episodes from beloved animated series Bluey will be available on Disney+ in the U.S. The new episodes include cameos from well-known Bluey fans, including Lin-Manuel Miranda, who appears as a talking horse in the episode “Stories,” and Rose Byrne, who plays Chilli’s sister Brandy in “Onesies.”

After the passing of Stephen Sondheim in November 2021, Lin-Manuel Miranda, whose career has spanned across many creative mediums, refocused his attention on writing musicals. 

Bioh's take on friendship, sisterhood and Queen Bees sizzles in this production.

Opera North’s popular Refugee Week Session returns to the Howard Assembly Room on Thursday 22 June, bringing together sounds from ancient Persia and modern Iran, a Halifax-based band with members from across the globe, and spoken word.

Check out photos from the Gold House VIP New York City Screening of the Disney+ Original Movie “World’s Best,” an all-new hip-hop musical comedy adventure, produced by the director of “Hamilton.' Produced by Thomas Kail, attendees also included Christopher Jackson, Alex Lacaimore, and more.

The world premiere of new musical In Dreams, written by Emmy and Golden Globe-winning and Olivier Award-nominated David West Read, opens at Leeds Playhouse from 3 July – 5 August. Check out all new rehearsal photos here!

All new photos have been released for the upcoming UK premiere of Jocelyn Bioh’s School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play, directed by Monique Touko. The production opens tonight at the Lyric Hammersmith Theatre and runs until 15 July.

The personal and the political become one in this sweater vested whirlwind of a play