With HAMILTON and the New Revolution: Broadway Musicals in the 21st Century, musical theatre scholar, director, writer, composer, and fanboy Scott Miller takes you on a journey through the second decade of the millennium.
New Line Theatre has announced it 30th Anniversary Season of adult, alternative musical theatre, including the return of Jason Robert Brown's brilliant, funny, and intense concept musical SONGS FOR A NEW WORLD, which New Line first produced in 1998 in its American regional premiere, running Sept. 30-Oct. 23, 2021.
Winners have been announced for the 2020 BroadwayWorld St. Louis Awards - which were back bigger than ever, celebrating the best in local theatre of the past decade!
Longtime New Line Theatre actor and illustrator Zachary Allen Farmer teams up with New Line artistic director and writer Scott Miller for SHELLIE SHELBY SHARES THE SPOTLIGHT, a delightful story of a young woman discovering for the first time the incredible magic and power of musical theatre, as she embarks on a wild adventure through the treacherous social jungle of her first high school musical.
PAINT, a dark comedic journey about a group of young NYC artists as they struggle to sell their first paintings and get discovered, will be available on VOD everywhere on December 15, 2020.
This week's list includes an album of demos from Beetlejuice the Musical, as well as the first single from the forthcoming film adaptation of The Prom. Plus, the first song from Andrew Lloyd Webber's production of Cinderella has been released.
After lots of books for hardcore musical theatre lovers, Miller has finally written one for everybody else, The ABC's of Broadway Musicals: A Civilian's Guide, a fun, short, easy-to-read introduction to the art form, famous shows, famous artists, books and videos to check out, and a short but informative stroll through the history of musicals.
It can be easily argued - and successfully as well - that those songs that truly resonate are the ones that speak to our humanity and inspire us to peer well beyond the horizon. Beth Snapp's striking new single a cover of the Steve Winwood classic 'Higher Love' does just that. It's sung for a cause one that is particularly powerful in a time when the struggle for civil rights has not only intensified but become all the more essential. Snapp recorded the single at the behest of TriPride an organization that works towards building a stronger and more inclusive community across Northeast Tennessee and Southwest Virginia. 'When I was first approached by TriPride to cover this tune my first thought was wow they hit the nail on the head thematically,' Snapp says. 'To choose a song that calls for a higher love and peace between neighbors is the most imperative message we can be spreading especially at a time when the divide has become so much deeper. I was so proud to get to be a part of that message.' Indeed the song's lyrics share an incisive message that's not only timeless but especially telling as well:
Gravitas Ventures (U.S) and Artist View Entertainment (Foreign) have acquired the rights to Michael Walker’s PAINT, which won the Grand Jury Prize at the 2020 Dances with Films Festival.
This week's newly-announced releases include a Broadway cookbook, a book about the making of Oklahoma!, and more.
What have you been doing during the pandemic? New Line Theatre Artistic Director Scott Miller has been writing a collection of horror stories, all inspired by the musical theatre. Yes, you read that right.
Need something new to read, listen to, or watch? Check out this week's list of new and upcoming releases!
Freeport Players has announced the third play in its SIa?"FI (Stay In-Funny and Interesting) theater series: Fibber McGee & Molly: Fibber McGee Census Enumerator.
Camp, corsets and Aqua Net collide in a kinetic burst of Greece lighting that meshes the intense drama of Sir Philip Sidney's 16th century literary work, The Arcadia with the seemingly frivolous power punk of The Go-Go's,
New Line Theatre presents HEAD OVER HEELS through March 28.
The musical theatre came roaring back in the 1990s and began a new Golden Age for the art form. And there's a new book that takes you on a guided tour.
HEAD OVER HEELS is the bold new musical comedy from the visionaries that rocked Broadway with American Idiot, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Avenue Q and Spring Awakening. Conceived by Jeff Whitty, with an original book by Whitty, adapted by James Magruder, originally directed by Michael Mayer, and set to the music of the iconic 1980s all-girl rock band The Go-Go's, this high-octane, laugh-out-loud love story includes hit songs like, a?oeWe Got the Beat,a?? a?oeOur Lips Are Sealed,a?? a?oeVacation,a?? a?oeHeaven is a Place on Eartha?? and a?oeMad About You.a??
New Line Theatre, a?oethe bad boy of musical theatre,a?? continues its 29th season of adult, alternative musical theatre, with a one-night-only free public reading of Gilbert & Sullivan's BLOODY KING OEDIPUS!, or PARDON ME, MUM!, the hilarious, long-lost horror-comedy, on Monday night, January 6 at 8:00 pm at the Marcelle Theater, 3310 Samuel Shepherd Drive, in the Grand Center Arts District. Bloody King Oedipus! contains adult language and content.
Lantern Theater Company continues its 2019/20 season with the Philadelphia premiere of The Last Match, a funny and moving drama from award-winning playwright Anna Ziegler. Lantern resident director M. Craig Getting directs a cast that includes Joanna Liao, Scott Miller, Lee Minora, and Matteo Scammell. Theater critics and members of the press are invited to request press comps for opening night on Wednesday, November 13 at 7 p.m. by contacting Anne Shuff at ashuff@lanterntheater.org. The Last Match runs Thursday, November 7 through Sunday, December 15, 2019; a complete schedule of performances and audience enrichment events is included in the fact sheet below.
The 2019 KeyBank Rochester Fringe Festival broke attendance records again, this time with upwards of 100,000 visitors a?" more than 25% over last year's estimated 78,000. Ticket sales were also the highest ever.
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