Thomas Meehan News

PPAC’s 45th Broadway season will feature TINA – THE TINA TURNER MUSICAL, MEAN GIRLS, TOOTSIE, SIX, JAGGED LITTLE PILL, HADESTOWN, BEETLEJUICE and more! Find out dates and how to get tickets.

Rocky features music and lyrics by Tony® winners and Academy Award® nominees Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens, and a book by multiple-Tony winner Thomas Meehan and Sylvester Stallone, adapted from the acclaimed Oscar®-nominated screenplay by Stallone.  The show had its world premiere in Hamburg in 2012 and opened on Broadway in 2014. The musical follows the plot of the Academy Award-winning Best Picture classic, Rocky.

After a couple years of traveling shows, virtual productions, construction-related closures, a pandemic and a highly-anticiapted return back “home” to the Norma Young Arena Stage (*this month!), Theatre Three will celebrate six decades of creating theatre that illuminates the human experience with an all-new season.

Broadway In Hollywood has announced their new 2022-23 season entitled, 'Simply the Best' - the first full season announcement in two years, consisting of eight Broadway national tour productions which will play both the Pantages and Dolby Theatres in Hollywood.

The Columbus Association for the Performing Arts (CAPA) and Broadway in Columbus today announced the next exciting lineup for the PNC Broadway in Columbus series.

The Kimmel Cultural Campus and The Shubert Organization have announced the 2022-23 Broadway series with a full lineup of dazzling productions, including Broadway’s newest blockbusters and returning fan favorites, with a combined 56 Tony Awards and 46 Drama Desk Awards. Find out the full schedule and how to get tickets.

HAIRSPRAY, Broadway's Tony Award-winning musical comedy phenomenon, announced the principal cast that will feature Andrew Levitt (aka Nina West), Sandie Lee and introducing Niki Metcalf. This new North American tour, helmed by original director Jack O'Brien and original choreographer Jerry Mitchell, will play April 5-9 in St. Louis at the Fabulous Fox Theatre.

HAIRSPRAY, Broadway’s Tony Award®-winning musical comedy phenomenon, is coming to Sioux Falls! This new North American tour, helmed by original director Jack O’Brien and original choreographer Jerry Mitchell, will play March 25–26, 2022, at the Washington Pavilion.

Find out the full season of shows and how to get tickets to the 2022-2023 Best of Broadway season at the North Charleston Performing Arts Center.

Tony Award-winner Laura Benanti (Gypsy, Gossip Girl), Lance Reddick (John Wick, The Wire) and Alan Ruck (Succession, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off) star in the scripted podcast Tomorrow, a re-imagined sequel to the Tony Award-winning musical Annie, featuring new music and arrangements of the musical’s classic songs.

 Las Vegas’ Heart of the Arts, The Smith Center for the Performing Arts will present a robust lineup of Broadway’s most dazzling productions for its 2022-2023 season of its highly popular Broadway Las Vegas Series.

Hairspray The Musical is based in 1962 Baltimore, the show answers the question, “Can a big girl with big hair and even bigger dreams, dance her way into changing the world?”

New York Theatre Barn will present a reading of Everyone Comes to Elaine’s, a new musical about iconic restaurateur Elaine Kaufman with Tony Award® nominee Mary Testa (Oklahoma, The Gardens of Anuncia) in the title role. Bobby Daye (Moulin Rouge, Shrek, The Color Purple) and Michael Kostroff (HBO’s “The Wire”, The Producers) join Testa and the cast.

In just two weeks, HAIRSPRAY, Broadway’s Tony Award®-winning musical comedy phenomenon, opens at Overture Center! This new North American tour, helmed by original director Jack O’Brien and original choreographer Jerry Mitchell, will play Tuesday, Feb. 22 through Sunday, Feb. 27, 2022 in Overture Hall.

The American Theatre Guild presents the Peoria engagement of the Broadway comedy phenomenon HAIRSPRAY.

Get the scoop on the new tour of the iconic Tony Award-winning production, directed by Jenn Thompson, who at the age of 10 stepped into the role of “Pepper” in the Original Broadway production.  See the latest tour schedule and how to get tickets.

New York Theatre Barn will present a reading of Everyone Comes to Elaine's, a new musical about iconic restaurateur Elaine Kaufman with Mary Testa (Oklahoma, The Gardens of Anuncia) in the title role. Directed by Tony nominee Jeff Calhoun (Newsies, Bonnie and Clyde, Big River), the reading will take place on March 4th, 2022, in New York City.

Elf The Musical is a jolly fun, heartwarming holiday tale for the whole family. Poteet Theatre inside St. Luke's United Methodist Church presents this musical on their cozy stage in downtown Oklahoma City. Buddy Hobbs grows up at the North Pole, and soon discovers he's not one of Santa's elves at all, but a human with a real dad and brother in NYC.

HAIRSPRAY, Broadway's Tony Award-winning musical comedy phenomenon, will be presented at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County from December 28, 2021 – January 2, 2022.

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