As You Like It - 2003 - Off-Broadway Articles Page 4

 In a powerful launch to the season, American innovation meets Italian grandeur as Palm Beach Symphony's 2025-2026 Masterworks Series opens with pianist Shelly Berg and Music Director Gerard Schwarz

MUSE/IQUE and Artistic and Music Director Rachael Worby conclude their 2025 season with four performances of HAVE YOU EVER HEARD OF ETTA JAMES? The Guts and Triumph of An American Icon.

“You have to prepare your soul and clear your mind as you’re getting ready to go on. I ask myself, ‘why are you sending this message?’ and ‘what does the message mean to you today?’ every day before I go out on stage.” Mary Mulovhedzi

After a first year in the West End, becoming the fastest selling show in the Dominion's history, The Devil Wears Prada will welcome in new runway-ready cast members this October, as the show announces another extension. Meet all of the new cast members.

It’s a marvelously entertaining thriller that audiences are likely to flock to, because it has a sense of awe-inspired fun that you seldom find in the theater. It's high-tech Agatha Christie, and perfect for the Fall.  

Broadway and the West End may be the global capitals of musical theatre, but some of the best musicals have also come from outside the boundaries of New York City and London. France has produced revolutionary rock operas like Starmania and La Révolution Française to international blockbusters like Les Misérables, Notre-Dame de Paris, and Roméo et Juliette, captivating audiences around the world for decades. 

Drag culture in La Cage aux Folles isn’t just the “bold face” of the gay community; it’s a celebration of visibility itself, a way of inviting even those on the periphery to understand more deeply what it means to live authentically, unbothered, and unashamed.

Watch the cast of The Devil Wears Prada musical recording the title song from the hit West End musical! The new video features Vanessa Williams, Matt Henry, MBE, Georgie Buckland, and more.

Dorset Theatre Festival has announced a staged reading of the new play Bad Dates: End Game by Theresa Rebeck, directed by John Benjamin Hickey, starring Julie White. The performance will take place September 13, 2025 at the Dorset Playhouse. 

The original cast recording from The Devil Wears Prada: A New Musical is set to be released on CD, Digital & LP formats on 19th September. Learn more about how to pre=order and listen to a new single here!

The Royal Shakespeare Company has announced the full cast for Daniel Raggett's sell-out production of Shakespeare's gripping and brutal tragedy, Macbeth, which plays at The Other Place.

Musical Theatre West (MTW) will close out its 2025 season with one of Broadway's most beloved hits, Hello, Dolly! Set to dazzle audiences at the Carpenter Performing Arts Center.

This fall, superstar Jessica Simpson is set to play an exclusive, one-night-only concert at PH Live at Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino on Saturday, Nov. 8, 2025.

Where can you find outrageous humor, a talking moose, fantastic vocals, a man with a chainsaw instead of a hand, and Candarian Demons? Westport, of course! Where EVIL DEAD THE MUSICAL is now playing at the Warwick Theatre on Main. If you don’t find this stage production to be one of the best in Kansas City, then check your pulse; you may be one of the dead. The musical opened on July 31 and runs through August 23. What did our critic think of EVIL DEAD THE MUSICAL OPENS IN KANSAS CITY at The Warwick?

Mamma Mia! is back on Broadway! As we celebrate the homecoming of this iconic Broadway staple, we're taking a look back on some of the notable stars who have appeared in various productions of Mamma Mia! around the world!

Reviews are now out for Freakier Friday, Disney's highly anticipated sequel to the 2003 fan-favorite film. The movie, which features the return of Disney Legend Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan, will be released this Friday. Find out what critics think of the film!

Now is your chance to see WICKED on stage, Milwaukee. To revisit an old favorite. To get jazzed before the release of 'Wicked: For Good'—and get to know the source material. If you enjoy the movie but are new to Broadway, let this be your gateway.

A powerful double-bill. 'Josephine' is a stunning mini-biography of a great star; 'Pagliacci' is an overpoweringly passionate step into verismo opera.

For anyone who’s seen Disney’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame, a lot of the familiar story beats remain here. However, this local production by Encore Performing Arts takes a unique approach to their mounting of this stage musical.

This Saturday July 26, the Hamptons Summer Songbook at LTV Studios invites audiences to experience Broadway as seen through the pen of Al Hirschfeld in a special one-night-only event with renowned author and curator David Leopold and featuring Eric Comstock and Barbara Fasano.

Michael Bublé will celebrate two decades of his multiplatinum second full-length offering, It’s Time, with a brand new 20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition out September 12, 2025. Listen to a previously unreleased single now.

Under the Radar will return for its 21st edition. Since its reemergence in 2024, Under the Radar has gathered artists, audiences, and theater industry experts around a thrilling array of contemporary performances shaped by fearless experimentation.  

Be quick to book if you need a good laugh.

This past season contained a higher than usual amount of Broadway shows involving death; in fact, Operation Mincemeat and Dead Outlaw both specifically revolved around transporting a corpse! And Death Becomes Her leans into the hilarity as two women become gorgeous living corpses before our very eyes, thanks to a touch of magic. But plays and musicals about death and its attendant macabre topics have been a part of the theatre landscape for many decades...

For years, Broadway musicals have spawned multiple film adaptations, from the early days of cinema to Steven Spielberg's remake of West Side Story. Take a look at our list of 15 musicals that have danced their way to the screen more than once!