Can-Can - 2004 - Off-Broadway Articles Page 6

Laura Benanti is in for a busy Tony weekend. The popular performer will join Tituss Burgess to co-host “The Tony Awards: Act One,” a live pre-show, which will include the presentation of the first round of this year’s Tony Awards, airing free on Pluto TV.

Lake Tahoe Dance Collective will present its 14th annual Lake Tahoe Dance Festival, featuring artists from New York City Ballet, American Ballet Theatre, Boston Ballet, Houston Ballet, and Broadway across multiple venues in North Lake Tahoe.

Icon Julie Andrews made a virtual appearance in a video message that played for attendees at Sunday's World Parkinson Congress in Phoenix, an annual event aimed at combatting the progressive movement disorder. Watch the video here!

Two-time Tony Award nominee Megan Hilty isn’t on an official concert tour, but that hasn’t stopped the popular Broadway and television performer from booking numerous upcoming dates including three in the Bay State alone.

New Jersey Symphony will present its season finale concerts featuring pianist Emanuel Ax performing Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 22, Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique, and the world premiere of Allison Loggins-Hull's Doublespeak.

THE NOTEBOOK The Musical was a charming chamber piece when I first read Bekah Brunstetter's adaptation of Nicholas Sparks' breakout bestseller. But the touring version is now playing to bigger houses than either its original Chicago premiere or its New York engagement. With Broadway-extravaganza pretensions. Call me back when a local company decides to mount this musical at an appropriate scale.

Jesus Christ Superstar began as a concept album in 1970 before making its stage debut in 1971. The original 1970 concept album was the brainchild of composer Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyricist Tim Rice.

Dennis Hensley's debut play, THE POINT OF PINECONES, a sex comedy about desire and regret, will play three staged readings at the Actors Company's Other Space Theater during the Hollywood Fringe Festival.

Veteran theatrical press agents Heath Schwartz and Michelle Farabaugh have acquired principal ownership of Boneau/Bryan-Brown, Inc., a publicity firm with over three decades of experience serving the theater industry, rebranding the company effective June 1, 2026 as Aperture Public Relations.

The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center announced the contract renewal of artistic directors David Finckel and Wu Han, extending their leadership through 2032, more than two decades after their initial appointment.

LERNER & LOEWE'S CAMELOT is currently in performances at The John W. Engeman Theater. An idealistic young King Arthur hopes to create a kingdom built on honor and dignity, embodied by his Knights of The Round Table.

The stage production does make a lot of strides that strengthens the endurance and popularity of this love story. It repeats iconic moments from the popular 2004 film, but isn’t aping the original screenplay in any way. A new libretto offers a fresh take that borrows the basic structure of the novel and memorable film moments, whilst breathing in new voices and new scenes that add different layers to these familiar characters.

Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter, actress, author, and producer Ledisi will head to Broadway this fall in the new musical WANTED. Ledisi will star as Tallulah Clarke, mother of the sisters Clarke.

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts broke ground on a major west campus redesign, including The Baron Theater, a 2,000-person venue, and the SNF Gardens at Damrosch Park, set to open in summer 2028.

Brooklyn-based composer David Cieri's 84 BELLS will receive its world premiere at the Palau de la Música Catalana in Barcelona, conducted by Marin Alsop with the Philharmonia Orchestra, as part of the city's Year of Gaudí centennial celebrations.

King Lear will be presented as part of the Craiova International Shakespeare Festival in Craiova, Romania. Following a successful world premiere at the International Festival of Arts & Ideas and a sold-out four-performance limited run in New York.

ArtsFairfax, the nonprofit designated as Fairfax County's local arts agency, has revealed the 2026 ArtsFairfax Awards recipients, elebrated as the annual event to recognize visionary contributions to the arts countywide.

DrumatiX, the 2024 San Diego Fringe Audience Choice winner, will return to Centro Cultural de la Raza in Balboa Park with RHYTHM DELIVERED, blending tap dance, body percussion, and found-object music.

Russell Peters brings his Relax World Tour to NJPAC's Prudential Hall in Newark, offering commentary on cancel culture, aging, and the state of the world from one of Rolling Stone's 50 Best Comics of All Time.

Kate Smurthwaite is going to write 20 completely different shows, one a day, each written in 24 hours, for this year’s Edinburgh Fringe. Each show will be based on audience suggestions from the previous day.

There’s a strange dichotomy that exists in live theater. I may not like the material, but will still find reason to love its execution. And at Theater West End, they’ve culled together a company of players who help elevate the material of POTUS into a comedy that now exists thanks to their approach to the characters. They form a symbiotic relationship with the audience throughout the two acts to make us still care for them, for their arcs, and for their resolutions – no matter how far-fetched it may seem. This is where the production of POTUS shines.

Ahead of the debut PBS airing of Suffs, BroadwayWorld caught up with Shaina Taub to discuss the origins of the Suffs proshot, the importance of arts accessibility, and why PBS was the right platform to spotlight this history-making musical. 

Saturday May 2 was a perfect blend of setting, energy, and most of all the MUSIC, as actor/vocalist Linda Purl with music director Tedd Firth took the stage of the beautiful new Glazer Hall in Palm Beach.

The musical “Swept Away” tells the story of four whalers shipwrecked off New Bedford in 1888, making it especially resonant for local audiences, who can experience the musical drama in a well crafted New England premiere at SpeakEasy Stage Company in the Virginia Wimberly Theatre at the Calderwood Pavilion, Boston Center for the Arts, through May 23.

George Lopez, star of NBC's Lopez vs Lopez and the Warner Bros. film Blue Beetle, will perform live at Paramount Theatre in Denver as part of his ongoing national comedy tour.