The Story - 2003 - Off-Broadway Articles Page 10

Three of this season’s plays and two of this season’s musicals are already getting revived for the second or third time this century! Twenty-five years into the 21st century and Broadway has already seen multiple revivals of Glengarry Glen Ross, Our Town, Romeo and Juliet, Gypsy, and Sunset Boulevard. 

Which Sondheim show is best? While the answer to that question is entirely subjective, it is perhaps easier to investigate which Sondheim shows have the best track records. We're breaking it down show by show, as they were created chronologically...

Casting is complete and rehearsals are now underway for Theater Latté Da's production of PASSION, the Tony Award-winning dark romance with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by James Lapine, based on the film Passione d'Amore directed by Ettore Scola.

Freeform’s “30 Days of Disney” will make a splash this Summer with themed weeks full of feel-good favorites and nostalgic classics. Highlights include the world television premieres of Disney Pixar’s “Elemental” and Walt Disney Animation Studios’ “Strange World.'

Chicago currently holds the record for the longest-running show on Broadway, with 10,500 performances, and the current touring show is an exact replica of the revival that has been running on Broadway since1996.  It’s delightful to be able to see this classic production without having to travel to New York and the cast is across the board exceptional.

A salacious love triangle, secrets and intrigue haunt the modern American tragedy The Dying Gaul by Craig Lucas making its South Florida premiere at Island City Stage.

Having never seen the 2003 musical CAROLINE, OR CHANGE, I had a slight panic attack reading the program while waiting for this past Sunday’s matinee to begin at Playhouse on the Square.

On June 7, 2026, viewers will be able to tune in to watch P!nk take the stage at Radio City Music Hall as a first-time host for the 79th annual ceremony. Do you know who has hosted the ceremony the most?

Following a 2024/25 season that has seen a more than 40% increase in annual attendance and refocused the national spotlight on the community, Baltimore Center Stage has announced its 2025/26 season.

Life's greatest tragedy is the passage of time. It is a lesson we all must learn eventually. Within the proverbial circle of life, there is only a beginning and an end that occurs in the immediacy of our own lifetime. Yet, the cyclical nature of birth, death, and rebirth ensures that our spirit will carry on in legacy rather than in flesh. If we are loved, then we are remembered. And if we are remembered, then we live forever. Disney’s The Lion King transposes this message from screen to stage through an international collaboration of talent that supercedes the strength of the 1994 animated film from which it came.

Westport Country Playhouse will present “An Evening with David Sedaris,” author and humorist, next month. The event will consist of a 60-minute reading followed by 20–30-minute audience Q&A.

Vertigo Theatre will preset THE DA VINCI CODE by Rachel Wagstaff & Duncan Abel, based on the novel by Dan Brown. Learn more and see how to purchase tickets.

Get a first look inside rehearsals for The Huntington's The Light in the Piazza, a contemporary musical based on the novel by Elizabeth Spencer, with music and lyrics by Adam Guettel, book by Craig Lucas, and directed by Huntington Artistic Director Loretta Greco (The Triumph of Love). The Light in the Piazza runs from Thursday, May 8 – Sunday, June 15, 2025 at the Huntington Theatre.

Cynthia Erivo, who stars as Elphaba in the two-part movie adaptation of the Wicked musical, is set to narrate a new audiobook edition of the original 1995 novel.

Arts Centric is taking their turn at bat with a presentation of Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom now playing through April 27th, 2025. Read our full review of the production here!

Friends of Jerry Garcia Amphitheater have announced the 23rd Annual Jerry Day, San Francisco's civic and cultural celebration of native son and one of the greatest rock guitarists of all time, founding member of The Grateful Dead, Jerry Garcia, on Saturday, August 2 at the Jerry Garcia Amphitheater in San Francisco's Excelsior District.

Josefina López, the celebrated Mexican-American award-winning playwright and screenwriter best known for creating and authoring the play and co-authoring the film Real Women Have Curves, was an undocumented five-year-old immigrant when she migrated with her family from San Luis Potosi, Mexico, to the United States in 1974 to settle in Boyle Heights. And on April 27, she will be making her Broadway debut when Real Women Have Curves: The Musical opens on Broadway!

A big-hearted comedy performed in three non-theatre spaces in Northern Soul strongholds, Keep On Keepin' On is the story a dysfunctional family just trying to keep it together on a run-down northern high street.

As I'm probably one of only a handful who hasn't read the book or seen the film of The Da Vinci Code, I was looking forward to the play based on Dan Brown's bestselling novel of 2003 described as thriller, mystery and treasure hunt.

The Sandra Feinstein-Gamm Theatre will present a special staging of Tony Kushner's two-part epic, Angels in America, directed by Brian McEleney. The pair of productions gets underway with Angels in America, Part One: Millennium Approaches opening on May 29.

City Theatre Company has announced the details of the theatre’s 51st season of bold, new works, beginning in September 2025. The 2025/2026 season will feature three world premieres, both national and local producing partnerships, and more.

The Huntington has revealed the cast and creative team of The Light in the Piazza, a contemporary musical based on the novel by Elizabeth Spencer. See who is starring and learn more.

This time, the reader question was: There are only three states in America without known Broadway musicals set within their borders. Can you guess which three? WE're breaking it down state by state.

Jamaican born playwright David Heron's romantic comedy drama Love and Marriage and New York City returns to the New York stage this June in celebration of its 25th Anniversary.

Multi-platinum rock bands Breaking Benjamin and Three Days Grace are joining forces for a 2025 co-headline tour across the U.S., featuring special guest Return To Dust.