Today in 1980, the first Broadway revival of WEST SIDE STORY opened at the Minskoff Theatre, where it ran for 333 performances. West Side Story is an American musical with a book by Arthur Laurents, music by Leonard Bernstein, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, and conception and choreography by Jerome Rob...
Happy Birthday Stockard Channing! In 1971, she made her Broadway debut in Two Gentlemen of Verona - The Musical, working with playwright John Guare. She also appeared on Broadway in 1973 in a supporting role in No Hard Feelings. In 1978, at the age of 33, she took on the role of high school teenager...
Today in 1946, Annie Get Your Gun opened at the Imperial Theatre, where it ran for 1147 performances. Annie Get Your Gun is a musical with lyrics and music written by Irving Berlin and a book by Herbert Fields and his sister Dorothy Fields. The story is a fictionalized version of the life of Annie O...
This Friday, Dr. Oz welcomes award-winning actress, Rosie O'Donnell, who opens up about the health of her heart after her weight loss surgery and how it changed her life as well as her decision to leave her post on ABC's 'The View'....
The official trailer for writer-director Cameron Crowe's ALOHA, starring THE ELEPHANT MAN's Bradley Cooper, film star Rachel McAdams and CABARET's Emma Stone, has just been released. Check it out below!...
We're goin' courting! Click below to take a look backstage with Carver Duncan (Caleb) and Corinne Munsch (Sarah) of the National Tour of SEVEN BRIDES FOR SEVEN BROTHERS!...
Broadway Sings, the concert series honoring pop stars with a Broadway twist, concluded its seventh installment on Sunday, January 25, at (le) Poisson Rouge. Some of Broadway's brightest talents sang completely new arrangements of the hits of pop superstar P!NK, accompanied by a 10-piece band playing...
Richard LaGravenese's big screen adaptation of Jason Robert Brown's THE LAST 5 YEARS doesn't hit theaters for a few more days - but Ghostlight Records has unveiled a sampler of the just-released soundtrack, perfect for passing the time! Check out Anna Kendrick and Jeremy Jordan take on the show's be...
INTO THE WOODS star Anna Kendrick stopped by yesterday's Ellen about some of the realness that happens during Hollywood's biggest award shows....
Actress Marcia Gay Harden stopped by ABC's THE VIEW to talk about her role in the highly anticipated film 'Fifty Shades of Grey', opening in theaters in time for Valentine's Day. Watch the appearance below!...
A unique Fusion of comedy, confession and life-saving information, ROSIE O'DONNELL: A HEARTFELT STAND UP finds one of America's most beloved comedians using a familiar platform - the stand-up stage - to deliver an important message when it debuts on Valentine's Day...
Today in 1979, They're Plaing Our Song opened at the Imperial Theatre, where it ran for 1082 performances. With a book by Neil Simon, lyrics by Carole Bayer Sager, and music by Marvin Hamlisch, the musical is based on the real-life relationship of Hamlisch and Sager- a wisecracking composer finds a ...
Punchdrunk Enrichment and the National Maritime Museum have today released a new trailer for Against Captain's Orders: A Journey into the Uncharted. Check it out below!...
On last night's TONIGHT SHOW, Jimmy and Fifty Shades of Grey star Dakota Johnson took turns saying unsexy things in their best sexy voices....
Walt Disney Studios has just released an all new trailer from the spectacular new live action film CINDERELLA, opening in theaters March 13, 2015! Get a first look below!...
FIRST DATE features a book by Austin Winsberg ('Gossip Girl') and Music and Lyrics by Alan Zachary and Michael Weiner (Secondhand Lions, Twice Charmed). The musical comedy is produced by Jeanne McInerney and First Date, LLC, and will be directed by J.R. Rose, with musical direction by Elizabeth Dora...
Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett bring jazz classics to LA!...
Poetic Theater Productions is thrilled to announce the world premiere production of PARADOX OF THE URBAN CLICHE, written by Craig 'muMs' Grant and directed by Reginald L. Douglas, part of POETIC LICENSE 2015: subconscious. PARADOX OF THE URBAN CLICHE is currently in previews and runs in a limited en...
The new Broadway musical DOCTOR ZHIVAGO, based on Boris Pasternak's Nobel Prize-winning 20th-century epic Russian masterpiece, will arrive on Broadway on Friday, March 27, 2015, with opening night set for Tuesday, April 21, 2015 at the Broadway Theatre (1681 Broadway). This sweeping musical romance,...
As BroadwayWorld previously reported, the 94th Season of the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the historic Hollywood Bowl has just been announced, with subscriptions now on sale and single tickets available on Sunday, May 3. Monty Python's SPAMALOT will be the Bowl's official musical of the summer with a...
Tony-winning composer Jason Robert Brown's much-loved stage musical The Last Five Years gets the big screen treatment in The Last Five Years- a dynamic, achingly romantic new film from Oscar-nominated filmmaker Richard LaGravenese (The Fisher King) and starring Oscar nominee Anna Kendrick (Into the ...
David Duchovny is now a published author and the new star of the upcoming NBC drama 'Aquarius.' The actor stopped by this morning's TODAY to talk about both new projects....
On his recent appearance on DAVID LETTERMAN, the funny man flew in a la Peter Pan above the studio audience while singing, 'Fly Me Through The Room'!...
Today in 1959, The Most Happy Fella opened at City Center where it ran for 16 performances. With a book, music, and lyrics by Frank Loesser, the story isabout a romance between an older man and younger woman, is based on the play They Knew What They Wanted by Sidney Howard. The original Broadway pro...
This spring Godspell In Concert, the legendary rock musical from Stephen Schwartz, the Grammy® and Academy Award®- winning composer of WICKED, returns to the UK's stages and opens at Hackney's Empire Theatre on Easter Saturday, April 4th, ahead of a 28 venue national tour. Check out a preview belo...
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