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SCOTUS Justice Is About to Fulfill Another Childhood Dream

Supreme Court's newest member will appear in a Broadway musical in NYC on Saturday night

(Newser) - From a Harvard acting class with Matt Damon to her latest stint on the Great White Way, it's fair to speculate that Kentanji Brown Jackson may very well have been a thespian if she hadn't chosen a career on the bench. Axios reports that, for one performance only...

We May Soon Have the Time of Our Lives on Broadway

Dirty Dancing musical is in the works for 2025, with 'aspirations' for the Great White Way

(Newser) - No one puts Baby in a corner —but they're about to try to put her on Broadway. Variety reports that Lionsgate is adapting Dirty Dancing for the stage, with "aspirations" for a Great White Way showing sometime after its debut in late 2025. Dirty Dancing: The ...

Hugh Jackman Makes Plea on Behalf of Missing Dancer

Authorities find abandoned car of Hamilton performer Zelig Williams in South Carolina

(Newser) - A dancer from the hit Broadway play Hamilton has gone missing in South Carolina, and a big name is part of the push to find him. People reports that 28-year-old Zelig Williams, who more recently starred in MJ the Musical, was last seen leaving his home in Columbia on the...

'We Lost Our Prince,' Theater Says After Gavin Creel Dies

Tony Award-winning Broadway veteran dies at 48 of rare, aggressive form of cancer

(Newser) - Gavin Creel, a Broadway veteran who won a Tony Award for Hello, Dolly! and nominations for Hair and Thoroughly Modern Millie, died Monday of a rare and aggressive form of cancer. He was 48. Publicist Matt Polk said Creel died at his home in Manhattan of metastatic melanotic peripheral nerve...

Keanu's Broadway Debut to Include a Familiar Dude
Bill & Ted Stars
Head to Broadway
Aug 2, 2024 1:12 PM CDT

Bill & Ted Stars Head to Broadway

Keanu Reeves, Alex Winter to star in the play Waiting for Godot

(Newser) - Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter are teaming up yet again, though not as beloved "dudes" Bill and Ted. In what will mark Reeves' Broadway debut, the most excellent actors will instead play Estragon and Vladimir in a production of Waiting for Godot to arrive on Broadway in the fall...

Broadway Cast Pauses for Chants of 'Kamala!'

The show is Suffs , about the women's suffrage movement

(Newser) - When news broke that President Biden was endorsing Kamala Harris to be the Democratic nominee, the vice president received a show of support that her supporters will likely find fitting. Just before the Sunday afternoon start of Suffs—a Broadway musical about the women's suffrage movement—the crowd began...

George Clooney Will Make His Broadway Debut Next Year

He's starring in, co-writing stage adaptation of 'Good Night, and Good Luck'

(Newser) - More than 45 years into his acting career, George Clooney is set to make his Broadway debut. The 63-year-old will star in Good Night, and Good Luck, which is slated to open in spring 2025, People reports. The production is an adaptation of the 2005 movie of the same name,...

Broadway Legend Chita Rivera Dead at 91
Chita Rivera Was a
'True Broadway Legend'
OBITUARY
Jan 30, 2024 2:35 PM CST

Chita Rivera Was a 'True Broadway Legend'

Tony-winning dancer, singer dead at 91

(Newser) - Chita Rivera, the dynamic dancer, singer, and actress who garnered 10 Tony nominations, winning twice, in a long Broadway career that forged a path for Latina artists and shrugged off a near-fatal car accident, died Tuesday. She was 91. Rivera's death was announced by her daughter, Lisa Mordente, who...

This Prince Film, Album Is Headed for the Stage

1984's 'Purple Rain' will be adapted into a musical that's a Broadway hopeful

(Newser) - It's been four decades since Prince's Purple Rain first appeared on the big screen, along with an accompanying album, and now it's headed for the big stage. Producer Orin Wolf announced on Monday that the prolific singer-songwriter's 1984 film would be adapted into a stage musical,...

With 'Yes' Vote, Union Could Shut Down Broadway

IATSE votes on strike authorization

(Newser) - Theater artists could soon join screenwriters and radio, TV, and film actors in taking to the picket line. The International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, Moving Picture Technicians, Artists and Allied Crafts (IATSE), representing 1,500 stagehands, wardrobe personnel, and hair and makeup artists on 28 of 30 Broadway productions...

Tony Awards Make History
Tony Awards Make History
Jun 12, 2023 12:00 AM CDT

Tony Awards Make History

First nonbinary actors win

(Newser) - The intimate, funny-sad musical Kimberly Akimbo nudged aside splashier rivals on Sunday to win the musical crown at the Tony Awards on a night when Broadway flexed its creative muscle amid the Hollywood writers’ strike and made history with laurels for nonbinary actors J. Harrison Ghee and Alex Newell, the...

Andrew Lloyd Webber Worries About the Math of Broadway

Composer reflects on financial realities of the theater as 'Phantom' ends its epic run

(Newser) - Now that the last performance of the Phantom of the Opera on Broadway is in the books after a 35-year run, people are tossing around the phrase "end of an era." That's not quite accurate, writes Andrew Lloyd Webber in a New York Times essay. He points...

After Tiff With NYT, a New Broadway Show to Close

Producers of 'KPOP,' first Broadway play about Koreans by Koreans, cite 'casual racism' in review

(Newser) - Sunday is the last day to catch KPOP on the Great White Way, per an announcement of what Playbill calls an "unusually abrupt" closing. The musical, which opened Nov. 27 at Manhattan's Circle in the Square Theatre, tells the story of a group of Korean pop superstars who...

Phantom of the Opera's Demise Slightly Exaggerated

Broadway's longest-running show will run a little longer thanks to strong ticket sales

(Newser) - The longest-running show in Broadway history is set to run a little longer. Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera was due to close in February after 35 years, but the September announcement of its impending doom sent ticket sales sky-high, with pretty much every ticket on sale...

Broadway Star Patti LuPone Blasts 'Worst Union'

3-time Tony winner says she's happy to be out 'of that circus'

(Newser) - Three-time Tony winner Patti LuPone says her time on Broadway is over—at least for now. "When the run of Company ended this past July, I knew I wouldn't be onstage for a very long time," the 73-year-old says in a statement, per Deadline , adding she then...

Report: Baldwin Has First Acting Job Since Tragedy

Sources tell the 'New York Post' actor is returning to Broadway

(Newser) - Almost a year after the shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins led to the indefinite suspension of his Rust project, Alec Baldwin has lined up another acting job, insiders say. Sources tell the New York Post that in his first major Broadway role since 2013, Baldwin will appear in a revival...

Into the Woods Producers Have Big Boots to Find

They disappeared after 2002 revival

(Newser) - Into the Woods has returned to Broadway, and producers of the Stephen Sondheim musical have some big boots to find. A giant inflatable leg with a boot attached hung over the marquee of the Martin Beck Theatre when the fairytale-based musical made its debut in 1987, with another boot on...

Here Are Your Tony Award Winners
Here Are Your
Tony Award Winners
Jun 12, 2022 10:45 PM CDT

Here Are Your Tony Award Winners

'A Strange Loop' wins best new musical

(Newser) - A Strange Loop, an irreverent, sexually frank work about Blackness and queerness took home the best new musical crown at the Tony Awards on Sunday, as voters celebrated Broadway’s most racially diverse season by choosing an envelope-pushing Black voice, the AP reports. Michael R. Jackson’s 2020 Pulitzer Prize...

You Know Her as Scout. She Has a Different Role Now
You Know Her as Scout.
Now, She's Come 'Full Circle'
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT
Mar 12, 2022 6:00 AM CST

You Know Her as Scout. Now, She's Come 'Full Circle'

Six decades later, Mary Badham is playing old neighbor Mrs. Dubose in 'Mockingbird'

(Newser) - Mary Badham became a child star—an Oscar-nominated one, at that—for her portrayal of young Scout in the film adaptation of To Kill a Mockingbird. Now, the New York Times reports that six decades later, she's back in a different Mockingbird production, this time on the stage and...

Broadway's Harry Potter Fired After Complaint

Actor James Snyder accused of unspecified misconduct by female co-star

(Newser) - The actor playing Harry Potter has been fired from the Broadway production of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child following a complaint by a co-star about his conduct. Producers said Sunday night that, after an independent investigation of the incident, they decided to terminate the contract of James Snyder, per...

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