6th September 2010
It's Official! As previously forecast here, Brendan Fraser will make his Broadway debut with Denis O'Hare, Richard Easton and Jennifer Coolidge in Simon Bent's Elling, adapted from the novel by Ingvar Ambjornsen about a dysfunctional couple trying...
30th August 2010
It has been confirmed that the musical Sister Act, adapted from the 1992 movie about a disco singer fleeing the mob, who is given protective custody in a convent, where she clashes with the Mother Superior, but revolutionises the choir, book by Cheri and Bill Steinkellner...
23rd August 2010
The 19th annual Broadway On Broadway event, the free outdoor concert in Times Square celebrating the start of the new Broadway season, will be held at 11.30am on September 12th. It will feature performances from almost every musical current and upcoming on Broadway...
16th August 2010
It has been confirmed that Spider-Man, Turn Off The Dark, the long delayed new musical about the Marvel comic book hero, book by Julie Taymor and Glen Berger, music and lyrics by Bono and The Edge, will feature Reeve Carney, Jennifer Damiano and Patrick Page, directed...
9th August 2010
A new musical, Wonderland, book by Gregory Boyd and Jack Murphy, music by Frank Wildhorn, lyrics by Jack Murphy, directed by Gregory Boyd, with choreography by Marguerite Derricks, will preview from March 21st at a Nederlander theatre yet to be announced, with an...
2nd August 2010
It's Official! As previously forecast here, the just closed Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park production of Shakespeare's The Merchant Of Venice, in which a Jewish moneylender, angered at the discrimination he has suffered, demands a 'pound of...
26th July 2010
Roundabout Theatre Company has confirmed that the musical Anything Goes, music and lyrics by Cole Porter, original book by P G Wodehouse and Guy Bolton and Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse, revised by Timothy Crouse and John Weidman, with Sutton Foster, directed and...
19th July 2010
It's Official! As previously forecast here, the Public Theater's recent sellout satirical rock musical Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, music and lyrics by Michael Friedman, book and direction by Alex Timbers, which relocates U.S. President Andrew Jackson...
12th July 2010
It's Official! As previously forecast here, the current London production of the musical Sister Act, adapted from the 1992 movie about a disco singer fleeing the mob, who is given protective custody in a convent, where she clashes with the Mother...
5th July 2010
Alfred Uhry's Driving Miss Daisy, with James Earl Jones and Vanessa Redgrave, directed by David Esbjornson, will preview from October 7th at the Golden Theatre, with an official opening October 25th. The play charts the relationship that develops when the son of a...
28th June 2010
Roundabout Theatre Company will stage the musical Anything Goes, music and lyrics by Cole Porter, original book by P G Wodehouse and Guy Bolton and Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse, revised by Timothy Crouse and John Weidman, with Sutton Foster, directed and choreographed...
21st June 2010
The 41st anniversary season of the 92nd Street Y's Lyrics & Lyricists series, featuring the songs of a particular writer or era, will comprise: Frank And Tony And Peggy And Me: Making Music With The Great Singers - Celebrating Bucky Pizzarelli's 85th Birthday, January...
14th June 2010
The biggest winners in this year's Tony Awards were Red taking 6 including Play, Eddie Redmayne - Actor Play (Featured) and Michael Grandage - Director (Play); Memphis, taking 4, including Musical, Book and Score; Fela! taking 3,...
7th June 2010
The New York Musical Theatre Festival has announced the titles of productions in its Next Link Project: Above Hell's Kitchen, book, music and lyrics by Jonathan Spottiswoode, a contemporary rock version of Don Giovanni; Cheer Wars, book and lyrics...
31st May 2010
It has been confirmed that David Herson's La Bete, a Moliere style comedy pitting the head of the royal court sponsored theatre troupe against a foppish, frivolous street entertainer in 17th century France, featuring Joanna Lumley, Mark Rylance and David Hyde Pierce...
24th May 2010
The biggest winners in this year's Drama Desk Awards were Memphis with 4, including Musical and Actress Musical - Montego Glover; La Cage Aux Folles with 3, including Musical Revival and Actor Musical - Douglas Hodge; Red with 3,...
17th May 2010
The Public Theater will present free staged concert performances of Paul Simon's musical The Capeman, book by Derek Walcott, directed by Diane Paulus, with choreography by Sergio Trujillo, at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park on August 14th, 15th and 16th. The...
10th May 2010
The big hitters in this year's Tony Awards are led by Fela! with 11 nominations, including Musical, Actor Musical (Leading) - Sahr Ngaujah, and both Director Musical and Choreographer - Bill T Jones; La Cage Aux Folles also with 11, including Musical...
3rd May 2010
The winners of the 25th Annual Lucille Lortel Awards for Outstanding Achievement Off-Broadway were headed by the Lincoln Center Theatre production of Andrew Bovell's When The Rain Stops Falling, taking Director - David Cromer, Featured Actress - Mary Beth Hurt, Scenic...
26th April 2010
The Vineyard Theatre and Playwrights Horizons will stage the new musical The Burnt Part Boys, book by Mariana Elder, music by Chris Miller, lyrics by Nathan Tysen, with Charlie Brady, Al Calderon, Andrew Durand, Steve French, Noah Galvin, Michael Park, Molly Ranson...
19th April 2010
Eric Simonson's Lombardi, a new play about the legendary American football coach Vince Lombardi, adapted from David Maraniss's biography When Pride Still Mattered, featuring Dan Lauria, directed by Thomas Kail, will preview from September 23rd at the Circle in the...
12th April 2010
Second Stage Theatre has announced the shows that will form its 8th Uptown Series at the McGinn/Cazale Theatre: Michael Golamco's Year Zero, about a 16 year old Cambodian American and his sister struggling to reinvent themselves in Long Beach California, directed...
5th April 2010
Everyday Rapture, 'a semi-autobiographical story of a young woman's psycho-sexual-spiritual journey from Kansas to Manhattan', written by and featuring Sherie Rene Scott, created in collaboration with Dick Scanlan, using an eclectic mix of existing songs, with backing...
29th March 2010
The Public Theater has announced its 2010/2011 season, comprising: Gatz, in which, in the office of a mysterious small business, an employee starts to read F Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and doesn't stop, with Scott Shepherd heading a cast of 13, directed by...
22nd March 2010
Primary Stages has announced its 2010/2011 season at 59E59 Theaters, which will include Jonathan Tolins's Secrets Of The Trade, about an aspiring performer who hopes that his idol will open the door to Broadway success, directed by Matt Shakman, from July 27th; the...
15th March 2010
Unchain My Heart - The Ray Charles Musical, a biomusical about the composer and performer, book by Suzan-Lori Parks, score by Ray Charles, directed by Sheldon Epps, with choreography by Kenneth L Roberson, will preview from October 8th at a Shubert theatre yet to...
8th March 2010
Roundabout Theatre Company will restage last year's Stratford Shakespeare Festival production of Oscar Wilde's The Importance Of Being Earnest, characterised by Wilde as 'a trivial comedy for serious people', about mistaken and assumed identities, directed by Brian...
1st March 2010
The world premiere of The Diary Of A Teenage Girl, a multi-media production adapted from Phoebe Gloeckner's graphic novel of the same name, telling the story of 15 year old girl growing up in San Francisco in the 1970s, adapted by and featuring Marielle Heller, with...
22nd February 2010
It's Official! As previously forecast here, David Herson's La Bete, a Moliere style comedy pitting the head of the royal court sponsored theatre troupe against a foppish, frivolous street entertainer in 17th century France, with Joanna Lumley, Mark...
15th February 2010
The British Royal Shakespeare Company will perform a 6 week, 5 play residency in a full scale replica of its Courtyard Theatre constructed in the historic Park Avenue Armory, as part of the Lincoln Center Festival from July 6th 2011. The current 44 member ensemble will perform 5 plays...
8th February 2010
Moss Hart and George S Kaufman's You Can't Take It With You, directed by Anna Shapiro, will preview from November 5th at a Broadway theatre yet to be announced, with an official opening on November 14th. It portrays the mayhem that ensues in a colorful, freethinking...
1st February 2010
It's Official! As previously forecast here, John Logan's Red, a bioplay about the abstract artist Mark Rothko's struggle to accept his success, with Alfred Molina and Eddie Redmayne, directed by Michael Grandage, which is currently receiving its world...
25th January 2010
The British Live Theatre Newcastle production of Lee Hall's The Pitmen Painters, which tells the true story of a group of Ashington coal miners in the 1930s who invited a professor to give them art appreciation classes, directed by Max Roberts, currently at the National...
18th January 2010
The producers of the musical Spider-Man, Turn Off The Dark have announced that the show will not begin previews at the Hilton Theatre on February 25th as originally planned, and despite assurances that the show will go on, have not given any indication of an alternative...
11th January 2010
It's Official! As previously forecast here, the Alliance Theatre, Atlanta, production of Come Fly Away (originally called Come Fly With Me), a dance musical inspired by the songs of Frank Sinatra, featuring Sinatra's voice, backed...
4th January 2010
Roundabout Theatre Company will stage Terrence McNally's Lips Together, Teeth Apart, featuring Megan Mullally and Patton Oswalt, directed by Joe Mantello, previewing from April 9th at the American Airlines Theatre, with an official opening on April 29th. The Chekhov...