Jennifer Lopez is attached to star in a feature adaptation of the 1993 Broadway musical “Kiss of the Spider Woman,” written and directed by “Dreamgirls” filmmaker Bill Condon, Variety has confirmed with a source close to the production. The music is by legends John Kander and Fred Ebb, based on the novel by Manuel Puig...
The Manhattan town house where the late musical theater composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim lived for approximately 60 years has a lucky new owner. According to the Wall Street Journal, Sondheim’s estate was able to get the full $7 million asking price on the sale of his Turtle Bay Gardens home. As told by Compass listing...
Theatregoers can expect to be leafletted by union delegates outside Australian performance venues in the new year, in a campaign to lift the pay of about 6,000 actors and dancers....
Stephen Schwartz reveals that two new songs written exclusively for the upcoming Wicked films, starring Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande, will be in the second movie, set for a Nov. 26, 2025, release....
Merrily We Roll Along, the hit Broadway revival of the Stephen Sondheim-George Furth musical starring Daniel Radcliffe, Jonathan Groff and Lindsay Mendez, is extending performances through Sunday, July 7, 2024, giving ticket-buyers an additional three months to grab seats....
Apple TV+ has canceled its animated comedy series Central Park after three seasons, according to star Josh Gad....
What happened when four young theater actors performed for an older generation? “I was expecting to have the best show ever and that happened.”...
Wicked movie trailer needs to break the trend of downplaying its musical nature to avoid hurting its hype and disappointing fans....
Andy Karl will lead the Melbourne, Australia cast of Groundhog Day the Musical as Phil Connors – the cynical TV weatherman who finds himself caught in a time loop when sent to cover the annual Groundhog Day event in the small town of Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania....
On 8 December 4pm US Eastern Time there will be a Submission Information Session for the 2024 National Alliance for Musical Theatre (NAMT) Festival of New Musicals....
Speaking at the Piccadilly Theatre in London, Baz Luhrmann revealed he had “absolutely” considered re-adapting Moulin Rouge! into a film....
Andrew Lloyd Webber has called on investors to “think of Britain first” when putting money into theatre, claiming Broadway is a “vanity project”...
A list of musical theatre proshots and film adaptations available on Disney+, Netflix, Amazon Prime, Max, Apple TV+, Hulu and BroadwayHD.
With Merrily We Roll Along back on Broadway as a hit, how many musicals are flops in their original Broadway production and then return as smashes?...
The Gilded Age (or Downton Abbey: New York as I call it) is a fun show, partly on its own merits (it's a high-class "old money versus new money" soap opera set in the 1880s), and partly because it features a long, long list of musical theatre (and straight theatre) performers in its sizeable ensemble, as this BroadwayWorld...
It was on a late summer’s night in 2022, about eight months after his death, that I confirmed that Stephen Sondheim had turned into a holy ghost....
A new musical about Tammy Faye Bakker, the singing televangelist whose colorful life and collapsed ministry have repeatedly been dramatized for stage and screen, is pledging to open on Broadway next season....
At least this version has some singing in the trailer for the musical.
A prestigious Japanese all-female theatre company has admitted it feels responsible for the death of a young actress whose suspected suicide was reportedly caused by overwork....
Weeks into his senior year of high school in Texas, Max Hightower earned a key male role for his campus’s production of Oklahoma! the musical. But the trans teen’s principal has since stripped the teen of the part, citing a new policy requiring students to only portray characters who align with the gender identity assigned...
When you think of great Aussie (movie) musicals, some key films from the 1990s and 2000s come to mind: Strictly Ballroom, Muriel’s Wedding, Moulin Rouge!, Bran Nue Dae and The Sapphires. These films are often framed as “reviving” the musical genre for Australian audiences, due in large part to their box-office success....
For the second consecutive year, Broadway cast albums made a clean sweep of the Grammy nominations for Best Musical Theater Album, shutting out both the West End and Off Broadway....
Sheridan Smith is to star in a musical by Rufus Wainwright based on John Cassavetes’ 1977 film Opening Night, about an actor struggling with her new stage role. Directed by Ivo van Hove, whose book accompanies Wainwright’s music and lyrics, the show will open at the Gielgud theatre in London in March....
Stephen Sondheim was a city boy, a born Upper West Sider who in 1960 bought a townhome on 49th Street with the profits of Gypsy, then lived there for the rest of his life — mostly. He also had a country escape, a retreat in Roxbury, Connecticut, that saw more use as he got older. He bought that house in 1980 on the advice of...
Starting in January, the music streaming platform Spotify will no longer pay royalties on any songs played less than 1,000 times in a year. The change is expected to impact about two-thirds of the tracks on the platform, and a lot of the less popular Broadway cast recordings....
