Musical Theatre

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At the moment this seems to be more articles about the world of professional theatre, and I was wondering if content more focused towards shows in general or even peoples’ individual experiences with shows is welcome here. Also trying to think of things I can post here to help out with engagement, but not doing too well with...

While Australia punches well above its weight when it comes to performers, there have been comparatively few locally written and developed shows that have become successful. This may be changing. Over the past 18 months (since the start of 2022) there have been at least thirteen Australian musicals that been either produced...

The trailer for the upcoming 2024 movie adaptation of Mean Girls the musical written by Jeff Richmond, Nell Benjamin and Tina Fey, which was an adaptation of the 2004 Mean Girls movie written by Tina Fey, which was an adaptation of the 2002 book Queen Bees and Wannabes by Rosalind Wiseman, has been released....

“The Color Purple,” a new musical take on Alice Walker’s landmark novel, seemed to arrive as an instant hit. Awash in critical exultation, the movie rolled into theaters on Christmas Day and sold more than $18 million in tickets, a near record for the holiday. Audiences gave it an A grade in CinemaScore exit polls. Oprah...

When Broadway understudy Mikayla Renfrow received a text saying she was needed to stand in for the lead role of Jasmine in "Aladdin,” she was on a flight from her Italian vacation to New York City. A sympathetic flight attendant ushered her to first class so she would be the first passenger to leave. The pilot then came out...

Lin-Manuel Miranda's latest project will be an adaptation of Sol Yurick’s 1965 novel “The Warriors,” about violent gang battles in New York City during the sixties, a source near the Miranda family told The New York Post....

This is an overview of professional productions of Les Miserables - by Alain Boublil, Claude-Michel Schoenberg and Herbert Kretzmer - currently playing, or in the works, around the world....

The complete cast and performance dates have been set for for the world premiere of Here We Are, the new musical from Stephen Sondheim and David Ives, at The Shed in New York. Here We Are will feature Rachel Bay Jones, Francois Battiste, Tracie Bennett, Bobby Cannavale, Rachel Bay Jones, Micaela Diamond, Amber Gray, Jin Ha,...

Words cannot express how much I endorse this article, especially the bit about... well, you'll know when you run across it....

Starring an electrifying Nicole Scherzinger, Sunset Boulevard ends its limited run at London’s Savoy Theatre on January 6. However, Deadline can reveal in its 2024 West End look ahead that the singer will lead the Andrew Lloyd Webber show to Broadway in November, according to insiders connected with the production....

Broadway musicians say they are being preyed upon by violent criminals at the stage door of the beloved “The Lion King” musical and other shows....

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...

Speaking at the Piccadilly Theatre in London, Baz Luhrmann revealed he had “absolutely” considered re-adapting Moulin Rouge! into a film....

Andrew Lloyd Webber's Starlight Express has been seen by over twenty million people worldwide, and will make its return to London in a specially designed auditorium....

The New York Times' roundup of musicals, plays and festivals opening in New York over the next few months. Musicals include:...

The Prince of Egypt received two Oscar nominations, one for Best Original Musical Score by Stephen Schwartz and Hans Zimmer, and another for Best Original Song for the iconic ballad "When You Believe," written and composed by Schwartz....

The new production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Phantom of The Opera opened last week at the Rossetti Theater in Trieste, Italy....

You’d be forgiven if you thought butter was a carb, just like it’s totally understandable if you didn’t know the new “Mean Girls” is a musical....

Prince’s hit film Purple Rain is set to become a Broadway musical....

For those unfamiliar with the term “diegetic music”, it refers to music that’s actually played in the story rather than just for the benefit of the audience. The characters can hear it too....

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....

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...

Hillary Clinton has joined the team backing “Suffs,” a new musical about the women’s suffrage movement, as has Malala Yousafzai, a Pakistani activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner. The producing team announced Wednesday that the show, which had an Off Broadway run last year at the Public Theater, will transfer to Broadway...

A French language production of Les Miserables will be produced at the Théatre du Châtelet in November 2024, according to a Facebook post by Broadway à Paris....