You are here: Home / Broadway News
Submitted by BANG Showbiz on September 21, 2011
NEW YORK – Sheryl Crow will compose the music and lyrics for new Broadway show 'Diner'.
The 'All I Wanna Do' hitmaker has announced plans to work on the musical adaptation of the 1982 movie with Academy Award winning screenwriter Barry Levinson, who wrote the original script and Tony Award-winning director-and-choreographer Kathleen Marshall.
Submitted by Associated Press on June 29, 2011
NEW YORK – Audra McDonald, Norm Lewis and David Alan Grier are slated to star in a revamped version of the Gershwin classic "Porgy and Bess" on Broadway.
Producers announced Wednesday that the show will begin previews on Dec. 17 at The Richard Rodgers Theatre and officially open on Jan. 12 following a pre-Broadway run at the American Repertory Theatre.
Submitted by Associated Press on June 29, 2011
NEW YORK – Kim Cattrall will soon be sipping cocktails on a Broadway stage.
The "Sex and the City" is reprising her role in Noel Coward's "Private Lives" when the comedy hits New York this fall following a run in London last year.
It's the tale of a divorced couple who discover they have adjoining rooms while honeymooning with their new spouses.
Submitted by Associated Press on June 29, 2011
NEW YORK – Bernadette Peters and the rest of the stars of the Kennedy Center production of "Follies" will be moving north to Broadway.
Producers said Wednesday that Peters will join Jan Maxwell, Danny Burstein and Ron Raines when the show starts previews Aug. 7 at the Marquis Theatre. It closes Sunday in Washington and officially opens Sept. 12 in New York.
Submitted by Associated Press on June 28, 2011
NEW YORK – Another member of the "Harry Potter" franchise is returning to Broadway. This time it's Alan Rickman.
Rickman, who won a Tony Award in the 2002 production of Noel Coward's "Private Lives," will star in the world premiere of Theresa Rebeck's new play, "Seminar," this fall.
The production will open at a Shubert theater to be announced soon.
Submitted by Associated Press on June 27, 2011
NEW YORK – Alicia Keys is following Jay-Z and Will Smith into the world of Broadway producers.
Keys, whose hits include "Fallin'" and "A Woman's Worth," will help produce the play "Stick Fly."
The Lydia R. Diamond work is described as a contemporary comedy of manners revolving around an affluent black family. Keys says it's a story that everyone can relate to.
Submitted by Mark Kennedy on June 23, 2011
NEW YORK – The musical "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying" will go on as scheduled Thursday night, a day after the cast and crew were shaken by a death backstage that scrubbed a performance.
A stagehand was found dead Wednesday night just before the curtain was to rise for the 8 p.m. show at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre. Stars Daniel Radcliffe and John Larroquette announced the cancellation from the stage.
Submitted by Associated Press on June 22, 2011
NEW YORK – Steve Guttenberg, Julie Kavner and Marlo Thomas will appear in "Relatively Speaking," three one-act plays by Woody Allen, Ethan Coen and Elaine May that are being bundled together on Broadway this fall.
Guttenberg, the "Police Academy" star; Kavner, who supplies the voice of Marge Simpson on "The Simpsons"; and Thomas, the creator of the "Free to Be ... You and Me" series, will be in the new mini plays to be directed by John Turturro.
Submitted by Mark Kennedy on June 21, 2011
NEW YORK – Angela Bassett has signed on to star opposite Samuel L. Jackson in the Broadway production of the play "The Mountaintop."
Producers announced Tuesday that Basset will play the mysterious woman who visits the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis in playwright Katori Hall's re-imagining of the night before the civil rights leader's 1968 assassination.
Submitted by Associated Press on June 17, 2011
NEW YORK – Kara DioGuardi is about to make her Broadway stage debut as a merry murderess.
The songwriter and former "American Idol" judge is the latest celebrity to step into the role of Roxie Hart in the Tony Award-winning revival of "Chicago."
DioGuardi is now the head judge on Bravo's "Platinum Hit." She will be in the show for eight weeks beginning Sept. 5.
Hot Celebrity Photos: Galleries
|
Watch more of today's top CELEBRITY VIDEOS |
 Academy Awards |
 Grammy Awards |
 Golden Globes |
 American Music Awards |
 MTV Video Music Awards |
 Teen Choice Awards |
 |
 |
 |
 |
