Oscar winner Susan Sarandon will return to the New York stage this spring, appearing in Jesse Eisenberg's world premiere comedy Happy Talk. Scott Elliott will direct the New Group production, set to begin previews on April 30 with an opening set for May 16 at the Pershing Square Signature Center. Tony nominee Marin Ireland will co-star in the comedy, previously [...]
Tony®, Olivier, Emmy® and Golden Globe winner Bryan Cranston (Breaking Bad, All The Way) makes his triumphant return to Broadway in the National Theatre’s sold-out, critically acclaimed production of Network and has extended its run at the Belasco Theatre for a second and final time. Performances will now run through June 8th—the day before the 2019 Tony Awards ceremony. The multimedia-driven [...]
Ben Platt is taking his act on the road. The Tony-winning original star of Dear Evan Hansen has announced the schedule for his upcoming North American concert tour, presented in conjunction with the launch of his debut album, Sing to Me Instead. The previously announced album will be released in its entirety on March 29. Platt's 2019 tour schedule can [...]
Following a rumored Broadway transfer, Manhattan Theatre Club has confirmed an upcoming staging of Tony-nominated scribe Florian Zeller's The Height of the Storm, set to arrive at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre following a debut engagement at Wyndham's Theatre in London's West End. Two-time Tony winner Jonathan Pryce (Miss Saigon) and three-time Olivier winner Eileen Atkins (The Retreat from Moscow) will star in director [...]
Off-Broadway's Public Theater has announced a talent-packed lineup for its 2018-2019 season. Highlights include new productions starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Tom Sturridge and Glenn Close, along with the North American premiere of Conor McPherson and Bob Dylan's acclaimed collaboration Girl From the North Country. Kicking off the Public's new season is Girl From the North Country (September 11-November 4, 2018), arriving off-Broadway [...]
Closing Sunday, February 3, 2019 ABOUT ALICE Off-Broadway: Theatre for a New Audience @ Polonsky Shakespeare Center Written by Calvin Trillin Directed by Leonard Foglia Cast includes: Jeffrey Bean and Carrie Paff About Alice, a two-character play by Calvin Trillin, is inspired by the author’s 2007 memoir of the same title—a love letter to his wife Alice, who died in [...]
Directed by Tony winner Diane Paulus, the production premiered last year at the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Alanis Morissette is heading to Broadway. Jagged Little Pill — the musical named after the singer-songwriter's career-making album from 1995 — is set to debut in New York this fall, though a theater or dates have yet to be announced. The [...]
The 2019–2020 season will also include the world premiere of Matthew Aucoin and Sarah Ruhl’s Eurydice, directed by Tony winner Mary Zimmerman. After a star turn as Margaret Johnson in The Light in the Piazza in London, Renée Fleming will headline the musical stateside. Daniel Evans’ production, which premieres at Southbank Centre's Royal Festival Hall in June, is on the [...]
Nearly seven years after the announcement of an in-the-works Magic Mike musical, the dancer is ready to put it all (yes, all) out there on the Broadway stage. The stage adaptation of the steamy franchise will premiere at the Emerson Colonial Theatre in Boston this fall, running November 30 through January 5, 2020. A Broadway bow is expected to follow. [...]
The actors will face off as estranged brothers in a new production of the Sam Shepard play directed by James Macdonald. Sam Shepard's classic drama of sibling rivalry, True West, will return to Broadway next season, starring Ethan Hawke and Paul Dano as the conflicted brothers who come together at the California home of their mother after a five-year estrangement. [...]
