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Hit musical The Book of Mormon to make its Scottish debut this week

‘THE Mormons are coming!” exclaim adverts on double-decker buses as they glide along the streets of Edinburgh. And, indeed, following a…

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Musical based on iconic Mexican artist Frida Kahlo in development for Broadway run

NEW YORK — It appears that Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat won’t be the only art-world icons heading to The Great White Way.

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‘The Devil Wears Prada’ stage musical arriving in grand style for world premiere in Chicago

Following a series of delays due to COVID shutdowns, the musical is ready to make its debut at the Nederlander Theatre.

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‘Dear Jack, Dear Louise’: Northlight delivers romantic wartime letters full of romance, humor

Sarah Price, Casey Hoekstra crackle with chemistry as the couple courting by mail.

Chicago Sun-Times

Review: Broadway revival of Sondheim’s ‘Into the Woods’ still makes for a powerful journey

NEW YORK — All great musicals rely on metaphors. But Broadway never has come up with a more pliable one than “Into the Woods,” the beloved masterpiece by Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine that uses a fairy-tale mashup to explore the universals that please, worry, seduce, calm and destroy us.

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Glee’s Sammie Ware Slams Broadway For Casting Lea Michele After She Allegedly ‘Abused’ Co-Stars

Ware slammed Broadway for "upholding whiteness".

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Broadway’s ‘Music Man’ star Sutton Foster tests positive for COVID for second time

COVID has hit Sutton Foster for the second time around.

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Tony-winning ‘Company’ to close on Broadway, go on national tour

NEW YORK — Broadway will soon have a little less “Company.”

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Cruise ship with Broadway stars to steam off in spring 2023

The maiden voyage of a cruise ship starring a boatload of musical theater stars — like Tony Award-winners Laura Benanti, Kristin Chenoweth, Alan Cumming and Lena Hall — will set sail next spring

The Independent UK

With the Tony-winning ‘A Strange Loop,’ Jennifer Hudson reaches EGOT status

Jennifer Hudson has become an EGOT winner.

Los Angeles Times

Tony Moments: A Night for Broadway to Reclaim its Groove

Surely many in the audience were thinking it, but “Company” director Marianne Elliott said it most directly at Sunday's Tony awards: In the devastating two years since the pandemic hit, it “felt at times that live theater was endangered.” As in, the industry might never recover. The exuberant ceremony Sunday…

Asharq Al-Awsat

John Stamos ‘disappointed’ Bob Saget was ‘left out’ of Tony Awards in Memoriam tribute

‘Bob loved Broadway and I know the community loved him,’ Stamos tweeted, prior to the ceremony

The Independent UK

6 takeaways from the 2022 Tony Awards

Ariana DeBose should host everything. Jennifer Hudson makes history. And we should all celebrate understudies.

WEKU

British talent scoops top prizes at 75th Tony Awards

Best leading actor in a play went to veteran actor Simon Russell Beale and the direction categories were dominated by Sam Mendes and Marianne Elliott

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Tony awards 2022: Company and The Lehman Trilogy lead big night for Brits

Broadway transfers of West End shows were out in front at this year’s celebration of the best of New York theatre

Asharq Al-Awsat

Tony Awards Has Stars — And Those Usually Far from Spotlight

Darren Criss’ favorite night of the year has arrived. It’s the Tony Awards. “I’ll never shut up about the Tonys. I love the Tonys,” he says. Criss will not only be watching the Tonys on Sunday, he’ll also be working.

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The Great White Way is still too white, Black Broadway stars and advocates say

NEW YORK — Broadway is living up to its old nickname of the Great White Way in more ways than one.

Chicago Tribune

My worst moment: Broadway and ‘Gilded Age’ star Kelli O’Hara talks about a prickly (literally) situation

Kelli O’Hara is currently filming the second season of HBO’s “The Gilded Age,” where she plays Aurora Fane, the sweetest of the society snobs. “I’m trying to find more ways to be spicy,” said O’Hara, “but I think Aurora is definitely one of those who is trying to play by…

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With 9 Broadway musicals currently on Australian stages, musical theatre is thriving again

With nine Broadway musicals currently playing on Australian stages – and a further three set to open or reopen in coming months – audiences could be forgiven for thinking “what pandemic?”

The Independent UK

On Broadway, more visibility, yes, but also an unseen threat

For the first full season since the death of George Floyd reignited a conversation about race and representation in America, Broadway responded with one of its most diverse Tony slates yet

The Independent UK

Almost Famous: The Musical is set to open on Broadway

The film’s director Cameron Crowe wrote the new show and song lyrics

The Guardian - US

L Morgan Lee on making Broadway history: ‘I could not stop crying’

The actor has become the first openly trans performer to receive a Tony nomination for her role in the Pulitzer prize-winning musical A Strange Loop

Chicago Sun-Times

Reshaped play, reshaped country key to the relevance of ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’

“We can only hope that [audiences] learn something, that they leave the theater more empathetic,” says actor Yeagel T. Welch, who stars as Tom Robinson.

Tribune News Service

Dylan musical 'Girl From the North Country' tour will debut in Minneapolis in 2023

MINNEAPOLIS — Fresh off being nominated for seven Tony Awards Monday, Broadway's "Girl From the North Country" has announced a national tour debuting in the state its songwriter, Bob Dylan, hails from.

Los Angeles Times

What the 2022 Tony nominations say about the state of Broadway

The 75th Tony nominations were announced Monday, nearly a week behind schedule, in a Broadway year still in the throes of the COVID-19 pandemic. Yes, things are markedly better. But for a season that began with a delta wave and finished with an omicron onslaught, timetables have had to be…

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