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Hennepin Theatre Trust announces the 2024-2025 Bank of America Broadway on Hennepin season. Find out the exciting lineup of shows coming to Minneapolis. The lineup includes seven Minnesota premieres and four returning favorites, highlighted by recently announced pre-Broadway world premiere of Purple Rain at the historic State Theatre in 2025.

Disney’s Beauty and the Beast North American tour is set to premiere in June 2025.

The band recently announced that their new self-titled album set for release on January 19th, 2024. Featuring “We Need More Bricks” and recent singles “It Won't Be Like This Forever” and Take Me With You”, the new album encompasses everything Neck Deep have excelled at across their career, enhanced and dialed to eleven.

The tour will be making stops throughout the country, kicking off on January 25, 2024 in Nashville and visiting Orlando, Seattle, Minneapolis, Boston, Brooklyn and more, before wrapping up in Chicago on February 25. The last time Neck Deep toured the U.S. was in the Fall/Winter of 2021.

Neck Deep have shared their newest single “It Won't Be Like This Forever.”

The accompanying music video captivates the audience by giving us a garage performance from Neck Deep weaving the symbolism of paper airplanes into a colorful narrative that bridges the gap between distant hearts. The vibrant colored video (filled with fan favorite “easter eggs”) reminds people that they can persevere through difficulties.

Brisbane audiences will experience the romance of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast when the much-anticipated season of the hit musical opens in Brisbane in February 2024. Learn more about the musical and how to get tickets here!

Disney’s BEAUTY AND THE BEAST: THE MUSICAL returns to Sydney with a refreshed production incorporating new technology to entrance a new generation.

Experience the magic of Disney's new production of Beauty and the Beast with tickets for the much-anticipated Australian premiere season of the hit musical on pre-sale from 9am Monday 31st October 2022. Since announcing the Sydney season of Beauty, audiences have embraced the news resulting in one of the largest waitlists for tickets ever seen for a musical in Australia.

Disney Theatrical Productions Australia presents a glorious new production of Beauty and the Beast, which will have its premiere Australian season in Sydney from June 2023 at the Capitol Theatre. 

D23 Expo 2022 is back this fall (September 9-11) and Disney On Broadway will give fans a chance to immerse themselves in their favorite Disney musicals. Using virtual reality (VR) headsets, guests can participate in musical numbers from Aladdin, Frozen and The Lion King, including “Friend Like Me,” “Let It Go,” and “Circle of Life.”

Disney’s beloved Olivier Award-winning stage musical Beauty and the Beast - re-imagined and re-designed in a completely new production staged by members of the original award-winning creative team - is now open at the London Palladium for a strictly limited season until Saturday 17 September. Read all of the reviews for Beauty and the Beast here.

The tale as old as time returns to the West End. The 1991 animated film is doubtlessly one of the most beloved out of the Disney catalogue and saw a number of live-action films of varied quality developed over the years. Now, its musical adaptation takes over the Palladium in a grand spectacle directed and choreographed by Matt West. It’s big, it’s theatrical, it’s magical.

Disney on Broadway’s Reopening on TikTok Live won ‘Best Social Video Event & Live Stream’ and a People’s Choice Award in the 26th Annual Webby Awards, honoring best of the internet, it was announced today.

Broadway Media has announced the release of Choreography Guides, a new product platform that allows theatres around the globe the ability to obtain choreography performance rights to many popular musical theatre titles, including Disney's Beauty and the Beast, Legally Blonde, Hairspray, Kinky Boots and The Addams Family.

Disney’s beloved Olivier Award-winning stage musical Beauty and the Beast - re-imagined and re-designed in a completely new production staged by members of the original award-winning creative team - will come to London in Summer 2022, as part of its UK & Ireland Tour.

Disney's beloved Olivier Award-winning stage musical Beauty and the Beast - re-imagined and re-designed in a completely new production staged by members of the original award-winning creative team - will come to London in Summer 2022, as part of its UK & Ireland Tour.

Disney's beloved Olivier Award-winning stage musical Beauty and the Beast - re-imagined and re-designed in a completely new production staged by members of the original award-winning creative team – will come to Birmingham in 2022, as part of the recently opened UK & Ireland Tour.

Emmanuel Kojo has departed the touring production of Beauty and the Beast and is no longer represented by his agent.

Emmanuel Kojo has been suspended from the UK tour of Beauty and the Beast due to allegations that he made 'inappropriate comments to a female crew member.'