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A special event was held recently for press to meet the Chita Rivera Awards nominees. BroadwayWorld was there and you can check out photos here!

The Heart of Rock and Roll is beating on Broadway as the bright new jukebox musical of the same name opens at the James Earl Jones! Theatre. Read the reviews as the critics react!

Get a first look at the new Broadway musical The Heart of Rock and Roll, as new photos and video have been released ahead of the show's April 22nd Opening Night.

Ahead of its first preview this Friday, The Heart of Rock and Roll has announced its digital lottery and rush policies. Learn how to get discounted tickets for The Heart of Rock and Roll here!

The Heart of Rock and Roll, the new musical inspired by the iconic songs written and performed by Huey Lewis and The News, officially begins previews tonight, March 29. The musical  will open at The James Earl Jones Theatre on Monday, April 22. Meet the cast of The Heart of Rock and Roll here!

McKenzie Kurtz appeared on Late Night With Jimmy Kimmel to perform 'It Hit Me Like A Hammer' from The Heart of Rock & Roll. Kimmel sat down with Huey Lewis to discuss how the musical is 'significantly' different from it's pre-Broadway run. The televised Broadway performance is a rarity for Kimmel's LA-based talk show. Watch the video now!

Check out the latest video as THE HEART OF ROCK AND ROLL takes center stage at the James Earl Jones Theatre.

Rehearsals are now underway for The Heart of Rock and Roll, which is set to begin previews on March 29th, 2024. Check out photos of the Broadway marquee!

Rehearsals are now underway for The Heart of Rock and Roll, which is set to begin previews on March 29th, 2024. Check out all new photos from the show's first rehearsal here! 

Huey Lewis was on hand for the opening of the box office for the upcoming new musical The Heart of Rock and Roll. BroadwayWorld was there for the box office opening and appearance. Check out photos here!

The full cast has been revealed for the upcoming Broadway production of The Heart of Rock and Roll, the new musical inspired by the iconic songs written and performed by Huey Lewis and The News. Find out who is starring in the musical here!

What did our critic think of A CHRISTMAS CAROL: A MUSICAL GHOST STORY at North Shore Music Theatre?

See photos of A CHRISTMAS CAROL: A MUSCAL GHOST STORY playing at North Shore Music Theatre thru December 23.

What did our critic think of ELVIS: A MUSICAL REVOLUTION at North Shore Music Theatre?

ELVIS: A MUSICAL REVOLUTION is coming to North Shore Music Theatre. Experience the authorized bio-musical about the iconic Elvis Presley, featuring over 40 of his hits. Don't miss this New England premiere!

The Fulton Theatre has announced the highly anticipated production of the uproarious musical comedy, Something Rotten! This Tony Award-nominated hit will open the Fulton’s 2023/24 Mainstage season, and is set to captivate audiences with its show-stopping musical numbers, hilarious one-liners, and energetic and colorful stage design, beginning on September 15, 2023 with previews September 13 and 14.

The record crowd who came out to fill the Brunswick Mall and celebrate the final week of the theatre company’s 2023 season were treated to a summer’s evening of joyful song, performed by the stars of SOMETHING ROTTEN! (the current main stage production) and the MSMT Singers. The concert, presented in conjunction with the Brunswick Downtown Association and funded in part by a gift from the Maine Arts Commission, featured sixteen selections from the musical theatre repertoire and was emceed by MSMT Artistic Director Curt Dale Clark with his customary flair.

Dancing omelettes, a zany soothsayer, THE Bard of English theatre, and a ragtag troupe of Renaissance actors struggling to survive all share the Maine State Music Theatre stage in dizzying profusion in the final main stage production of the season: SOMETHING ROTTEN! - an outrageously funny, simultaneously urbane and plebeian send up and homage to classical theatre and that unique genre the MUSICAL. The stylish and brilliant co-production with Lancaster’s Fulton Theatre, directed by Marc Robin, creates an entirely new imaginary universe, a world at the intersection of Elizabethan England and modern American musical theatre – part Renaissance Faire (on steroids), part Monty Python at their most hilarious. The evening, which is filled with endearing characters, showstopping song and dance numbers, comedy fueled by allusions, puns, slapstick, scatological jokes, and occasionally even poetry, is pure entertainment. No one will need to “brush up his Shakespeare” or be able to “name that tune” in order to come away from SOMETHING ROTTEN! thoroughly exhilarated and brimming with joy.

Maine State Music Theatre’s new production of 9 TO 5 THE MUSICAL with Dolly Parton’s pulsating score is a high energy, hilarious madcap misadventure that somehow also manages to ring uncannily true. Both a period piece and a contemporary one, this tale of women in the workplace is propelled by zany humor, but also fueled by the empathetic characters at its core. The trio of women embattled with their narcissistic boss are - as Parton, herself, phrased it “just a step on the boss man's ladder” - and yet they sing and dance their way into our hearts in an evening filled with laughter and warmth.