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LET IT BE Extends To January 2014 At Savoy Theatre

LET IT BE, the spectacular West End show celebrating the music of The Beatles has announced an extension to its current run at the Savoy Theatre in London following an announcement last week that a production will also open on Broadway in July this year. The show is now booking until 18 January 2014. The show has established itself as one of the West End's most popular shows since it premiered in September 2012. (more...)

Man Survives Fall Onto Broadway's Lyceum Theatre Marquee

According to the NY Post, a man survived with minor injuries after falling out of a window above Broadway's Lyceum Theater this afternoon, May 19. He landed on the marquee, as reported by fire officials, just 2 or 3 feet down from the window. (more...)

ATG Expected to Buy Broadway's Foxwoods Theater, Home of SPIDER-MAN, for $70 Million

According to The Telegraph, Broadway's Foxwoods Theater could soon be purchased by the UK-based Ambassador Theater Group, which owns around 40 theaters across the pond. Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark currently runs at the Foxwoods. (more...)

BWW Interviews: Deborah Boily Talks Cabaret, Career, and Concert

Deborah Boily is preparing for her cabaret performance of DEBORAH BOILY - ONE NIGHT ONLY. (more...)

Photo Flash: Miss NY, ANNIE Orphans and More Perform at West Side YMCA Benefit

On Monday May 13th, the Marjorie S. Deane Little Theater in the historic West Side YMCA played host to a completely sold out crowd for their 3rd annual 'Little Theater, Big Dreams' benefit cabaret. Scroll down for photos from the evening! (more...)

Photo Flash: Tony Nominee Phillip Boykin Performs at GIVE MY REGARDS TO BROADWAY! in Morristown

Two standing ovations and a packed house greeted Tony and Grammy Award-nominee Phillip Boykin as he joined a slew of stars to salute a Century of Broadway Showstoppers in GIVE MY REGARDS TO Broadway! on Saturday, May 11, 2013, 7:30 pm, at the Morris Museum's Bickford Theatre, 6 Normandy Heights Road, in Morristown, NJ. Scroll down for photos from the benefit below! (more...)

SPECIAL COVERAGE: All the 2013 Drama Desk Award Winners - MATILDA, VANYA AND SONIA, PIPPIN, VIRGINIA WOOLF and More!

The 58th Annual Drama Desk take place tonight, May 19th at Town Hall (123 W. 43rd Street). BroadwayWorld will be updating the list of winners live, so be sure to check back to stay in the know! (more...)

STAGE TUBE: On This Day 5/19 - SHOW BOAT

Today in 1946, the second Broadway revival of Showboat opened at the Ziegfeld Theatre, and ran for 418 performances. Show Boat is a musical in two acts with music by Jerome Kern and book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II. It was originally produced in New York in 1927 and in London in 1928, and was based on the 1926 novel of the same name by Edna Ferber. The plot chronicles the lives of those living and working on the Cotton Blossom, a Mississippi River show boat, from 1880 to 1927. The show's dominant themes include racial prejudice and tragic, enduring love. (more...)

Top Stories You Missed on BWW This Weekend

Hottest Articles on BroadwayWorld.com from this weekend Sunday, May 19, 2013 - Sunday, May 19, 2013. (more...)

Now Playing Onstage in Ft. Myers/Naples - Week of 5/19/2013

Upcoming Shows - Week of 5/19/2013 for Ft. Myers/Naples (more...)

STAGE TUBE: KINKY BOOTS Media Montage - Billy Porter, Cyndi Lauper and More!

The Tony nominated Kinky Boots put together a montage of the media craze since the announcement of its 12 nominations last month. Click below to watch interviews and clips featuring stars Stark Sands and Billy Porter, and the musical's creative team, including Cyndi Lauper, Harvey Fierstein and more! (more...)

GEFILTE FISH CHRONICLES THE MUSICAL to Play the White House, 5/21

In celebration of the eighth annual Jewish American Heritage Month, the White House will be hosting on Tuesday, May 21st, a staging of the critically acclaimed 'The Gefilte Fish Chronicles the Musical'. (more...)

Tenafly HS Alumni to Return Home for GUYS AND DOLLS Benefit Performance, 6/9

On Sunday evening, June 9th at 7pm, this unforgettable, one-night-only benefit will support the arts at Tenafly High School - refurbish Collins & Tall Auditorium and launch a Performing Arts Endowment. (more...)

Ripple Effect Artists' TWELFTH NIGHT to Benefit Freedom to Marry, 6/20-30

Spend a summer night at Twelfth Night presented by Ripple Effect Artists, Thursday - Sunday: June 20 - 23 and Wednesday - Sunday: June 26 - 30. Ripple Effect Artists take on Shakespeare's raucous romantic comedy,Twelfth Night, about two shipwrecked twins - Viola and Sebastian - and the mischief they create. (more...)

Ringwald Theatre Announces 2013 Gay Play Series Lineup, 6/7-24

The Ringwald Theatre has announced the 4th installment of its wildly popular Gay Play Series (GPS). Last year's outing was attended by hundreds of people over a two weekend period. This year the program will run three consecutive weekends and will feature a two-week run of the past three winning scripts, a serialized staged reading of a beloved classic, a new one-woman show, a brand new cabaret, and performances of 8 new, one act LGBT plays. (more...)

Photo Flash: First Look at Hampton Theater's HOW THE OTHER HALF LOVES

Three couples, an indiscretion, a cover-up, accusations and crumbling alibis on overlapping sets all lead to confusion and uproarious comedy in the Hampton Theatre Company's revival of Alan Ayckbourn's 'How The Other Half Loves,' opening on May 23 for a three-week run in Quogue. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the cast onstage below! (more...)

BRAVO@KAT to Stage FIDDLER ON THE ROOF JR., 6/8-9

What possibly could be said or written about a production of FIDDLER ON THE ROOF Jr. that hasn't already been announced countless times? Probably nothing except the one word 'tradition' and that's the lasting essence of this theatrical phenomenon on two levels for this BRAVO@KAT student production. The show retells the ethnic traditions of a specific family but it has universal appeal. The 'tradition' here is a dual one because it includes the re-enactment of the cherished Broadway tradition of teaching new generations of American children the theatrical classics of our culture. (more...)

BWW Reviews: LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS at The Vex Buds But Doesn't Bloom

Early on in Little Shop of Horrors, the crowd favorite musical now playing at the Sheldon Vexler Theatre, forlorn florist Seymour Krelborn begs his strange and interesting but dying new plant, dubbed the Audrey II, to bloom. The same pleas could be asked of the show. While bolstered by some talented and gifted performers, this production sadly remains a seedling that doesn't completely sprout. (more...)

SIGNS OF LIFE Gets Staged Reading at American University, 6/1-2

Snap-Two Productions, Inc. and LimanAde Productions in association with Issembert Productions, Inc. will present a staged reading of the new drama with music, Signs of Life, at American University in the Katzen Arts Center Studio Theatre on June 1 at 7:00 P.M. and June 2 at 1:00 P.M. The performances will feature American University alumni, current students and a student from BRAVO@KAT, the children's wing of Kensington Arts Theatre. This is the first academic production of Signs of Life. (more...)

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