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Interview: Executive Director Eric Olmscheid Speaks on Wharton Center's 2025-26 Broadway Series
by Stefani Chudnow - Mar 3, 2025

East Lansing’s Wharton Center has officially announced their 2025-26 Broadway series. The season ticket package includes A Beautiful Noise, The Wiz, Back to the Future, Kimberly Akimbo, Clue & Juliet, Beauty and the Beast and Hadestown. 

Review: PRETTY WOMAN THE MUSICAL at Reynolds Performance Hall
by Theresa Bertram - Feb 28, 2025

PRETTY WOMAN: THE MUSICAL walked down the street to Reynolds Performance Hall in Conway on Sunday, March 23, bringing with it all the romance and glamour of the beloved film with Book by Garry Marshall and J.F. Lawton. The touring production dazzled the audience with its dynamic performances and a score by Grammy Award winner Bryan Adams and Jim Vallance that infused the classic love story with fresh, rock-infused energy. 

Review: LES MISERABLES Makes a Triumphant Return to the Eccles Theater
by Tyler Hinton - Feb 28, 2025

The national tour of LES MISERABLES, currently playing at the Eccles Theater in Salt Lake City, is a tremendous production that was so well received here in 2023 that it demanded a triumphant return.

Review: HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD at Hollywood Pantages
by Evan Henerson - Feb 28, 2025

This CURSED CHILD is a banquet of magical delights that also happens to be a crackling good story, which should delight series neophytes and Potter-lovers alike.

Interview: 'I'm Not a Horror Fan': Actor James Daly on Injuries, Superstitions and Bringing DRACULA, A COMEDY OF TERRORS to London
by Kat Mokrynski - Feb 27, 2025

After a run off-Broadway at New World Stages, Dracula, A Comedy of Terrors is flying into the West End, landing at the Menier Chocolate Factory in March. The show is a ninety-minute comedic adaptation of the Bram Stoker classic, which follows the story of the vampire Dracula. Expect lots of multi-roling, quick-changes, gender-bending and laughters as Dracula and the rest of the characters travel to and from Transylvania and the UK!

Review: SHUCKED at The National Theatre
by Tavish Young - Feb 27, 2025

A real treat, and going soon, Shucked is a conventional but still fresh musical riding into town from Broadway on a tractor.

Review: & JULIET Rewrites a Classic in Rhode Island
by Andria Tieman - Feb 26, 2025

& Juliet is a reimagining of the Romeo and Juliet story where — rather than kill herself —Juliet reconsiders her hasty relationship with Romeo, and instead goes off on an adventure with her friends. This show features the songs of Swedish super producer/ songwriter Max Martin, who may not be a known name to everyone, but who has been responsible for most of the most popular songs of the past 20 years including hits from Britney Spears, Backstreet Boys and Katy Perry.

Photos: BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB On Broadway
by A.A. Cristi - Feb 21, 2025

Get a first look at BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB on Broadway in new photos from the show! Inspired by true events, the new Broadway musical brings the GRAMMY Award winning album to life—and tells the story of the legends who lived it.

Interview: Hazel Vogel of ANNIE at Segerstrom Center For The Arts
by Melissa Heckscher - Feb 20, 2025

What’s it like to be on tour as America’s favorite Tomorrow-loving redhead? Fellow tweens (and aspiring Broadway actresses themselves) sat down with ANNIE's Hazel Vogel to find out. 

Review: OLD FRIENDS at Ahmanson Theatre
by Evan Henerson - Feb 20, 2025

To watch these singers perform these numbers is to dream about entire revivals of Sondheim shows built around some of these actors, maybe even productions that have their genesis at the Ahmanson.

Review: COME FROM AWAY at Van Wezel
by Jacob Ruscoe - Feb 19, 2025

Do you ever go see a show and know you will be on your feet for a standing ovation the minute the last chord sounds? I have now seen Come From Away 7 times including last year at the Van Wezel and it simply never gets old. It is powerful. It stirs your soul

Photos: Broadway-Bound Stephen Sondheim's OLD FRIENDS Opens At Center Theater Group LA
by A.A. Cristi - Feb 14, 2025

Cameron Mackintosh's production of Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends, starring two-time Tony Award winner Bernadette Peters and Tony Award winner Lea Salonga opens tonight, at Center Theatre Group in Los Angeles. Check out new production photos featuring the star-studded cast!

Review: SOME LIKE IT HOT at ASU Gammage
by Herbert Paine - Feb 12, 2025

It’s always a risk to transplant a beloved classic film to the stage, particularly when that film is one so thoroughly embedded in its time as SOME LIKE IT HOT. Yet this latest Broadway adaptation, now performing at ASU Gammage until the 16th, with kinetic direction and crowd-pleasing choreography by Casey Nicholaw, not only succeeds in updating the story but breathes new, surprising life into its proceedings.

Interview: Playwright Larissa FastHorse on FAKE IT UNTIL YOU MAKE IT
by Shari Barrett - Feb 11, 2025

Center Theatre Group is presenting the world premiere of Fake It Until You Make It, a farce by LA based Larissa FastHorse (pictured), the first Native American playwright to be featured at the Mark Taper Forum through March 9. I decided to speak with her about her life in the Sicangu Lakota Nation and the creation of the play.

Photos: STEPHEN SONDHEIM’S OLD FRIENDS New Rehearsal Shots Plus New Cast Members Join
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Feb 7, 2025

Center Theatre Group will present the North American premiere of Cameron Mackintosh’s production of Stephen Sondheim’s Old Friends, starring two-time Tony Award winner Bernadette Peters and Tony Award winner Lea Salonga. See new rehearsal photos here!

Photos: First Look at REDWOOD With Idina Menzel, De’Adre Aziza & More
by Michael Major - Feb 7, 2025

A first look at Idina Menzel in Redwood on Broadway has arrived. The new photos feature De’Adre Aziza, Michael Park, Zachary Noah Piser, and Khaila Wilcoxon in the new musical, now in previews at the Nederlander Theatre.

Photos: DAKAR 2000 By Rajiv Joseph Gets Manhattan Theatre Club World Premiere
by A.A. Cristi - Feb 5, 2025

Performances begin tonight, Wednesday, February 5 for the Manhattan Theatre Club world premiere of Dakar 2000, written by Pulitzer Prize finalist and two-time Obie Award winner Rajiv Joseph and directed by May Adrales. Check out photos from the production.

Photos: Joey Fatone Joins the Cast of & JULIET on Broadway
by Stephi Wild - Feb 5, 2025

All new production photos have been released from & Juliet on Broadway featuring NSYNC star, Joey Fatone. Fatone will play a limited engagement through March 16, 2025. Check out the photos below!

Photos: DRAG: THE MUSICAL Releases New Look At JIMBO and Adam Pascal
by A.A. Cristi - Feb 4, 2025

Check out brand new photos of JIMBO and Adam Pascal in DRAG: The Musical, playing now at New World Stages. JIMBO plays their final performance as Kitty Galloway on February 7, 2025.

Photos: Andy Karl, Pepe Muñoz and Samantha Dodemaide in MOULIN ROUGE! THE MUSICAL
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Feb 4, 2025

You can now get a first look at  Tony Award nominee Andy Karl, Pepe Muñoz and Samantha Dodemaide in the Broadway production of MOULIN ROUGE! THE MUSICAL. See photos here!