Archive for 2019

Don’t feed the plants, but do listen to this album!

The Off-Broadway revival of Howard Ashman and Alan Menken’s Little Shop of Horrors, directed by Tony winner Michael Mayer, will now continue through March 8, 2020, at the Westside Theatre.

Original West End cast members Andrew Burnap, John Benjamin Hickey, Samuel H. Levine, and Kyle Soller reprise their performances in the two-part epic.

The eagerly anticipated return engagement of the wintertime spectacle Slava’s Snowshow opens at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre on November 13.

Hadestown, the Tony-Winning Best New Musical, has become the first musical of the 2018-2019 Broadway season to recoup its initial investment of $11.5M, producers said today.

The theatrical spectacle Slava’s Snowshow begins its return holiday engagement on November 11 at Broadway’s Stephen Sondheim Theatre.

The Off-Broadway revival of Howard Ashman and Alan Menken’s Little Shop of Horrors, directed by Tony winner Michael Mayer, opens at the Westside Theatre October 17.

Part 2 of the Broadway premiere of Matthew Lopez’s epic drama The Inheritance begins performances at the Barrymore Theatre tonight.

On the heels of an Olivier-winning West End production and a premiere at London’s Young Vic, the acclaimed two-part play The Inheritance by Matthew Lopez arrives at Broadway’s Barrymore Theatre on September 27.

The Howard Ashman and Alan Menken musical is back for a limited run directed by Michael Mayer.

Little Shop of Horrors has announced that it is extending eight additional weeks, through January 19, 2020!

The Olivier Award-winning spectacle, known for its climactic blizzard, will follow Beautiful: The Carole King Musical into the Stephen Sondheim Theatre.

The musical will embark on a tour in 2020.

The Terrence McNally play, starring Audra McDonald and Michael Shannon, wraps up its limited run.

The Alan Menken and Howard Ashman musical will return to Off-Broadway.

The national tour of the Broadway musical Anastasia, which kicked off last fall in Schenectady, New York, has added an additional 25 cities to its itinerary through summer 2020.

Producers announced on Monday that Terrence McNally’s Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune will play its final performance on Sunday, July 28, 2019 at the Broadhurst Theatre.

Anaïs Mitchell’s Hadestown ruled the 73rd annual Tony Awards winning eight of the 14 awards they were nominated for including Best Musical and Best Direction of a Musical.

Matthew Lopez’s U.K. hit will play the Ethel Barrymore Theatre.

The double album will feature, in total, 40 tracks spanning over two hours.

Uplift program supervisor Kayla Greenspan, who is also serving as a co-producer on “Frankie and Johnny,” said producers are ultimately the people who decide what shows are funded and what stories are told through theater.

Tony nominees Hadestown, The Ferryman and Bryan Cranston for his performance in Network took top honors at the 85th annual Drama League Awards, which were unveiled at a gala luncheon Friday at the Marriott Marquis Times Square.

“It doesn’t need to be great quality, but if it’s a musical we need to be able to hear a few songs.”  ~Kayla Greenspan, Producing Associate, TBD Productions

Winners are here for the 69th annual Outer Critics Circle Awards, honoring the best theater on, off- and off-off-Broadway in the 2018-2019 season.

Entering awards season with the most nominations is Hadestown, which earned a total of 14 nominations.

Leading the list with 12 nominations is Hadestown.

The Drama League has announced the 2019 Drama League Awards nominees for Outstanding Production of a Play, Outstanding Revival of a Play, Outstanding Production of a Musical, Outstanding Revival of a Musical and the much-coveted Distinguished Performance Award.

Hadestown, a modern reimagining of the legend of Orpheus and his quest to Hades to rescue his beloved Eurydice, officially opens on Broadway April 17 at the Walter Kerr Theatre.

The “Road to Hell” begins tonight…

Broadway’s upcoming revival of Terrence McNally’s Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune starring Audra McDonald and Michael Shannon has a home and opening date.

The musical, based on a 1997 animated film of the same name about the mystery of the missing Romanov princess who many believed survived the Bolshevik revolution, will play its final Broadway performance on March 31, producers announced Tuesday.

Audra McDonald, the six-time Tony-winning actress, will return to Broadway this spring opposite Michael Shannon in a revival of Terrence McNally’s “Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune.”