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Sweeney Todd: behind the blockbuster take on Sondheim’s Broadway hit

Stephen Sondheim’s darkly funny quasi-opera has been remounted as one of the year’s biggest new productions

The Guardian - US

Jodie Comer's Broadway show rakes in over £700k before opening to public

The Childwall-born star's show is at New York's John Golden Theatre after a sold-out stint in the West End

Liverpool Echo

Wicked’s Kristin Chenoweth Praises Ariana Grande While Playing Coy About A Possible Cameo

Broadway star Kristian Chenoweth praises Ariana Grande ahead of the release of Wicked, and plays coy about a potential cameo.

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Actress Jodie Comer's Broadway show rakes in over £700,000 even before opening to public

The stage show Prima Facie, starring Killing Eve's Jodie Comer, hasn't yet opened to the public but has still managed to draw in some £722,000 on the first seven days of previews alone

Daily Mirror

Patti LuPone says she was rejected from musical series Schmigadoon! for being ‘too old’

‘I so wanted to be in it!’ Broadway legend said

The Independent UK

White House recruits Edward Lee as state dinner guest chef

Korean American chef Edward Lee says food, at its best, tells a story

The Independent UK

The Ferguson Report: Donald Trump is the world’s most innocent criminal

The show-trials of former/future US President Donald Trump are the hottest anti-climax on Broadway, writes maven of mirth Tim Ferguson

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Review: ‘Peter Pan Goes Wrong’ takes flight on Broadway, and crashes hilariously

NEW YORK — Even without Neil Patrick Harris — a guest-star turn massively juicing up ticket sales for a few weeks — “Peter Pan Goes Wrong” will be a great night out for a family audience. The politically incorrect show is a total blast and one of the very few…

Chicago Tribune

Broadway legend Chita Rivera dances through her life in a new memoir

In Chita: A Memoir, Rivera recounts her career originating roles in major Broadway shows. Now 90, Rivera remembers West Side Story from the beginning: "I was there at the first flicker of the skirt!"

WEKU

Todd Haimes, who led a theater company to Broadway, dies

Todd Haimes, who led the Roundabout Theatre Company from an off-off-Broadway company teetering on the edge of bankruptcy into a major theatrical force with works on five stages — including three Broadway theaters — and dozens of Tony Awards, has died

The Independent UK

The Thanksgiving Play: Broadway’s funniest and most daring new comedy

After being told her work was ‘uncastable’, Indigenous playwright Larissa FastHorse set out to create a show featuring zero minority actors and wrote a scathing satire

The Guardian - US

#MeToo hasn’t always made for great art – but now there’s Jodie Comer’s Prima Facie

On Broadway, there wasn’t an empty seat in the house – and we finally saw how compelling stories of victimhood can be, says Guardian columnist Emma Brockes

The Guardian - UK

‘Beau Is Afraid’ review: Joaquin Phoenix tries to go home again. Even if it kills him

Guilty as charged! “Beau Is Afraid,” three hours of bleak wonderment that feels, well, like three hours of bleak wonderment, Beau Wassermann awaits the start of his latest therapy session with a look that suggests a man awaiting his executioner. Played to the clammy hilt by Joaquin Phoenix, Beau speaks…

Chicago Tribune

Broadway-bound ‘Ali’ musical to premiere in Muhammad Ali’s Kentucky hometown

NEW YORK — Theater audiences will get to float like a butterfly and sting like a bee when a new musical based on Muhammad Ali enters the ring.

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‘Waitress’ live recording, Alicia Keys film to premiere at Tribeca Festival

NEW YORK — The 2023 Tribeca Festival will serve up a live production recording of Broadway’s “Waitress” and a film exploring native New Yorker Alicia Keys’ songwriting camp, organizers announced Tuesday.

Los Angeles Times

As 'Phantom of the Opera' closes, Andrew Lloyd Webber says goodbye to son and show

After dedicating the final Broadway performance of "The Phantom of the Opera" to his late son Nicholas Lloyd Webber on Sunday, renowned composer Andrew Lloyd Webber publicly said goodbye to his eldest son and to the show in an essay about the future of Broadway.

Evening Standard

Andrew Lloyd Webber recalls final moments with his son Nick in emotional essay

The music composer declared it was ‘a season of goodbyes, personal and public’ after losing son Nick and bringing down the curtain on musical Phantom of the Opera on Broadway after 35 years

Salon

"Phantom of the Opera" welcomed outcasts

The legacy of the long-running show, which ended Sunday, included being your outrageous self

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Wicked: how to watch, awards, reviews, trailer, cast and everything we know about the musical

The hit Broadway musical Wicked is finally getting a big screen adaptation. Here is everything that we know about the anticipated 2024 movie.

Evening Standard

Lloyd Webber dedicates his final Phantom on Broadway to son who died of cancer

Andrew Lloyd Webber said Broadway’s current longest-running show The Phantom Of The Opera “probably” cost £800,000 a week to stage

Chicago Tribune

Review: ‘Camelot’ on Broadway is a chilly Lincoln Center revival, shorn of love and heart

NEW YORK — Just weeks after the assassination of John F. Kennedy in 1963, his grieving widow Jackie Kennedy quoted her late husband’s favorite Broadway musical in an interview in Life magazine: “Don’t let it be forgot, that once there was a spot, for one brief shining moment, that was…

Asharq Al-Awsat

‘The Phantom of the Opera’ Closes on Broadway after 35 Years

The final curtain came down Sunday on New York's production of “The Phantom of the Opera,” ending Broadway’s longest-running show with thunderous standing ovations, champagne toasts and gold and silver confetti bursting from its famous chandelier. It was show No. 13,981 at the Majestic Theatre and it ended with a…

The Independent UK

'The Phantom of the Opera' closes on Broadway after 35 years

The final curtain came down Sunday on New York’s production of “The Phantom of the Opera,” ending Broadway’s longest-running show with thunderous standing ovations, champagne toasts and gold confetti

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Wicked’s Ariana Grande And Cynthia Erivo Reveal First Looks First Looks At Witches Glinda And Elphaba In Broadway Musical Adaptation

Wicked stars Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande reveal the first looks at their characters, Elphaba and Glinda.

The Independent UK

The Phantom of the Opera to end its 35-year Broadway run this weekend

The hit musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber, which opened in 1988, has run for almost 14,000 performances

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