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Review: 'Up Here' and 'Schmigadoon!' try to capture magic of musicals on TV. Only one succeeds

Audiences adore singing cats, Founding Fathers and wicked witches — as long as you don't build a TV series around them. Yes, there have been successful musical-comedy series. But for every "Glee" success there are seven "Cop Rock" flops.

Tribune News Service

Review: ‘Sweeney Todd’ on Broadway lets Sondheim’s tragedy howl. It will be a hot ticket

NEW YORK — Many Broadway revivals of musicals from decades past insist on revising, reconsidering and imposing. Thomas Kail’s triumphant revival of “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street” does none of that. At once funny, scary and disarmingly moving, this must-see production is content to peel back any…

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Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street review – dazzling Broadway revival

Josh Groban and Annaleigh Ashford play Stephen Sondheim’s murderous Victorian couple in a bold and barnstorming take

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Nicholas Lloyd Webber, son of legendary Broadway musical composer, dies at 43

Webber, the famed composer, missed the Broadway opening Thursday of his “Bad Cinderella” to be at his son’s side with other loved ones.

Chicago Sun-Times

Lea Michele shares update on son’s health after ‘scary’ hospital visit

The singer will return to the Broadway stage this weekend

The Independent UK

Broadway’s ‘Bad Cinderella’ gets lost in the woods

The show that opened Thursday in New York is a hyped-up, over-caffeinated fractured fairy tale that loses its way in the forest and wastes some of the nicest melodies Andrew Lloyd Webber has written in decades.

Chicago Sun-Times

Bad Cinderella review – Andrew Lloyd Webber’s chaotic musical hits Broadway

The infamous ‘costly mistake’ has made its way to the US and while hardly the revisionist take it aims to be, there’s some sprightly fun to be had

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Josh Segarra is becoming a Hollywood go-to scene-stealer

Josh Segarra is one of Hollywood's rising stars thanks to a list of memorable credits including roles on HBO Max's “The Other Two” and Broadway's “On Your Feet!”

The Independent UK

Short-Lived NBC Drama ‘Smash’ Headed to Broadway

Spielberg, Robert Greenblatt behind stage production

Broadcasting & Cable

Lea Michele’s two-year-old son hospitalised for ‘scary health issue’

The Broadway actor shared that she will be missing Wednesday’s performances of ‘Funny Girl’

The Independent UK

Steven Spielberg bringing stage adaptation of beloved NBC series ‘Smash’ to Broadway

NEW YORK — Steven Spielberg is bringing “Smash” to Broadway.

Tribune News Service

Danny DeVito to return to Broadway with daughter Lucy in Theresa Rebeck’s ‘I Need That’

NEW YORK — Danny Devito will make his Broadway return in a new play that will also be a family affair.

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Smash: NBC musical drama is finally coming to Broadway from producer Steven Spielberg

Fans have been asking for a stage adaptation since series ended in 2013

The Independent UK

Once a TV show, 'Smash' to make its Broadway bow in 2024

The glitzy, fictional Broadway musical about the life of Marilyn Monroe that formed the heart of the TV show “Smash” will make the leap to an actual Broadway stage next season

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Chicago Tribune

Review: ‘Bob Fosse’s Dancin'’ on Broadway is a fascinating if conflicted ‘70s throwback

NEW YORK — Dancers are athletes; it’s just that America doesn’t always see.

The Independent UK

Andrew Lloyd Webber to miss Bad Cinderella Broadway opening with son Nick ‘critically ill’ in hospital

‘My place is with him and the family,’ said the composer

ABC News

In The Room with Lin-Manuel Miranda, the generous genius behind the runaway success, Hamilton

I've never been more hit up by people for tickets or access to somebody I was interviewing than in the lead up to Lin-Manuel Miranda – and I've sat down with Paul McCartney and Elton John, writes Leigh Sales.

Chicago Tribune

Review: In Broadway revival of ‘Parade,’ a story of Southern antisemitism remains too much on the surface

NEW YORK — At the new Broadway production of “Parade,” the customary recorded admonition to silence cellphones is delivered by no less a personage than Raphael Warnock, the U.S. senator from Georgia.

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Parade review – resonant, beautifully performed Broadway revival

The Broadway transfer of the first major New York revival for the 1998 musical features luminous turns from Ben Platt and Micaela Diamond

Chicago Tribune

Review: ‘A Doll’s House’ on Broadway with Jessica Chastain and Michael Patrick Thornton: It’s all in your head

NEW YORK — Experiencing the fascinating new revival of Henrik Ibsen’s “A Doll’s House,” which reduces the iconic proto-feminist drama to its barest thematic essentials, is not unlike listening to a podcast. For anyone interested in Broadway trends, here is a remarkable example of how the rise of Audible and…

Evening Standard

Broadway hit MJ the Musical to come to the West End

The show about pop star Michael Jackson opens at the Prince Edward Theatre in London on March 6, 2024

Chicago Sun-Times

Chaim Topol, starred as Tevye in ‘Fiddler on the Roof,’ dies at 87

After years of playing Tevye on stage in London and on Broadway, he scored the lead role in the 1971 Norman Jewison-directed film version, winning the Golden Globe award for lead actor and being nominated for a best actor Academy Award.

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She’s gone from North Carolina to Broadway, HBO Max and sold-out concerts. But is she happy?

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — If you were to try to imagine in your head what life as an entertainment star might look like, it could conceivably manifest as something along the lines of where Reneé Rapp is right now.

Evening Standard

Bonnie & Clyde at Garrick Theatre review: suffers from a criminal lack of focus

This Broadway musical is too glib to be serious and too po-faced to be a spoof

The Philadelphia Inquirer

New theater company is creating productions for children with disabilities

PHILADELPHIA — Sarah Gordin's love for theater bloomed the moment she saw "Beauty and the Beast" on Broadway.

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