Plans are afoot for a Broadway musical based on the shambolic Willy Wonka Experience in Glasgow. It will be produced by Richard Kraft (right) and is set to launch next year.
Illinoise, the dance-musical based on Sufjan Stevens’ 2005 album Illinois, is headed to Broadway. The show opens at St. James Theatre on April 24, just in time for the Tonys cut-off date. Billed as a strictly limited engagement, the Broadway stint is set to wrap on August 10. Previous runs took place at Fisher Center at Bard, Park Avenue Armory, and Chicago Shakespeare Theater. The director, Justin Peck, who also choreographed the show and wrote it with Jackie Sibblies Drury, said in a press...
Every Broadway show has a souvenir stand for things like T-shirts and mugs. But at a new musical that opened this past week, they're selling boxes of tissues. "I guess this is one of the hottest little merch on Broadway, according to articles that I've been reading," said writer Nicholas Sparks. "It is a tissue box. It's got the logo of the play!"Sparks has published 24 romance novels, all bestsellers. They've sold 130 million copies and been made into 11 movies. But the very first one he...
Although The Matrix came out two years before Spike Lee famously coined the term “magical, mystical Negro” in 2001, it successfully inverted the potential fulfillment of that trope. Morpheus was undoubtedly a self-sacrificing guide to Neo. but it was Morpheus’ confidence, the weight of respect his character’s presence inspired throughout the film’s world. Kobi Libii’s debut feature, The American Society Of Magical Negroes, attempts a different approach to subverting the trope, by conceptually...
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VCUarts Theatre will present Disney’s Descendants: The Musical, bringing this popular film to the stage in Richmond.
Featuring songs from the world of showbiz including from the musicals Les Miserables, 42nd Street, Monty Python’s Spamalot, The Wizard of Oz, South Pacific, Oklahoma!, The Sound of Music and songs made famous by Michael Bublé, Nat King Cole and Frank Sinatra. The sixty strong choir has just released a new album and has a packed 2024 schedule ahead. Performing in venues throughout Leeds and the North of England the choir will also undertake a four-day tour of Prague in the autumn. In recent years...
The American Society of Magical Negroes, 2024. Written and Directed by Kobi Libii. Starring Justice Smith, David Alan Grier, An-Li Bogan, Drew Tarver, Michaela Watkins, Rupert Friend, Nicole Byer, Aisha Hinds, Tim Baltz, Mia Ford, Eric Lutz, Kees DeVos, Chase Ryan Jeffery, Moe Irvin, Ethan Herisse, Nozipho Mclean, Isayas Theodros, Aaron Jennings, Jeremiah Birkett, Gillian […] From blockbuster Hollywood movies to independent and British cinema, Flickering Myth has you covered. Read the original...
Top Broadway songwriters and producers have announced they are working on a musical parody of the viral event
As Daltrey prepares to step down from the Teenage Cancer Trust, there’s not only life in the old dogs yet but also power, purpose and vision
This image released by Mack Avenue Music Group shows "But Who’s Gonna Play The Melody?" by Christian McBride with Edgar Meyer. (Mack Avenue Music Group via AP)
The proceedings have the pacing of a pachyderm.