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Directed and choreographed by Justin Peck, the musical based on the album Illinois will run for 16 weeks beginning April 24 Broadway audiences will be making noise for Sufjan Stevens‘ Illinoise when the play arrives for its limited engagement beginning in April. The musical — based on Stevens’ 2005 concept album Illinois — will run for 16 weeks under director and choreographer Justin Peck, who crafted its story with Jackie Sibblies Drury. Illinoise will make itself at home at the St. James…

Casting notices for production hint that acclaimed prequel play to hit Netflix series could open in New York City in 2025 Three months after Stranger Things: The First Shadow opened in London, the stage play based on the hit Netflix series is already plotting its move to Broadway. According to Broadway World, casting notices for the Broadway run of the acclaimed play have already been posted, with an estimated opening date sometime in 2025. Like the London production, Stephen Daldry is listed…

TRVE Brewing, which opened in Denver in 2012 with a tiny three-barrel brewing system and a big personality, said Wednesday that it will stop making beer at the large off-site production facility it added in 2015 — a non-public-facing building known as the Acid Temple — and shift all of its Colorado production to New Image Brewing in Wheat Ridge The heavy-metal-themed brewery will keep its taproom open, at 227 Broadway, however. Plans are also on track for a second taproom, opening later this year next to the Mission…

Lynda Gravátt, the Harlem-born actress who starred on New York stages in such productions as 45 Seconds From Broadway, Doubt, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Old Settler and Intimate Apparel, has died. She was 76. Gravátt died Friday at a hospital in New Brunswick, New Jersey, her son David Gravátt told The Hollywood Reporter. A founding member of Robert Alexander’s Living Stage at the famed Washington-based Arena Stage company, Gravátt received a 1999 Theatre World trophy for her performance as 1940s…

Posted in: Comics, Heritage Sponsored, Vintage Paper | Tagged: Bill Ward, quality comics, Romance ComicsOne of Quality Comics' themed romance titles, Broadway Romance #1 features Bill Ward cover and art and well-crafted stories about love on Broadway.Article Summary Bill Ward's stand-out cover art for Broadway Romances #1 is one of Quality Comics' best. The sophisticated themes of Quality's 1940s-50s romance era are on display this issue. Quality Comics was publishing 14 romance titles at the peak of…

Rita McKenzie, the actress and singer best known for her boisterous performances in the one-woman show Ethel Merman’s Broadway, died Saturday in Los Angeles after a long illness, her husband, talent agent Scott Stander, announced. She was 76. McKenzie first starred on stage as the powerful Merman — star of such iconic Broadway hits as Anything Goes, Annie Get Your Gun, Gypsy and Hello, Dolly! — in New York in 1988. Belting out tunes like “There’s No Business Like Show Business,” “I Got Rhythm”…

Starting Tuesday, “The Wiz” wraps its 13-city tour with three weeks of performances at the Hollywood Pantages Theatre. The visually magnificent, dance-driven, Black musical translation of L. Frank Baum’s “The Wizard of Oz” will then play a limited run on Broadway and, later, kick off a second national tour. Rarely does a musical “ease on down the road” to Broadway in way this “Wiz” plans to. Productions usually premiere there after no more than a few developmental runs off-Broadway or at regional theaters outside New…

I t’s a chilly Sunday night in Manhattan’s West Village and somehow the hottest ticket in town involves a sexually repressed Abraham Lincoln, hoop skirts, and comedian Cole Escola in a wildly convincing nineteenth-century wig.  There’s a line down the block outside the Lucille Lortel Theatre, and inside, the energy builds as patrons make their way through packed halls and walkways to their seats. Queer isn’t just a vibe here, it’s built into the streets — just three blocks from the Stonewall Inn — etched…

On January 30th tragedy struck when Broadway legend Chita Rivera passed away due to a brief illness. A pioneer for other Latina stars on the Broadway stage, Rivera was known for originating the role of Anita in the original 1957 West Side Story production and starring in other hit shows where she made a name for herself. Lin-Manuel Miranda, who you recognize from the original cast of Hamilton, penned a tribute to the late theater star along with President Biden and more.Not only was Lin-Manuel Miranda a huge fan of Chita…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeDreamgirls actor Hinton Battle, the multiple Tony award winner who played The Scarecrow in Broadway’s The Wiz, has died aged 67.The screen and stage actor died on Tuesday (30 January) at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.A representative for the family said he died after a lengthy illness, but declined to confirm Battle’s cause of death, in a statement to The Hollywood…