You don’t need to wait one day more to join the licensing revolution, because now the full-length version of LES MISÉRABLES is available to license in North America for a limited time, for performances starting in June 2013 (some regional ...

Thirty-one years ago this week, Broadway saw the last of MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG.Granted, the then-new 1981 Stephen Sondheim musical had a hard act to follow: SWEENEY TODD, the 1979 musical (or opera, if you insist) that most everyone agrees is the ...

“Fifty years from now, they'll still be arguing about the grassy knoll, the Mafia, some Cuban crouched behind a stockade fence.”So says Lee Harvey Oswald's role model in Assassins. And as of this week, the 49th anniversary of the assassination ...

At the York Theatre Company, Closer Than Ever closed last week, but after a much longer-than-ever expected run.The revival of the 1989 Richard Maltby, Jr.-David Shire revue that had opened on June 20 was originally scheduled to run merely through ...

While watching I DO! I DO! at the Covedale Center for the Performing Arts in Cincinnati, I thought of an advertising slogan that should be used when promoting the Tom Jones-Harvey Schmidt classic.“Marriage -- the way it used to be ... and the ...

So can the musical version of BIG work as a TYA production?Michael J. Bobbitt, the producing artistic director of the Adventure Theatre in Glen Echo, Maryland, thought so. To be sure, he was well aware of the potential dangers of putting John ...

The hearty applause started the moment after the first-act blackout. When the lights came up for intermission, however, a quick silence pervaded the NEXT TO NORMAL audience at the 4th Wall Theatre in Bloomfield, New Jersey.It’s the type of ...

The National Theatre’s production of Dr. Seuss's THE CAT IN THE HAT is a lively, engaging "play with sound effects" for performance by adults for young children. Not a word has been touched or added to Dr. Seuss’s classic, ensuring anyone who’s ...

At the height of the Great Depression, Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow went from two small-town nobodies in West Texas to America's most renowned folk heroes and the Texas law enforcement's worst nightmares. Fearless, shameless, and alluring, their ...

It was one of the quickest journeys from page to screen. Only 305 days after Erich Segal’s Love Story was published on Valentine’s Day, 1970, its film version debuted on Dec. 16, 1970. In between and beyond, the story of doomed Jennifer Cavilleri ...