A cult horror film about a teenage girl with a surprise set of chompers gets another surprise: the song-and-dance treatment.
Category: Theater
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‘Illinoise,’ a Sufjan Stevens Dance Musical, Is Moving to Broadway
The production will make its transfer unusually fast, with an opening set for April 24, just 29 days after it wraps up a sold-out run at the Park Avenue Armory.
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By Day, He’s a Recruiter at LVMH. At Night, He Portrays Anna Wintour.
In a trio of shows about prominent women in media, Ryan Raftery portrays the Vogue editor, as well as Martha Stewart and Kris Jenner.
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How Ingrid Michaelson Made ‘The Notebook’ Into a Musical
Family history is “wrapped up in these songs,” said the singer-songwriter Ingrid Michaelson, who is making the leap to Broadway with an adaptation of the popular romance novel.
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Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal to Lead Broadway ‘Othello’
Kenny Leon will direct a starry revival of Shakespeare’s tragedy in the spring of 2025.
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Bringing ‘Teeth,’ a Feminist Awakening With a Lethal Bite, to the Stage
Michael R. Jackson is helping adapt the darkly comic horror film into a musical. But can a show about a teenager with vagina dentata sing?
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Louis Armstrong Musical ‘A Wonderful World’ Set for Broadway
“A Wonderful World,” featuring Armstrong’s songs, is set to begin previews at Studio 54 in October after previous runs in Miami, New Orleans and Chicago.
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In Justin Peck’s ‘Illinoise,’ Dance On and Feel It
This narrative dance musical, set to Sufjan Stevens’s album, is a coming-of-age story and a meditation on death, love, community, politics and zombies.
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Parents Outraged After Willy Wonka Event in Glasgow
Families traveled to Glasgow for an event that claimed to channel the magic of “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.” They got a couple of jelly beans.
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In ‘The Effect,’ Investigating Love and Other Drugs
Jamie Lloyd’s revival of Lucy Prebble’s 2012 play, starring Paapa Essiedu and Taylor Russell, heads to the Shed after a celebrated run at the National Theater, in London.
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‘Water for Elephants’ Brings the Circus to Broadway
Based on the 2006 novel by Sara Gruen, the musical follows a young man who hops a train and falls in with a ragtag, traveling group of entertainers.