After previously announcing a warmup run in Toronto this summer, producers have announced that the new musical “Prince of Broadway” will instead open directly on Broadway in November 2012. No theater has yet been announced to house the production. “Prince of Broadway” celebrates the legendary 60-year Broadway career of director and producer Harold “Hal” Prince. In his time working on Broadway production, Prince has earned 21 Tony Awards, more than any...

As “The Mountaintop,” a drama about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s final night before his assassination, prepares to close on Broadway, it reports that it has recouped the entire initial $3.1 million investment. The final performance of the play will be Sunday, at which point it will have had 117 regular performances and 24 preview performances. Producers Jean Doumanian and Sonia Friedman released a joint statement concerning the new announcement. “We are...

“Book of Mormon” star Andrew Rannells will work with “Glee” creator Ryan Murphy on a new, as yet untitled blended family comedy series for NBC and 20^th Century Fox. “Glee” writer Ali Adler is the co-creator of the show. The single-camera comedy has been described “a heartwarming comedy about a blended family of a gay couple and the woman who becomes a surrogate to help them start a family,” reports Playbill....

Jeff Goldblum and Brian Stokes Mitchell will appear on the hit Fox show “Glee” to play the previously unseen gay dads of Rachel Berry, the character on the show played by Lea Michele. The actress tweeted a picture of herself with Goldblum and Mitchell on the set of Glee on January 18 with the caption “Dads:)” The casting news was quickly confirmed. TV Line reports that the two dads are...

“Peter and the Starcatcher,” the new play that is a prequel to the Peter Pan story, will make its Broadway debut March 28 at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre. After a run of preview performances, the official opening will be held April 15. Based on a book by Ridley Pearson and humor columnist Dave Barry, the stage adaptation was written by Tony Award winner Rick Elice, known for his work on “Jersey...

Michael Cohl and Jeremiah J. Harris, the producers of “Spiderman: Turn Off the Dark” have filed a countersuit against former director Julie Taymor, a move that, if successful, would essentially remove her from any future dealings with “Spiderman” or its earnings. The filing is in response to Taylor’s own filings last year suing the producers of the play for $1 million, as well as for future royalty payments. According to the...

Eric Simonson’s Magic/Bird, a drama about the basketball legends Earvin “Magic” Johnson and Larry Bird, will open at the Longacre Theatre on April 11. Producers Fran Kirmser and Tony Ponturo, who made the announcement today, also confirmed that previews will begin March 21. The announcement comes just two days after it was confirmed that David Henry Hwang’s Chinglish would end its Longacre run at the end of this month. The play...

Though it was named the #1 new American play of 2011 by Time magazine, it has been announced that “Chinglish” will end its Broadway run on Sunday, January 29 after 128 performances. “Chinglish” began premieres at the Longacre Theatre on October 11 of last year and held its official opening on October 27. Since that time, it has consistently struggled to attract ticket-buyers, never bringing in more than $400,000 over a...

On January 16, Latin-American star Marco Zunino will make his Broadway debut as lawyer Billy Flynn in the current revival of “Chicago” at the Ambassador Theatre. He will stay with the musical for a four-week limited run through February 12. That same night, Mexican actress Bianca Marroquin also will join the production in the role of Roxie Hart. At 37, she will be one of the youngest actresses to ever play...

The first-ever Broadway production of “Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella” is set to premiere during the 2012-2013 season, and will be directed by Mark Brokaw. The new version will feature an adaptation of the script by Douglas Carter Beane, and will be a reunion of sorts for Brokaw and Beane. The two first worked together on Beane’s “As Bees in Honey Drown,” which earned Beane an Outer Critics Circle Award. Brokaw...