The new rock musical “Spider-man: Turn Off the Dark”, will finally premiere in the Great White Way at the Foxwoods Theatre with preview runs beginning on November 14 and with its formal opening night due on December 21, just in time for Christmas so make sure to tag your entire family along for the web spinning and high flying thrill that only Peter Parker, or should we say, Spider-man can...

George Bernard Shaw’s 1893 play, “Mrs. Warren’s Profession” will be in Broadway on October 3, Sunday at the Roundabout Theatre but only after it previews tomorrow, September 3, Friday. Featuring the talents of Cherry Jones and Actors’ Equity Association’s Sally Hawkins portraying the mother-daughter tandem of “Kitty Warren” and “Vivie Warren” respectively, the play confronts the age-old profession of prostitution set in the late 19th century and how it affects the...

Fresh from its critically acclaimed run in London’s Bush Theatre and in West End’s Trafalgar Studios, the comedy play “Elling” will be crossing the Atlantic to finally make its Broadway debut at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre on November 2. The play will also be bringing along its two main leads from the West End production, Tony Award winner Denis O’ Hare as Elling and the star of “The Mummy” movie franchise and...

The Broadway debut of Andrew Lloyd Weber’s new musical, “Love Never Dies”, will be pushed back from its originally planned spring premiere next year.  And after the musical opened in West End earlier this year to mostly negative reviews, the fate of the “Phantom of the Opera” sequel at the Great White Way is bleak. A rep from the musical told The New York Times that despite the delay, “Love Never...

After its successful runs at the Vineyard Theatre in NYC and the Guthrie Theatre in Minneapolis, “The Scottsboro Boys” is now headed to the Great White Way through the Lyceum Theatre when performances start on September 2, Thursday. The musical is written by the same pair of writers who gave us “Cabaret” and “Chicago”, the tandem of John Kander and Fred Ebb or better known as Kander & Ebb in the...

Finally, “Godspell” will be returning to Broadway armed with a producer who finally secured the rights for the musical and has scoured for funding for the revival to push through.  And although a definite set of play dates and venue still has to be announced, the producers are reported to push for the revival in a smaller Broadway venue to re-open in either spring or summer next year. The musical boasts...

The “Jersey Boys” Toronto production, after being on stage for two years, playing in front of one million theatergoers and winning the Dora Mavor Moore Award three times, is saying goodbye on their second anniversary in the Canadian city on August 22, 2010. “Jersey Boys” stars Jeff Madden playing Frankie Valli, Michael Lomenda playing Nick Massi, Quinn VanAntwerp playing Bob Gaudio and Robert Sullivan playing Tommy DeVito.  Also included in the...

The Tony Award winning and lavish “South Pacific” rival from Bartlett Sher starring Kelli O'Hara, Tony Award nominee, and Paulo Szot, Tony Award winner, will conclude its Broadway run of two years at Vivian Beaumont Theater on August 22. The World War II set 1949 musical by Rodgers and Hammerstein on March 1, 2008 returned to Broadway and opened officially on April 3, 2008.  The production from Lincoln Center Theater was...

Race, the play directed and written by David Mamet, will play its final world premiere performance on August 21, 2010 at Ethel Barrymore Theatre.  In April 2010 the show was able to recoup the whole $2.5 million investment and played 296 regular performances along with 23 previews. Race opened on Broadway with James Spader playing Jack Lawson, Kerry Washington playing Susan, Richard Thomas playing Charles Strickland and David Alan Grier playing...

On Thursday, Jordin Sparks will make her debut on Broadway.  She will play Nina as part of the cast of “In the Heights”, the Tony award winning musical.    Although Broadway has been one of the career ambitions of Jordin's for a long time, she says she didn't think she would be achieving that goal for several more years.  Earlier this year she went to “In the Heights” and everything changed. In...