Five shows are officially opening on Broadway over the next five days, ending the 2017-2018 Broadway season
April 22: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
April 23: Summer: The Donna Summer Musical
April 24: Travesties
April 25: Saint Joan
April 26: The Iceman Cometh
The end of the Broadway season overlaps with the beginning of the theater award season:
April 24: Outer Critics Circle Award nominations announced
April 26: Drama Desk Award nominations announced.
May 1: Tony Award nominations announced.
New York Theater Awards: A guide and calendar
How to get discounts to Broadway’s newest shows
The Week in New York Theater News
Bette Midler will return to Hello, Dolly on July 17 for a six-week run. Then the production will end on Saturday, August 25, 2018.
What @SaraBareilles and @joshgroban have in common
great singers
made a splash in their Broadway debuts (he in @GreatCometBway
, she in @WaitressMusical as composer & performer)
CO-HOSTS of 72nd Annual @TheTonyAwards!
June 10#TonyAwards2018 pic.twitter.com/zdytIFRA4I— New York Theater (@NewYorkTheater) April 18, 2018
Hadestown, written by Anais Mitchell and directed by Rachel Chavkin , will play London’s National Theater @NationalTheatre Nov 2, 2018 -Jan 26, 2019 and then it’s on to Broadway!
Great Comet lives on!
1. Its composer @Dave_Malloy, 1st musical composer to get a @SignatureTheatr residency, w/new musical #Octet
2. Its star @JoshGroban to be co-host at #TonyAwards2018
3. Its director @RachelChavkin to helm @Hadestown on Bway pic.twitter.com/hvMOnvmQGN— New York Theater (@NewYorkTheater) April 19, 2018
Birds: A Festival Inspired by Aristophanes” (an early feminist) sponsored by the Onassis Cultural Center includes Nikos Karathanos’ adaptation of Aristophanes’ The Birds at St. Ann’s Warehouse May 2-13.
Mlima’s Tale has been extended to June 3.
Why they’re getting rid of the “gypsy robe” — the name, not the tradition, according to Kim Jordan @ActorsEquity Chair, Advisory Committee on Chorus Affairs
via @Equill https://t.co/rB13BxCvCH— New York Theater (@NewYorkTheater) April 19, 2018
. @taylizlou — aka Regina George — recording the @MeanGirlsBway original cast album this week.
digital available May 18
physical album June 15 pic.twitter.com/3FdkMtyb2i— New York Theater (@NewYorkTheater) April 20, 2018
Guest mentor @idinamenzel – Queen Elsa, singer of “Let It Go” in the movie Frozen — will guide the top 10 singers on @AmericanIdol through the show’s first-ever Disney themed competition on Sunday, April 29
(If anybody chooses Hakuna Matata, count me out.) pic.twitter.com/CKMmAf85rP
— New York Theater (@NewYorkTheater) April 21, 2018
The 3rd Annual EDGAR ALLAN POE Festival by #RadioTheatre
May 16-27 St. John’s Sanctuary in the Villagehttps://t.co/D3HTbEWbFA pic.twitter.com/TcMxYT3PUC— New York Theater (@NewYorkTheater) April 19, 2018
How can a theater prevent harassment? Its board of directors should be more in touch w/ the artists, since they know “who’s handsy, manipulative or abusive,”Jennifer Wright Cook of @TheFieldsNYC tells @PiaCattonhttps://t.co/kg9H6mpL0w
— New York Theater (@NewYorkTheater) April 20, 2018
NYC Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment Commissioner Julie Menin has announced $5 million Women’s Fund for Film and Theatre, cash grants for projects “by, for and about women.” Not taking applications yet, but sign-up for info here
RIP Glenn Loney, 89, world-traveling theater scholar and ubiquitous critic, a welcome sight on the aisle for many decades.
His influence will live on in the new national #ATCA ( @Theatre_Critics) Glenn Loney theatre design award. pic.twitter.com/2uLthrP3RP— New York Theater (@NewYorkTheater) April 18, 2018
“I grew up here in a one-bedroom, … walk-up with a single mom. I went to public school. I started acting when I was 12 in order to pay for my college because my family couldn’t afford to.I don’t think there’s anything inherently wrong with celebrity in politics”~@CynthiaNixon pic.twitter.com/Eg99gDpxTj
— New York Theater (@NewYorkTheater) April 20, 2018
Backstage on Broadway.
Are there a lot of “lurking” theater people? pic.twitter.com/UrBpQcqftg— New York Theater (@NewYorkTheater) April 20, 2018
