346 stories by "Michael Mellini"
The spring Broadway season is in full swing as the last remaining new shows are now all in previews (with the exception of the upcoming Rascals concert engagement Once Upon a Dream). Bette M…
Two-time Tony nominated actor Milo O'Shea passed away on April 2 at the age of 86, according to Variety. O'Shea's death was caused by complications arising from Alzheimer's d…
Alicia Hall Moran and Nathaniel Stampley are headed to Catfish Row as the title stars of the national tour of Porgy and Bess. Scheduled to kick off this fall, the tour will play cities inclu…
Nominations for the 28th Annual Lucille Lortel Awards have been announced, with Signature's revival of The Piano Lesson leading the group with six nominations. MTC's Murder Ballad sc…
Tuck Everlasting composers Chris Miller and Nathan Tysen will play 54 Below on April 7. The composers will be accompanied by the show's stars Carolee Carmello and Sadie Sink as well as K…
The Assembled Parties co-stars Jessica Hecht and Jeremy Shamos will host the 58th Annual Obie Awards on May 20 at Webster Hall. Lois Smith and Francis Sternhagen will be presented with the O…
Broadway definitely had a happy Easter as 19 shows played to houses of 90% capacity and more. Long-running, family-friendly hits Wicked and The Lion King both passed the $2 million mark. And…
Tom Hanks makes his Broadway debut on April 1 in Nora Ephron's Lucky Guy, a show whose title is quite fitting for the famed actor. Life has been pretty good to Hanks: He's evolv…
Tickets are now on sale for the New Group's upcoming Bollywood-themed musical Bunty Berman Presents... Starring Erick Avari and Sorab Wadia, the tuner features a book and lyrics by …
Pippin has returned to Broadway for the first time in over 35 years, and theatergoers are eager to greet the musical prince. The revival got off to a great start, playing to 99% capacity for…
Southern Discomfort, an eclectic new one-woman play by Elisabeth Gray, begins performances at off-Broadway’s SoHo Playhouse on March 25. Written in the Southern Gothic style, the play …
The Tony Awards Administration Committee met for the third time this season to decide the eligibility of two Broadway productions from the 2012-13 season: Cinderella and Cat on a Hot Tin Roo…
Turn on the pottery wheel. The national tour of the musical Ghost will launch at the Proctors Theatre in Schenectady, NY on September 14. The romantic thriller will play engagements in …
Before he storms the barricades of Toronto's upcoming Les Miserables revival, West End star Ramin Karimloo will embark on a North American concert tour.
Karimloo will kick off t…
Before making it as a successful playwright, Lesley Headland worked as an assistant in the office trenches of film mogul Harvey Weinstein. Her taxing experience trying to meet the office&rsq…
Audiences are eager to groove to the hits of Motown. The new musical had a fantastic first week of previews taking in over $1 million in ticket sales and playing to a packed 102.92% cap…
Black Stache is up to no good again as Peter and the Starcatcher resumes performances March 18 at its new off-Broadway home in New World Stages. Jason Ralph leads the Peter Pan pre…
Eight-time Oscar winner Alan Menken has written songs for some pretty bizarre characters over the years, including singing candlesticks (Beauty and the Beast), crabs and seagulls (The Little…
The Office's Jenna Fischer has found her first post-Dunder Mifflin job. Deadline.com reports that Fischer is heading off-Broadway to lead Neil LaBute's Reasons to Be H…
The world premiere of the Broadway-bound musical Honeymoon in Vegas will kick off the 2013-14 season at New Jersey's Paper Mill Playhouse. Starring Tony Danza and directed by …
Looks like Lucky Guy is going to be quite the hot ticket. Nora Ephron's final play, in which Tom Hanks makes his Broadway debut, took in over $1 million in ticket sales during the drama&…
Tony winner Kristin Chenoweth has canceled her U.K. concert tour at the last minute. The actress was set to launch the tour on March 11 at the London Coliseum. No exact reason for the c…
Emma Stone, Naomi Watts, Zach Galifianakis and Michael Keaton are coming to Broadway...on the big screen at least. The stars have signed on to appear in Alejandro Gonzalez Innaritu's new…
James Franco is finally going to make his Broadway debut. The Oz the Great and Powerful star is planning to play George in a Broadway revival of Of Mice and Men, he revealed during a visit t…
That's Officer Lynch to you! Glee and upcoming Annie star Jane Lynch has signed on to lead FOX's new animated series Murder Police, according to EW.com. Lynch will star as a detectiv…