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Let’s go stagey: Prince’s Purple Rain is being turned into a Broadway musical

If you can get hold of a ticket, will you take me with U?

MusicRadar

Prince's 'Purple Rain' is becoming a stage musical

Plans are still coming together, but two up-and-coming names on Broadway are already attached to the Prince project: playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins and director Lileana Blain-Cruz.

WEKU

Prince’s Purple Rain to become a Broadway musical

The hit 1984 film is set to become a stage show with a book from Pulitzer prize finalist Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

The Guardian - US

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Mean Girls Has Screened, And The First Reactions Are So Fetch

The 2024 Mean Girls movie has screened, and the first reactions are really good. See what people are saying.

Cinemablend

14 fetching facts about "Mean Girls"

It took a lot to make fetch happen, like having Lindsay Lohan and Rachel McAdams audition for each other's roles

Salon

Fans Are Upset Over Missing Songs On The Mean Girls Soundtrack, And I Agree With Them

Mean Girls hits theaters on January 12th, unfortunately with a few less songs than fans had hoped.

Cinemablend

Pope.L, world-renowned performance artist and teacher at University of Chicago, dies at 68

Pope.L called himself a “fisherman of social absurdity.” He once crawled along New York’s Broadway in a Superman costume and ate scraps of the Wall Street Journal while sitting on a toilet.

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The Color Purple’s Fantasia Barrino Reveals She Actually 'Hated' Being In The Broadway Show

Fantasia Barrino admits she “hated” being part of Broadway’s The Color Purple and explained why that was the case.

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Broadway actor, dancer and choreographer Maurice Hines dies at 80

Maurice Hines, who started tap dancing at the age of five, starred alongside his late brother Gregory Hines in the 1984 Francis Ford Coppola movie The Cotton Club.

WEKU

Arnold Schwarzenegger Reunited With Danny DeVito To Catch His Broadway Show, And It's Giving Me Hope For Twins 2 Again

Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito had a sweet meet-up, and it really has me hoping the Twins sequel will get off the ground.

Cinemablend

Mbongeni Ngema, South African playwright and creator of 'Sarafina!,' has died at 68

Renowned South African playwright Mbongeni Ngema was killed in a car crash, his family said. He was best known for creating the hit "Sarafina!," which premiered on Broadway in 1988.

WEKU

32 Broadway Shows That Ran For A Crazy Amount Of Time

Broadway has had some awesome shows that have run for a long time. Here are some of the best that you have to know about.

Cinemablend

Finding new dimensions, sisterhood, and healing in ‘The Color Purple’

It’s not a secret that Fantasia Barrino did not want to play Celie again

The Independent UK

Powerful ‘Color Purple’ balances heavy drama with exhilarating musical numbers

Fantasia Barrino, Danielle Brooks lead the impressive ensemble playing resilient women who persevere in an unforgiving world.

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'Everyone walked away with part of themselves healed' – 'The Color Purple' reimagined

Blitz Bazawule's musical re-imagining of the 1982 Alice Walker novel The Color Purple finds new joy among the pain.

Marie Claire

Sisters Dakota and Elle Fanning Gave Us a Double Dose of The Row, Head-To-Toe

The two stepped out for Elle’s debut in the Broadway show 'Appropriate.'

The Guardian - US

Playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins: ‘I’ve stopped needing to ask for permission’

The two-time Pulitzer prize finalist talks his starry Broadway play Appropriate and handling the pressures put on Black playwrights

The Guardian - US

Appropriate review – Sarah Paulson wows in blazing tragicomic drama

The star is astonishing in Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s funny yet moving Broadway debut about a complicated family reunion

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After Beyonce's Renaissance Movie And Broadway's Waitress On Fathom, I Think Special Events Are My New Favorite Movie Theater Outings

Renaissance, Eras, and Waitress have brought some exciting special events to theaters.

The Independent UK

Behind the 'Maestro' biopic are a raft of theater stars supporting the story of Leonard Bernstein

Leonard Bernstein was a towering figure on Broadway

The Independent UK

‘New York became my college’: Michael Imperioli on his new bar, Broadway debut, and the city that saw him grow

The Sopranos and White Lotus star and his wife, interior designer Victoria Imperioli, sit down with Clémence Michallon at the newly opened Scarlet Lounge

The Independent UK

76ers' Daryl Morey mixes basketball with shot at Broadway in absurdist musical 'Small Ball'

Philadelphia 76ers President Daryl Morey is the executive producer of a basketball-themed musical called “Small Ball.”

Top News

Reneé Rapp: Rising Star Navigates Fame, Music and Vulnerability

Rising star Renée Rapp navigates fame, from Broadway to pop stardom, harnessing her unique voice both in music and personal struggles.

The Guardian - UK

Michael Blakemore, venerable theatre director, dies aged 95

The double Tony-winning director staged acclaimed productions by Michael Frayn, Peter Nichols and many others in the West End and Broadway

WEKU

Broadway audiences are getting a little bit younger and more diverse

But the Broadway League said — in its first full demographics report since before the pandemic — that New York City's celebrated tourism draw has still not fully rebounded to pre-COVID levels.

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