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Review: In ‘Ain’t No Mo’ on Broadway, Black Americans are offered a 1-way plane ticket out. Painful comedy ensues

NEW YORK — Jordan E. Cooper’s “Ain’t No Mo’,” a blast of a Broadway show, doesn’t so much occupy the space between sketch comedy and old-school play as smash a hole in whatever barrier long has been assumed to divide them.

Chicago Tribune

Review: ‘A Beautiful Noise’ on Broadway is the music of Neil Diamond, offering ‘Sweet Caroline’ and eternal life

NEW YORK — At their best, biographical jukebox shows like “A Beautiful Noise” dangle immortality, eight times a week. And not just for the audience.

Chicago Tribune

Ain’t No Mo review – absurdist and uneven satire about race in America

Jordan E Cooper’s lively and provocative Broadway debut has moments of insight and wit but some of its targets feel dated

The Guardian - US

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‘Fat Ham’ – Pulitzer-winning queer, Black twist on Shakespeare’s ‘Hamlet’ – to open on Broadway in spring

NEW YORK — Another irreverent Black, queer narrative is hitting Broadway.

Tribune News Service

Quentin Oliver Lee: Broadway star dies aged 34

‘It was peaceful and perfect,’ recalls Lee’s wife of his death

The Independent UK

A rare recording of a musical by an 18-year-old Stephen Sondheim surfaces

Broadway-legend-in-training Stephen Sondheim was a college sophomore in 1948 when his musical Phinney's Rainbow was produced — and recorded — at Williams College in Massachusetts.

WEKU

New this week: Will Smith, 'Pinocchio' and 'George & Tammy'

This week’s new entertainment releases include Will Smith’s comeback campaign in the Antoine Fuqua movie “Emancipation,” a documentary about Broadway star Idina Menzel, the video game “Dragon Quest Treasures” and a TV series exploring the tumultuous relationship between country music stars Tammy Wynette and George Jones

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Quentin Oliver Lee dead at 34: Broadway star dies from colon cancer while holding wife's hand

Broadway star Quentin Oliver Lee, best known for starring as Phantom in the US tour of The Phantom of the Opera, died while holding onto her hand

Daily Mirror

Amanda Kloots opens up about moving out of house she shared with late husband Nick Cordero

Amanda Kloots has moved just down the block from the home she shared with late husband and Broadway star Nick Cordero.

Tribune News Service

Britney Spears' massive pop songs to land on Broadway, again

A stage musical about woke princesses that uses hit songs by Britney Spears will land on Broadway this summer

The Independent UK

'The Wiz' will ease on back to Broadway in 2024. But first, a national tour

"The Wiz" will ease on down the road back to Broadway in an all-new adaptation set for 2024.

Los Angeles Times

New version of 'The Wiz' to tour and end up on Broadway

A new production of “The Wiz” is heading out on a national tour next year before following the yellow brick road to Broadway

The Independent UK

Tom Stoppard's Jewish roots: Carey Perloff on Broadway's acclaimed play of the season

"Leopoldstadt," Tom Stoppard's stunning new play on Broadway about a highly cultivated extended family in Vienna that was decimated in the Holocaust, isn't autobiographical. But the work springs from the Czech-born English playwright's long-deferred examination of his Jewish roots.

Los Angeles Times

Political musicals: from the forthcoming Berlusconi to Hamilton, it’s the gift that keeps on giving

Politics, it turns out, is a great topic for musicals

Evening Standard

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The Independent UK

'The Phantom of the Opera' extends its long Broadway goodbye

The masked man of Broadway is going out strong

The Guardian - US

‘The perfect gateway’: are Broadway audiences ready for a K-pop musical?

The first Broadway show celebrating Korean culture hopes to show there’s ‘more to K-pop than just Gangnam Style’

Liverpool Echo

Warning over new betting shop in one of city's 'poorest parts'

Councillors and business owners have spoken out against the plans

Chicago Tribune

Review: New musical ‘KPOP’ doesn’t fully pop on Broadway

NEW YORK — The pandemic was not kind to “KPOP,” the new Broadway show that aims to do for South Korean popular music much of what “Dreamgirls” did, and did not do, for Motown.

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Broadway dancer Jared Grimes draws from subway busking experience in ‘Funny Girl’

NEW YORK — When the happy-footed Jared Grimes shuffles his way onstage in the hot-selling revival of “Funny Girl” on Broadway, he taps into his own unique history.

The Guardian - AU

Nicole Kidman surprises Broadway with $100,000 bid for Hugh Jackman’s hat

Actor’s gesture draws gasps and cheers at charity auction, held after a performance of Jackman’s hit musical The Music Man

WEKU

The Museum of Broadway reveals the show behind the show

A new museum celebrating the history of Broadway is now in New York's theater district.

The Guardian - UK

The Mousetrap: Agatha Christie’s West End hit to make Broadway debut after 70 years

Whodunnit running in the West End since 1952, interrupted only by Covid, will open in New York in 2023

WEKU

For playwright Suzan-Lori Parks, theater doesn't just reflect reality – it creates it

With a revival of her Pulitzer-winning play Topdog/Underdog on Broadway, and her new show about COVID off-Broadway, the acclaimed playwright is still learning new things about herself.

The Independent UK

Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap to make Broadway debut in 2023

It will be a co-production between the The Mousetrap UK’s producer Adam Spiegel and Tony-award winner Kevin McCollum.

Asharq Al-Awsat

New Musical Brings High-Energy World of K-pop to Broadway

There are some familiar storylines in a new musical opening on Broadway — a singer and her relationship with the mentor who guided her; a newcomer trying to find his place; young women chasing their dreams. But they've never sounded quite like this. The global sensation that is Korean pop…

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