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‘Life of Pi’ Olivier Award-winning West End cast traveling across the pond in Broadway debut

NEW YORK — New York City will be getting a taste of London’s best. The stage adaptation of the 2001 novel by Yann Martel, which later became an Academy Award-winning film, will begin previews on Broadway March 9 with the play’s acclaimed London cast.

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Burt Bacharach, legendary composer of pop songs, dies at 94

The Independent UK

No more 24/7: Late-night diners scale back their hours amid a shifting restaurant landscape in Baltimore and beyond

BALTIMORE — The neon glow of late-night diner signs has beckoned to Pete Koroneos his entire career.

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‘What a gift you are’: Sara Bareilles announces engagement to Mare of Easttown actor

The Grammy winner has been dating Joe Tippett since 2017

The Independent UK

Quentin Lee death: 34-year-old Broadway actor dies of colon cancer

Lee famous for his portrayal of phantom in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom of the Opera

The Independent UK

Nicole Kidman bids £83,000 on a hat once worn by pal Hugh Jackman

The star, 55, made the eye-watering bid at the Broadway Cares/Equity Fights Aids charity event at the Winter Garden Theatre in New York on Saturday

Evening Standard

Nicole Kidman splashes out £82,000 on a hat once worn by Hugh Jackman

Nicole Kidman attended Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, a fancy charity bash in New York City, and bid for the hat an auction

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Cinderella review – a rapturous Rodgers and Hammerstein fairytale

Euphoric songs are delivered with splendour as the duo’s musical finally gets its European premiere, with a fantastic lead performance by Grace Mouat

The Guardian - UK

Elton John debuts new musical all about Tammy Faye Bakker ... because of course he did

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The Tammy Faye Bakker renaissance shows no signs of slowing down.

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'All of us are still friends': A generation later, 'The Love Boat' crew sails on

LOS ANGELES — More than 35 years have passed since the final voyage of the TV classic "The Love Boat," set aboard a luxurious cruise ship, aired in 1986. But time has not dulled the nostalgic glow around the series and its irresistible gimmick — an ever-changing rotation of major…

Los Angeles Times

'Jagged Little Pill' fumbled a character's gender identity. The tour vows to do better

LOS ANGELES — "Jagged Little Pill" was never supposed to go down easy. The jukebox musical was intended to echo its namesake: Alanis Morissette's multi-Grammy-winning 1995 album, which launched her as a beacon of unapologetic honesty and unwavering conviction, especially when singing about tough subjects. So, likewise, the stage show…

Los Angeles Times

'Phantom of the Opera’ to close on Broadway as pandemic fallout continues

Theater staged a pandemic comeback, but audiences didn’t get the memo.

Los Angeles Times

‘Phantom of the Opera’ to close on Broadway next year

It is a costly musical to sustain, with elaborate sets and costumes as well as a large cast and orchestra. Box office grosses have fluctuated since the show reopened after the pandemic.

Chicago Sun-Times

‘Phantom of the Opera’ to close on Broadway after 35 years

NEW YORK — The music of the night is coming to an end — after 35 years.

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'The Phantom of the Opera,' Broadway's longest-running show, will close next year

The musical — a fixture on Broadway since 1988, weathering recessions, war and cultural shifts — will play its final performance in New York on Feb. 18, 2023.

The Independent UK

'The Phantom of the Opera' to close on Broadway next year

“The Phantom of the Opera” — Broadway’s longest-running show — is scheduled to close in February 2023, a victim of post-pandemic softening in theater attendance in New York

The National (Scotland)

Hit musical The Book of Mormon to make its Scottish debut this week

‘THE Mormons are coming!” exclaim adverts on double-decker buses as they glide along the streets of Edinburgh. And, indeed, following a…

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Musical based on iconic Mexican artist Frida Kahlo in development for Broadway run

NEW YORK — It appears that Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat won’t be the only art-world icons heading to The Great White Way.

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‘The Devil Wears Prada’ stage musical arriving in grand style for world premiere in Chicago

Following a series of delays due to COVID shutdowns, the musical is ready to make its debut at the Nederlander Theatre.

Chicago Sun-Times

‘Dear Jack, Dear Louise’: Northlight delivers romantic wartime letters full of romance, humor

Sarah Price, Casey Hoekstra crackle with chemistry as the couple courting by mail.

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Review: Broadway revival of Sondheim’s ‘Into the Woods’ still makes for a powerful journey

NEW YORK — All great musicals rely on metaphors. But Broadway never has come up with a more pliable one than “Into the Woods,” the beloved masterpiece by Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine that uses a fairy-tale mashup to explore the universals that please, worry, seduce, calm and destroy us.

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Glee’s Sammie Ware Slams Broadway For Casting Lea Michele After She Allegedly ‘Abused’ Co-Stars

Ware slammed Broadway for "upholding whiteness".

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Broadway’s ‘Music Man’ star Sutton Foster tests positive for COVID for second time

COVID has hit Sutton Foster for the second time around.

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Tony-winning ‘Company’ to close on Broadway, go on national tour

NEW YORK — Broadway will soon have a little less “Company.”

The Independent UK

Cruise ship with Broadway stars to steam off in spring 2023

The maiden voyage of a cruise ship starring a boatload of musical theater stars — like Tony Award-winners Laura Benanti, Kristin Chenoweth, Alan Cumming and Lena Hall — will set sail next spring

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