The history of Broadway is littered with ill-advised sequels that didn't quite work (see: Bring Back Birdie or The Best Little Whorehouse Goes Public) but the biggest sequel of them all, the Phantom followup Love Never Dies (in which the masked musician moves to Coney Island to open the "Phantasma"), will most likely never even make it to the Great White Way. But! It will be playing on 42nd Street. At least a filmed version of it will. Camp fans might want to mark February 28th and March 7th on their calendars! more ›

At around 12:15 p.m. this afternoon, a taxi and another car were involved in an accident at 97th Street and Broadway. According to the FDNY, a pedestrian was struck by a vehicle and sustained head injuries. The identity of the victim is unknown, but they've been transported to St. Luke's Hospital. No injuries to the passengers in the vehicles were reported, and the NYPD couldn't tell us whether any criminality is suspected. more ›

Last night, The Hollywood Reporter put up a story with good news and bad news for Broadway buffs. The good news? After multiple failed attempts, it looks like Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's Broadway classic fairy tale musical Into The Woods is getting another chance at becoming a movie—with a book by Lapine and additional music and lyrics by Sondheim! The bad news? The director who is pushing for the movie is Rob Marshall, the man who brought us the tone-deaf stage-to-screen musical adaptations Chicago and Nine. Ugh. Is this the last midnight? more ›

For reasons that are not entirely clear, someone is egging Mike Myers into adapting his once-popular, now pretty dated Austin Powers character into a Broadway musical. The only people benefiting from the potential deal are Myers, for whom this will likely be a total cash cow, and the legions of Midwestern tourists who will feed him. Why can't there just be more singing Mormons on stage instead? more ›

A 25-year-old woman was run over by a Dept. of Sanitation truck driver last night around 7 p.m. as she crossed Broadway near Driggs Avenue in Williamsburg. The victim has been identified as 25-year-old Katherine Yun, an NYU graduate originally from Syosset, Long Island. Witnesses tell the Daily News Yun was crossing Broadway headed north when she was run over by the eastbound truck driver. more ›

Though we've yet to meet a person who enjoyed it, Spider-Man: Bring Out Your Dead Turn Off The Dark turns out to be a moneymaking (if not yet profitable) hit for its producers and Disney corporate overlords. So clearly it's time for them to start digging into their Marvel pockets for another property to make into a Broadway smash. To that end, our first thought was that a Fantastic Four musical could be a campy kick...but then we saw this amazingly edited X-Men: The Animated Musical video, and well, see for yourself: more ›

Once upon a time Broadway was (really!) the source of major radio hits. Similarly, once upon a time politicians campaigned with actual campaign songs with personalized lyrics rather than just using an existing song. And, tipped off by Stephen Sondheim's second book of annotated lyrics (Look, I Made A Hat) we've got our hands on a mashup of those two historical facts that is going to blow the minds of a certain subset of Broadway geeks and NYC history nerds. Ladies and gentleman, we present you "With Lindsay It's Coming Up Roses," a mayoral campaign song for John Lindsay performed by no less than Ethel freaking Merman! They don't make 'em like this anymore, kids: more ›

After their last gathering coincided with the freak October snowstorm, Occupy Big Food is staging a rally at Union Square in front of the big red cube sculpture at 140 Broadway (across from Zuccotti Park) at 1 p.m. today as a "protest against the corporate feeding of America." The group are an off-shoot of Occupy Wall Street hoping to take meat, dairy, and other agricultural industries out of the hands of a few large corporations—just as OWS wants to take control of the financial sector from large corporations. more ›

Award-winning playwright, actor and director Danny Hoch is currently on Broadway in Relatively Speaking, a trio of one-act plays by Ethan Coen, Elaine May, and Woody Allen. But Broadway isn't where you usually find Hoch, who's known for rollicking and provocative solo performances such as Taking Over, a critically-acclaimed show that grappled with the ways gentrification methodically destroys communities in New York City. We caught up with Hoch last week to talk about gentrification, Williamsburg, and Broadway, where you can now catch him six nights a week—he appears in Coen's and Allen's plays, and he's very funny in both. more ›

What was once the Native American's Wickquasgeck Trail through Manhattan is now Broadway, probably the most famous thoroughfare in all the land. Stretching north from Bowling Green all the way up to Westchester, it rambles even further as U.S. 9. Perhaps inspired by all that pavement's potential, one intrepid cyclist recently picked up the trail in the Bronx and pedaled all the way down to the bottom of Manhattan, filming the entire trip. Here's the kinetic time lapse video of the adventure—be sure to stay tuned for a "terrible idea" at the 2:44 mark. more ›

Julie Taymor, the envelope-pushing director who co-created the much-maligned Broadway spectacle Spider-Man: Please Make It Stop Turn Off the Dark, is suing the show's producers. After critics savaged the production before opening night, and several cast members sustained injuries, Taymor was pushed aside by the producers, who made significant changes before officially opening in April to mixed reviews and packed houses. Taymor's lawyer claims his client spent more than seven years creating the musical but was paid just $150,000—and that was five years ago. Now she's come to collect. more ›

Are you still mourning the loss of Les Misérables, which closed on Broadway in May 2003 following an impressive 16-year run (and was subsequently revived just three years later)? Here's some good news: a film adaptation starring Hugh Jackman is scheduled to begin filming next March with a projected December 2012 release. more ›

Can't get tickets to what is probably the hottest show on Broadway right now? Don't worry about it! Book of Mormon, Trey Parker and Matt Stone's Broadway hit that has somehow managed to rise above its scandal-baiting plot, is heading to the big screen...eventually. more ›

Michael C. Hall, who we know and love as Dexter on the small screen, may be coming to Broadway next year. Sadly, not for a musical about the serial killer's murders of morally wrong people. (It could happen!) Instead, Hall is rumored to be negotiating to play the lead in Big Fish, a stage adaptation of the Tim Burton film/Daniel Wallace novel, produced by Bruce Cohen and Dan Jinks. more ›

Stagehands: prepare your eardrums for another six months of shrieking in 2012, because it's just been announced that teen dream Nick Jonas is coming to Broadway. more ›

At 10 a.m. today, the city's tourism arm, NYC & Company, is offering 2-for-1 tickets to various Broadway and Off-Broadway shows, as part of its Broadway Week, which runs September 18 to 30, and Off-Broadway week (September 26 to October 9). The Broadway shows include long-running stalwarts like Chicago, The Lion King, Wicked, Jersey Boys and Billy Elliot, plus newcomers like Memphis and the upcoming The Mountaintop, starring Samuel L. Jackson and Angela Bassett. On the Off-Broadway side, the participating shows include Avenue Q, Stomp, Love, Loss and What I Wore, and Naked Boys Singing! A list of shows is below: more ›

Without even a single raindrop having fallen, Hurricane Irene has shut down weddings, concerts, flights, and mass transit around the city. But there's one industry who laughs in the face of 100 MPH winds: Broadway. [Um, Update Below] more ›

Earlier this year we saw the trailer for Ghost: The Musical, but were quickly disappointed when we saw the show was only running in London. Well now we've received word in our inbox that "the supernatural power of love" is coming to Broadway's Nederlander Theater in April, 2012. We sent the trailer around the Gothamist office to find out if this would be a good show for our annual, mandatory Gothamist theater field trip... and things aren't looking so good: more ›

The King's Speech, the heartwarming (and very, very British tale) of King George VI (played by Colin Firth) learning to overcome his stutter, which picked up the Best Picture Oscar last year, is coming to the Great White Way. Will there be song and dance? more ›

For the first time since 1967, Funny Girl will be back on Broadway. And the actress playing the role of Fanny Brice (which made Barbara Streisand into a star) will be played by...Lauren Ambrose, an actress who you might remember from such television shows as Six Feet Under, The Return of Jezebel James and Torchwood: Miracle Day, currently airing on Starz. The new Funny Girl, directed by Bartlett Sher (Lincoln Center's revival of South Pacific) will run in LA from January 15 through February 26, before hopefully coming to rain on the parade of other big Broadway revivals like Evita, with Ricky Martin, in the spring. Hey, at least it won't be Lea Michelle, right? more ›

Just when you thought that Bridget Jones and Mark Darcy were living happily ever after, they're headed back to the spotlight—and not in the rumored third Bridget Jones movie. Lily Allen will be bringing the ol' gal to London's West End stage sometime next year. more ›

Literary super-couple Michael Chabon (The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Wonder Boys) and wife Aeyelet Waldman (Bad Mother, Love and Other Impossible Pursuits) are teaming up to write a musical about the Dave Eggers-founded nonprofit 826 NYC/ Brooklyn Superhero Supply Company. more ›

As we well know, all restaurants in the city get letter grades from the DOH, whether or not they decide to show them. Some have even suggested that supermarkets should get them as well. But do Broadway theaters really need grades too? more ›