Disney executives are all "Hakuna Matata" over this AP story: The Broadway musical The Lion King is now Broadway's highest-grossing show, beating out the all-time gross from The Phantom of the Opera last week. more ›

Hey Girl, you know what's going to make your boyfriend hate watching The Notebook even more? When you bring him to see The Notebook THE MUSICAL on Broadway. According to CBS, Nicholas Sparks is planning to bring his book, and movie, to the Great White Way. 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 ›

Improv Everywhere's public musicals are generally crowd-pleasers, so it's not surprising the troupe revamped their grocery store bit and put a yuletide spin on it for the holiday season. This month they're offering up a Mall Santa Musical, filmed, naturally, in New Jersey. 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 ›

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 ›

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 ›

Fringe Fest, the annual opportunity for ridiculous ideas to find an audience, is in full swing this month, and one of the more...creative productions is the Jersey Shoresical: A Frickin' Rock Opera. As they put it: "It's a musical parody, bitch!" more ›

Counting Crows frontman Adam Duritz has gone and become a playwright. Duritz collaborated with Stephen Belber on a musical titled Black Sun, which will debut at the Ojai Conference in California this week... but the story is all New York City. It stars Evan Rachel Wood and James Carpinello, and will follow the lives of eight New Yorkers. The description reads: 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 ›

Bless John Hughes and his infinitely quotable, excellently-soundtracked '80s gems—we're talking Ferris Bueller's Day Off, The Breakfast Club, Sixteen Candles, Weird Science, etc. But for those who don't have time to watch them all in a row, a new musical has taken the liberty of curating the filmmaker's greatest musical moments, and putting them all together in the form of a live show, called, appropriately, For The Record: John Hughes. LAist loved it when they did a Baz Luhrmann edition a few weeks back, and the crew will be making their New York debut at City Winery on June 27th. Tickets and information available here. more ›

In other musical news that is as opposite to the American Psycho: The Musical as possible, the beloved Irish indie film, Once, has a stage adaptation in the works, too. According to Arts Beat, producers have decided to open a "downtown production at New York Theater Workshop in November, with Broadway a possibility after that, according to executives involved with the show." more ›

When will theater producers ever learn? Holocaust. Musicals. Do. Not. Work. Say it with us, now. Today we catch wind of a new Holocaust-themed musical at Roundabout Theater Company, The People In The Picture, that is, shockingly, opening to dismal reviews. Oh, and did we mention that it's written by the author of the Bette Midler-Barbara Hershey weepy classic Beaches? more ›

So that delay the producers of problem-plagued Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark have been rumored to be contemplating? The musical, currently set for a March 15 opening, could actually be delayed until June, according to the NY Times. And the March 15 performance would be a "celebration of sorts for the work done so far." A celebration of "bear-baiting"? Sign us up! more ›

After injuries, lawsuits and abysmal reviews, Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark continues to see packed houses while still in previews. But apparently, director Julie Taymor is "exhausted" with the production, and producers are looking to bring on a co-director. They've reportedly reached out to Phil McKinley, director of "The Boy From Oz," but a deal has yet to be made. more ›

The Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark shitshow marketing nightmare just keeps racking up wins: the much-maligned musical has been hit with two safety violations from the New York State Department of Labor over the accidents that have befallen the cursed production. But you didn't need your spider sense to tingle to have seen that one coming. more ›

Earlier this week, the actor who fell 30 feet during a performance of Spider-Man: There Will Be Blood Turn Off The Dark last month was released from rehab. And, last night, Christopher Tierney headed back to the $65 million musical—but as a spectator. Tierney told the AP, "It's what I've been waiting for for the past two weeks — to see my friends and finally watch the show." And, as you can see on this video, he was amazed to see the set he fell from: more ›

The Jay-Z produced Broadway musical Fela!—which took home 3 awards at this year's Tonys—is based on the life of Fela Kuti... problem is, it may also be based on a book about the life of Fela Kuti. Reportedly the author of the book Fela Fela: Cette Putain de Vi, Charles Moore, is demanding that performances of the musical stop on Monday. more ›

Last night's 64th Annual Tony Awards broadcast was, as usual, a desperate three-hour long televised advertisement intended to trick tourists into Broadway theaters with the hopes of seeing movie stars in person. But last night it seemed there was even more attention paid to big famous people than usual, with Denzel Washington, Catherine Zeta-Jones, and Scarlett Johansson among the bold-faced winners. The spectacle was co-hosted by Sean Hayes (Will & Grace), who started off the show by planting a long, juicy kiss on Kristin Chenoweth, as a riposte to a controversial Newsweek editorial suggesting he wasn't a convincing straight man in Promises, Promises. Check it out: more ›

Big Broadway news this week, people! Brace for Elf, Evita, Spidey (yes, still happening!), Funny Girl and Annie. And say goodbye to the successful revival of Hair, which was not specifically too good anyway. Click on the images here for all the fabulous details. Also, as you no doubt know, the Tony Awards will be broadcast Sunday night—you can watch the red carpet and Creative Arts Tonys between 6 and 8 p.m. via webcast on Tonys.com, and then the show is broadcast on CBS starting at 8 p.m. more ›

Jeff Daniels and Lea Michele woke up early this morning to announce the nominations for the 64th Annual Tony Awards, which will be distributed on June 13th. Unlike previous years, no single powerhouse show has dominated the nominations, with honors spread across the board. (Fela! and La Cage aux Folles tied for the most nominations—11) But there were some notable snubs, most notably the highly profitable yet critically panned The Addams Family. Stars Nathan Lane and Bebe Neuwirth received no nominations, and the show is not in the Best Musical category. Ironically, the worst aspect of this mediocre tourist trap—the instantly forgettable score—was nominated for an award. more ›

Oh, who cares? I mean, besides the producers who sunk millions into this nostalgia machine, and those starstruck Drama Club brats bussed in from the suburbs for a night, and of course the baby boomer fans of the '60s TV series, does anyone out there really give a damn whether this big Broadway adaptation of The Addams Family is actually "good"? If your tween wants to see it, you'll buy a ticket, no matter what the reviews say, and if you're a tourist hankering for a superficial spectacle, you'll step right up, too. (And they have been—the theater was filled to 100% capacity in recent weeks.) But are any real New Yorkers out there actually wondering whether this rote extravaganza, ostensibly inspired by Charles Addams's cartoons in The New Yorker, is worth the average ticket price of $100? more ›

What is the one thing that Broadway is missing right now? John Stamos Girl Power! According to Crain's, Judy Craymer, the producer of the international hit Mamma Mia!, has just signed an agreement with music manager Simon Fuller, Universal Music and the Spice Girls themselves to create a new musical based around their music. But wait, didn't that already happen with Spice World? The musical, tentatively titled Viva Forever, is expected to premier in London in two years before coming to Broadway. Whether this heralds another trend of platform shoes and Union Jacks remains to be seen. more ›

Could it be that the Broadway-bound musical adaptation of The Addams Family is just a tad dysfunctional? Reviewing the production's Windy City debut, The Chicago Tribune wrote, "Someone needs to stick a sharp pair of fireplace tongs into all the Gothic clutter that surrounds them in their overly weighty new musical." Other reviews were more positive—Variety calls it "theatrical comfort food, providing value for the consumer dollar"—but with $16.5 million sunk into the Broadway opening, producers aren't taking any chances. So they've brought in the big gun. more ›

The stage adaptation of Green Day's Grammy-winning rock opera American Idiot is coming to Broadway, following a successful debut at Berkeley Rep. A spokesman for the production tells Playbill, "There is a Broadway future for the show, but at this time no dates or theatre are confirmed." So, you know, get excited... or indifferent. We're no fans of Green Day's simplistic faux-punk mascara rock, but if this thing's a hit, maybe we can look forward to Steady Diet of Nothing: The Musical? Tony Roberts would make a great Justice Brennan. more ›

FINALLY: Run-DMC is going to Broadway, people! Joseph Simmons (Run) and Darryl McDaniels (DMC) are cooperating with the estate of Jason Mizell (Jam Master Jay) to create a stage musical about themselves: Run-DMC, the hip-hop pioneers from Hollis. Maybe it's not so crazy? Run-DMC were hilarious master showmen, and we could see their larger-than life personas served well by a big, loud Broadway spectacle. On the other hand, the producer is Hollywood's Paula Wagner, known for her association with Tom Cruise and War of the Worlds, which gives us a not-so-fresh feeling. more ›