Broadway Musical 'Lempicka' Sets Closing Date, First Casualty of Tony Awards Season

Steven Oxman A more-than-respectable entry in the endless parade of movies-to-musicals, this genuinely funny, effervescently performed pre-Broadway take on the 1992 Robert Zemeckis dark comedy “Death Becomes Her” has a better, and more sympathetic, understanding of the female vanity and rivalry at its core — and their underlying camp qualities — than the original film ever did. Going for the camp jugular brings risks, but lead performers Megan Hilty (“Smash,” “9 to 5: The Musical”) and Jennifer Simard (“Once Upon a One More Time,” “Company”) put forth the teamwork, timing, and ribald titillation to make it work.

The Onyx Collective’s Reasonable Doubt will return with its second season on August 22 with two episodes. New episodes stream on Thursdays via Hulu.

“The Wizard of Oz” is often cited as one of the greatest films of all time. And though we tend to poopoo any talk of prequels and sequels to treasured classics, there’s no denying everyone’s excitement for “Wicked.” The two-part film debuts its first half later this year and is expected to have the potential of being a major blockbuster.

Joe Otterson TV Reporter “Only Murders in the Building” dropped the first teaser for Season 4 on Tuesday and set its premiere date on Hulu. The reveal was made during Disney’s upfront presentation to advertisers in New York. The new season of the popular comedy series will bow on August 27.

Netflix announced on Wednesay that Jo Koy: Live from Brooklyn, its latest special from comedian Jo Koy, will premiere globally on the streamer on June 4. Check out a first-look still above.

A Tony Awards simulcast event called Broadway Fanfare will take place outdoors at Lincoln Center’s Damrosch Park during the awards ceremony on Sunday, June 16.

Joe Otterson TV Reporter “Snowpiercer” Season 4, which will be the show’s last, has set its premiere date at AMC. The final season of the post-apocalyptic drama will premiere on AMC and AMC+ on July 21 at 9 p.m.

All of Broadway’s biggest stars were in attendance at the 2024 Tony Awards Meet the Nominees Press Event to kick off the theatre awards season!

Lempicka, the much-anticipated but cooly received musical directed by Hadestown‘s Rachel Chavkin, will play its final performance on Sunday, May 19, producers announced tonight, just a month after opening.

EXCLUSIVE: Faith Omole, one of the stars of Nida Manzoor’s Peacock/C4/Working Title punk comedy series We Are Lady Parts, will have her debut play produced on the London stage next month starring BAFTA Award winner Rakie Ayola.

Alicia Keys is speaking out after making Broadway history with her new musical Hell’s Kitchen.

Alicia Keys is a Tony Awards favorite. “Hell’s Kitchen,” featuring Keys’ music and loosely based on her teenage years, earned 13 nominations at the Tony Awards, including best musical and several nods for acting. Alicia Keys makes her dreams come true as ‘Hell’s Kitchen’ hits BroadwayAlicia Keys and Swizz Beatz host art exhibition in New YorkA post shared by Alicia Keys (@aliciakeys)Keys, who wrote the show’s score and arranged its music, shared in an interview that she lost her mind when she learned the show’s nominations.

a highly competitive and unpredictable one. Fifteen new musicals opened during the past year, which is the widest field in at in at least three decades.

The Outsiders,” as vicious as the Greasers and the Socs.Ten of those 15 eligible productions are still running, but there will be only five Best Musical nominees called out (six if there’s a tie). So, more than half of what’s on could get the brush.A Tony nod is a big deal for reasons beyond the prestige.

Christian Lewis Sufjan Stevens’s indie folk concept album “Illinois”(2005) is whimsical, earnest, and sorrowful; it weaves together events and figures from Illinois history (including UFO sightings, Pullman cars, the World’s Fair of 1893, and the Lincoln/Douglas debates) with Biblical allusions and feelings of shame and loss. This multifaceted mix, often stirring and fascinating to listen to, is not an inherently logical choice for a narrative work of art — and yet, Justin Peck has devised, directed, and choreographed a 90-minute dance theater piece based on it, one that will indelibly be remembered as one of the most singular productions in recent Broadway history.

EXCLUSIVE: Canadian indie drama A Hundred Lies will premiere on June 7th on Apple TV with limited theatrical releases in Toronto, Hamilton, and Los Angeles preceding the digital release date.

Two hours and 30 minutes, with one intermission. At the Broadway Theatre, 53rd Street and Broadway.Forget East Egg and West Egg.

Christian Lewis F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 1925 novel “The Great Gatsby,”which captured the roaring twenties with shocking clarity,is a staple of high school curricula and has been immortalized in two famous film adaptations (in 1974 by Richard Clayton and in 2013 by Baz Lurhman). It’s most remembered for the titular character’s lavish parties, though as any good reader of the novel will tell you, the party’s are all razzle dazzle — what really matters is what’s underneath.

It’s been a very busy April on Broadway, and it’ll wrap with the 77th Tony Awards nominations announcement next week. And word came today that Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Renée Elise Goldsberry will reveal the list at 9 a.m. ET Tuesday, April 30, with a livestream running the Tonys’ YouTube page.

The 2024 Video Music Awards, the trophy show’s 40th anniversary, will air live from New York’s UBS Arena on Tuesday, September 10, MTV announced today. The VMAs will across MTV’s linear and digital platforms in more than 150 countries and territories, reaching a reported 319 million households.