In 2024, a modernized revival of the show — incorporating more contemporary slang and music — finally returned to Broadway.
The evening began with an unexpected reminder that live theater is, indeed, live. Due to technical difficulties, the curtain was delayed, and then shortly after the show began, a calm voice asked the ...
On Thursday morning, Jefferson High School theater students worked to keep pace with a complex choreography routine fit for a ...
When actor Alan Mingo Jr. landed the title role in the 50th anniversary revival of the Broadway musical “The Wiz,” he felt confident that he knew what would come next. A national tour, a Broadway run, ...
It’s got gospel. It’s got soul. And oh my, the dancing! In a dream collaboration, Dallas Theater Center and Dallas Black Dance Theatre, the city’s oldest continuously operating dance company, fill the ...
NEW YORK — “Everybody look around,” they’re singing, festively, at the Marquis Theatre. “There’s reason to rejoice, you see.” For a lot of Broadway fans, especially Black audiences of a certain age, ...
Everybody look around, there’s reason to rejoice! The Tony Award®-winning Best Musical that took the world by storm is back. Based on L. Frank Baum’s children’s book, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, The ...
It’s almost Christmas and America’s favorite fable is everywhere. “The Wizard of Oz”, the 1939 movie, is playing on screens non-stop every Christmas. “Wicked”, the hugely popular musical, is now a ...