Great bantha! Disney has joined forces with Lucasfilm for a brand new Star Wars series, scheduled to hit theaters in 2015. Since Disney is responsible for a few of our favorite stage musicals, we thought it would be awesome to see Luke, Leia, Chewie and the gang singing, dancing and, of course, lightsabering on Broadway. After adapting hit films like ...

So you've already put on the mask as the Phantom, defied gravity as Elphaba, spooned out medicine as Mary Poppins and exhausted your silver shoe options as Velma Kelly. It's time to live in the here and now, trick or treaters! Since last Halloween, countless new characters have made their memorable mark in some of Broadway's biggest ...

Thirty-two years after his death, famed director Alfred Hitchcock remains a cultural icon as two new films, Hitchcock (in theaters on November 23) and The Girl (on HBO on October 20), explore the making of two of his most frightening flicks. Also, the troubles besieging the now defunct Broadway musical Rebecca (based on his 1940 film) have played out like ...

With the recent release of the director's cut of Little Shop of Horrors and anticipation building for the Les Miserables movie (have you swooned over the new film posters?!), we started reminiscing about the many musicals that have jumped from stage to screen. Over the past 30 years, some great tuners have been handed over to Hollywood, and the ...

With the recent announcement that Tony host, How I Met Your Mother star and all-around awesome A-lister Neil Patrick Harris is getting to work on a memoir, Broadway.com started to think of some of the great reads from oither famous folks who've written about their lives. Some of our favorite actors have even taken their memoirs one giant ...

Annie is packing up her suitcase, locket and adorable mop of red hair and moving to “N.Y.C.” on October 3! We don’t know about you, but after meeting Lilla Crawford and the adorable orphans, we’ve been humming “Tomorrow” “Easy Street,” “You’re Never Fully Dressed Without a Smile” and the rest of Charles Strouse and Martin ...

Cyndi Lauper’s new musical Kinky Boots is heading to Broadway this spring, and we think it’s about time the platinum-haired diva showed her “True Colors” on the Great White Way! Lauper’s not alone in her transition to Broadway composer: Singer/songwriter Sheryl Crow is developing a musical adaptation of Diner, while Sting’s tuner The Last Ship ...

Broadway is attracting some of Hollywood’s biggest stars to the New York stage this fall. From Oscar winner Al Pacino to rising leading lady Jessica Chastain, charming funnyman Paul Rudd, headline-maker Katie Holmes and TV icons Henry Winkler and Ed Asner, there's more than enough star power to light up the marquees of the Great White Way. We ...

School is back in session! As students all around the country return to class, Broadway.com couldn’t help but think about some of our favorite musicals that take place in learning establishments. From the classic American high school in Bye Bye Birdie to the foreign school house of Spring Awakening and the magical Shiz University in Wicked, some of ...

As Labor Day approaches, so does the exciting fall season on Broadway. The new season will feature a handful of highly anticipated plays headlined by big stars like Jessica Chastain (The Heiress), Al Pacino (Glengarry Glen Ross), Katie Holmes (Dead Accounts), Paul Rudd (Grace) and Patti LuPone (The Anarchist). Fall also brings a fresh crop of musicals to the Great ...