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The creators behind Real Women Have Curves never imagined their musical, which is set in the Eighties, would hit as hard as it does today. Based on the 2002 film of the same name, the show follows a group of women working at a garment factory as they navigate issues …

For Scott Avett, the bad news arrived with dinner. In early December, the co-founder of the Avett Brothers and his wife were in their favorite restaurant in Charlotte, North Carolina. Just a few weeks earlier, Swept Away — a musical based on an early Avett Brothers album that included all …

It was a wonderful day in Oz when the Wicked Witch of the West died, or so you’d think from the celebratory mood of the residents of Munchkinland. Every man, woman and child were whooping with joy, crying tears of relief, tearing down terrifying posters of the green-hued tyrant like …

Simon Rich has always loved Magnetic Fields’ 69 Love Songs — and now, he’s bringing the famed album to the stage, by incorporating live performances into his show, All In: Comedy About Love. The new marriage comedy on Broadway, starring John Mulaney, takes inspiration from the magnetic and earnest depictions …

A frenzied performance of “Let’s Go Crazy”? Check. A set that resembles the Minneapolis club First Avenue? Check. But a scene in which a woman is tossed into a trash bin against her will? Or saucy pickup lines? Hold the check. Early this year, plans for a stage musical based …

In the new Broadway show Stereophonic, the year is 1976 and a band on the verge of superstardom is recording their next album in Sausalito, California. We never learn the band’s name nor do we hear the single from their last album that just shot to Number One a year …

Inside Broadway’s James Earl Jones Theatre on a recent afternoon, Huey Lewis has some actual good news. Checking his texts, he learns that Martin Short will be attending the opening of The Heart of Rock and Roll, the rom-com musical based around songs from his catalog. Also on the list …

After years of anticipation, the first trailer for Wicked starring Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo aired during the Super Bowl on Sunday. The film, adapted from the famous Broadway musical which is also based on the 1995 novel by Gregory Maguire titled Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked …

You might be familiar with Mean Girls on Broadway, most recently toplined by Sabrina Carpenter and Reneé Rapp, and you’ve almost definitely seen the 2004 movie, packed with more quotable moments than one can count. So, in the new movie musical Mean Girls, directors Samantha Jayne and Arturo Perez Jr. …

A lot has changed in the 20 years since Regina George and the Plastics first stalked the halls of North Shore High. Every teenager now has a smartphone. Social media has given several generations new ways to slay, shame, and talk shit. The Internet is one massive Burn Book. And …