The current Broadway revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s “Evita” will hit the road for next year for a national tour, producers announced recently. The tour will kick off at the Providence Performing Arts Center in Providence, R.I. in the fall of 2013. No casting, specific dates or additional tour stops have yet been announced. The new “Evita” revival began previews at the Marquis Theatre on March 12, and has...

Holding a rare summer opening, a musical adaptation of the 2000 film “Bring It On” is headed to Broadway this July. The musical and the movie featuring battling high school cheerleading squads, will hold an opening night on August 1, and the limited engagement is scheduled to run through October 7. Uniquely, the musical undertook a national tour before coming to Broadway. Previews will begin July 12, but the show already...

“Priscilla, Queen of the Desert” will end its Broadway run, but will then continue on in the form of a national tour. Producers announced yesterday that the show will close on June 24. At that time, it will have had a total of 526 performances along with 23 previews. The show opened on Broadway in March of last year and went on to win a Tony Award for Costume design for...

Last night at Nashville’s historic Ryman Auditorium, Loretta Lynn announced that Zooey Deschanel will play her in an upcoming Broadway musical about Lynn’s life called “Coal Miner’s Daughter.” The country legend personally picked Deschanel for the part, which will mark her debut on Broadway. No opening date has yet been announced for the production, though it was made known that the schedule will not conflict with Deschanel’s Fox television series “The...

In the span of just two days, it was revealed that “How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying,” “Leap of Faith” and “Magic/Bird” would all be ending their respective Broadway runs. Though it was nominated for a 2011 Tony Award for Best Musical Revival, sales of “How to Succeed” have been struggling recently, and Frank Loesser’s 1961 musical will end after a performance on Sunday, May 20. The revival had...

“Once,” the Broadway play that was recently nominated for 11 Tony Awards, will hit the road next year for its first national tour. The play is based on the 2006 film of the same name that stared musician Marketa Irglova and Glen Hansard. The latter is the lead singer of the Irish band the Frames. The two actors teamed up after the movie to form the musical duo The Swell Season. The...

Just a few days after receiving a slew of Tony Award nominations, it has been announced that the Broadway musical “Nice Work if You Can Get It” musical will undertake a national tour next year. The Broadway musical stars Matthew Broderick and Kelli O’Hara, and recently received 10 Tony nominations, including one for Best Musical. Producers announced yesterday that the production would embark on a national tour beginning next fall. No...

This Friday, moviegoers can see Scarlett Johansson star in “The Avengers,” which promises to be the first big blockbuster of this coming summer movie season – but it looks like the star may have something less massive planned for the near future by making her return to Broadway. Rumors that Johansson would appear in an upcoming Broadway revival of Tennessee Williams’ “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” appear to be closer...

There will be some upcoming lineup changes in the current touring version of “Wicked” as Nicole Parker and PJ Benjamin will be added to the cast this month. Both will join the cast in Denver, with Benjamin arriving to play The Wizard on May 8 and Parker coming to fill the role of Elphaba on May 18. They will join a cast that currently features Alli Mauzey as Glinda and Liz...

According to New York magazine, Angela Lansbury will join James Earl Jones for an Australian touring version of “Driving Miss Daisy” next winter. Lansbury, 86, currently is starring in “Gore Vidal’s The Best Man,” and said in a conversation with the magazine recently that the excursion to Australia with Jones is likely to happen. “Driving Miss Daisy” was originally written by Alfred Uhry in 1987, and debuted that year Off-Broadway at the...