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A new stage adaptation of the Charles Dickens classic “Great Expectations” is set to begin a national tour of the U.K. before settling into London’s West End later this year. The new production is part of celebrations commemorating the 200th anniversary of Dickens’ birth. The tour is expected to open at the Richmond Theatre on

Producers have announced that the current Broadway revival of “Anything Goes” will close on August 5. While the closing date is five weeks earlier than was originally planned, it does come after the production was extended twice. After the final show, the production will have been performed 565 times since opening last year. But there

“Once” was the surprise dominant winner at last night’s 66th annual Tony Awards, bringing home eight Tony awards, including Best Musical and Best Actor. “Clybourne Park” won the award for Best Play, though that was the only award that went to the production. Steve Kazee plays the guitarist at the center of “Once,” and used

At his 86th birthday celebration in New York on Friday, comedian Jerry Lewis announced plans to bring his classic film “The Nutty Professor” to Broadway later this year, the Wall Street Journal reports. Lewis co-wrote, directed and starred in the original 1963 film version, and he will direct the Broadway performance, though he will not

Playwright Mike Daisey, the man behind the Off-Broadway one-man show “The Agony and Ecstasy of Steve Jobs,” has come under widespread and well-publicized scrutiny recently because of claims that parts of his monologue are fabricated. And he went so far as to cut questionable portions of the show for its final performance, which was held

“Tuck Everlasting,” the musical adaptation of Natalie Babbitt’s 1975 children’s book of the same name, is set to make its pre-Broadway world premiere in June of next year at Boston’s Colonial Theatre. Casey Nicholaw, the Tony Award winning director and choreography of “The Book of Mormon,” will stage the musical, which features a girl who

Lawyers for former “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark” director Julia Taymor have filed papers in federal court responding to a countersuit by the show’s current producers. The new papers allege that producers were “secretly conspiring to oust Taymor and use and change her work without pay,” according to the Los Angeles Times. The lawyers claim