Tag: Broadway

6 Star-Studded Facts About The Color Purple

By Kristen Day Chances are, you've heard of The Color Purple. But how well do you know these famous facts about the show? The Color Purple made its Broadway debut in 2005. The producers included Oprah Winfrey and Quincy Jones....
Bronx Tale cancelled

A Bronx Tale

This performance of A Bronx Tale has been cancelled. Learn more…

The Color Purple

Heralded by New York Magazine as, “one of the greatest revivals ever,” 2016 Tony® Award winner The Color Purple stunningly reimagines Alice Walker’s American classic and reinforces the power of perseverance and hope.

Stomp

Did you know? STOMP Edition

PERFORMANCE FACTS • STOMP has performed in over 350 cities in 36 countries worldwide. • STOMP’s New York City production will celebrate its 15th year at the Orpheum Theatre in February of 2009, which makes it one of the longest-running...

A “Kinky Boots” Q&A with Cyndi Lauper

Q – Is it true that Rodgers and Hammerstein were your initial influences? CL – Yeah. Them, and Leonard Bernstein and Peter in the Wolf and Debussy and Tchaikovsky and things that my mother played.  And a lot of opera!...

Creating the completely new Broadway musical “Something Rotten!”

Most Broadway newcomers don’t get their first show produced by Tony Award-winner Kevin McCollum, and they don’t typically land Tony-winner Casey Nicholaw as their director-choreographer. But brothers Karey and Wayne Kirkpatrick and British comedy writer John O’Farrell, the creators of...
Something Rotten

The unique humor of Broadway’s funniest show

The laugh lines in the Broadway hit Something Rotten! flow from different sources. Some come at the expense of William Shakespeare, the rock star of his day, here played as a world-weary writer who finds being famous so much more...

“A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder”

When the Tony Awards were handed out in June of 2014, the stylishly comic musical, A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder, took home four trophies, including the biggest: Best Musical. “It was the most incredible thing,” says author Robert...

Q&A with “A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder” writers Steven Lutvak and Robert Freedman

https://live-convocations.pantheonsite.io/event/gentlemans-guide-love-murder/ I just wanted to talk to you about the whole process of putting Gentleman’s Guide up on Broadway and winning the Tony Award.  As they say in Sound of Music, let’s start at the very beginning.  How did you...

Q&A with “A Gentleman’s Guide To Love and Murder” director, Darko Tresnjak

Well, I thoroughly enjoyed the show and I think it’s quite safe to say that a great deal of the success of the show is in the staging and just the absolute fun of it. Why don’t we start with...
Sally Bowles and cast from Cabaret

Behind the scenes of Cabaret

Learn how the talented actors & musicians in Cabaret are one in the same. Go behind the scenes first, then reserve your seat at the Kit Kat Club January 11.

All tickets now on sale! Diavolo: L.O.S.T. 9/28/17

17-18 single show tickets now on sale!

All single show tickets for the 2017-18 Purdue Convocations season are now on sale. Featuring Broadway musicals, lectures, dance, theatre, music, and concerts