This Month, the Imperial Theatre Turns 100
This Month, the Imperial Theatre Turns 100!
Did you know the Imperial is one of the few Broadway theatre that has never been renamed?
100 years ago, Broadway’s Christmas wish came true with the opening of the illustrious Imperial Theatre. Situated on 45th Street in the heart of the theatre district, the theatre was the 50th to be developed by the Shubert Brothers in New York. In its hundred years of operation, it has become one of the premiere musical theatre houses.
Disney’s ‘The Little Mermaid’ Gets the Royal Treatment at Broward Center
It’s no longer an insider secret that Slow Burn Theatre Company, the resident professional theater company of the Broward Center for the Performing Arts, has been delivering outstanding, often family-oriented musicals, for the past nine years. In addition to multiple local awards, the company recently garnered a major Carbonell (South Florida’s Tonys) in the category of Theatrical Excellence. Which they well deserve. For just when you might think they’ve reached the pinnacle in stagecraft and acting expertise, they come out with a new, blockbuster winner.
How Tyler Johnson Grimes Gave New Life To ‘A Christmas Ghost Story’
Though Tyler Johnson Grimes hasn’t always been the biggest fan of A Christmas Carol, he also didn’t find it hard to start getting excited about putting his own spin on the classic story. After his successful, Carbonell-nominated turn as the sound and Foley designer of last season’s radio play version of It’s A Wonderful Life, Grimes was tapped by New City Players’ team of artistic leaders to write an original adaptation of Charles Dickens’ famous holiday tale, a task for which his extensive background in playwriting left him exceptionally well prepared.
Entertaining song and dance-packed musical production, Bye Bye Birdie, takes flight at Wick Theatre in Boca Raton
If you can remember Elvis Presley’s teen-traumatizing entry into the Army after being drafted in the late 1950s, you’ll no doubt feel a strong tug of déjà vu at the Wick Theatre in Boca Raton where Bye, Bye Birdie – a musical comedy based on a singer’s soldierly stint, but which blazes a circuitous story of its own, is now playing.
The Cher Show
The brand-new production, featuring Bob Mackie’s dazzling original Tony Award-winning Broadway costumes, makes its South Florida premiere at the Arsht Center. South Florida Cher fans will kick off 2024 with a spectacle featuring
35 hits spanning the star’s entire illustrious career.
New Broadway Demographic Report Shows Record BIPOC Audience Share
New Broadway Demographic Report Shows Record BIPOC Audience Share. Find out the average age of a theatregoer and more from the report covering the 2022-2023 Broadway season.