Celebration Theatre
Official Opening September 22
Official Opening September 22
La Mirada Center for the Performing Arts
September 15 - Oct 8, 2017
September 15 - Oct 8, 2017
If you were a fan of silent film star Buster Keaton, you were no doubt open to the idea of Johnny Depp playing a man obsessed with him in the 1993 film Benny and Joon. 24 years after the film,...
Broadway behemoth A Chorus Line turns 40 this week, and what better way to celebrate than with three performances of the iconic show at the Hollywood Bowl? Once the longest running show in Broadway history, ACL is a meta meditation on the Great...
Composers have long been using musicals as a medium for social commentary. Given what we know (or think we know) of Cabaret from the memorable 1972 film—or the countless productions of the show—it was considered very provocative when it debuted in...
When Disney first explored the idea of doing Broadway productions, they had a long tradition of in-park shows under their belts. In 2013, when Frozenbecame a worldwide phenomenon, it seemed inevitable that the House of Mouse would look to...
Al Dubin, the man who wrote lyrics for “Tiptoe Through the Tulips,” “Forty-Second Street” and “Lullaby of Broadway,” fought a well-documented battle against drug and alcohol addiction. So while it may seem like an unlikely story for a musical,...
When Hugh Jackman made his Broadway debut in 2003 playing songwriter Peter Allen in The Boy From Oz, he was at the center of a big, splashy musical with over 25 performers and a full band in the pit....
When you are the director and choreographer of one of the biggest hits in theatre history, you can pretty much do whatever you want. For Susan Stroman, who won Tony Awards for directing and choreographing Mel Brooks’ The Producers,...
"I still owe money on the first film. I did the second because I was worried that someone would make it, and now I’m afraid someone wouldn’t."