Spring won’t just bring nicer weather and beautiful flowers, it’s also bringing a gang of celebs to the Great White Way. Hitting the stage as politicians, night club singers, and migrant workers, some Hollywood favorites are trading in the set for the theatre.
Ditching drugs for politics, Bryan Cranston (of Breaking Bad) makes his Broadway debut this season as Lyndon B. Johnson in the new political drama All The Way. The play follows LBJ from the time of Kennedy’s assassination through the first year of his administration. Get ready to go all the way with Cranston as he chronicles Johnson’s efforts to pass Civil Rights legislation in congress as well as his victorious re-election.
Fishnets, glitter, and heels – oh my! Neil Patrick Harris is certainly not in Hollywood anymore! NPH comes to Broadway as Hedwig in the musical comedy Hedwig and the Angry Inch. The show is centered around a fictional rock n’ roll band fronted by the transgender singer, Hedwig, from East Germany.
Three well-known stars make up the leads of Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men, which opens on Broadway April 16th. Leighton Meester, James Franco, and Chris O’Dowd are trading the glitz and glamour for depression-era California. Of Mice and Men follows two migrant workers George and Lennie (O’Dowd and Franco) as they struggle to one day attain a slice of the American dream.
Life is a Cabaret, old chum– at least it will be for Michelle Williams starting April 24. Williams is set to play the star performer of the Kit Kat Club, Sally Bowles, in this season’s revival of Cabaret. Based on the book by Christopher Isherwood, Cabaret follows the ins and outs of the Berlin nightclub scene set against the tumultuous backdrop of 1930’s Germany.
In case you had any doubt in Denzel Washington’s acting ability, he’s ready to show you yet again how talented he is when he opens on Broadway April 3rd in A Raisin in the Sun. Set in a south side Chicago apartment during the 1950’s, the play follows the lives of the members of an African-American family who although face prejudice and uncertainty, are determined to live a better life.
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