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This is one of the stranger bits of “Game of Thrones” news we’ve covered in recent years. Apparently, someone decided…

We’ve been waiting for YEARS to finally see a movie version of “Spamalot,” the stage musical based on “Monty Python’s…

We are very pleased to share this trailer for the upcoming HBO, HBO Max release film from Spike Lee of…

Aaron Sorkin is one of the undisputed KINGS of written dialog, and when word came down that he was adapting Harper Lee’s “To Kill A Mocking Bird” (voted #1 in PBS’s The Great American Read) for the stage, our interest was peaked. Wordsmith behind some of the best written [FIGHT. ME] tv series of modern times- The […]

Listen up, Broadway babies- the 2019 Tony Awards just got their venue and broadcast date for the 2019 ceremony celebrating the best and brightest of the Great White Way. The 2019 Tony Awards will take place at lManhattan’s Radio City Music Hall (duh), and will be broadcast live via CBS on Sunday June 9th 2019. […]

Cameron Crowe’s Almost Famous is one of those special movies that remains an important piece of cinema to those who love it. Not everyone does, but the ones who do REALLY love it. It’s apparently also the most recent beloved flick to be getting a musical adaptation, joining the likes of Waitress, and Moulin Rouge. Tom Kitt (Tony-winning composer […]

Yes, we know, the movie adaptation of the Monty Python musical Spamalot  is *actually* Monty Python And The Holy Grail but, this is about a film version of the Broadway musical. Perhaps you’ll recall the CLASSIC (FIGHT ME) 1975 film from the British comedy troupe about the trials and tribulations of Arthur King of the Britons (Graham Chapman) […]

Lin-Manuel Miranda isn’t just “Hamilton Guy”, even though many will know him soley for that.  Before he was rapping about the nation’s founding fathers and changing the face of Broadway, Miranda had another notable but less well known hit show called “In The Heights”. That musical chronicles a mostly hispanic group of denizens of the Washington […]

Baz Luhrmann’s 2001 technicolor musical feature film Moulin Rouge has been turned into a live stage musical, and we’re pretty damn excited, to be honest. The film featured several non-period popular songs like David Bowie’s “Diamond Dogs”, Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit”, Queen’s “The Show Must Go On”, and several medleys. Stars Nicole Kidman and Ewan McGregor delighted audiences with their […]

[rwp-review-recap id=”0″] With all the happenings in the world, sometimes what’s needed is some light diversion to entertain and put a smile on people’s faces. To that end, Something Rotten! does deliver. Coming off of a 742-performance run on Broadway, the national tour has landed in San Francisco for a three and a half week […]