For the second time in recent months, real-world controversy has visited the make-believe world of Broadway musicals. Nicholas Sparks, whose 1996 novel The Notebook is being turned into a Broadway musical by, among others, playwright and This Is Us producer Bekah Brunstetter, was slammed in a Daily Beast article today…

Hit Broadway musical Oklahoma! is coming to television for the first time after Jack Ryan producer Skydance Television partnered with The Rodgers & Hammerstein Organization and music firm Concord. The Blind Side's John Lee Hancock and This Is Us' Bekah Brunstetter are writing the present-day adaptation. The series…

Nicholas Sparks’ The Notebook is headed to Broadway as a musical, with playwright and This Is Us supervising producer Bekah Brunstetter writing the book and “Girls Chase Boys” hit-maker Ingrid Michaelson handling music and lyrics. "I am thrilled to work with Bekah and Ingrid in order to make The Notebook a reality on…

Debra Jo Rupp will re-team with her This Is Us producer Bekah Brunstetter for Off Broadway’s The Cake at Manhattan Theatre Club next spring. Rupp, who has guested on NBC’s hit family drama as social worker Linda, will reprise her starring role of Della in Brunstetter’s play The Cake, a comedy-drama mirroring the…

The Secret by Rhonda Byrne — which was in The New York Times’ bestseller’s list for over three and a half years — is being made into a film and Katie Holmes has been set to star. The film adaptation will be directed by Andy Tennant (Hitch, Sweet Home Alabama) from a screenplay by Bekah Brunstetter, writer on NBC's hit…