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In the wake of winning the best adapated screenplay Oscar for Jojo Rabbit, Taika Waititi is attached to write, direct, and executive produce two original animated series for Netflix based off Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. The first will be based on that book’s characters, and the second is a wholly…

The producers of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – chiefly Warner Bros. Theatre Ventures – said today that the musical will close January 14, 2018 at the Nederlander Organization’s Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, where it will have played 27 previews and 305 regular performances. A U.S. national tour will follow, beginning…

Any doubt that feel-good Canadian import Come From Away would triumph over its modest Tony Awards showing (seven nominations; one win, for Christopher Ashley’s staging) can be put to rest. It had a rock-solid summer, with above-capacity attendance at the Shubert Organization’s Schoenfeld Theatre and no fire-sale…

The Tony nominators spread the joy to 25 of 37 eligible shows this morning, giving multiple nods to box office smashes that included the shoo-ins – Bette Midler in Hello, Dolly!, check. Ben Platt in Dear Evan Hansen, check. Patti LuPone and Christine Ebersole in War Paint, check. – while still managing to cause some…

With all shows off and running — or, in some cases, just off — by last week’s cutoff for Tony Awards nominations, to be announced tomorrow morning at 8:30 ET, Broadway attendance cooled down a bit at many shows. Barn burner Hello, Dolly! pulled into the stretch with Hamilton as the Street’s big tickets: At the…

The producers of the stage musical Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, led by Warner Bros Theatre Ventures, have pulled a Harvey Weinstein. As Weinstein did with his stage version of Finding Neverland, they tossed most of the original U.K. production and came to Broadway with a fresh remake: Simplified production…

John August, who counts Big Fish and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory among his screenwriting adaptations, has just made a deal to author three books targeted at middle-grade children. The first will be Arlo Finch in the Valley of Fire, set to be published in early 2018 by with Roaring Brook Press, an imprint of the…

Christian Borle, a two-time Tony winner currently starring as William Shakespeare in Something Rotten! will play Willy Wonka next spring in Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. The show, transferring from London, will run at the Nederlander Organization’s Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, where Finding Neverland is…

As if timed for St. Patrick’s Day, Warner Bros. Theatre Ventures, Langley Park Productions and Neal Street Productions announced Thursday that multiple Tony Award-winning director Jack O’Brien will stage a revised version of the West End musical hit Roald Dahl’s Charlie And The Chocolate Factory on Broadway next…

Sam Mendes’ pull-out-all-the-stops production of Charlie And The Chocolate Factory — which overcame mixed reviews to become a hit at London’s Drury Lane Theatre — is on schedule to arrive in New York next season. But Mendes (whose second James Bond flick, Spectre, is piling up money around the world) has bowed out as…

The Sam Mendes-directed West End musical Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, which recently extended its run to May 20, 2015, tied today with the revival of Stephen Sondheim's Merrily We Roll Along to lead the list of Olivier Award nominees with seven each. Charlie grabbed mentions in the Best Actor in a Musical…