Sing Street, the sold-out Off Broadway musical that was set to begin performances at Broadway's Lyceum Theatre just as the COVID-19 shutdown hit, now is targeting an opening sometime between winter 2021 and winter 2022.
The announcement was made Monday by producers Barbara Broccoli, Brian Carmody, Patrick Milling…
Off Broadway’s hit Sing Street, a musical adaptation of the 2016 film about a group of Dublin teens in the 1980s who form a New Wave band to escape troubled home lives and small town drudgery, will transfer to Broadway in March.
Previews begin Thursday, March 26, at the Lyceum Theatre, with an opening night on Sunday…
The Los Angeles Film Festival may have come to the end of its days after its final edition last fall, the TCM Classic Film Festival wrapped its 10th year last month, and AFI Fest waits until Oscar season to trot out contenders. But now the town has a brand new festival of a very different stripe, and it is taking…
A new stage musical based on John Carney’s 2016 feature film Sing Street will have its world premiere at Off Broadway’s New York Theatre Workshop during the 2019/20 season, the theater announced today. Enda Walsh, who wrote the book for the Tony-winning musical adaptation of Carney’s Once, will reunite with Carney for…
Breaking onto the global stage with 2007's Once, a minimalist Irish musical which took the Oscar for Best Song, writer/director John Carney has had great success with a string of original musicals, including the Mark Ruffalo-starring Begin Again, and his latest, the Golden Globe-nominated Sing Street. In tandem with La…
The Weinstein Company is re-releasing John Carney's coming-of-age pic Sing Street in theaters Friday for the Fourth of July frame, following its original domestic run that kicked off April 15. The pic, about a Dublin boy who tries to win a girl’s heart by starting a rock band, has grossed $8.2 million worldwide to…
In Sing Street, director John Carney’s semi-autobiographical look at 1980s Ireland, a teenage boy forms a band in order to impress a girl and so begins a deep dive into some of the era’s seminal music as the group transitions from covers to original material. U2 obviously looms large over the Irish pop music of that…
Director Jeremy Saulnier's thriller Green Room charmed audiences in its initial run at three theaters, grossing a cool $91K, easily topping the per theater average of the weekend's newcomers. New York's new Metrograph theater, however, had an impressive run with its exclusive showing of the 1984 doc Los Sures, taking…
Director John Carney’s distinct filmmaking style, previously on display with the Oscar- (and eventually Tony) winning Once, as well as Begin Again, is back again in the small but infinitely charming coming-of-ager, Sing Street, which The Weinstein Company is rolling out starting today.
Just as in the other two films…
Just two days after its World Premiere at the Opening Night gala of the Tribeca Film Festival, Magnolia Pictures’ The First Monday In May is in theaters. Andrew Rossi's doc about New York’s annual Met Gala is a glittery mash of fashion, art and culture as it chronicles one of the city’s biggest events on the social…
The Weinstein Co. just added two titles to the 2016 calendar. John Carney’s Sing Street, which recently made its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival to rave reviews, will begin its limited release on April 15. Sing Street follows a Dublin teenager during the 1980s who is trying to woo the cool girl by having…
Another bright spot during this year’s Sundance Film Festival was John Carney’s third musical directorial Sing Street following Begin Again and his Oscar-winner Once. The film further heightened itself as a takeaway for festgoers after its actors Mark McKenna and Ferdia Walsh-Peelo turned in a three song set at the…
