EXCLUSIVE: Tony-winning M. Butterfly playwright David Henry Hwang has been set by Disney to write Hunchback, a live-action musical adaptation of the Victor Hugo novel. Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz will write the music. Mandeville is producing along with Josh Gad. I had heard that Gad, a star of the…

EXCLUSIVE: Lin-Manuel Miranda/Quiara Alegría Hudes’ In The Heights isn’t the only movie adaptation of a Tony-winning musical to escape the upcoming Weinstein Company bankruptcy auction. Deadline has learned that the Stephen Schwartz-Roger O Hirson smash musical Pippin also got free before the beleaguered company filed…

EXCLUSIVE: Fox 2000 emerged from a bidding battle that resulted in a substantial seven-figure deal for an untitled original musical fantasy about Hans Christian Andersen. It’s the first original musical from composer/lyricist Stephen Schwartz since Wicked, and it will be scripted by David Magee, the Life of Pi scribe…

So many stars aligned for this production of Shakespeare’s sylvan comedy As You Like It that it’s hard to know where to begin. How about the audience? One idiosyncrasy of the Classic Stage Company’s jewel-box theater in the East Village is that you can often see your fellow theatergoers, sometimes a mixed blessing…

At least four Wicked new songs will be added to Stephen Daldry’s 2019 movie adaptation of the long-running Broadway blockbuster, the musical’s composer-lyricist Stephen Schwartz said at a “Behind the Music” panel today at Comic-Con. “At least, as of now, there will be probably four new songs in the movie,” he told…

John Cameron Mitchell added “starred on Broadway” to the long list of credits attached to his trailblazing musical Hedwig and the Angry Inch that already included written by, co-created (with Stephen Trask), starred in the original off-Broadway production, and directed and starred in the film adaptation. In…

EXCLUSIVE: It came down to Universal, Disney and Paramount. In the end, Universal Pictures stepped up to make the year’s biggest material deal, acquiring the untitled musical comedy feature that The Comedians star Josh Gad and writer-director Jeremy Garelick hatched together, with original music to be provided by…

EXCLUSIVE: How often do you see a package hit the marketplace and receive bids from every major studio? Try never, but that’s what has happened tonight with Josh Gad and writer-director Jeremy Garelick, who are out with an ambitious pitch for an untitled musical comedy that will have Oscar winners Alan Menken writing…