The Tony-winning Broadway musical Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, has posted a closing notice for June 24th. The musical received two 2011 Tony nominations, for leading actor Tony Sheldon and for Best Costume Design, winning for Costume Design. The show had its one year anniversary on March 20th, and still stars its original trio of Tony Sheldon, Nick Adams, and Will Swenson. Upon closing, the show will have played 23 previews and 526 regular performances.

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Two new productions have been announced for the Main Stem. The first is a musical adaptation of the 2000 movie Bring It On, which will hit the St. James Theatre this summer. The show will be directed and choreographed by Andy Blankenbuehler (who won a Tony for his choreography of In the Heights a few years back), and will play a limited engagement from July 12th through October 7th. Opening night is set for August 1st and was announced by Jordan Roth, president of the Jujamcyn Theaters (the organization that owns the St. James Theatre), via Twitter.

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Carrie Underwood is just one of the many nominees for the CMT Awards, but she will also be performing at the show this year.

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The New York Times wrote a great profile article of Lincoln Center and the new theater they are opening “that will feature work by emerging playwrights, directors, and designers. The 112-seat theater … aims to develop new talent, feed the company’s two larger theaters … and attract younger, more diverse audiences.”

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When long-term congressman Cam Brady (Will Ferrell) commits a major public gaffe before an upcoming election, a pair of ultra-wealthy CEOs plot to put up a rival candidate and gain influence over their North Carolina district.

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The Avengers grossed an incredible $103.2 million during the weekend in North America, continuing its record breaking streak. The Avengers will hit $1 billion in global box office on Sunday.

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I wasn’t going to write about The Avengers again for awhile (other than the box-office), both because I didn’t have much more to offer, and because I didn’t want this blog to turn into ‘all Avengers all the time’. But I would like to take a moment to single-out a specific element that the film exemplifies. There has been much hand-wringing this week about whether or not The Avengers (and specifically its two major female characters) qualifies as ‘feminist.’

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The upcoming Broadway revival of The Heiress has a new star. A spokesman for the production, which will star Golden Globe and Academy Award nominee Jessica Chastain in the lead role of Catherine Sloper, will now also star Dan Stevens as her love interest. Stevens is best known to American TV audiences as Matthew Crawley in the PBS miniseries Downton Abbey. The Heiress will also star Academy Award nominee and Emmy Award winner David Strathairn as Catherine’s father. The production will be directed by Tony nominated playwright and director Moisés Kaufman.

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By Rhett Bartlett

Policeman (Ha-shoter) had all the potential of being a great, emotional film.

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On May 10th, from the stage of the Ryman Auditorium during Opry Country Classics, country music legend Loretta Lynn announced that she has chosen Grammy and Golden Globe-nominated actress Zooey Deschanel to star as Lynn in the Broadway musical adaptation of Coal Miner’s Daughter.  It was from the same place that, in 1979, that Lynn announced that she had chosen Sissy Spacek to portray her in the film adaptation that won Spacek her Academy Award.

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