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(Scroll down for news about Oscar Isaac and his Hamlet co-star, Keegan-Michael Key.) Josh Groban on Your Coffee Table This week, Josh Groban teased a coffee table book, Stage to Stage: My Journey to Broadway . In his tweet, Groban said , "The last few years have been insane. So I made a coffee table book about it. It's full of great memories." Later, in an Instagram post , the crooner said, "We collected so many photos and memories from the last few years. Recording the Stages album, promoting it, doing a tour that took me around the world and back, and then signing on and completing my debut in Great Comet ...it's all been one serendipitous dream." Groban just completed his run in Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812 , marking his much-anticipated and highly acclaimed Broadway debut. A Doll's House, Part 2 to Welcome New Cast The terrific Lucas Hnath play A Doll's House, Part 2 will welcome three new cast members this summ...

Rising in the Ranks at NYCB Several New York City Ballet  dancers were promoted just before the February 19 performance. Russell Janzen  was promoted to principal dancer. He joined the company in 2008, and was promoted to soloist just a couple years ago. In addition, seven corps de ballet members were promoted to soloists: Sara Adams , Harrison Ball , Emilie Gerrity , Joseph Gordon , Unity Phelan , Troy Schumacher , and Indiana Woodward . Merde to all the dancers! The NYCB winter season continues through this weekend, and the spring season begins in April.  The New York Times  has more about the promotions. Oscar Isaac–led Hamlet Confirmed You might recall that a production of Hamlet , starring Oscar Isaac ( Inside Llewyn Davis ) and directed by Tony winner Sam Gold ( Fun Home , John ), was supposed to play at Theater for a New Audience this year. Those plans fell through, and it was heavily rumored that the production would play at the Public. This ...

Coming Up The Barrow Street Theatre will be turned into a working pie shop this winter for an off-Broadway revival of Sweeney Todd , the Stephen Sondheim–Hugh Wheeler musical . Performances will begin February 14, 2017, with opening night set for March 1. The production comes via London, where the show was performed in Britain's oldest continuously operating pie shop. Broadway.com has more. A new comedy series is coming to Netflix. Created by Nick Stoller ( Forgetting Sarah Marshall ) and Francesca Delbanco , the series, Friends from College , focuses on (you guessed it) a group of people who've been friends since college (Harvard, to be specific). The cast includes Keegan-Michael Key ( Key and Peele ), Cobie Smulder ( How I Met Your Mother ), Annie Parisse ( The Layover , Vinyl ), Nat Faxon ( The Descendants ), Fred Savage , and Jae Suh Park . The series will shoot in New York this fall. Variety has more. Restless Creature , the Wendy Whelan documentary , will d...