‘Jagged Little Pill’ Musical By Alanis Morissette, Diablo Cody to Premiere...
Alanis Morissette’s Grammy-winning 1995 album “Jagged Little Pill” will soon hit the stage, with the premiere of a new musical featuring Morisette and Glen Ballard’s tunes and a book by Diablo Cody...
View ArticleRegional Theater Review: ‘Jagged Little Pill’
It’s a risky business, making a musical not from a story demanding to be told but from a set of songs merely available to be used. “Jagged Little Pill,” American Repertory Theater’s world premiere...
View ArticleAlanis Morissette Musical ‘Jagged Little Pill’ Heading to Broadway This Fall
There’s some new information you oughta know regarding Alanis Morissette’s acclaimed musical “Jagged Little Pill.” The new musical, inspired by Morissette’s seminal album of the same name, is set to...
View ArticleListen: The Producer Bringing ‘Oklahoma!’ and Alanis to Broadway
Producer Eva Price has been working on Broadway for years now — but this year, she’s really making her mark, first as the lead producer of this spring’s edgy new revival of “Oklahoma!,” and then in the...
View ArticleBroadway Fall Preview: The New Shows on the Great White Way
The new Broadway season features revivals, jukebox musicals, adaptations and transfers from Off Broadway. Yet while the game is the same, the rules are changing; many incoming shows are seeking...
View ArticleBroadway Bigwigs Talk Diversity, Representation at Variety Breakfast
Decades before producing some of the biggest hits in Broadway history, Disney Theatrical Group president Thomas Schumacher got a valuable lesson in the best way to draw a crowd. He was living in Los...
View ArticleListen: How ‘Jagged Little Pill’ Will Rock Broadway
“Jagged Little Pill” wasn’t originally written with Broadway in mind — but the songs on Alanis Morissette’s smash-hit 1995 album do exactly what good musical theater songs should do, according to the...
View ArticleCameron Crowe, Tom Kitt Tell Variety Summit Why Rock and Musical Theater Fans...
Cameron Crowe and Tom Kitt almost got to rest after their musical version of “Almost Famous” wrapped up its initial run in San Diego Sunday night. Instead, they came up to Los Angeles to appear as...
View ArticleAlanis Morissette Reveals ‘Jagged Little Pill’ 25th Anniversary Tour Dates
Alanis Morissette announced dates Monday for a 31-stop “Jagged Little Pill” 25th anniversary tour, launching on June 20 in Portland, Oregon. The tour is a virtual badass 1990s female-artist nostalgia...
View ArticleBroadway Review: ‘Jagged Little Pill’
Nearly 25 years after “Jagged Little Pill” hit the shelves of record stores, Alanis Morissette’s innovative 1995 album has arrived on Broadway under the muscular direction of Diane Paulus, who launched...
View ArticleDiablo Cody: Alanis Morissette Was a ‘Full-Blown Member’ of the ‘Jagged...
How do you write a musical? It’s a question Alanis Morissette and Diablo Cody asked themselves with admirable cluelessness — the kind of blindness to convention that begets the best of artistic...
View ArticleAlanis Morissette Told Singer to Drop F-Bomb in New Year’s Eve Performance on...
Alanis Morissette, Lauren Patten and the cast of the Broadway show “Jagged Little Pill” caused a bit of a stir during the New Year’s Eve broadcast of “Dick Clark’s Rockin’ New Years Eve with Ryan...
View ArticleAlanis Morissette: Nearly Every Woman in Music Has Been ‘Assaulted, Harassed,...
In a new interview with U.K. publication The Sunday Times, Canadian singer-songwriter Alanis Morissette made some revelatory comments concerning the #MeToo movement in the music industry as she...
View Article7 Biggest Takeaways From the 2020 Tony Nominations
Would any time be a good time for the Tony Awards this year? With the country gripped by a pandemic, a presidential election and an overdue reckoning on racial justice — and a Broadway industry...
View ArticleTina Fey to Host ‘One Night Only: The Best of Broadway’ Benefit on NBC
Tina Fey will host “One Night Only: The Best of Broadway,” a two-hour special with performances from top musicals that will raise money for the Broadway community next month on NBC. The musical...
View Article‘Jagged’ Review: A Documentary Looks Back at When — and Why — Alanis...
It tells the story of Alanis Morissette’s rise, and of how she took over (and changed) the pop music landscape, in 1995, with the release of “Jagged Little Pill.” The album went on to sell 33 million...
View ArticleGrammy Nominee Heidi Blickenstaff, Broadway Newcomer Morgan Dudley Join...
Heidi Blickenstaff will join the cast of “Jagged Little Pill” when the acclaimed musical returns to Broadway this fall. She will play the lead role of Mary Jane Healy, stepping into the part during the...
View Article‘Jagged Little Pill’ Star Heidi Blickenstaff Wants a ‘More Humane’ Broadway
Heidi Blickenstaff doesn’t want to exert her voice. It’s proving difficult, because although the Times Square eatery where she’s grabbing food after a matinee of “Jagged Little Pill” is mostly empty, a...
View Article‘Jagged Little Pill’ Will Not Reopen on Broadway Due to Omicron Surge
“Jagged Little Pill” has closed on Broadway. After announcing the cancellation of performances on Saturday due to positive COVID-19 tests among the production, the musical has determined that it will...
View ArticleInside the Brutal Economics of Broadway’s Omicron Shutdowns
“It just turned into triage.” That’s how Anne Quart describes the past few weeks on Broadway. As senior VP of production and co-producer at Disney Theatrical, Quart saw first-hand the chaotic spate of...
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