Christopher Wheeldon News

See lineup for Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival 2024, featuring performances from renowned international and American artists like The Royal Ballet of the United Kingdom, Camille A. Brown & Dancers, and more. Tickets on sale soon!

Tennessee Center for the Performing Arts has announced the lineup for its 2024-2025 Broadway season, including engagements of Tony Award-winners Moulin Rouge the Musical!, Shucked, MJ The Musical, and Kimberly Akimbo! The season also includes engagements of the touring companies of Peter Pan, Clue, & Juliet, and Mamma Mia!.

 Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts has unveiled the lineup for the 24/25 AdventHealth Broadway in Orlando season. Learn about the shows being presented and see how to purchase tickets.

Broadway in Portland has revealed its 2024-2025 season of Broadway shows at Keller Auditorium. See what shows are a part of the season lineup, and learn how to purchase tickets!

MJ star Roman Banks stopped by KPIXtv to talk about playing the icon Michael Jackson on tour. Watch the video below!

Fifteen years after MJ’s sudden death and his legacy continues strong with MJ The Musical, winner of four Tony’s. A sure-fire crowd pleaser, this jukebox musical includes Jackson’s biggest hits stunningly directed and choreographed by Tony winner Christopher Wheeldon.

Internationally recognised star of The Royal Ballet, Melissa Hamilton, and renowned businessman and property developer, Michael Christou, have announced the launch of Hamilton Christou Productions.

Co-founders T. Oliver Reid, Warren Adams, and Reginald “Reggie” Van Lee, along with Board Members Aaliytha Stevens and Naila McKenzie, have announced that the Black Theatre Coalition will host its Inaugural Gala on Monday, February 12, 2024 in New York City at the Rainbow Room (30 Rockefeller Plaza, 65th Floor).

With a repertory so vast, it is not uncommon for dancers to perform in all the works on a New York City Ballet program. Watch as Christopher Wheeldon remembers figuring in a new kind of triple bill that signified a watershed moment in his choreographic career.

Looking for a show to see in a city near you? Check out our guide of current and upcoming Broadway tours, and learn about each production.

GISELLE: REMIX, created by Jack Sears and Hannah Grennell, is a captivating evening of cabaret, drag, and stunning choreography.

The new 2024/2025 Hippodrome Broadway Series has been revealed! See which shows are featured, and learn how to purchase tickets.

Watch as original cast member Jovani Furlan illustrates how punctuated repetition, choreographic tension, and the element of surprise effect the moods of an early rehearsal that Justin Peck sought in creating Rotunda.

Is one born an artist, or does one become an artist? Axel Alvarez intimately explores this question in his spectacularl, exuberantly danced, autobiographical one-man song and dance show in Paris.

Strong, somber notes from a piano fill the The Joyce Theater as the curtain rises on the annual home season of Brooklyn-based fusion dance company, EVIDENCE. Four spotlights light up each corner of the stage, illuminating the evening’s most heavily featured dancers, Demetrius Burns, Joyce Edwards, Gregory Hamilton, and Isaiah K. Harvey, dressed in shades of brown.

Dive in to the origin story of a ballet that remains on the cutting edge over 20 years later, and see the music of Polyphonia this winter on the Wheeldon + Martins + Peck program opening January 25, 2024.

Casting has been announced for the UK premiere production of MJ the Musical, which begins performances at the Prince Edward Theatre, London from Wednesday 6 March 2024. Find out who is joining the previously announced Myles Frost!

As we celebrate The Evolution of NYCB's artistry this winter, audiences will bear witness to the evolution of an artist when Principal Dancer Tiler Peck presents CONCERTO FOR TWO PIANOS, her choreographic debut for the Company, on February 1.

San Francisco Ballet (SF Ballet) Principal Dancer Yuan Yuan Tan will give her final performance with San Francisco Ballet on Wednesday, February 14 at 7:30pm, dancing the role of Marguerite in Sir Frederick Ashton’s Marguerite and Armand at the War Memorial Opera House.

Christopher Wheeldon’s extravagant Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland© returns to take audiences back down the rabbit hole in 2024. Masterfully translated from Lewis Carroll’s beloved book, Wheeldon brings the humour and eccentricities of the original story to the ballet stage in a fantastical tale suitable for the whole family.