How Cats Inspired a Generation of Dancers

There are two phases of everyone’s life: before seeing Cats and after seeing Cats. Starting today, with the release of a new film version of Andrew Lloyd Weber’s hit musical, millions of viewers will enter into this second phase of life, and a new generation of people with “Memory” stuck in their head will arise. […]

We're Gifting Readers 500 Tickets to Cats

Calling all Cats fans! If you live near Atlanta, Charlotte, Raleigh, Nashville or Greenville, we’d love to treat you to a sneak peak of the Cats feature film. In anticipation of the movie’s December 20 nationwide premiere, these five cities are hosting advance screenings on Tuesday, December 17, at 7 pm. We’ll get you in—for […]

Here's a List of Everything We Know About the CATS Movie

If the news about the upcoming CATS movie has your head spinning, we’re right there with you. It seems like every week we have a bit more to share about the new film adaptation, which is set to release in December 2019. So, in order to keep it all straight, we present you with our […]

Wayne McGregor Has Stepped Away from the CATS Movie

It looks like Wayne McGregor won’t be dancing at the Jellicle Ball after all. According to Deadline, the British choreographer has stepped away from the upcoming film adaptation of CATS after scheduling conflicts with The Royal Ballet arose. Though principal dancers Francesca Hayward and Steven McRae are taking brief hiatuses from performing with The Royal […]

You'll Never Guess Which Ballet Legend is in Andy Blankenbuehler's New Musical

We’re willing to admit that Only Gold, a Broadway musical that Andy Blankenbuehler has had in the works since 2013, had somewhat slipped our mind. (In all fairness, Blankenbuehler got rather busy choreographing a moderately successful musical about American history, and then directing and choreographing Bandstand.) But after an Instagram post from New York City […]

These Superstars Are Getting Tapped for the New CATS Movie

This time last month, we were wigging out when news broke that Wayne McGregor had been named choreographer for the upcoming CATS movie. Sure, it made us scratch our heads, since the original dances by the late Gillian Lynne are as iconic as the Jellicle cats themselves. (There was even a stir when Andy Blankenbuehler […]

25 to Watch 2018: Kolton Krouse

There’s a delicious bit of mischief in everything Kolton Krouse does. He’ll toss off some impossibly difficult sequence—a quintuple pirouette into a prolonged développé into an aerial, say—and end with an impish smile that’s the stage equivalent of saying, “How good was that? And how much fun did I have doing it?” The 21-year-old brings […]