{"id":1006695,"date":"2026-08-17T15:09:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T15:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1006695\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T15:09:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T15:09:11","slug":"lena-dunham-10-things-i-hate-about-you-musical-sets-broadway-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1006695\/","title":{"rendered":"Lena Dunham &#8217;10 Things I Hate About You&#8217; Musical Sets Broadway Debut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tLena Dunham and Carly Rae Jepsen\u2019s \u201c10 Things I Hate About You\u201d musical is coming to <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/broadway\/\" id=\"auto-tag_broadway\" data-tag=\"broadway\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Broadway<\/a> next year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe show, based on the 1999 rom-com starring Julia Stiles and Heath Ledger, will begin preview performances exactly one year from now, on Aug. 17, 2027. Opening night, as well as casting and theater information haven\u2019t been announced.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tDunham is adapting the musical\u2019s book with Jessica Huang, while Jepsen is writing the music and lyrics with Ethan Gruska. Christopher Wheeldon is directing and choreographing with music supervision, arrangements and orchestrations by Tom Kitt. Mike Bosner, whose credits include \u201cShucked,\u201d \u201cCats: The Jellicle Ball\u201d and \u201cBeautiful: The Carole King Musical,\u201d will serve as producer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tA retelling of Shakespeare\u2019s \u201cThe Taming of the Shrew,\u201d the film version of \u201c10 Things I Hate About You\u201d follows the Stratford sisters, whose strict father won\u2019t allow the younger Bianca (Larisa Oleynik) to date until her older sister Kat (Julia Stiles) does first. When a new student named Cameron (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) pursues Bianca, she suggests he find someone to set up with Kat. So Cameron plays matchmaker, paying one of Padua High School\u2019s bad boys Patrick Verona (Heath Ledger) to take Kat out on a date. A cult favorite, the movie launched the careers of Gordon-Levitt, Stiles and Ledger. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tA logline for the Broadway show describes \u201c10 Things I Hate About You\u201d as a \u201crebellious\u201d musical about \u201cgrowing up, discovering yourself, and refusing to live by others\u2019 expectations. Amid the crushes, cliques and teenage angst, two sisters set out to define themselves on their own terms.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lena Dunham and Carly Rae Jepsen\u2019s \u201c10 Things I Hate About You\u201d musical is coming to Broadway next&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1006696,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[33],"tags":[19607,185,171,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-1006695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-broadway","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1006695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1006696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1006695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1006695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1006695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}