By Oline Cogdill The myth that the Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna Romanova survived the Russian royal family’s execution by a group of Bolsheviks in 1918 has spawned numerous articles, books, movies, an a…

Artist Linda Fennimore’s poster design for “Tru,” starring Robert Morse (1989).December 25, 2024: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron Fassler. It’s odd that I hold one Christmas memory that is like no…

Broadway’s original Anastasia, Christy Altomare, was among the guests at a buzzy opening night of the new production of “Anastasia: The Musical” at Bucks County Playhouse on Saturday, November 23. Check o…

Members of the original Broadway cast of Anastasia will reprise their roles for a one-night-only concert performance of the musical in February. Christy Altomare, Mary Beth Peil and John Bolton will take to the…

A one-night-only concert performance of Anastasia: The Musical will be held in February at Lincoln Center. Manhattan Concert Productions will present the performance as part of its Broadway Series.

Check out this week's top virtual show programs from BroadwayWorld's Stage Mag! This week includes productions from Anastasia at Poudre High School Theatre, Finding Nemo at TYA The Coterie Theatre, and Anon(ym…

This holiday season, Bucks County Playhouse will debut an all-new production of 'Anastasia: The Musical' starring Lyda Jade Harlan, Roe Hartrampf and more. Learn more about the production and see how to purchas…

One That Got Away: Groundhog Day Everything about Groundhog Day pointed toward me seeing it. It's score came from the brilliant minds behind one of my favorite musicals, Matilda, including director, Matthew W…

Òran Mór, Glasgow A plain-speaking policeman finds himself confronted by one of history’s great impostors in Jonny Donahoe’s entertaining play Anastasia is attempting to look regal in her mother’s tiara…

Samantha Barks dazzled the audience at this year’s D23 Disney Entertainment Showcase with a powerful rendition of “Let it Go” after Disney Theatrical Group announced the Hit Broadway Musical was filmed on…

Disney Theatrical Group put on an electrifying performance of “Zero To Hero” at this year’s D23 Disney Entertainment Showcase to celebrate HERCULES coming to London’s West End in 2025. This one night …

Ladies and gents this is the moment you’ve waited for. Watch the special surprise performance where Disney Theatrical Group announced work has begun on a stage adaptation of THE GREATEST SHOWMAN. This one…

From BroadwayWorld's Archive: In this latest episode, we bring you not one, but two very special guests from Anastasia- Christy Altomare and Derek Klena! For the recipe for Katie's Princess Profiteroles, visit:…

In this video, I am joined by actor and comedian Stephen Brower to talk about his amazing performance career, including the upcoming tour of his original solo show, Palatable Gay Robot. You may know Stephen fr…

Olivier-winning actress Elaine Paige is giving Broadway.com listeners a chance to hear her BBC Radio 2 show Elaine Paige on Sunday. This week, Paige has the headlines from the latest in stage and screen news. …

From BroadwayWorld's Archive: Beloved stage and screen star Mary Beth Peil has picked up her second Tony nomination for her work in as the Dowager Empress in Anastasia. This time around she feels deserving of t…

From BroadwayWorld's Archive: In the episode below, Ben travels to the land of yesterday choreography from Anastasia, with the help of Kristen Smith Davis. Can you keep up?

For their 50th Anniversary, September Song Musical Theatre presented the recent Broadway musical “Anastasia:The Musical,” directed by Debbie Mobley. With a book by the late, great Terrence McNally and music…

#mcctheater #shoshanabean #mccmiscast #miscast22 Shoshana Bean sings "Pinball Wizard" from THE WHO'S TOMMY at MCC Theater's MISCAST22 with Allen René Louis and Anastasia Talley. ---------- MCC Theater’s an…

From BroadwayWorld's Archive: Today we flashback to 2017, when Anastasia took the stage at Bryant Park for the first time. Anastasia ran for 808 performances at the Broadhurst Theatre before closing in 2019. Th…

From BroadwayWorld's Archive: Earlier this month, Australian recording artist Cody Simpson made his Broadway debut in Anastasia as leading man 'Dmitry.'

Jamaal Fields-Green will take over the role of Michael Jackson in the national tour of MJ. He replaces Roman Banks in the role, beginning performances in Cleveland, Ohio on July 30. Fields-Green is the only pe…

From BroadwayWorld's Archive: We are continuing the series with Tai (11), Isabella (13), and Charles (10), who recently headed to the Broadhurst Theatre to check out Anastasia. Curious about what they thought a…

A scene from “13” at the Norma Terris Theatre. Tucked away in the cozy Connecticut town of Chester, sits the Terris Theatre, the little theate…

From BroadwayWorld's Archive: To celebrate the special day, Kids Night on Broadway Ambassadors Lea Salonga (Once on This Island), Ethan Slater (SpongeBob Squarepants), and Christy Altomare (Anastasia) joined B…

From BroadwayWorld's Archive: How did some of your favorite songs come to be? BroadwayWorld is getting the story behind the song in exclusive interviews from your favorite Broadway composers. Below, watch as St…

From BroadwayWorld's Archive: How did some of your favorite songs come to be? BroadwayWorld is getting the story behind the song in exclusive interviews from your favorite Broadway composers. Below, watch as Ly…

From BroadwayWorld's Archive: Home. Love. Family.  At the heart of ANASTASIA is a story about discovering who you are and Dmitry himself recently did just that. Below, watch as Derek Klena discovers his own f…

From BroadwayWorld's Archive: Broadway's Anastasia celebrated the animated film's 20th anniversary on stage today with a special performance by the show's lead, Christy Altomare. Joined onstage by the projectio…

From BroadwayWorld's Archive: Hollywood Pantages Theatre presents the Los Angeles premiere of Anastasia from October 8 to October 27. The tour of the critically acclaimed Broadway production began performances …

Several additional performers have joined the sold-out, one-night-only performance of Stephen Sondheim and James Goldman's Follies at Carnegie Hall. The concert, part of Transport Group’s Anne L. Bernstein …

From BroadwayWorld's Archive: STARS IN THE ALLEY, hosted by Tituss Burgess, presented its free outdoor concert today in Shubert Alley, between Broadway and 8th Avenue and 44th and 45th Streets, featuring the ca…

From BroadwayWorld's Archive: The new musical ROCKY, starring Andy Karl and Margo Seibert, opens tonight, March 13, at Broadway's historic Winter Garden Theatre. ROCKY features an original score by Stephen Flah…

Tony nominee Ramin Karimloo and Anoushka Lucas will lead the world premiere of A Face in the Crowd, a new musical with original songs by Grammy Award winner Elvis Costello. The show will run at the Young Vic T…

On May 4, Moulin Rouge! star Derek Klena announced on Instagram that he and his wife Elycia are expecting their second child in the fall. "New lil 'boo' joining our fam this Halloween!" he wrote, captionin…

Omnibus theatre, LondonAnastasia Osei-Kuffour’s stylish debut gives an honest appraisal of the tricky world of apps and expectations, yet offers a note of hope for those on the long road to romance ‘I want …

Ambassador Christian School is one of the first theatres in their area to perform Anastasia.

The New Hope, Pennsylvania theatre's upcoming season includes new stagings of Grease, Anastasia, and more.

Hello, show tune lovers! Today's game is all about songs from Broadway musicals that opened in the 2010s - not that long ago! You've probably at least heard of most of the shows included here, but how familia…

Anastasia Olson was taken to a nearby hospital in Minneapolis

Hello, show tune lovers! Today's game is all about songs from Broadway musicals that opened in the 2010s - not that long ago! You've probably at least heard of most of the shows included here, but how familiar …

Tony nominee Derek Klena will reprise his performance as the Bohemian poet Christian in Moulin Rouge! The Musical! beginning on February 6 at Broadway’s Al Hirschfeld Theatre. Klena takes over the role from …

Max von Essen will be the next Billy Flynn in Chicago. The Tony Award-nominated actor will take over the leading role beginning on November 6 at the Ambassador Theatre. Von Essen will replace Ryan Silverman, wh…

“Anastasia: The Musical” is the story of Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna. The youngest daughter of Tsar Nicholas II, the entire family was brutally murdered by Bolshevik soldiers in the Russian Revolutio…

Tuacahn has revealed its 2024 season featuring five productions that have never before graced the Tuacahn stages. Learn how to purchase tickets!

Original Broadway Cast, 1965 (United Artists/Kritzerland) What Robert Wright and George Forrest had previously done successfully with Grieg and Borodin, they did with Rachmaninoff in creating a musical based on…

Royal Opera House, LondonLaura Morera takes her final bow as Anastasia in a night that also includes Christopher Wheeldon’s winningly athletic Olympian ballet and McGregor’s Untitled, 2023 The austere title…

June 10, 2023: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron Fassler Between 41st and 66th streets there are forty-two legit Broadway theatres (this includes the Palace, currently under renovation and scheduled to reope…

Watch Anastasia's Willem Butler perform a dressing room concert of 'My Petersburg!'

Check out photos from Classic Stage Company;s Make Them Hear You: Celebrating 40 Years of Ahrens and Flaherty. This unforgettable evening showcased songs from across the legendary careers of Lynn Ahrens and�…

As a one-night-only-benefit evening of their music approaches, the team behind shows like 'Ragtime' and movies like 'Anastasia' talks about their past, present, and future.

Subscribe for more Broadway videos! Follow us on Twitter - https://twitter.com/broadwayhistory Emmy, Grammy and six-time Tony Award winner Audra McDonald and two-time Tony Award winner Brian Stokes Mitchell re…

Follow Quince Orchard High School on a “Journey to the Past” to the bustling streets of St. Petersburg, Russia, where following a revolution against the Empirical family Romanov, rumors spread that Princess…

Celebrate World Theatre Day with us by taking 15% off items sitewide! Use the code THEATRE15 for a discount on items from Hadestown, Wicked, Beetlejuice, Come From Away and many more! Check out items like the W…

She also choreographed the Tony-winning musical A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder.

Anastasia Apr 14 - 16 ONLY Buell Theatre Get tickets at denvercenter.org

One That Got Away: Anastasia (2017) There are many reasons why someone might miss a show altogether. Maybe it closed before you could get to it. Maybe it was too hard to get a ticket. Or maybe it's simply not …

The touring production conveyed its own sense of magic with lush costumes, a pretty score, and a gifted cast.

🌟Star-to-Be:🌟 Kimberly Akimbo's Justin Cooley In a lot of ways, Justin Cooley is already a star. Barely in his 20's, this guy is already a multiple award winner, was the toast of off-Broadway last s…

Before the war, in what now feels like another lifetime but in reality is just over a year ago, I was in Kyiv, premiering Dash’s show Songs for Babyn Yar. One evening, our Ukrainian partners handed me an Engl…

Ms. Hickey was the mind behind the movement in A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder, Anastasia, and more.

In October of 2022, artist Jacolby Satterwhite debuted "An Eclectic Dance to the Music of Time" on the Hauser Digital Wall at the new David Geffen Hall. His commission uses archival images, live-action footage,…

In conversation with MFA Candidate Anastasia Ellis, Parker discusses how dramaturgy moves in traditional text-based theatre and in the nonverbal dance world.

Mean Girls star Erika Henningsen will head the cast of the world premiere of Joy the Musical, which will play New Jersey's George Street Playhouse December 7–30. Ahead of its premiere, Henningsen stopped by …

Xander Parish, who fled St Petersburg in March, talks about his performance this weekend with Russian and Ukrainian artistes When the dancer Xander Parish made his return to the London stage in Swan Lake, visit…

More casting has been announced for the upcoming production of Sunset Boulevard at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. The  musical, based on Billy Wilder's Oscar-winning film, features music by Andrew Lloy…

Anthony Rapp ('Rent'), Elizabeth Stanley ('Jagged Little Pill'), Tony Yazbeck ('Flying Over Sunset'), Max Von Essen ('Anastasia'), Alexandra Silber ('Fiddler On The Roof'), Major Attaway ('Aladdin'), and Becky …

The fall leg of Disney Princess: The Concert's U.S. tour launches October 20 in McAllen, Texas. Before hitting the road, co-stars Christy Altomare, Adam J. Levy, and Anneliese van der Pol, as well as music dire…

The non-Equity tour is currently playing the Pablo Center in Eau Claire, Wisconsin.

The Non-Equity North American tour of ANASTASIA is currently making its way across the country! Veronica Stern, one of BroadwayWorld's 'People to Watch in 2022,' leads the cast as Anya. The cast also includes …

The real magic of this show are the songs by composer Stephen Flaherty and lyricist Lynn Ahrens. Terrence McNally (book), Flaherty and Ahrens are the same triptych that gave us “Ragtime,” and there is a sim…

Shop official merchandise from Come From Away, Anastasia, Hadestown, and more in the BroadwayWorld Theatre Shop. Shop our Fall sale for 15% off our most-loved items featuring our Come From Away Blue Leaf Pin, t…

It's been a spectacular year for Derek Klena. He and wife Elycia just welcomed a baby boy, he stars in Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin, and he joined the cast of the Tony-winning Moulin Rouge! The Musical.…

Broadway favorite and former Anastasia vlogger Christy Altomare has tied the knot with Chris Crook. According to People, the wedding took place on September 18 at the Lambertville Station in New Jersey. Atomar…

Shop our most-loved items featuring our Come From Away Blue Leaf Pin, the Funny Girl Logo Magnet, the To Kill A Mockingbird Navy All Rise Tee, the Anastasia Custom Music Box and more!

Tony nominee Derek Klena, who plays Christian in Moulin Rouge! The Musical, and wife Elycia have welcomed their first child. Their son, Dax Arthur Klena, was born on September 8. Klena announced the news on s…

The Japanese production of Anastasia, previously cancelled in 2020 due to COVID-19, has been rescheduled for September and October 2023.