Here's a quick roundup of stories you might have missed. Mama Will Reprise! Tony winner Alex Newell made their Broadway debut as Asaka in the 2017 revival of Once on This Island and will be returning to the r…

A FIRST-HAND REPORT ON NEW YORK THEATRE . . . FROM A HALF-CENTURY AGO Alan Bates in the title role of Simon Gray’s “Butley,” which played the old and venerable Morosco Theatre (1972).December 10, 2025…

The York Theatre Company and American Dance Machine are now presenting Gotta Dance, co-directed by Nikki Feirt Atkins and Randy Skinner. The production runs through December 28, 2025 at 7:00 p.m. at Off-Broadwa…

The immensely entertaining Gotta Dance!, a creation of American Dance Machine presented by the York Theatre, includes some 17 dance numbers from such classic musicals as A Chorus Line, Sweet Charity, Pippin, We…

If you love dance you need to buy tickets to see GOTTA DANCE at The York Theatre at St. Jean. The show showcases Pippin,Gypsy, A Chorus Line, Contact, An American In Paris and West Side,Story,and it is a dance …

The Society of Composers & Lyricists will present the 2025 SCL Lifetime Achievement Award to Stephen Schwartz, the three-time Academy Award-winning composer and lyricist whose work includes Wicked, Godspell…

On Sunday, Broadway songwriter Stephen Schwartz sat down with CBS Sunday Morning for a career-spanning conversation from Godspell to Wicked to his latest show, The Queen of Versailles, now running at Broadway's…

A celebration of life was recently held for Tony Award-winning producer and entertainment industry veteran Jack W. Batman, who died on August 1, 2025 following a diagnosis of pancreatic cancer earlier this year…

Saddled with an unmemorable score by Stephen Schwartz (Wicked, Pippin) and a confused book by Lindsey Ferrentino (Amy and the Orphans), Versailles glides by as bland bio-musical for much of its excessive runtim…

On Your Marks, get set... go! The New York City Marathon is coming up this Sunday, November 2, bringing together runners from all over the world for one epic day spread across the five boroughs. In 2024, 55,642…

Boo! Tickets are now on sale for High Spirits, part of New York City Center’s Encores! series. The rarely-revived musical based on Noël Coward’s Blithe Spirit will be brought back to life from February 4-1…

Talene Monahon’s MEET THE CARTOZIANS, directed by Tony Award-winner David Cromer, will kick off Second Stage Theater’s 47th Season, the first under the leadership of Artistic Director Evan Cabnet and Execut…

Ben Vereen and John Rubinstein perform from Pippin and get interviewed by Johnny Carson

Ainsley Melham will return to Broadway's Aladdin in the title role on August 26. Melham originated the role in the Australian production in 2016 and joined the Broadway company for several months in 2019, mark…

Make way! Ainsley Melham will return to Broadway's Aladdin in the title role from August 26 through November 30. Melham originated the role in the Australian production in 2016 and joined the Broadway company f…

Aladdin has announced that Ainsley Melham will return to the Broadway production in the title role Tuesday, August 26 through Sunday, November 30. Melham originated the role in the Australian production in 2016…

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A Tony winner for his work (with producing partner Bruce Robert Harris) on Clybourne Park and Pippin, Mr. Batman was 81.

Tony Award-winning producer and entertainment industry veteran Jack W. Batman died on August 1, 2025, at the Actors Fund Home in Englewood, NJ, following a diagnosis of pancreatic cancer earlier this year. He w…

Complete casting is set for Talene Monahon's Meet the Cartozians, a new play that grapples with Armenian-American history from World War I to the Kardashian family. Performances begin at the Pershing Square Si…

Complete casting has been announced for Talene Monahon’s MEET THE CARTOZIANS, directed by Tony Award-winner David Cromer. The world premiere production kicks off Second Stage Theater’s 47th Season, the firs…

American Dance Machine is teaming with the Off-Broadway company on Gotta Dance, part of the latter's newly revealed 2025-2026 season.

It has been revealed that Diane Paulus will direct the The Phantom of the Opera's return to New York, entitled Masquerade. Paulus is currently the Artistic Director of American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.). She w…

Diane Paulus, a 2013 Tony Award winner for her direction of Pippin whose other Broadway credits include Waitress, Jagged Little Pill and Real Women Have Curves, is directing Masquerade, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s …

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Advertisement for the one-night only “Hello, Dolly” in Concert at Carnegie Hall.June 24, 2025: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron Fassler. Last night at Carnegie Hall, those in attendance for an all-star…

“Pippin” was a Broadway hit in 1972. Bob Fosse was the original Broadway director and choreographer. Being a seventies musical, “Pippin” is edgier and darker than the big 1940s musicals like “Brigadoo…

Charlotte d’Amboise will return to the role of Roxie Hart in Broadway's Chicago. She takes over the role from Ashley Graham on May 26.  D'Amboise received Tony nominations for A Chorus Line and Jerome Rob…

Chicago will welcome back triple threat Charlotte d’Amboise in the role of “Roxie Hart” beginning Monday, May 26 and Sophie Carmen-Jones extends in the role of “Velma Kelly” through Sunday, August 10 …

Liz is back at 54! Long an interpreter of the songs of Stephen Schwartz, Emmy winner and Tony and Grammy nominee Liz Callaway turns her attention to the songwriter with her new show, The Wizard and I: Liz Calla…

Peter Filichia, James Marino, and Michael Portantiere talk about Real Women Have Curves, Dead Outlaw, Broadway Dream Roles (BroadwayCares), Seth Rudetsky’s The Broadway Sitzprobe Experience: Pippin, Salome @ …

Broadway Sitzprobe Experience returns with a performance of PIPPIN! Conducted by Julie McBride and featuring Darius de Haas and Sis dividing the role of The Leading Player, Nathan Salstone and Zachary Noah Pis…

A bevy of Broadway’s brightest stars - from icons Jennifer Holliday and Andrea Martin to show-stopping newcomers Tom Francis and Jasmine Amy Rogers - lit up the Al Hirschfeld Theatre on April 28, 2025…

Seth Rudetsky and James Wesley Jackson host The Broadway Sitzprobe Experience.

“The Broadway Sitzprobe Experience,' which was conceived by Seth Rudetsky, will return with a performance of Pippin! Learn more about this upcoming event here!

2024 - 2025 Broadway Musical Logos: Pirates! (The Penzance Musical) In probably the best advertising move concerning a Broadway musical in years, Roundabout changed its show art for Pirates! The Penzance Mu…

Plus, why Seth Rudetsky had a beautiful, yet "traumatic" time doing William Finn's A New Brain.

Boop! is now open and playing over Broadhurst Theatre. We have Australian musical theatre and Broadway star Ainsley Melham here to talk all about it! Ainsley was Aladdin in Australia. Then he moved over to New …

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BroadwayHD recently hosted an event to celebrate the streaming premiere of the Pippin 50th Anniversary Concert. BroadwayWorld was there and you can check out photos of the stars on the red carpet here!

Missed out on Monday night's Pippin - 50th Anniversary Concert celebration? Check out this inside look from Playbill featuring Ben Vereen, Stephen ...

BroadwayHD BroadwayHD Marked 10 years of Excellence with a PIPPIN/ 50th Anniversary Celebration featuring Stephen Schwartz, Alex Newell, & Ben Vereen. March 26, 2025: Bonnie Comley and Stewart F. Lane, Br…

Last night a spectacular evening was held celebrating BroadwayHD’s 10thAnniversary! at the SVA THEATRE 333 WEST 23rd Street. A red carpet was followed by a screening highlight from the Pippin 50th Anniversary…

The evening also celebrated the 10th anniversary of BroadwayHD.

BroadwayHD last night hosted an exclusive invite-only event on behalf of their streaming premiere of the Pippin 50th Anniversary Concert. See photos from the event here!

Matthew James Thomas has got magic to do, yet again! Thomas, who is already beloved by Broadway audiences for his pst performaces in shows like Pippin, Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark and Time and the Conways, re…

Matthew James Thomas has got magic to do, yet again! Thomas, who is already beloved by Broadway audiences for his pst performaces in shows like Pippin, Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark and Time and the Conways, re…

Before WICKED, Stephen Schwartz penned Pippin.  Hear what Carol de Giere (Defying Gravity) has to say about the evolution of Pippin, Schwartz, and more. The… The post Carol de Giere on Stephen Schwartz and t…

BroadwayHD will exclusively broadcast the world premiere of the Pippin 50th Anniversary Concert beginning Thursday, March 13.

The 2025 Chita Rivera Awards will honor Tony Award-winning performer Ben Vereen with the Lifetime Achievement Award for his lifelong commitment to dance in the theater. The annual awards will take place on May …

Two weeks before we returned for classes, we had our Pippin auditions which I must tell you about in this introductory blog, to show you just how intense things have kicked off! And it’s only the start of the…

Tony nominee and Oscar winner Ariana DeBose is in talks to lead Jamie Lloyd's revival of the Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice musical Evita. As previously announced, the production will play the London Palla…

You can now take a look back at Lorna Courtney performing 'Corner of the Sky' from Pippin at MCC Theater's MISCAST23. Learn more about the event and check out the video here!

Lorna Courtney sings "Corner of the Sky" from the musical PIPPIN at MCC Theater's MISCAST23. ---------- MCC Theater’s annual MISCAST gala is a one-night-only musical spectacular featuring Broadway’s hottest…

Three-time Tony nominee Terrence Mann will join the cast of Broadway's The Great Gatsby as Wolfsheim for a limited run from January 8 through April 20, 2025. He takes over for original cast member Eric Anders…

This groundbreaking, new production, directed by Center Theatre Group Artistic Director Snehal Desai, and produced in collaboration with Deaf West Theatre, features an ensemble of both Deaf and hearing actors, …

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is set to welcome several new cast members, beginning performances at New York’s Lyric Theatre on November 12. Joining the company are Matthew James Thomas (Pippin) as Harry…

Rudy Pankow (“Outer Banks”) and Emilia Suárez (“Up Here”) lead the cast in Diane Paulus’ and Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui’s heart-pounding new production of Romeo and Juliet that features Terrence Mann (Pi…

The arrival of a new Baker and his younger wife turns a provincial French village upside down in this cult classic musical from the legendary Stephen Schwartz (composer of Godspell, Wicked, Pippin) and Joseph S…

The Gilded Age, Tony nominee Julian Fellowes' HBO drama series about late-19th-century New York City, has announced new cast members for its upcoming third season, including several familiar to Broadway and Ne…

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From BroadwayWorld's Archive: This season of Schmigadoon, creator Cinco Paul is bringing audiences into the world of Schmigaco, parodying the musicals of the '60s and '70s like Hair, Cabaret, Pippin, Sweeney To…

The original company of Mame perform at the Winter Garden Theater, shot by music director Don Pippin

The arrival of a new Baker and his younger wife turns a provincial French village upside down in this cult classic musical from the legendary Stephen Schwartz (composer of Godspell, Wicked, Pippin) and Joseph S…

Check out video of The Notebook composer, Ingrid Michaelson, performing an emotional mashup of, 'With You' from Pippin and 'What More Can I Say?' from Falsettos at Miscast 2024 here!

Complete casting is set for McNeal, the new Broadway play by Ayad Akhtar, starring Robert Downey Jr. The cast will feature Brittany Bellizeare (Flex), Rafi Gavron (Bradley Cooper's A Star Is Born), Melora Ha…

#mcctheater #ingridmichaelson #mccmiscast #miscast24 Ingrid Michaelson performs a mash-up of "With You" and "What More Can I Say" from PIPPIN and FALSETTOS at MCC Theater's MISCAST24. ---------- MCC Theater�…

From BroadwayWorld's Archive: Music Theatre Wichita continues its 2018 Season with one of the first regional productions of the newly revised Pippin, reflecting the changes composer-lyricist Stephen Schwartz an…

American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.) at Harvard University has announced casting for its upcoming production of Romeo and Juliet. The show, which opens the 2024-25 season, will star Rudy Pankow as Romeo, Emilia …

From BroadwayWorld's Archive: Tony Award winner Betty Buckley (Broadway's "Cats," "Sunset Boulevard," "The Mystery Of Edwin Drood, "Song & Dance, "Pippin," "1776," "Triumph Of Love" and "Carrie"; M. Night Shyam…

Showcasing a variety of West End talent, the record features material from Prince of Egypt, Pippin, Children of Eden, Wicked, Godspell, and more.

From BroadwayWorld's Archive: The cast of The Hunchback of Notre Dame, featuring a book by Peter Parnell, music by Alan Menken and lyrics byStephen Schwartz, is officially in rehearsals for the upcoming spring …

From BroadwayWorld's Archive: The company of the Tony Award winning Best Revival of a Musical PIPPIN (currently playing at the Music Box Theatre) just celebrated the caricature unveiling of current and original…

From BroadwayWorld's Archive: This week's event featured performances from the cast of PIPPIN, including: Ciara Renee, Sam Lips, Nicolas Jelmoni and Charlotte O'Sullivan. Click below to watch clips from 'Corner…

Abe Jacob accepts his 2024 Special Tony Award. The remarkable career of Abe Jacob has spanned over six decades. He started in Rock and Roll at McCune Sound in San Francisco and went on to create concert sound …

From BroadwayWorld's Archive: Rachel Bay Jones has won the 2017 Tony Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical for Dear Evan Hansen. This marks her first Tony nomination and firs…

From BroadwayWorld's Archive: AnthonyKen LLC and Sheryl Lee Ralph/The Diva Foundation present the Off-Broadway premiere of MIGHTY REAL: A FABULOUS SYLVESTER MUSICAL, the new musical that celebrates the life of …