The Broadway season doesn’t lend itself comfortably to Best of the Calendar Year Stories — my choices for the first six months of 2024 were made and announced last June in a Tony Award predictions column. S…

On this very special, Christmas Week episode of BroadwayRadio, Matt Tamanini is in conversation with the two stars of the current Paper Mill Playhouse production “Irving Berlin’s White Christmas” running …

Every year, there are huge hits, big flops, news makers and fan favorites, scandals and groundbreaking ideas in the theater scene. And when we pause to review the year just ending, we always think of things tha…

2024 in Review: Our Favorite Design Elements (6 Categories + 2 Special Citations) We were fortunate enough to see 23 different productions in 2024: 20 Broadway, 2 off-Broadway, and 1 regional; these are the sh…

2024 in Review: Our Favorite Writing & Direction (6 Categories) We were fortunate enough to see 23 different productions in 2024: 20 Broadway, 2 off-Broadway, and 1 regional; these are the shows we consid…

The complete cast is set for the Broadway premiere of Purpose, a new play by Tony Award winner Branden Jacobs-Jenkins (Appropriate). Previews begin at the Hayes Theater on February 25, 2025 ahead of a March 1…

As the Wicked movie continues to shatter box office records, young fans will surely be waiting to receive Christmas and holiday gifts that tie-in with the movie. Find out why it's not appropriate for young rea…

While incorporating the film's most memorable lines and story beats into their book, Bob Martin and the late Thomas Meehan also excised what they could to make room for composer Matthew Sklar and lyricist Chad …

Review of the Sunday, November 10, 2024 matinee preview performance at the Longacre Theatre in New York City. Starring John Gallagher, Jr., Stark Sands, Wayne Duvall and Adrian Blake Enscoe. Book by John Logan…

In Jonathan Spector's dark comedy Eureka Day, a mumps outbreak rocks a private California elementary school where the powers that be scrimmage over appropriate vaccine policies. Considering the timely topic, …

The 40th annual awards ceremony will be held in February 2025.

Paul Morrissey (1938-2024) passed away a few days ago; I decided to hold his tribute for today (Halloween), as it seemed most appropriate for a man who had directed his own takes on Frankenstein, Dracula, and T…

Play It Again: Guys and Dolls' "Luck Be A Lady" For this new series, Jeff has invited me to choose some classic Broadway show tunes and compare versions of these songs from several different cast recordings. …

Join the Broadway Bradshaws as they set sail on Disney Cruise Line on the ORIGINAL ship, the Disney Magic! Halloween on the high seas is a total blast as they head...not to Castaway Cay, but to Disney's new Pr…

Sarah Paulson recently visited The Kelly Clarkson Show and, on the show, shared the personal significance of winning the Tony Award earlier this year for her performance in Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' Appropriate…

That the play takes place in a bookstore, with books banned in other parts of the country on full display, feels appropriate.

On Tuesday, Sarah Paulson visited The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon to discuss her new thriller film, Hold Your Breath. On the show, she also relayed a story about an incident with the Tony Award she won e…

Theater Review by Carol Rocamora . . .  Ghosts can be scary. Ghosts can be troublemakers. Ghosts can be destructive. Witness the ones in Shakespeare’s Hamlet, or Ibsen’s Ghosts, or Brendon Jacobs Jenkins�…

Is there a more dependable set-up for family drama than the gathering of long-estranged siblings? Last season’s dark and wonderful Appropriate proved there was plenty of life in Pinter’s old Homecoming tric…

Sarah Paulson accepts the 2024 Tony Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play for Appropriate at the 77th Annual Tony Awards on Sunday June 16, 2024. -- About the 77th Annual Tony Aw…

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins and the team of Appropriate accept the 2024 Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play at the 77th Annual Tony Awards on Sunday June 16, 2024. -- About the 77th Annual Tony Awards The Americ…

From BroadwayWorld's Archive: 'I keep saying that I forgot that I know how to act, as opposed to making faces and appropriate gestures... It's a fairytale, sure. But it's a story that has to be told in a clear …

“Purpose,” a new show from “Appropriate” playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, will open on Broadway in the spring of 2025. Phylicia Rashad will direct the play, which is set to begin previews on Feb. 25 a…

The Steppenwolf Theatre Company production of Purpose, a new play by Tony Award winner Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, will open on Broadway in 2025. Two-time Tony Award winner Phylicia Rashad will make her Broadway …

Phylicia Rashad will make her Broadway directing debut with a new play by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins.  The play, Purpose, marks Jacobs-Jenkins return to Broadway after his play, Appropriate, a family drama about s…

The Steppenwolf Theatre Company production of Purpose, written by Tony Award-winner Branden Jacobs-Jenkins (Appropriate, The Comeuppance), and directed by two-time Tony Award-winner Phylicia Rashad (Skeleton Cr…

From BroadwayWorld's Archive: In this video, watch as the cast of Appropriate chats about their roles in the new Broadway play.

For their follow-up to 2006’s Spring Awakening, composer Duncan Sheik and librettist and lyricist Steven Sater turned to Lewis Carroll’s children’s classic. Set in a bomb shelter during the London Blitz, …

The production designer Hannah Beachler has left her visual mark on several landmark works of Black cinema and storytelling in recent years, including Moonlight, the 2015 Rock film Creed, Beyoncé’s Lemonade …

Tony Award winner and two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist Branden Jacobs-Jenkins will pen the final play to be produced at Soho Rep's home of 33 years, 46 Walker Street. Jacobs-Jenkins will open the company's 202…

Subscribe to The Kennedy Center! http://bit.ly/2gNFrtb The National Symphony Orchestra Summer Music Institute Orchestra presents two concerts as part of its four-week festival. This year marks the 31st anniver…

 Play It Again: Hair's "Aquarius" For this new series, Jeff has invited me to choose some classic Broadway show tunes and compare versions of these songs from several different cast recordings. Wherever poss…

Subscribe to The Kennedy Center! http://bit.ly/2gNFrtb Musicians of the NSO Summer Music Institute perform in a free chamber concert as part of an annual four-week orchestral and chamber music festival. This p…

Subscribe to The Kennedy Center! http://bit.ly/2gNFrtb Musicians of the NSO Summer Music Institute perform in a free chamber concert as part of an annual four-week orchestral and chamber music festival. This p…

Subscribe to The Kennedy Center! http://bit.ly/2gNFrtb Musicians of the NSO Summer Music Institute perform in a free chamber concert as part of an annual four-week orchestral and chamber music festival. This p…

July 13, 2024: Theatre Yesterday and Today Forty-seven years ago tonight, on July 13, 1977 at exactly 9:29 p.m., New York City suffered an electrical blackout that lasted into afternoon the following day. Plun…

Pamela Palmer, a new play written by David Ives premiering, as previously reported, at Williamstown Theatre Festival, has announced its cast. The play will star Tina Benko, who recently served as Sarah Paul…

For the week ending June 30, the 30 currently running productions grossed $34,783,390.

Broadway grosses came down from their Tony Awards highs last week, though Merrily We Roll Along and Appropriate kept powering through the ends of their runs.  Appropriate, starring newly minted Tony winner Sar…

The Second Stage Theater production won the Tony for Best Revival of a Play.

From BroadwayWorld's Archive: Earlier this month, Samuel French tried out the new 'High School version' of the hit Broadway musical Rock of Ages in a live workshop presentation performed by a cast of 13 -17 ye…

The organization, which won this year’s best play revival Tony Award for “Appropriate,” has chosen Evan Cabnet as its next artistic director.

After winning the 2024 Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play for Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ Appropriate, Second Stage Theater (Bennett Leak, Interim Artistic Director; Lisa Lawer Post, Executive Director) has…

5 Things the Tony Awards Got Right...and Wrong High #1: The Lifetime Achievement Awards Speeches Both George C. Wolfe and Jack O'Brien gave thoughtful, insightful and humorous speeches. Humble and grateful,…

What would Broadway be without the guidance of its directors- the people behind the scenes who guide the performances of the actors onstage and lend their artistic vision to the productions that make us laugh, …

Did you know that Corey Stoll made his Broadway debut over 20 years ago in Henry IV? Now, two decades and three broadway shows later, he is a Tony nominee for the first time for his performance in Appropriate. …

Purple Rain, the Broadway-bound musical based on Prince's 1984 film, has announced additional creative team members as well as dates for its Minneapolis world premiere. Performances are now set to run from Apr…

The Broadway Show is the only nationally syndicated weekly theater television series. The program features Broadway’s biggest stars, exclusive interviews and behind-the-scenes access both on and off the stage…

As the curtain came down on the 77th Annual Tony Awards, the 2023-24 Broadway season drew to an official close. And that means one thing for the stars of the stage. Time to party! Look inside the invite-only ev…

One of Broadway’s most talked-about plays this season is 'Appropriate', garnering eight Tony nominations and three wins, including Best Revival of a Play. The show is a portrait of a family unraveling in the …

Early viewership figures for the 77th Tony Awards on June 16 are down compared to previous years. The CBS telecast drew 3.51 million viewers—including out-of-home viewers—according to Nielsen’s fast natio…

  Seers, we ain’t. (Categories are in the order the awards were given.) Here’s how we did:   Sandra Liz Wendy TOTALS (out of 26) 13 14 …

The Outsiders Wins Tony for Best Musical & Stereophonic is Best Play. June 17, 2024: The 77th Annual Tony Awards recognizing Broadway shows from the 2023-2024 season were held at Lincoln Center last night …

The 77th Annual Tony Awards crowned its victors on June 16 at the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center. Take a look below at some of Broadway's newest Tony Award winners as they take their trophies for a vi…

Jacobs-Jenkins' play Appropriate, which continues its run at the Belasco, won the Tony for Best Revival of a Play.

Paulson won her first Tony for Appropriate on Broadway.

Sarah Paulson won the 2024 Tony Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play for APPROPRIATE. Watch he acceptance speech in the video here.

Stephen Sondheim’s “Merrily We Role Along,” long considered a flop, was named best musical revival, and Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s “Appropriate” won best play revival.

Appropriate has won the 2024 Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play. Watch the acceptance speech!

In the searing family drama “Appropriate,” Paulson plays an elder sister intent on protecting her father’s legacy.

She was recognized for her work in Appropriate on Broadway.

Emmy, SAG and Golden Globe winner Sarah Paulson is now the proud new owner of a Tony, too. The actress best known for her work in the American Horror Story franchise took home the gold Sunday for Best Actress i…

Paulson beat out fellow nominees Amy Ryan For Doubt: A Parable, Betsy Aidem For Prayer for the French Republic, Jessica Lange for Mother Play, and Rachel McAdams For Mary Jane.

Lila Neugebauer directed the Branden Jacobs-Jenkins play, which continues its run at the Belasco.

The absolutely brilliant play written by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins beat out fellow nominees Purlie Victorious: A Non-Confederate Romp Through the Cotton Patch and An Enemy of the People.

The awards cap a Broadway theater season that had something for everyone — fun musicals like “Back to the Future,” sweeping romance in “The Notebook,” political rallying cries like “Suffs” and int…

Aukin beat out fellow nominees Anne Kauffman for Mary Jane, Kenny Leon for Purlie Victorious: A Non-Confederate Romp Through the Cotton Patch, Lila Neugebauer for Appropriate, and Whitney White for Jaja's Afric…

Earlier tonight at the 77th Annual Tony Awards, Jane Cox took home a Tony Award for 'Best Lighting Design of a Play' for her outstanding work on Appropriate. After leaving the stage at the David H. Koch Theate…

Brill beat out fellow nominees Eli Gelb for Stereophonic, Jim Parsons for Mother Play, Tom Pecinka for Stereophonic, and Corey Stoll for Appropriate.

This year’s big Broadway winners so far include Jeremy Strong, Daniel Radcliffe and 70s-set play Stereophonic Best performance by an actress in a leading role in a play Betsy Aidem, Prayer for the French Rep…

“Stereophonic” and “Merrily We Roll Along,” two shows that examine the tension between art and commerce, triumphed at the 77th Tony Awards on Sunday, capturing prizes for best play and best musical revi…

Live theater always reflects the moment in which it’s presented, but this season, Broadway charged head-on into the politics of today with unusual force: A play that directly addressed antisemitism, Israel an…

Watch as we chat with: Tatiana Kahvegian and Brett J. Banakis (The Outsiders), Dede Ayite (Hell's Kitchen, Appropriate, Jaja's African Hair Briading), Brandon Stirling Baker (Illinoise), Stefania Bulbarella (Ja…

Broadway.com Editor-in-Chief Paul Wontorek interviews Sarah Paulson, nominated for the Broadway play APPROPRIATE.

Broadway.com Editor-in-Chief Paul Wontorek interviews Corey Stoll about his Tony-nominated performance in APPROPRIATE.

The first Broadway revival of the late Stephen Sondheim’s infamous flop “Merrily We Roll Along” will win the most Tony Awards of any show at the upcoming 77th annual ceremony, according to our official od…

The 2024 Tony Awards:Our Predictions At last the Super Bowl of theater is upon us! As usual, Mike and I have given thought to all of the shows we've seen this season - including 1 new play, 2 play revivals, 2 m…

It's Tony time again. Was this an exciting year on Broadway? Yes! Was it a disappointing year on Broadway? Yes! Same as it ever was. And here we go: (A complete list of nominees is provided at the end of this…