The recently announced Australian production of Tony award winning musical Million Dollar Quartet have cancelled their scheduled tour, with tickets being removed from Ticketmaster in the last 24 hours. The c…

Pride Films and Plays is excited to start its fall season with the world premiere [...]

Windy City Playhouse, offering Chicago’s most sophisticated theatergoing experience, is proud to announce its third [...]

The easiest way to grasp a sense of the Festival, its styles and ethos is to recount and review the individual productions we saw during a trip last month. Hidden within may be insights that can be adopted by S…

By Bill Hirschman The dictionary translates the Latin phrase “sui generis” as “constituting a class of its own,” but more commonly it’s used to mean “not like anything else,” often with the implic…

Hartford Stage Artistic Director Darko Tresnjak and Managing Director Michael Stotts announced today the cast and creative team for Queens for a Year, written by T.D. Mitchell and featuring local actress Vaness…

“Investing in property is simple, but not easy”… Two not so secret things about me: I’m cheap and I love property. I don’t do coffee, cabs, gyms, cover charges or drinks over $10. After th…

This larger-than-life talent found her home at a theatre where she could play anything and everything, and did.

This brisk production from the company Motherlode concerns a village tempted by a stranger to move to new homes down the road.

      By Beatrice Williams-Rude   Touch, written by Toni-Press Coffman, is a play about transcendent love, soul-searing loss, and the many modes of mourning.   The work opens with, Kyle, th…

A water main break near the Neil Simon Theatre forced the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical to cancel its Wednesday night Broadway performance.

There's a closer relationship between the erosion of the land and the erosion of human souls than you may initially assume. . . .

Michael Feinstein & Marilyn Maye Make Magic By: Sandi Durell The forever boyish and humorous Michael Feinstein was on fire August 23 at his namesake Feinstein’s/54 Below in Summertime Swing. Ah, yes, th…

Michael Feinstein and Marilyn Maye’s “Summertime Swing” is an old-fashioned variety show, blending standards, Catskills humor and vaudeville shenanigans.

Rose Elizabeth Fitzgerald Kennedy, the diminutive but extraordinary wife of Joseph P. Kennedy Sr., and the mother of Joseph Patrick "Joe" Kennedy Jr., John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy, Rose Marie "Rosemary" Kenne…

Light Opera Works' glitzy production of *Mame* looks great. And musically *Mame*, with its 32-member cast and 26-member full orchestra, sounds great. The score – arguably Jerry Herman’s most popular, and on…

Here’s Part 1 of the staff of DCMetroTheaterArts’ favorite Spring/Summer 2016 performances. To our honorees:  TAKE A BOW! ____ Stephanie Atha and Sofia Bordner as Winifred and Jane Banks in Mary …

ILBIJERRI Theatre Company and Darebin Arts Speakeasy present Which Way Home – a heartwarming dramedy of an aboriginal girl, her much loved ageing dad and their road trip to his birthplace at the Northcot…

interview by MICHAEL VAN DUZER This season, Theatricum Botanicum presents a new production of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. Ellen Geer, the company’s Artistic Director and director of the production, pla…

“Give sorrow words: the grief that does not speak / Whispers the o'er-fraught heart and bids it break.”

Adelaide’s Feast Festival has secured Raj House in the City’s East End to create an arts hub to showcase South Australian LGBTI Queer Arts and Culture. In 2015 Feast Festival generated an economic impact o…

Our Bay Area getaway was a play, written for us and starring us, too.

Starring on Broadway as the determined survivor Celie in the hit revival of THE COLOR PURPLE eight times a week just isn't enough of a workout for Tony-winner Cynthia Erivo.

The new star of Hamilton will be honored with the Dare to Go Beyond Award during the 2016 HOLA Awards, which honor excellence among Hispanic theatre artists.

The year 2016 has been a productive one for impressive movies, from Steven Spielberg’s “The BFG” to Quentin Tarantino’s “The Hateful Eight” - not to mention critically-acclaimed works such as “A B…

Don't even try getting orchestra seats to the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Next Wave Festival production of Pulitzer Prize-winning composer David Lang's THE LOSER.

The immersive musical, set at a house party with raging twentysomethings, will hit a house in Bushwick.

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Ali Stroker stops by Broadway.com HQ to let us in on what she's been up to since Spring Awakening. 

The Great White Way revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Cats has cancelled the August 24 evening performance owing to a water main break in the area. Performances are expected to resume at the Neil Simon Theat…

Altarena Playhouse produces the Sedaris sibs' popular Book of Liz.

  Good news/bad news. Danny Rubin and Tim Minchin‘s new musical adaptation of Rubin and Harold Ramis‘s Groundhog Day deserves every single one of the five-star reviews it received last week. It’s a dazzl…

Tony and Grammy Award Winner JENNIFER HOLLIDAY Jennifer Holliday resized Photo credit: Kareem Quow for KQ Photography Joins Tony Award Winner Cynthia Erivo, Danielle Brooks and the company of The Tony Award-Win…

Before he started hitting the airwaves weekly as a cast member of NBC's Saturday Night Live, Fred Armisen was a young musician from Long Island who moved to Chicago to play percussion for the pun rock band Tren…

BroadwayWorld has just learned that CATS has canceled this evening's performance, August 24, due to a water main break in the area. A show representative has confirmed that the show is on track to continue perf…

Today's big news WHITE RABBIT RED RABBIT's producers and playwright chat it up at The Drama Book Shop, and THE LIFE OF THE PARTY, starring Andrew Lippa, opens in San Francisco

When I sat down early this week with Derek McLane, nominated for his sets for both the 2016 Academy Awards and NBC's presentation of The Wiz Live!, I took out my camera to shoot some candids as we conversed. Mc…

The musical will hit the road to celebrate its 20th anniversary.

Lisa Loomer tackles the politics of abortion in her new play, “Roe.”

                              Originally published on Out.com Read this story online When Michael Cerveris, who plays the closeted Bruc…

The center of discussion at the town hall meeting this past Monday was an alternative vision from that of Actors’ Equity for what intimate theater can look like in Los Angeles.  Presented by Larry Poinde…

Rent, the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning rock musical written by the late Jonathan Larson, will return to the road in a 20th anniversary production during the 2016-17 season.

Greenhouse Theater Center (2257 N. Lincoln Ave ) and Sideshow Theatre Company present the world premiere [...]

Grand Opening event for the new Amazing Lash Studio Orland Park that took place Tuesday, [...]

Every week director Robert W Schneider and actor Kevin David Thomas pull back the curtain on neglected, forgotten, and under appreciated musicals, as well as bizarre performances, endearing television appearanc…

91 Central Productions presents character-driven contemporary theater relevant to international audiences. The limited Off Broadway engagement of Safe by Penny Jackson will be at the Theatre at the 14th Y, 344 …

BroadwayWorld continues our exclusive content series, in collaboration with The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, which delves into the library's unparalleled archives, and resources. Below, chec…

The new feature-length comedy HURRICANEBIANCA follows a New York teacher who moves to a small town in Texas, gets fired for being gay, and returns disguised as a mean 'lady' to get revenge on the people who wer…

With its attention-grabbing title, Swedish singersongwriter Ledinsky's single 'Donald Trump Makes Me Wanna Smoke Crack' has been mounting up controversy and YouTube hits.

The Finger Lakes Musical Theatre Festival is proud to produce the regional premiere of TREASURE ISLAND, A New Musical for a New Generation. The show opens today, August 24 and runs throughSeptember 10at the Mer…

Thom Southerland's insightful production of this musical rarity from Rodgers and Hammerstein gets its first London showing ever. .

Atlantic Theater’s new musical play about a rock-n-roll gospel singer begins previews Off-Broadway.

Just over two years ago, a revolution in Kiev ushered in the downfall of the Ukranian government. Protests against the government’s refusal to sign pro-EU legislation lasting months had several violent outbur…

The two songwriters collaborated on the Off-Broadway musical Carson McCullers Talks About Love.

“Human beings are difficult. We’re difficult to ourselves, we’re difficult to each other. And we are mysteries to ourselves, we are mysteries to each other. One encounters in any ordinary day far more rea…

Rabarbrateateret (“The Rhubarb Theater”) is a theater company situated in the idyllic “old town” Bakklandet in Trondheim, Norway’s third largest city. The company has mounted acclaimed productions of …

So is it a musical or an opera? One might have expected Sweeney Todd at the Glimmerglass Festival to come down firmly on the side of the latter. But, to borrow a thought from Into the Woods, this summer’s pro…

The big revelation instantly splashed across the media was that Stephen Sondheim’s new musical is to have its premiere Off Broadway at the Public Theater in late 2017 — “ if I can finish the score in time…

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Bianca Del Rio stars in the comedy directed by Matt Kugelman.

The 2016 Music Circus season concludes with the Northern California premiere of a new musical from the mind ofVictor Hugo, inspired by one of the most epic stories ever told The Hunchback of Notre Dame. This da…

The Emmy-winning Cheers writer and sportscaster will debut Going…Going…Gone! in Los Angeles.

How did Bill Russell and Peter Melnick come together to collaborate on LAST SMOKER? Learn more about their journey here. The post THE LAST SMOKER IN AMERICA: The Journey to the Stage appeared first on Breaking …

Samuel French, Playbill and HowlRound have partnered to present the four-day panel event that will explore the issues of identity, inclusion and representation onstage and off.

Growing up in Northern Virginia, the first song Thomas Kail ever memorized was Slick Rick's rap 'Mona Lisa.' Its narrative about a guy chatting up a woman he meets in a pizza place opened up Kail's mind to the …

The Finger Lakes Musical Theatre Festival willproduce the regional premiere of TREASURE ISLAND, A New Musical for a New Generation. The show opens tonight, August 24,and runs through September 10 at the Merry-G…

Imagine a world without "Macbeth," "The Taming of the Shrew," "The Tempest" and "Twelfth Night." Imagine a world without "All the world's a stage," "Beware the ides of March," "We are such stuff as dreams are m…

We're not exactly provincial in Chicago; there's a pretty hefty smorgasbord of dance here. Still, many classics of 20th century dance aren't often seen on our stages, especially danced by the New York companies…

Tony nominee Tony Yazbeck is among the special guests who will join the star in Waste of Space at Feinstein's/54 Below.

The show comes from the creators of Full House! The Musical and Bayside! The Musical

Whistle a happy tune! Fathom Events, Turner Classic Movies, and Twentieth Century Fox will bring?Rodgers & Hammerstein’s classic movie musical?THE KING AND I?(1956) back to?cinemas nationwide beginning this w…

The Know: What not to miss in theatre August 25-September 4.

A new Shug Avery’s comin’ to town, and she is not goin’. Tony and Grammy winner Jennifer Holliday will step into the Broadway revival of The Color Purple. The Dreamgirls favorite is scheduled …

Comic bravado: The Club, the latest play from Edinburgh-born actor and writer Ruaraidh Murray, has a fiercely humorous energy and drive.

Name: Adam RazaviHometown: Lexington, Kentucky (Yes, like the chicken. Yes, we wear shoes. [These are questions I’m asked on a VERY frequent basis])Education: BFA in Musical Theatre from Northern Kentucky Uni…

Relationships are hard. And that goes double if you’re pushing 30, but still haven’t made the psychological and emotional transition from youth to adulthood. In The New Collective’s world premiere of Stev…

Stephen Sondheim may have considered adapting Groundhog Day for musical theatre audiences, but it’s the creative team behind Matilda which has done

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She will play Shug Avery, a role initially played by Jennifer Hudson.

Beginning performancesTuesday, October 4, Tony and Grammy Award winnerJENNIFER HOLLIDAYwill assume the role of Shug Avery in John Doyle's Tony Award-winning production of the Broadway musical,THE COLOR PURPLE.H…