Monday, December 16, 2019
by Sara Detrik. @sara_detrik. NEW YORK, NY - This past Monday, famously the one day per week in which almost all Broadway theaters go “dark” with no performances or marquees lit up, sa…
SOURCE: www.thebroadwaybeat.com at 11:27AMSaturday, December 14, 2019
by Justin Ayer. @JustinAyer (Twitter), @JustAyer (Instagram). New York, NY - Midtown Manhattan found itself overwhelmed Saturday morning by flocks of fans of Broadway’s Mean Girls, with gr…
SOURCE: www.thebroadwaybeat.com at 11:22AMThursday, December 12, 2019
by Zach Raffio. @zachraffio. NEW YORK, NY - The first trailer was just released for next summer’s highly anticipated film adaptation of In The Heights, revealing for the first time that, d…
SOURCE: www.thebroadwaybeat.com at 01:08PMWednesday, December 11, 2019
by Brendan Leonard. @brennylen. The unsung hero of Broadway’s Dear Evan Hansen doesn’t fit into any Tony category - but that doesn’t mean their work isn’t just as challenging or inte…
SOURCE: www.thebroadwaybeat.com at 11:12AMTuesday, December 10, 2019
by Zach Raffio. @zachraffio. NEW YORK, NY - He’s at it again! Reports are surfacing that famed con man Harold Hill has arrived in New York City, successfully pulling off one of his infamou…
SOURCE: www.thebroadwaybeat.com at 11:27AMMonday, December 9, 2019
by HaleyJane Rose. @haleyisfamous. HOBOKEN, NJ - Self proclaimed “obsessed theatre nerd” Bethany Price, 24, has found herself truly devastated after her Spotify Wrapped, logging her most…
SOURCE: www.thebroadwaybeat.com at 11:18AMFriday, December 6, 2019
by Andrew Gillespie. @andrewg5000. FAIR HAVEN, NJ - Local accounting assistant and Marymount Manhattan musical theatre BFA Clara Barrett was witnessed last evening at their company’s weekl…
SOURCE: www.thebroadwaybeat.com at 11:50AMThursday, December 5, 2019
by Zach Raffio. @zachraffio. NEW YORK, NY - Broadway’s improvised hip-hop extravaganza Freestyle Love Supreme is facing controversy this week after the performers, who create a fresh, full…
SOURCE: www.thebroadwaybeat.com at 11:00AMWednesday, December 4, 2019
by Steven Hayet. @NotScubaSteve. NEW YORK, NY - After exhausting the catalogue of American & British popular music, Broadway producers, scrambling to find a popular musical artist with t…
SOURCE: www.thebroadwaybeat.com at 11:26AMTuesday, December 3, 2019
by Catherine Weingarten. @sarahkaneissexy. NEW YORK, NY – Local indie playwright Autumn Crystal Summersmith found herself truly humiliated following a recent talkback for her new play, aft…
SOURCE: www.thebroadwaybeat.com at 11:22AMMonday, December 2, 2019
by Aidan Sears. @aidanjsears. SCHAUMBURG, Ill. - Confusion arose in the audience last night after the Schaumburg Community Theatre’s performance of Catch Me If You Can, with theater-goers …
SOURCE: www.thebroadwaybeat.com at 11:24AMThursday, November 28, 2019
by Zach Raffio. @zachraffio. NEW YORK, NY - The cast of the hit Broadway musical Beetlejuice performed during the 2019 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade this morning, delighting viewers with …
SOURCE: www.thebroadwaybeat.com at 10:53AMMonday, November 25, 2019
by Cameron Smith. @CamRayNYC. CAMBRIDGE, England - Following their groundbreaking recent discovery of an unreleased Eugene O’Neill play, researchers at the University of Cambridge have unc…
SOURCE: www.thebroadwaybeat.com at 10:57AMFriday, November 22, 2019
by Aidan Sears. @aidanjsears. ROCHESTER, NY - North Valley High School’s production of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman opened to glowing reviews last night, with many audience members …
SOURCE: www.thebroadwaybeat.com at 11:36AMWednesday, November 20, 2019
by Brendan Leonard. @brennylen. WASHINGTON, D. C. - CNN reports that the upcoming Democratic Presidential Debate will nix the usual topics of health care, gun control and the economy for wha…
SOURCE: www.thebroadwaybeat.com at 11:17AMTuesday, November 19, 2019
by Alec Brown. @brownta3. NEW YORK, NY - Producers of the long-running Broadway musical Chicago announced today that they’re updating the show’s famous slogan, “Broadway’s Sure Thing…
SOURCE: www.thebroadwaybeat.com at 11:35AMMonday, November 18, 2019
by Roxy Arecco. @roxyarecco. NEW YORK, NY - Local method actor Preston Roberts submitted his resignation for a production of Oedipus Rex yesterday after finally reading the play, in which th…
SOURCE: www.thebroadwaybeat.com at 11:12AMFriday, November 15, 2019
by Erika Hakmiller. @ErikaFromMaine. NEW YORK, NY - The National Football League released today a new, official translation guide for theatre lovers who are put in situations where they may …
SOURCE: www.thebroadwaybeat.com at 11:35AMWednesday, November 13, 2019
by Zach Raffio. @zachraffio. NEW YORK, NY - The Theater District's beloved Drama Book Shop - which shuttered its doors earlier this year - is set to reopen in 2020 under the new ownership of…
SOURCE: www.thebroadwaybeat.com at 02:54PMby Edward Precht. @pertoltprecht. NEW YORK, NY - Attendees of this past Sunday’s matinee screening of The Irishman at Broadway’s Belasco Theater expressed their disappointment after the …
SOURCE: www.thebroadwaybeat.com at 02:06PMTuesday, November 12, 2019
by Rebecca Slaman. @rebeccaslaman. LOS ANGELES, CA - Controversial former U.S. Press Secretary Sean Spicer was spotted at an open call for a regional production of Little Shop of Horrors thi…
SOURCE: www.thebroadwaybeat.com at 10:44AMMonday, November 11, 2019
by Zach Raffio. @zachraffio If anyone has established themselves as a centerpiece of the last decade’s musical theatre zeitgeist, it’s beloved Hamilton wordsmith Lin-Manuel Miranda. When…
SOURCE: www.thebroadwaybeat.com at 11:19AMMonday, November 4, 2019
by Brendan Leonard. @brennylen. NEW YORK, NY – Producers of the hit musical Dear Evan Hansen were in the delivery room of Mount Sinai West Hospital this afternoon in eager anticipation of …
SOURCE: www.thebroadwaybeat.com at 10:44AMThursday, October 31, 2019
by Zach Raffio. @zachraffio. BELLEVUE, Wash. - Local theatre fan Kaitlyn Womack expressed her outrage today after none of the co-workers at her company Halloween party understood her obscure…
SOURCE: www.thebroadwaybeat.com at 11:13AMTuesday, October 29, 2019
by Sarah Jae Leiber. @sarahjaeleiber. PHILADELPHIA, Penn. — Local actor and social media wiz Wesley Zimmerman expressed frustration this week while desperately waiting for the death of m…
SOURCE: www.thebroadwaybeat.com at 11:20AMby HaleyJane Rose. @haleyisfamous. SEWICKLY, PA - 18-year old Bryan Dowry, a Freshman acting major at Carnegie Mellon University, announced this week that he intends to answer all of his fam…
SOURCE: www.thebroadwaybeat.com at 10:51AMFriday, October 25, 2019
by Edward Precht. @pertoltprecht. NEW YORK, NY - Rumors and romance swung through the Great White Way last night after paparazzi snapped a pic of the King Kong Puppet - last seen as the titu…
SOURCE: www.thebroadwaybeat.com at 11:05AMMonday, October 21, 2019
by Rebecca Slaman. @rebeccaslaman. NEW YORK, NY - Conservatives throughout the U.S. are publicly condemning the current Broadway revival “Oklahoma!” after claiming its’ presence has in…
SOURCE: www.thebroadwaybeat.com at 11:33AMWednesday, October 16, 2019
by Edward Precht. @pertoltprecht. BRANSON, Mo. - The new Disney+ series Encore! - in which host Kristen Bell reunites cast members of high school musicals to recreate their performance years…
SOURCE: www.thebroadwaybeat.com at 11:09AMTuesday, October 15, 2019
by Laura Ornella. @la.ornella. NEW YORK, NY - Baldwin Wallace grad and New York based actor Elizabeth McCalen turned 27 this past Sunday, receiving a bounty of well wishes from friends and f…
SOURCE: www.thebroadwaybeat.com at 10:43AMMonday, October 14, 2019
by Rebecca Slaman. @rebeccaslaman. NEW YORK, NY - Renovations are currently underway at Broadway’s Palace Theater, where construction workers have noted odd, supernatural occurrences broug…
SOURCE: www.thebroadwaybeat.com at 11:26AM 
