Tuesday, September 12, 2017
In Steve Martin’s new play, Meteor Shower, the titular space rocks falling from the sky are, perhaps, the least shocking aspect of a coastal California dinner party that goes spectacularly…
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 09:49AMMonday, September 11, 2017
What happens when the queen of stand-up comedy goes head-to-head with musical-theater royalty? Broadway audiences will find out this fall when Amy Schumer and Laura Benanti costar with Keega…
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 05:00AMAmy Schumer, Keegan-Michael Key, Laura Benanti and Alan Tudyk star in Meteor Shower, a new comedy by Steve Martin, directed by Jerry Zaks.
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SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 04:28AMWednesday, September 6, 2017
When Mark Rylance was last on Broadway, in 2013, he played two very different roles: the female character of Olivia in an all-male production of Twelfth Night and the title role in Richard I…
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 10:18AMFor Claire van Kampen, her 2015 debut as a playwright with Farinelli and the King was a surprise in many ways. She’d had a long career as a composer and musician, and was head of music at …
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 05:42AMTuesday, September 5, 2017
Broadway’s not-so-best-kept-secret in recent days is “Who will be replacing Bette Midler when she leaves Hello, Dolly! this January?” Well, the answer to that question should have Broa…
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 08:04PMEdward Albee’s Three Tall Women is set to make its Broadway debut on February 27, 2018, officially opening at The Golden Theatre on March 29. Casting has been finalized with the addition o…
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 11:26AMThe eagerly-anticipated revival of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s perennial classic Carousel, starring Jessie Mueller, Joshua Henry, and Renée Fleming and slated for an April 12, 2018 opening,…
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 10:41AMFriday, September 1, 2017
Broadway Back to School, the third annual event benefiting theatre education programs for underserved schools, will takes place on September 24 at Feinstein’s 54 Below. Produced by the Edu…
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It was already exciting news to hear that Bruce Springsteen would be making his Broadway debut this fall with Springsteen on Broadway beginning Tuesday, October 3, with an official opening o…
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 01:53PMTuesday, August 29, 2017
Times Square is known for being home to some of the best productions in the world — but restaurants in the Theatre District don’t exactly have the same reputation. That said, there are s…
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 09:42AMAs the summer winds down, it’s time to take a sneak peek at what’s coming up on Broadway in the fall. The new Broadway season kicked off early, in May, with 1984 (Hudson Theatre), a scar…
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 09:41AMMonday, August 28, 2017
Tony-nominated actor Will Swenson will be returning to the Broadway hit Waitress. September 12, he will once-again take over the role of Earl, currently played by Joe Tippet (who departs the…
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 12:37PMFriday, August 25, 2017
Versatile star of stage and screen, John Leguizamo, will make his return to Broadway this fall in Latin History for Morons. Described as “UPROARIOUS, UNCENSORED, AND UNDENIABLY ENTERTAININ…
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 03:00PMThursday, August 24, 2017
School of Rock, the Broadway musical with a score by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Glenn Slater, and a book by Julian Fellowes, choreography by JoAnn M. Hunter and direction by Laurence Connor, …
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 01:43PMTuesday, August 22, 2017
The answer to the big question “Who will replace Ben Platt when he departs Dear Evan Hansen this fall?” has finally been answered. The title role will be filled by Noah Galvin o…
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 08:11PMRoundabout Theatre Company’s revival of J.B. Priestley’s poignant family drama Time and the Conways, at the American Airlines Theatre from September 14, brings Elizabeth McGovern back to…
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 05:04AMA bright future seems secure at the beginning of J.B. Priestley’s Time and the Conways, as a well-to-do British family celebrates a daughter’s birthday and the end of World War I. Ninete…
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 05:03AMIn 1919 Britain, Mrs. Conway (Downton Abbey’s Elizabeth McGovern) is full of optimism during her daughter’s lavish twenty-first birthday celebration. The Great War is over, wealth is in …
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 05:01AMMonday, August 21, 2017
Star of stage and screen, Academy Award and Tony-winner Denzel Washington will star in a Broadway revival of Eugene O’Neill’s acclaimed play The Iceman Cometh. The production, which will…
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 09:56AMFriday, August 18, 2017
See the cast together in costume for the first time!
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SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 10:00AMTuesday, August 15, 2017
Hamilton, the musical sensation that continues to take Broadway by storm, has just announced a new block of tickets available through August of 2018. Tickets will be available to Ticketmaste…
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 02:53PMJoshua Jackson, star of such TV shows as Fringe and Dawson’s Creek, is set to make his Broadway debut in a revival of Mark Medoff’s play Children of a Lesser God. Also, making her Broadw…
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 02:22PMFrom a very young age, Susan Stroman was encouraged to follow her muse. “I was that little girl dancing around the living room as her father played the piano,” remembers Stroman, the sec…
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 10:42AMIn recent years, it has become an exciting new trend to preserve Broadway musicals so that they can be streamed in the comfort of your home. Whether it be BroadwayHD, Netflix, or on Amazon, …
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 10:41AMFriday, August 11, 2017
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory has launched their digital lottery, powered by Broadway Direct, today, August 11. A limited number of $40 tickets are now available for all performances. T…
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Broadway is going to the dogs (and cats)! Best in Shows, a star-studded cabaret event scheduled for Sunday, October 22, 2017, will benefit the Humane Society of New York, with James L. Neder…
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 05:12PMDirected by Tony Award-winner, Michael Mayer (Spring Awakening, American Idiot, Hedwig and the Angry Inch), Moore targets President Trump using his signature political savvy and theatrical p…
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 11:52AMTuesday, August 8, 2017
The Roundabout Theatre Company’s revival of J.B. Priestley’s play Time and the Conways is set to open at the American Airlines Theatre on October 10, 2017, with previews to commence on S…
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 10:46AMEscape to Margaritaville has found its cast of parrot heads. The new musical, featuring the songs of Jimmy Buffett, will be led by Paul Alexander Nolan (Bright Star), Alison Luff (Les Misér…
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 10:14AMA star-crossed love story and a drama of international espionage: David Henry Hwang’s M. Butterfly tells the incredible tale of a French diplomat’s scandalous twenty-year affair with a m…
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