Monday, September 9, 2024
Jocelyn Bioh has been named the 2024 winner of the Horton Foote Prize for her play Jaja’s African Hair Braiding. The Tony-nominated playwright will be honored at a private celebration at N…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:42PMThe 2024 Creative Arts Emmy Awards were held at Los Angeles' Peacock Theater on September 7 and 8, with the songwriting duo Benj Pasek and Justin Paul achieving EGOT status, having won all f…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:18PMA new show celebrating the 20th anniversary of the original Broadway musical Hairspray and reuniting three of its stars will play New World Stages. Mama I’m a Big Girl Now!, starring Maris…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:18PMThursday, September 5, 2024
Hannah Shankman will play Fanny Brice in the national tour of Funny Girl. She takes over the role from Katerina McCrimmon beginning September 24 in Seattle, WA.
Shankman was previously the…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:24PMThe cast list for Warriors, the upcoming concept album from Lin-Manuel Miranda and Eisa Davis, based on the 1979 film The Warriors, continues to expand in the lead-up to its October 18 re…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:24PMThe world-premiere production of McNEAL, at Lincoln Center this fall, will feature two eye-opening Broadway debuts. One is the debut of the tigerishly compelling Academy Award-winning acto…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:12AMWednesday, September 4, 2024
The Broadway revival of Shakespeare’s Othello, starring Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal, will play the Barrymore Theatre. Performances will begin on February 24, 2025 with an offi…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:12PMSebastián Yatra, the Latin Grammy-winning and Grammy-nominated singer, songwriter and musician, will play Billy Flynn in Chicago in his Broadway debut. Taking over the role from Max von E…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:12AMTuesday, September 3, 2024
Five-time Emmy Award winner and Tony Award winner Neil Patrick Harris (Into the Woods, Hedwig and the Angry Inch) and Tony Award winner Jane Krakowski (Nine) have joined the world-premiere c…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:24PMHeathers the Musical, the stage version of the 1989 black-comedy film starring Winona Ryder, is coming to New York in 2025. The announcement was made on Instagram.
Andy Fickman, the directo…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:06PMFriday, August 30, 2024
There are casting announcements, and then there are casting announcements. When the news broke that Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter—the duo best known as Bill and Ted—would play Vladimir an…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:02PMThursday, August 29, 2024
Nana Mensah will star opposite Oscar winner Adrien Brody, in his London theater debut, in the world premiere of The Fear of 13 by The Queen of Versailles scribe Lindsey Ferrentino at the…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 08:24PMIn David Henry Hwang’s Pulitzer finalist play inspired by real events, the playwright’s fictionalized doppelgänger protests yellowface casting in Miss Saigon, only to mistakenly cast a …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:02PMThe John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts’ production of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee has its cast and creative team. The show will play Kennedy Center’s Eisenhowe…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:02PMNana Mensah will star opposite Oscar winner Adrien Brody, in his London theater debut, in the world premiere of The Fear of 13 by The Queen of Versailles scribe Lindsey Ferrentino at the…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:02PMColman Domingo and the rapper Cam'ron, along with James Remar and David Patrick Kelly—cast members from the 1979 film The Warriors—have joined the voice cast of Warriors, the new conce…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:02PMWednesday, August 28, 2024
Ali Louis Bourzgui will star in We Live in Cairo, the new musical inspired by the events of the Arab Spring. Performances begin at New York Theatre Workshop on October 9, with an official o…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:06PMBroadway casting is complete for the Elton John musical Tammy Faye. The show begins performances at the Palace Theatre on October 19 with an official opening set for November 14.
As prev…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:54PMThe cast is set for the world premiere of the My Best Friend's Wedding musical. The new musical adaptation of the Julia Roberts-led 1997 romantic comedy, set to the songs of Burt Bacharach …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:48AMTuesday, August 27, 2024
Emmy winner Debra Messing (Will & Grace), Tony nominee Billy Magnussen (Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike) and Golden Globe nominee Constance Wu (Crazy Rich Asians) will star in the wo…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:18PMTony winner James Monroe Iglehart, the star of the upcoming Louis Armstrong biomusical A Wonderful World, will also co-direct the production alongside Christina Sajous and the show's origi…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:42AMMonday, August 26, 2024
Tony nominee Orfeh joins the cast of Chicago at the Ambassador Theatre on August 26. She takes on the role of Countess of the Clink Matron “Mama” Morton for a limited run through Se…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:03PMFriday, August 23, 2024
Yes. We were all hoping that Oh, Mary! would transfer to the Booth.
There would have been something delightfully perverse, so appropriately wrong about seeing Cole Escola’s filthy, riot…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:02AMThursday, August 22, 2024
Broadway’s Aladdin will welcome several new cast members. Michael Schimmele, Nathan Levy (Once Upon a One More Time) and Colt Prattes (Aladdin national tour) will play Aladdin’s sidekick…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:24PMSeveral cast members, hailing from Broadway and beyond, have been announced for Warriors, the new concept album from Lin-Manuel Miranda and Eisa Davis, based on the 1979 action cult film T…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:12PMTwo-time Oscar winner and Tony nominee Cate Blanchett will star in a new version of Chekhov’s The Seagull in London. Thomas Ostermeier, who adapted the play with Duncan Macmillan, will dir…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:02PMA musical about the Gwyneth Paltrow ski crash trial is headed to the West End. I Wish You Well: The Gwyneth Paltrow Ski-Trial Musical will play the Criterion Theatre in London from September…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:02PMA video of the star-studded performance of “The Impossible Dream,” from Aaron Lazar’s upcoming debut album, has been released. Lazar, the singer and actor diagnosed with the neurodege…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:02PMWednesday, August 21, 2024
Grammy Award winner Alicia Keys and Tony-nominated playwright Kristoffer Diaz—collaborators on the Broadway musical Hell’s Kitchen—will be honored at this year’s Arthur Miller Found…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:03PMTuesday, August 20, 2024
Jim Barry, a longtime usher at the St. James Theatre and a familiar face to many in the Broadway community, died on August 18. He was 69.
Tributes have poured in on social media. “The kin…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:12PMSwept Away, the new seafaring musical scored by the Avett Brothers, has completed casting for its upcoming Broadway production. Performances will begin at the Longacre Theatre on October 29 …
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