Tuesday, July 2, 2024
Wicked: Part One, starring Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande, will arrive in theaters five days earlier than planned. The highly anticipated first part of a two-part movie adaptation of the…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:54AMMonday, July 1, 2024
Ian McKellen has withdrawn from the national tour of a Shakespearean production after falling off the stage during a performance. The veteran stage actor had been playing Falstaff in Player …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:02PMNew York Stage and Film (NYSAF), a vital incubator for new theatrical works, has announced additional casting for its previously reported 2024 summer season, including a number of artists wh…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:54PMFriday, June 28, 2024
There’s more to New York theater than Broadway—particularly right now, in the collective exhalation of the post-Tonys period. In our new column, Broadway.com will highlight the extraordi…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:36AMThursday, June 27, 2024
In 2009, the alt-comedian and occasional Bernadette Peters impersonator Cole Escola had an idea for a play: “What if Abe’s assassination wasn’t such a bad thing for Mary Todd Lincoln?…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:18PMOn June 27, the Stephen Sondheim-Hugh Wheeler musical A Little Night Music will be presented in concert at Lincoln Center’s David Geffen Hall, its ravishing, romantic score having been lav…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:18PMEvan Cabnet will be the next artistic director of the nonprofit theater company Second Stage, joining the organization in September and officially launching his first season of programming i…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:48PMThe Tony Award-winning production of Cabaret has announced the summer schedule for its alternates—the performers replacing Eddie Redmayne and Gayle Rankin in the roles of the Emcee and Sal…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:48PMGrant Gustin, who made his Broadway debut as Jacob Jankowski in Water for Elephants, will play his final performance in the show on September 1. His replacement is yet to be announced.
On s…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:48AMBOOP! The Musical, inspired by the iconic 1930s cartoon flapper Betty Boop, will open on Broadway in April 2025 at a Shubert theater to be announced.
BOOP! premiered last year at Chicago…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:48AMDevonté Hynes, the singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer known as Blood Orange, has joined the creative team of the psychological thriller Job on Broadway. Hynes will compo…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:48AMTony Danza, the Emmy-nominated star of Taxi and Who’s the Boss, will open the Café Carlyle’s fall season with a new show. In Tony Danza: Sinatra & Stories, Danza pays tribute to the…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:48AMLeft on Tenth, starring Julianna Margulies and Tony nominee Peter Gallagher, will open at the James Earl Jones Theatre in the fall. Performances will begin on September 26 with an official…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:48AMWednesday, June 26, 2024
Broadway Barks, the city’s annual dog-and-cat adoption event, will return to the Theater District for its 26th year. Tony winner and Barks co-founder Bernadette Peters and Tony winner Sutt…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:18PMTwo-time Tony winner Christian Borle will play Jim Bakker in the Elton John musical Tammy Faye on Broadway. Borle replaces Andrew Rannells, who announced his departure from the show on Tony …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:18PMKathleen Turner, the Oscar and Tony-nominated actress, will portray Madame Armfeldt in the Stephen Sondheim-Hugh Wheeler musical A Little Night Music at Ogunquit Playhouse in Maine. The limi…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:02PMAn all-star cast—including several Les Misérables and Miss Saigon alums—will pay tribute to the music of those musicals' creators at the Hollywood Bowl. Alan Boublil and Claude-Michel…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:54AMTuesday, June 25, 2024
Adrien Brody, the Academy Award-winning star of The Pianist, will make his London theater debut in the world premiere of The Fear of 13, an adaptation of the documentary film of the same nam…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:02PMTony Award winner LaChanze will direct Alice Childress' Wine in the Wilderness in her New York directorial debut. The production is part of Classic Stage Company's 2024-25 season, which wi…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:02PMSecond Stage Theater has announced two new fall productions for its upcoming season, including the New York premiere of a play by Russian Doll co-creator and Emmy nominee Leslye Headland, op…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:48AMMonday, June 24, 2024
Drag: The Musical is set to make its premiere off-Broadway. The show, starring singer, drag queen and RuPauls Drag Race All Stars winner Alaska Thunderf*ck, will begin performances at New Wo…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:54PMBroadway newcomers Austin Rankin and Eric Williams will join the cast of MJ, alternating the role of Little Michael. Originally from Las Vegas, Austin made his Broadway debut in the show on …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:54PMThe Motive and the Cue, a new play by Jack Thorne (Harry Potter and the Cursed Child) directed by Sam Mendes, is eyeing Broadway, per a Deadline report. The play premiered at the National Th…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:42PMThree-time Tony Award winner Kathleen Marshall will direct the world premiere of the My Best Friend's Wedding musical. The new musical adaptation of the Julia Roberts-led 1997 romantic come…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:42AMFriday, June 21, 2024
Olivier Award winner and Bridgerton star Jonathan Bailey will play Richard II in London. The production of Shakespeare’s play will be directed by Nicholas Hytner. Performances begin at the…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:02PMThursday, June 20, 2024
In 1997, the musical Titanic, with music and lyrics by Maury Yeston, sailed onto Broadway. Running for 804 performances, it won five Tony Awards, including for Best Musical, Best Score and B…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:12PMManhattan Theatre Club has announced three more world premieres for the off-Broadway stage in its upcoming 2024-25 season. MTC will produce Dakar 2000 written by Pulitzer finalist Rajiv Jose…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:02PMTony Award winner Aaron Tveit and singer Joanna “JoJo” Levesque will return to Broadway’s Moulin Rouge! Tveit, an original cast member, will reprise his performance as Christian with…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:36AMLife and Trust, a new immersive-theater production from Emursive (Sleep No More) now in previews, has set its official opening date. Performances began June 17 in the Conwell Tower, also hom…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:36AMTuesday, June 18, 2024
The Broadway revival of the Stephen Sondheim-George Furth musical Merrily We Roll Along—which recently won the Tony for Best Musical Revival, and stars Tony winners Jonathan Groff and Da…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:42PMThe Outsiders, the new Broadway musical based on the novel by S.E. Hinton and the 1983 film, won the Award for Best Musical at the 77th Annual Tony Awards on June 16.
It wasn't a sure thing…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:12PM 
