Tuesday, January 23, 2024
Broadway Backwards, the annual, one-night-only performance of show tunes with an LGBTQ+ twist, will play the New Amsterdam Theatre on March 11, with creator Robert Bartley returning to direc…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:06PMNominations for the 96th Academy Awards were revealed on January 23, with many Broadway and New York theater artists making the list. Jimmy Kimmel will return to host the ceremony on March 1…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:54AMEarlier this month, Amber Ardolino donned the blue jeans (and blond wig) to play Marcia Murphey in A Beautiful Noise, The Neil Diamond Musical opposite Nick Fradiani’s Neil Diamond. Now sh…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:54AMMonday, January 22, 2024
Norman Jewison, the genre-spanning director of the movie adaptations of Fiddler on the Roof and Jesus Christ Superstar, as well as a number of non-musical stage-to-screen adaptations, died o…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 07:32PMThe second leg of the national tour of The Wiz will kick off in February 2025. Dates have been announced for a sitdown in Dallas at Music Hall at Fair Park, with performances scheduled from…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:48AMTony Award winner Billy Crudup will make his West End debut in the U.K. premiere of Harry Clarke, returning to the one-man play after leading two runs in the U.S. Performances will begin at …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 09:32AMFriday, January 19, 2024
Emmys week has brought with it a succession of Succession-related theater news.
The Sydney Theatre Company production of The Picture of Dorian Gray, starring Sarah Snook, is eyeing Broadwa…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:48AMThursday, January 18, 2024
Breaking the Story, a new play about the cost of war by playwright Alexis Scheer, will have its world premiere at Second Stage’s Tony Kiser Theater. Performances will begin May 15, with an…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:12PMCaissie Levy (Leopoldstadt, Frozen) and Tony Award nominee Jamie Parker (Harry Potter and the Cursed Child) will star in Next to Normal in the West End. A transfer of the U.K.-premiere prod…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:48AMTony Award nominee Benjamin Walker (American Psycho, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson) will star in Opening Night, the musical adaptation of the John Cassevetes psychodrama by Ivo van Hove and R…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:48AMYou never know who might be watching you on TikTok.
Nichelle Lewis started posting videos to the platform in late 2022, sharing her soaring, expressive vocal performances and dance moves (a…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:42AMOn his days off this Broadway season, you might find Ali Louis Bourzgui strolling around Central Park, wearing headphones and mouthing along to his own personal soundtrack—which could be a…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:42AMWednesday, January 17, 2024
Emmy-nominated Succession actor Nicholas Braun will star in a revival of Kenneth Lonergan’s Lobby Hero on the West End, according to Deadline. The production will reportedly be directed by…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:06PMTony Award winner Stephanie J. Block will make her West End debut in Kiss Me, Kate this summer, starring alongside Irish actor Adrian Dunbar. Block will play the roles of Lilli Vanessi / Kat…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:02PMShaina Taub will lead the cast of Suffs on Broadway, reprising her performance as Alice Paul, which she debuted for the musical's extended 2022 world-premiere production at The Public Theat…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:42AMTuesday, January 16, 2024
Harmony, the long-incubating musical by Barry Manilow (music) and Bruce Sussman (book and lyrics), will play its final performance at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre on February 4. At the time o…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 07:32PMSuccession’s Sarah Snook is bound for Broadway, according to a report in the New York Post. A source tells the Post that The Picture of Dorian Gray, a one-woman show starring Snook in 26 …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:18PMLeslie Rodriguez Kritzer, Spamalot’s glorious Lady of the Lake, is here to ceremonially grant viewers one last behind-the-scenes glimpse of the musical comedy now playing at the St. James …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:18PMElton John has joined the illustrious EGOT club. The pop icon and musical theater composer won his first Emmy Award at the 75th annual Emmy Awards ceremony on January 15, completing the quar…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:02PMCharlotte St. Martin, the president of The Broadway League, the national trade association for the Broadway industry, is retiring from the League after 18 years, effective February 16.
St. …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:02PMCorey Cott and McKenzie Kurtz will play the romantic leads in the new Broadway musical The Heart of Rock and Roll. Set to the songs of Huey Lewis and the News, the show will begin previews M…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:54AMFriday, January 12, 2024
Michael, a Michael Jackson biopic starring Jaafar Jackson—Michael’s nephew—will be released in 2025. Training Day director Antoine Fuqua is directing a script by Tony winner John Logan…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:48PMWhen I interviewed the director Harold Prince in his offices in Rockefeller Center in 2018—offices that were wallpapered with reminders of his decades-long career as a prolific theater pro…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:42PMRed Concepción will make his Broadway debut in Chicago as Amos Hart, beginning his run at the Ambassador Theatre on January 15. He replaces James T. Lane, a long-time company member who st…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:32AMWednesday, January 10, 2024
The last original cast recording of a new Stephen Sondheim musical is on the way. The world premiere of Here We Are, which opened in October 2023 at The Shed’s Griffin Theater, will rele…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:18PMNumerous Broadway alums are among the nominees for the 30th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards, set to take place on February 21.
Two-time Tony nominee Annette Bening (Nyad), Tony nominee�…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:18PMThe complete cast is set for Dead Outlaw, a world-premiere musical from the Tony Award-winning creative team behind The Band’s Visit. Previews begin on February 28, with an official open…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:06PMAn Enemy of the People, Amy Herzog's new adaptation of the Ibsen play, directed by Sam Gold, has its complete cast. Performances begin at the Circle in the Square Theatre on February 27 wit…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:54AMFor Jonathan Tunick, an early love of “Tubby the Tuba” led to a career as an orchestrator. He talks about his Sondheim partnership, and creating a sound that “can hint at unspoken secr…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:18AMTuesday, January 9, 2024
Leslie Rodriguez Kritzer, Spamalot’s hand-painted silk-clad Lady of the Lake, is here to ceremonially grant viewers a behind-the-scenes glimpse of the musical comedy now playing at the St.…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:12PMLola Tung, star of the Amazon Prime series The Summer I Turned Pretty, will join Hadestown as Eurydice on February 9, according to a report in EW. Tung, who makes her Broadway debut, will re…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:12PM 
