Tuesday, May 7, 2019
When Sherisse Springer is off stage during Kiss Me, Kate, she’s often pumping breast milk. “It’s part of my track,” the actress explains of her backstage choreography. “Wardrobe kn…
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 05:37AMTuesday, April 23, 2019
Shoshana Bean and Jeremy Jordan return to the Broadway musical together in Waitress. Jordan, who plays love interest Dr. Pomatter, was last seen on Broadway this past fall in the new drama…
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 05:56AMMonday, April 15, 2019
It might as well be spring! Shake off those post-winter blues with a trip to the theatre. From spectacular Disney sensations to new musicals like The Prom, here’s a list of family-friendly…
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 01:12PMTuesday, January 29, 2019
Andrew Barth Feldman is not only making his Broadway debut at 16 years old, but this is his first professional acting gig ever. “I have never been in a process where literally the show is …
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 05:27PMMonday, January 21, 2019
Sexy, stripped down, suggestive, and reimagined: These are the words being used to describe the revival of Oklahoma!, beginning previews March 19. It’s not how the classical musical would…
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 11:16AMTuesday, January 15, 2019
There’s a reason nearly a dozen original cast members are still performing in Kinky Boots on Broadway six years after it premiered. “It’s not a mistake that about half of our cast …
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 11:03AMThursday, December 27, 2018
This year has us “waving through a window” and saying goodbye already! In 2018, not only did Bette Midler say “So long, dearie” to Broadway, but audiences welcomed her back to the Ha…
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 04:11AMTuesday, November 27, 2018
In the span of one year, Be More Chill will have gone from Off-Broadway to Broadway. The show’s growing popularity on social media — including a YouTube video of one of the musical’s s…
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 04:39AMTuesday, November 20, 2018
Forget the skyscrapers: This time of year, New York City sparkles with lights all over, from the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree to Macy’s decked-out window displays. Dazzling décor shi…
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 03:18AMThursday, November 1, 2018
When Broadway producer Richie Jackson was 17, the play Torch Song Trilogy changed his life. “It’s been a road map of a life that could be possible,” Jackson says of worshipping the 198…
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 09:36AMTuesday, October 23, 2018
Laura Benanti is headed back to Broadway, as Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady at the Vivian Beaumont Theatre. Succeeding Tony-nominated Lauren Ambrose, who is departing the musical for an upc…
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 05:17AMMonday, October 15, 2018
One of the questions Jessica Vosk, who plays Elphaba in Wicked, gets asked most at the stage door these days is: “Has the script been changed to make it more relevant to today?” And the …
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 11:31AMThursday, October 4, 2018
Today show meteorologist Al Roker will make his Broadway debut as Old Joe in Waitress, now starring Nicolette Robinson as Jenna, beginning October 5 for a limited six-week run through Novemb…
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 10:00AMCuba Gooding Jr. returns to Broadway in Chicago as lawyer Billy Flynn beginning October 6 for a limited run through November 18 at the Ambassador Theatre. It’s the Hollywood star’s first…
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 09:39AMTuesday, August 28, 2018
Broadway revivals of long-beloved musicals are hitting the road this fall, set to introduce audiences across the country to productions that have won praise for their virtuosity, authenticit…
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 04:30AMMonday, August 6, 2018
If heaven is a place on Earth, The GoGo’s have found it on Broadway. Their music is the basis of the new jukebox musical Head Over Heels, now playing at the Hudson Theatre. “They’re …
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 11:09AMFriday, July 13, 2018
Broadway Direct’s got an exclusive behind the scenes look at Lindsay Mendez singing “Mister Snow” during the recording of the new Broadway cast album, Carousel.
“It’s a major dream…
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 05:39AMTuesday, June 12, 2018
All Donna McKechnie needs is the music a mirror and she'll still dance for you. The 75-year-old is currently starring as Joanne in the original musical, Half Time, at the Paper Mill Playhous…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:36AMMonday, June 4, 2018
Tony Award winner Jerry Mitchell is going full out these days. Not only is he directing and choreographing the original musical, Half Time, at the Paper Mill Playhouse in New Jersey, but he'…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:12PMTuesday, May 8, 2018
When you enter the Circle in the Square Theatre to see Once On This Island on Broadway, you immediately feel transported into another land just ravaged by a storm. There is not only livestoc…
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 04:20AMSunday, April 22, 2018
First there was Grease You're the One That I Want On NBC in 2007. Then on MTV came Legally Blonde The Search for the Next Elle Woods on Broadway in 2008. Soon, theater fans will be excited t…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:48PMMonday, April 2, 2018
Before his guest starring role on Young Sheldon, last season's off-Broadway production of The Portuguese Kid and of course nearly a decade as George Costanza on Seinfeld, Jason Alexander was…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:19AMWednesday, March 28, 2018
The musical, The People in the Picture, is getting a makeover as a new production is being mounted at 3Below in San Jose, California with performances beginning April 26th. Making its west c…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:26AMMonday, March 5, 2018
Steve Kazee and Samantha Barks are not Richard Gere or Julia Roberts. And they’re not trying to be, as they rehearse for their starring roles as Edward and Vivian in the world premiere of …
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 12:15PMTuesday, January 2, 2018
She's the Marcia Fing Brady of the Upper East side and proud of it. 'For me, I get to play my first villain,' actress Lauren Zakrin tells BroadwayWorld's Leigh Scheps. 'This time I get to pl…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:32AMFriday, November 10, 2017
Broadway shows have been preserved for decades thanks to one pioneer with a passion. Betty Corwin was working in a hospital in 1969 when she came up with a brilliant idea to record them for …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:48AMSunday, October 15, 2017
There's not a day that goes by when someone doesn't mention The Birdcage to Nathan Lane. It's become such a loving film for so many people. This week, the Broadway veteran is getting ready…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:12PMThursday, October 5, 2017
She was given months to live. So now, five years later after being diagnosed with an incurable disease, Valerie Harper isn't letting life slip by. I am feeling good today, Harper, 78, tells…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:42AMThursday, August 10, 2017
At 21-years-old and fresh out of college, Cheech Manohar's got it pretty grool. He's about to make his Broadway debut as suave virgin North Shore mathlete, Kevin Gnapoor, in the new musical…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:54AMFriday, August 4, 2017
It's a story about a plus-sized girl, a one-eyed guy and a closeted gay teen. Some describe it as 'John Hughes-esque.' But Molly Ringwald isn't in this modern day ugly duckling love affair.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:24PMMonday, July 31, 2017
'It's a gift to come back. Shakespeare's hard,' Grant says of her return to theater. She hasn't performed Shakespeare since 2011 and hasn't been on a stage since 2014. 'I feel like an artist…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:42PM 
