Thursday, February 27, 2020
In honor of Black History Month, Broadway.com asked actors, directors and playwrights to tell us about black theater-makers who inspired them. Stars jumped at the chance to honor those who…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:18PMWednesday, February 26, 2020
In honor of Black History Month, Broadway.com asked actors, directors and playwrights to tell us about black theater-makers who inspired them. Stars jumped at the chance to honor those who…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 07:12PMThe 1981-1982 Broadway season was one for the ages. Stephen Sondheim and Harold Prince’s historic Broadway flop, Merrily We Roll Along, opened and closed in 12 days; a month later, Dreamg…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 07:12PMThe cast of Girl From the North Country, Conor McPherson's new musical about American life in the Great Depression set to Bob Dylan's songbook (though not to first use it!), made an appeara…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:12PMTuesday, February 25, 2020
All the Natalie Portmans, C.A. Johnson's new off-Broadway play about a young, queer black girl whose imaginations of Natalie Portman offer an escape from a troubled home and alcoholic moth…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:36PMIn honor of Black History Month, Broadway.com asked actors, directors and playwrights to tell us about black theater-makers who inspired them. Stars jumped at the chance to honor those who…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:06PMEmojiland, a new "textistential" musical about a band of emojis who must to learn to embrace the changes wrought by a smartphone update, was a surprise fan favorite when it opened off-Broa…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:48AMMonday, February 24, 2020
In honor of Black History Month, Broadway.com asked actors, directors and playwrights to tell us about black theater-makers who inspired them. Stars jumped at the chance to honor those who…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:42PMCambodian Rock Band, Lauren Yee’s new off-Broadway play that uses music to talk about the Khmer Rouge genocide, is about a lot more than history and trauma. Written by an Asian-American p…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:42PMFriday, February 21, 2020
West Side Story celebrated its Broadway opening night at the Broadway Theatre on February 20. Director Ivo van Hove's radical reimagining of the classic American musical from Leonard Berns…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 08:36PMThe Minutes, two-time Tony winner Tracy Letts' new dramedy that unleashes a fracturing American political spirit from within a mundane town hall meeting, will open on Broadway on March 15 …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:12PM“West Side Story changed my life,” said Harolyn Blackwell, who played Francisca, a Shark girl, in the 1980 Broadway revival. On February 20, Blackwell was on the opening night red carpe…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:24PMIn honor of Black History Month, Broadway.com asked actors, directors and playwrights to tell us about black theater-makers who inspired them. Stars jumped at the chance to honor those who…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:48AMThursday, February 20, 2020
It was a historic week for the queendom in episode 4 of Abby Mueller's vlog, Yas, Queen! The cast of Six began previews at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre, and most of them—including Andrea…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 09:54PMMrs. Doubtfire is the latest in a steady stream of movie-to-musical adaptations on Broadway, and the Jerry Zaks-directed reimagining of Robin Williams-led film comedy met the press on Febr…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:32PMIn honor of Black History Month, Broadway.com asked actors, directors and playwrights to tell us about black theater-makers who inspired them. Stars jumped at the chance to honor those who…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:32PMWednesday, February 19, 2020
In honor of Black History Month, Broadway.com asked actors, directors and playwrights to tell us about black theater-makers who inspired them. Stars jumped at the chance to honor those who…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 07:06PMJessica Phillips plays Heidi Hansen on Broadway, the loving, work-strained single mom in Benj Pasek and Justin Paul's long-running musical Dear Evan Hansen. Phillips stepped into the role …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 07:06PMDavid Byrne’s American Utopia announced that it will return to Broadway for a 17-week staging next fall and winter. It just completed its run on Broadway on February 16. American Utopia…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:42AMTuesday, February 18, 2020
American Buffalo, David Mamet's foul-mouthed 1977 Broadway play about three hustlers conspiring in a Chicago junk shop to steal a man’s rare coin collection, will be revived on Broadway…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:36PMSix, Broadway's newest West End transfer about the six ex-wives of King Henry VIII, hasn't played a full week of performances, but the new musical's already filling houses at the Brooks A…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:36PMLynn Cohen, an admired character actress who cultivated a regular presence off-Broadway since the late 1970s, died in New York City on February 14. She was 86.
Cohen appeared on Broadway tw…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:36PMDavid Byrne’s American Utopia has extended its box office-breaking run at the Hudson Theatre for a further five days. The production, initially set to the close on February 16, will now en…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:42PMDanny Burstein, Aaron Tveit and the company of Moulin Rouge! The Musical, director Alex Timbers’ Broadway adaptation of the beloved Baz Luhrmann film, performed for Good Morning America o…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:42PMHarry Townsend's Last Stand, George Eastman's new off-Broadway comedy at New York City Center Stage II, celebrated 100 performances on February 17. Tony winner Len Cariou (and original Swe…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:42PMMichael Arden, who was Tony nominated for directing the revivals of Spring Awakening (2016) and Once on This Island (2018), will make his feature film debut directing The Book of Ruth, a…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:42PMMonday, February 17, 2020
In honor of Black History Month, Broadway.com asked actors, directors and playwrights to tell us about black theater-makers who inspired them. Stars jumped at the chance to honor those who…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:12AMSunday, February 16, 2020
Olivier-winning actress Elaine Paige is giving Broadway.com listeners a chance to hear her BBC Radio 2 show, Elaine Paige on Sunday. This week, Elaine Paige reviews a production of Betty B…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:03PMFriday, February 14, 2020
Oh, the little things you do together. The cast and creatives of Company, director Marianne Elliott's gender-bending revival of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's classic musical about m…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 08:54PMFlying Over Sunset, set to begin previews at the Vivian Beaumont Theater on March 12, is right in the middle of rehearsals. On February 13, the cast of the new musical previewed a few of c…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:03PMJordan Fisher recently joined Ben Platt, Taylor Trensch and Andrew Barth Feldman as the fourth actor to play the title role in Benj Pasek and Justin Paul's Tony-winning Best Musical,�…
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