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Friday, February 14, 2020

Take a First Look at Jordan Fisher in Dear Evan Hansen and Listen to Him Sing 'For Forever' by Michael Appler

Jordan 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,�…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:48PM

Watch Tony Yazbeck, Carmen Cusack & the Cast of Flying Over Sunset Perform in Rehearsal by Michael Appler

Flying 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 04:48PM

Celebrating Black History Month: James Monroe Iglehart Honors Original The Wiz Lion, Ted Ross by Michael Appler

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 02:18PM

See Noah Galvin & the Cast of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat Perform Songs From the Upcoming Concert by Michael Appler

Manhattan Concert Productions is staging a one-night-only concert of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat on February 17 at Lincoln Center, and …

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:18PM
Thursday, February 13, 2020

Glow Up: Six Moves in to the Brooks Atkinson Theatre in Episode 3 of Abby Mueller's Vlog by Michael Appler

Yes, Hannah Ann lied to Peter on The Bachelor and the queens of Six are shook. This week, in the third episode of her vlog, Yas, Queen!, Abby Mueller took viewers to the Brooks Atkinso…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:54PM
Wednesday, February 12, 2020

How Darling Grenadine's Adam Kantor Got So Good at Playing Heartthrobs by Michael Appler

Adam Kantor just might be Broadway’s go-to typecast for the dreamy hopeless romantic. In Next to Normal, he played Henry, the loner love interest who dotes over Natalie. In Fiddler on the…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:18PM

Rock Out! Take a First Look at the New Off-Broadway Show Cambodian Rock Band by Michael Appler

Lauren Yee's exploration of memory and music under the Khmer Rouge, Cambodian Rock Band, opens on February 24 at The Signature Center. Starring Courtney Reed, Francis Jue and Joe Ngo with …

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:18PM

Netflix's 13 Movie Musical Adaptation Is Holding an Open Casting Call for Teens by Michael Appler

The producers of the upcoming movie adaptation of Jason Robert Brown's musical 13 announced on February 12 that they are holding an open casting call for the film, requesting general vid…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:18PM

Celebrating Black History Month: Camille A. Brown Honors Three Monumental Black Female Choreographers by Michael Appler

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 01:03PM

Jump on the Wells Fargo Wagon! Broadway's Music Man Is Holding an Open Casting Call for Winthrop Paroo by Michael Appler

The highly anticipated Broadway revival of The Music Man has announced an open casting call for the role of Winthrop Paroo, leading lady Marian's shy younger brother whose excitement in jo…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:03PM
Tuesday, February 11, 2020

Full Casting Announced for Phylicia Rashad-Directed Blue at the Apollo by Michael Appler

Casting is complete for the upcoming New York production of Blue, writer Charles Randolph-Wright and composer Nona Hendrix's musical play of class and race. Tony winning actress Phylicia …

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:12PM

Jonny Beauchamp Once Wrote an Essay on Daphne Rubin-Vega, Now He's Playing Her Son in Katy Keene by Michael Appler

Jonny Beauchamp plays a Broadway wannabe turned drag queen in the new TV show Katy Keene, The CW's Riverdale spin-off. The actor—who's yet to have a Broadway credit, but who has appear…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:12PM
Monday, February 10, 2020

Cats, In the Heights and Idina Menzel: Here Are Our Favorite Broadway Moments From the 2020 Oscars by Michael Appler

The Academy Awards is the biggest night in Hollywood—but more than a few Broadway favorites were hanging around the Dolby Theatre on February 9. Lin-Manuel Miranda rolled up to the cerem…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 08:36PM

Myra Lucretia Taylor Might Play a Grandmother in Tina, But She Once Got Frisky with Antonio Banderas On Stage by Michael Appler

While Antonio Banderas was busy last week preparing for the Oscars, Myra Lucretia Taylor, who currently plays a loving grandmother in Tina: The Tina Turner Musical, was reminiscing about al…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:48PM

Swoon! Take a First Look at Adam Kantor & Emily Walton in the New Off-Broadway Musical Darling Grenadine by Michael Appler

Darling Grenadine, which opens off-Broadway on February 10, marks Roundabout Theatre Company's first debut of a new musical in 10 years. A Manhattan love story between a charming songwrit…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:48PM

Celebrating Black History Month: Montego Glover Remembers the 'Brave and Brilliant' Alvin Ailey by Michael Appler

In honor of Black History Month, Broadway.com asked actors, directors and playwrights to tell us about black theater artists who inspired them. Stars jumped at the chance to honor those t…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:24PM

The Oscars Go Broadway! Tony Winners Take the Stage at the 2020 Academy Awards by Michael Appler

Elton John, the Tony-winning composer of Aida, triumphed at the Academy Awards on February 9, winning an Oscar for Best Original Song. John, who also composed the scores to Broadway's The…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 07:03AM
Saturday, February 8, 2020

Orson Bean, Beloved Funny Man of Broadway & Late-Night Television, Dies at 91 by Michael Appler

Orson Bean, the beloved funny man of late-night television, game shows and light-hearted Broadway comedies, died on February 7. According to police, he was hit and killed by a car outside th…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:36PM

Kevin Conway, Broadway Star of The Elephant Man & Of Mice and Men, Dies at 77 by Michael Appler

Kevin Conway, a veteran actor who embodied the role of George in the first Broadway revival of Of Mice and Men and led The Elephant Man on and off-Broadway, died on January 4 in New York Cit…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:36PM
Friday, February 7, 2020

Frozen's Kevin Del Aguila Loved Writing Altar Boyz So Much, He Almost Quit Acting by Michael Appler

Kevin Del Aguila says he’s the “Forrest Gump of New York City.” While the Broadway actor has been inviting Arendelle denizens into his “hygge” Frozen sauna for two years, Del Agu…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:24PM

Celebrating Black History Month: Joaquina Kalukango Honors 'Greatest Of All Time' Audra McDonald by Michael Appler

In honor of Black History Month, Broadway.com asked actors, directors and playwrights to tell us about black theater artists who inspired them. Stars jumped at the chance to honor those t…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:12PM
Thursday, February 6, 2020

Throwback Thursday: Remembering That Other Bob Dylan Musical on Broadway by Michael Appler

Girl From the North Country, Tony nominee Conor McPherson’s new musical set to Bob Dylan’s songbook, starts previews February 7 on Broadway, but it wasn’t the first musical to bring D…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 09:48PM

How Jason Sherwood Designed This Year's Oscars Set in Three Days by Michael Appler

This year, designer Jason Sherwood joins the likes of theater artists Derek McLane, David Korins and David Rockwell as the set designer for the Academy Awards. On Sunday, February 9, viewers…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:24PM

How Theater Artist Jason Sherwood Designed This Year's Oscars Set in Three Days by Michael Appler

This year, designer Jason Sherwood joins the likes of theater artists Derek McLane, David Korins and David Rockwell as the set designer for the Academy Awards. On Sunday, February 9, viewers…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 09:36AM
Wednesday, February 5, 2020

Terry Hands, Former RSC Artistic Director Who Helped Bring Les Misérables to Broadway, Dies at 79 by Michael Appler

Terry Hands, former artistic director of the Royal Shakespeare Company and founder of the Liverpool Everyman Theatre, died at the age of 79 on February 4. According to his management, Hands …

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:36PM

Jared Grimes Says He Braces for Blair Underwood's Shirtless Scene in A Soldier's Play, Too by Michael Appler

Jared Grimes is practically a vaudevillian. He’s a Broadway talent who’s tap danced his way through After Midnight and associate choreographed a musical about Tupac Shakur, Holler If …

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:36PM

Celebrating Black History Month: André De Shields Honors Vaudeville's 'Eminent Performer,' John 'Bubbles' Sublett by Michael Appler

In honor of Black History Month, Broadway.com asked actors, directors and playwrights to tell us about black theater artists who inspired them. Stars jumped at the chance to honor those t…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:03PM
Tuesday, February 4, 2020

See Deirdre O'Connell & Lucas Hnath Meet the Press for the Biographical Off-Broadway Play, Dana H. by Michael Appler

The latest world premiere from Tony-nominated playwright Lucas Hnath falls somewhere between documentary and theater. A one-woman drama about the harrowing five-week kidnapping of Hnath's m…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:24PM

Barrington Stage's Julianne Boyd Has Transferred Two Shows to Broadway and Helped Pull Cars Out of Ditches by Michael Appler

Off in the Berkshire in western Massachusetts—a crowded artistic hub that's home to the Williamstown Theater Festival, Berkshire Theatre Group, Shakespeare and Company, Tanglewood and Jaco…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:06PM
Monday, February 3, 2020

Take a First Look at the Spooky Off-Broadway Thriller in a Pub, The Woman in Black by Michael Appler

There's something terrifying happening at a bar near you—and no, it wasn't your last blind date. The Woman in Black first premiered at a theater bar in 1987 in Scarborough, England. A t…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 07:12PM

Celebrating Black History Month: Adrienne Warren Honors 'One of Our Greats' George C. Wolfe by Michael Appler

In honor of Black History Month, Broadway.com is asking actors, directors and playwrights to tell us about a black theater artist who inspired them. Stars jumped at the chance to honor tho…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 07:12PM

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2023-2024 BROADWAY SEASON
May 30, 2023: Grey House - Lyceum Theatre
Jun 26, 2023: Just For Us - Hudson Theatre
Jul 24, 2023: The Cottage - Hayes Theater
Nov 16, 2023: Spamalot - St. James Theatre
Dec 18, 2023: Appropriate - Hayes Theater
Mar 07, 2024: Doubt - Todd Haimes Theatre
Apr 14, 2024: Lempicka - Longacre Theatre
Apr 17, 2024: The Wiz - Marquis Theatre
Apr 18, 2024: Suffs - Music Box Theatre
Apr 25, 2024: Mother Play - Hayes Theater
Jun 10, 2024: The Drama Desk Awards