Wednesday, August 24, 2016
Before he started hitting the airwaves weekly as a cast member of NBC's Saturday Night Live, Fred Armisen was a young musician from Long Island who moved to Chicago to play percussion for th…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:04PMWith its attention-grabbing title, Swedish singersongwriter Ledinsky's single 'Donald Trump Makes Me Wanna Smoke Crack' has been mounting up controversy and YouTube hits.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:04PMGrowing up in Northern Virginia, the first song Thomas Kail ever memorized was Slick Rick's rap 'Mona Lisa.' Its narrative about a guy chatting up a woman he meets in a pizza place opened up…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:01PMSpecialists in introducing contemporary audiences to worthy, but neglected plays, The Mint Theater Company's new production will probably be a first introduction for many of its audience mem…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:02PMKristin Chenoweth's new album, 'The Art of Elegance,' will have a will have a digital release September 23rd and a physical release on September 30th, 2016.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:06PMThe Oscar-winning songwriting team of Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez joined the fun at the Greenwich Village piano bar.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:09PMGrammy-nominated composerlyricistSara Bareilles, who made her Broadway debut last season with her Tony-nominated score for the hit musical WAITRESS, hosted a sampler of songs from the show a…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:38AMTuesday, August 23, 2016
The last time Bette Midler graced a Broadway stage, she was the sole cast member of John Logan's I'LL EAT YOU LAST A CHAT WITH SUE MENGERS.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:48PMTonight, two-time Tony Award nominee Brandon Victor Dixon makes his debut as Aaron Burr in Lin-Manuel Miranda's revolutionary smash hit Hamilton on Broadway.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:45PMAt the end of Mel Brooks' Broadway musical adaptation of his film classic 'Young Frankenstein,' there's the quick lyrical suggestion that a song and dance version of his 1974 western spoof '…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:22PMThe well-intended advice many will offer before a first date is to 'just be yourself, but that may not be easy for the crazily talented Christina Bianco, who's had major success being other …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:49AMMaster monologist and storyteller Mike Daisey has chosen to make his latest theatre piece, THE TRUMP CARD, completely free to download on the Internet and perform without paying royalties.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:10AMYou might say there are three ways to tell if you've really made it on Broadway. You get your portrait up on the wall at Sardi's, you get spoofed by FORBIDDEN BROADWAY or you're the subject …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:12AMMonday, August 22, 2016
Charitybuzz's new auction offers a chance to meet Lin-Manuel Miranda at the opening night party for HAMILTON on Chicago.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:36PMThe hit Broadway musical Waitress' Tony-winning star Jessie Mueller and its Grammy-nominated composerlyricist Sara Bareilleswill be signing copies of their original cast recording at Manhatt…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:57PMFor eleven seasons 'The Carol Burnett Show' kept America laughing with some of the cleverest and freshest sketch comedy to hit television. Some of the biggest off-the-cuff laughs came when, …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:30PMKristin Chenoweth has a lot on her plate to talk about these days. In addition to her busy schedule of concert touring she's prepping to play Velma Von Tussle in Hairspray LIVE on NBC Wednes…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:51PMBeginning with Gwen Verdon in the original and resuming with Ann Reinking in the revival, some of Broadway's most talented triple-threats have taken on the role of Roxie Hart in Broadway's C…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:40PMLast night FUN HOME's Tony Award-winning star Michael Cerveris, who was raised in West Virginia, presented a very special concert to benefit the rebuilding efforts of West Virginians in the …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:13PMBroadway audiences are accustomed to seeing world-class dancers take fight in the musicals that fill Times Square's stages, but Cirque du Soleil Paramour offers a rare opportunity to see wor…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:03PMThough he gained worldwide fame as the author of 'In Cold Blood' and 'Breakfast at Tiffany's,' you didn't have to be an avid reader to immediately recognize Truman Capote.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:36AMSaturday, August 20, 2016
Public Works, The Public Theater's local and national initiative that invites diverse communities across New York to join in creating ambitious works of theater, celebrates its fourth year w…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:37AMFriday, August 19, 2016
More IN THE HEIGHTS controversy after Chicago's Porchlight Music Theatre cast a white actor in the role.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:09PMThe actor responds to an outpouring of concern after missing a performance.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:03PMThe Broadway couple tied the knot yesterday in Somerset, England.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:51PMREBECCA's 2006 world premiere, directed by Francesca Zambello opened at Vereinigte Buhnen Wien in Vienna, and the musical has subsequently played in Budapest, Hungary Bucharest, Romania Hels…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:53PMTrue to its name, the 1,650-seat Cirkus in Stockholm, built in the 1830s, was originally a venue for circus performances.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:43PMCharitybuzz's new auction offers a chance to meet one of Broadway's funniest performers.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:48AMIt was twenty-five years ago when their odd little show opened at the tucked away Astor Place Theatre, but it wasn't long BLUE MAN GROUP became an instantly recognizable image and an interna…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:33AMThursday, August 18, 2016
School's out for Sierra Boggess as she bids adieu to SCHOOL OF ROCK and preps to star as Christine Daae when THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA begins performances in Paris.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:54PMLike Robert Fairchild, the Tony-nominated originator of the role he plays in AN AMERICAN IN PARIS, dancer Dimitri Kleioris had never sung professionally before stepping in as leading man at …
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