Monday, December 30, 2019
by Roxy Arecco. @roxyarecco. NEW YORK, NY - Beloved Off-Broadway comedy The Play That Goes Wrong went wrong last night, ultimately forcing the mad cap show, in which a local production faces…
SOURCE: www.thebroadwaybeat.com at 11:42AM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 24, 2019
by Zach Raffio. @zachraffio. ATLANTA - Local playwright Hillary Lewis spent her Christmas Eve preparing a plate of freshly baked chocolate chip cookies and an accompanying glass of cold milk…
SOURCE: www.thebroadwaybeat.com at 11:38AM[SHARE]Monday, December 23, 2019
by Zach Raffio. @zachraffio. NEW YORK, NY - Tragedy struck the annual Radio City Christmas Spectacular this week after local teen Brandon Morton was charged with manslaughter for putting a p…
SOURCE: www.thebroadwaybeat.com at 10:27AM[SHARE]Friday, December 20, 2019
by Zach Raffio. @zachraffio. Tom Hooper's adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber's beloved musical Cats has pounced into theaters this weekend, facing harsh criticism from critics and moviegoers …
SOURCE: www.thebroadwaybeat.com at 01:36PM[SHARE]Thursday, December 19, 2019
by Nick Brigis. @nickbrigis. NEW YORK, NY - NYU Tisch Junior Mary Kate Daehler was shocked to discover the newest member of her friend group, Anna, a sophomore who saw Hamilton on Broadway …
SOURCE: www.thebroadwaybeat.com at 11:43AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 18, 2019
by Elizabeth Pellegrino. @lizwrotewhat. LOS ANGELES, Ca - Representatives from Universal Pictures revealed today that they are halting the press tour for the much-anticipated Cats film hitti…
SOURCE: www.thebroadwaybeat.com at 12:14PM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 17, 2019
by Rebecca Salzhauer. KENT, Conn. - Grieving family members found themselves shocked this past weekend when NYU Performance Studies Minor Evelyn Hurley halted the funeral of local pediatric …
SOURCE: www.thebroadwaybeat.com at 10:54AM[SHARE]Monday, December 16, 2019
by Sara Detrik. @sara_detrik. NEW YORK, NY Â - This past Monday, famously the one day per week in which almost all Broadway theaters go "dark" with no performances or marquees lit up, saw …
SOURCE: www.thebroadwaybeat.com at 11:27AM[SHARE]Saturday, December 14, 2019
by Justin Ayer. @JustinAyer (Twitter), @JustAyer (Instagram). New York, NY - Midtown Manhattan found itself overwhelmed Saturday morning by flocks of fans of Broadway's Mean Girls, with grou…
SOURCE: www.thebroadwaybeat.com at 11:22AM[SHARE]Thursday, December 12, 2019
by Zach Raffio. @zachraffio. NEW YORK, NY - The first trailer was just released for next summer's highly anticipated film adaptation of In The Heights, revealing for the first time that, des…
SOURCE: www.thebroadwaybeat.com at 01:08PM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 11, 2019
by Brendan Leonard. @brennylen. The unsung hero of Broadway's Dear Evan Hansen doesn't fit into any Tony category - but that doesn't mean their work isn't just as challenging or integral to …
SOURCE: www.thebroadwaybeat.com at 11:12AM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 10, 2019
by Zach Raffio. @zachraffio. NEW YORK, NY - He's at it again! Reports are surfacing that famed con man Harold Hill has arrived in New York City, successfully pulling off one of his infamous …
SOURCE: www.thebroadwaybeat.com at 11:27AM[SHARE]Monday, December 9, 2019
by HaleyJane Rose. @haleyisfamous. HOBOKEN, NJ - Self proclaimed "obsessed theatre nerd" Bethany Price, 24, has found herself truly devastated after her Spotify Wrapped, logging her most-lis…
SOURCE: www.thebroadwaybeat.com at 11:18AM[SHARE]Friday, December 6, 2019
by Andrew Gillespie. @andrewg5000. FAIR HAVEN, NJ - Local accounting assistant and Marymount Manhattan musical theatre BFA Clara Barrett was witnessed last evening at their company's weekly …
SOURCE: www.thebroadwaybeat.com at 11:50AM[SHARE]Thursday, December 5, 2019
by Zach Raffio. @zachraffio. NEW YORK, NY - Broadway's improvised hip-hop extravaganza Freestyle Love Supreme is facing controversy this week after the performers, who create a fresh, full-l…
SOURCE: www.thebroadwaybeat.com at 11:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 4, 2019
by Steven Hayet. @NotScubaSteve. NEW YORK, NY - After exhausting the catalogue of American & British popular music, Broadway producers, scrambling to find a popular musical artist with t…
SOURCE: www.thebroadwaybeat.com at 11:26AM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 3, 2019
by Catherine Weingarten. @sarahkaneissexy. NEW YORK, NY " Local indie playwright Autumn Crystal Summersmith found herself truly humiliated following a recent talkback for her new play, after…
SOURCE: www.thebroadwaybeat.com at 11:22AM[SHARE]Monday, December 2, 2019
by Aidan Sears. @aidanjsears. SCHAUMBURG, Ill. - Confusion arose in the audience last night after the Schaumburg Community Theatre's performance of Catch Me If You Can, with theater-goers no…
SOURCE: www.thebroadwaybeat.com at 11:24AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 28, 2019
by Zach Raffio. @zachraffio. NEW YORK, NY - The cast of the hit Broadway musical Beetlejuice performed during the 2019 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade this morning, delighting viewers with a …
SOURCE: www.thebroadwaybeat.com at 10:53AM[SHARE]Monday, November 25, 2019
by Cameron Smith. @CamRayNYC. CAMBRIDGE, England - Following their groundbreaking recent discovery of an unreleased Eugene O'Neill play, researchers at the University of Cambridge have uncov…
SOURCE: www.thebroadwaybeat.com at 10:57AM[SHARE]Friday, November 22, 2019
by Aidan Sears. @aidanjsears. ROCHESTER, NY - North Valley High School's production of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman opened to glowing reviews last night, with many audience members si…
SOURCE: www.thebroadwaybeat.com at 11:36AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 20, 2019
by Brendan Leonard. @brennylen. WASHINGTON, D. C. - CNN reports that the upcoming Democratic Presidential Debate will nix the usual topics of health care, gun control and the economy for wha…
SOURCE: www.thebroadwaybeat.com at 11:17AM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 19, 2019
by Alec Brown. @brownta3. NEW YORK, NY - Producers of the long-running Broadway musical Chicago announced today that they're updating the show's famous slogan, "Broadway's Sure Thing", to a …
SOURCE: www.thebroadwaybeat.com at 11:35AM[SHARE]Monday, November 18, 2019
by Roxy Arecco. @roxyarecco. NEW YORK, NY - Local method actor Preston Roberts submitted his resignation for a production of Oedipus Rex yesterday after finally reading the play, in which th…
SOURCE: www.thebroadwaybeat.com at 11:12AM[SHARE]Friday, November 15, 2019
by Erika Hakmiller. @ErikaFromMaine. NEW YORK, NY - The National Football League released today a new, official translation guide for theatre lovers who are put in situations where they may …
SOURCE: www.thebroadwaybeat.com at 11:35AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 13, 2019
by Zach Raffio. @zachraffio. NEW YORK, NY - The Theater District's beloved Drama Book Shop - which shuttered its doors earlier this year - is set to reopen in 2020 under the new ownership of…
SOURCE: www.thebroadwaybeat.com at 02:54PM[SHARE]by Edward Precht. @pertoltprecht. NEW YORK, NY - Attendees of this past Sunday's matinee screening of The Irishman at Broadway's Belasco Theater expressed their disappointment after the much…
SOURCE: www.thebroadwaybeat.com at 02:06PM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 12, 2019
by Rebecca Slaman. @rebeccaslaman. LOS ANGELES, CA - Controversial former U.S. Press Secretary Sean Spicer was spotted at an open call for a regional production of Little Shop of Horrors thi…
SOURCE: www.thebroadwaybeat.com at 10:44AM[SHARE]Monday, November 11, 2019
by Zach Raffio. @zachraffio If anyone has established themselves as a centerpiece of the last decade's musical theatre zeitgeist, it's beloved Hamilton wordsmith Lin-Manuel Miranda. When our…
SOURCE: www.thebroadwaybeat.com at 11:19AM[SHARE]Monday, November 4, 2019
by Brendan Leonard. @brennylen. NEW YORK, NY " Producers of the hit musical Dear Evan Hansen were in the delivery room of Mount Sinai West Hospital this afternoon in eager anticipation of th…
SOURCE: www.thebroadwaybeat.com at 10:44AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 31, 2019
by Zach Raffio. @zachraffio. BELLEVUE, Wash. - Local theatre fan Kaitlyn Womack expressed her outrage today after none of the co-workers at her company Halloween party understood her obscure…
SOURCE: www.thebroadwaybeat.com at 11:13AM[SHARE]Loading more stories…
