Friday, January 12, 2024
When I interviewed the director Harold Prince in his offices in Rockefeller Center in 2018—offices that were wallpapered with reminders of his decades-long career as a prolific theater pro…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:42PMRed Concepción will make his Broadway debut in Chicago as Amos Hart, beginning his run at the Ambassador Theatre on January 15. He replaces James T. Lane, a long-time company member who st…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:32AMWednesday, January 10, 2024
The last original cast recording of a new Stephen Sondheim musical is on the way. The world premiere of Here We Are, which opened in October 2023 at The Shed’s Griffin Theater, will rele…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:18PMNumerous Broadway alums are among the nominees for the 30th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards, set to take place on February 21.
Two-time Tony nominee Annette Bening (Nyad), Tony nominee�…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:18PMThe complete cast is set for Dead Outlaw, a world-premiere musical from the Tony Award-winning creative team behind The Band’s Visit. Previews begin on February 28, with an official open…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:06PMAn Enemy of the People, Amy Herzog's new adaptation of the Ibsen play, directed by Sam Gold, has its complete cast. Performances begin at the Circle in the Square Theatre on February 27 wit…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:54AMFor Jonathan Tunick, an early love of “Tubby the Tuba” led to a career as an orchestrator. He talks about his Sondheim partnership, and creating a sound that “can hint at unspoken secr…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:18AMTuesday, January 9, 2024
Leslie Rodriguez Kritzer, Spamalot’s hand-painted silk-clad Lady of the Lake, is here to ceremonially grant viewers a behind-the-scenes glimpse of the musical comedy now playing at the St.…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:12PMLola Tung, star of the Amazon Prime series The Summer I Turned Pretty, will join Hadestown as Eurydice on February 9, according to a report in EW. Tung, who makes her Broadway debut, will re…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:12PMMonday, January 8, 2024
Sarah Rice, who originated the role of Johanna in Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler’s Sweeney Todd, bestowing the character with a spine-tingling soprano voice, died on January 6 followin…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:32PMThe 2024 Golden Globe Awards ceremony took place on January 7, with a handful of Broadway alums receiving honors.
For her performance in Poor Things, Emma Stone, who made her Broaday debut …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:24AMFriday, January 5, 2024
The new musical Redwood, starring Tony winner Idina Menzel, has the full cast and creative team for its upcoming La Jolla Playhouse world premiere. Menzel will be joined by De'Adre Aziza (P…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:02PMKimberly Akimbo, the 2023 Tony-winning musical, will play its final Broadway performance on April 28. Upon closing, Kimberly Akimbo will have played 32 previews and 612 performances at Broad…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:42PMThe South African playwright, director, composer and choreographer Mbongeni Ngema, died on December 27, 2023. Ngema was killed in a car crash in a rural town in South Africa's Eastern Cape p…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:42AMThursday, January 4, 2024
Glynis Johns, the Tony Award-winning star of A Little Night Music, also known for her role as the distracted suffragist mother Mrs. Banks in Mary Poppins, died on January 4 at an assisted li…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:24PMThe world's gonna know his name. Trey Curtis is set to star as the title character in Hamilton on Broadway, replacing Miguel Cervantes. Cervantes wil play his final performance on January 7 …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:06PMAfter Shrek the Musical opened on Broadway in 2008, playwright and lyricist David Lindsay-Abaire and composer Jeanine Tesori knew they wanted to collaborate on another project. When it came …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:06PMThe principal cast is set for The Who's Tommy. Ali Louis Bourzgui’s Tommy will be joined by Alison Luff as Mrs. Walker, Adam Jacobs as Captain Walker, John Ambrosino as Uncle Ernie, Bobby …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 09:36AMThe West End revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Sunset Boulevard, starring Nicole Scherzinger as faded film star Norma Desmond, is confirmed for a 2024 Broadway run. Scherzinger’s London c…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 09:36AMJames Monroe Iglehart first encountered the story of King Arthur and Excalibur through the Disney animated feature The Sword in the Stone. “You’ve heard this all your life,” Iglehart …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 09:36AMWednesday, January 3, 2024
Aaron Lazar, the SAG Award-winning Broadway actor, has been diagnosed with the neurodegenerative disease Ameotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (A.L.S.), also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease.
“I w…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:12PMThe complete cast is set for actor and comedian Cole Escola’s darkly ridiculous new comedy about Mary Todd Lincoln, Oh, Mary! The show, directed by Sam Pinkerton and starring Escola themse…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:06PMJonathan Bennett will make his Broadway debut in Spamalot in the role of the fearless (to a point) Sir Robin. The star will replace Michael Urie at the St. James Theatre from January 23-Apr…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:54PMTuesday, January 2, 2024
Nicole Parker’s heart will go on… again. The actress will reprise the role of Céline Dion in off-Broadway’s Titanique at the Daryl Roth Theatre, replacing current star Jackie Burns fo…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:12PMDancer, choreographer and actor Maurice Hines died of natural causes at the Actors Fund Home, an assisted living facility in Englewood, New Jersey, on December 29, 2023, according to Variety…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:02PMEvan Rachel Wood and Darren Criss are heading to Skid Row. The pair will star in the off-Broadway production of Little Shop of Horrors, stepping into the roles of downtrodden flower shop w…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:48AMIn the early 2000s—long before they got the attention of producer Rick Rubin and topped the Billboard charts with “Ain’t No Man”—the Avett Brothers were a scrappy young band forgin…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:48AMTuesday, December 26, 2023
Leslie Rodriguez Kritzer, Spamalot’s under-the-weather Lady of the Lake, is here to ceremonially grant viewers a behind-the-scenes glimpse of the musical comedy now playing at the St. Jame…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:02AMThursday, December 21, 2023
The MacArthur Fellow, Pulitzer finalist, teacher and playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins creates work that uproariously entertains even as it shocks and discomfits. Appropriate, his Broadway …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:02PMThe West End reimagining of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Sunset Boulevard, starring Nicole Scherzinger as faded film star Norma Desmond, is eyeing a Broadway transfer as soon as November 2024, ac…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:48PMWednesday, December 20, 2023
Toby Stephens and Saffron Burrows will lead the cast of Corruption, a new play by Oslo playwright J.T. Rogers. They will be joined on stage by Tony nominee Dylan Baker, John Behlmann, A…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:12PM 
