Monday, September 23, 2024
Broadway's theaters will dim their marquee lights on September 26 to honor the memory of two-time Tony Award-winning actor James Earl Jones. Jones died on September 9 at the age of 93. The …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:12PMCasting is complete for the off-Broadway return of Teeth, the twisted musical comedy written by Anna K. Jacobs (book and music) and Michael R. Jackson (book and lyrics). After the sold-out,…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:12PMFriday, September 20, 2024
Last year, the Metropolitan Opera hosted a concert celebration of the music of composer Stephen Schwartz. Jeanine Tesori, composer of Broadway musicals including Fun Home and Kimberly Akimbo…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:48PMThe original West End cast recording for the new production of Sunset Boulevard, featuring Grammy Award nominee Nicole Scherzinger, is on the way. Sunset Blvd: The Album, recorded live on s…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:36AMThursday, September 19, 2024
In the original 1993 production of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Sunset Boulevard, the primary set, designed by John Napier, was the gilded rococo interior of a Hollywood mansion, replete with swe…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:32PMOh, Mary!, Cole Escola's riotous, ahistorical romp about First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln, is extending its Broadway run. The play, which began its Broadway engagement on June 26 at the Lyceum…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:48AMTony Award winner Danny Burstein has joined six-time Tony Award winner Audra McDonald in the upcoming revival of Gypsy in the role of the mild-mannered former talent agent Herbie. Perfo…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 09:48AMWednesday, September 18, 2024
The launch of Broadway’s fall season gets all the buzz but, as ever, some of the city’s must-see shows are taking place a bit farther afield. From the sublime to the sexy to the willfull…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:32PMLeana Rae Concepcion (Merrily We Roll Along) has joined The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts’ production of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. She will play the role…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:18PMThe North American tour of Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg’s Les Misérables has its cast for its third successive year on the road. The tour was relaunched in October 2022 at t…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:12PMRob McClure will depart the title role of Daniel Hillard/Euphegenia Doubtfire, the performance for which he was nominated for his second Tony nomination, in the national tour of Mrs. Doubtfi…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:12PMTuesday, September 17, 2024
Grammy Award winner Allison Russell will make her Broadway debut as Persephone in Hadestown. The Canadian roots artist, known for the albums Outside Child and The Returner, will begin perfor…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:12PMAcademy Award winner Brie Larson will make her West End debut in Sophocles’ tragedy Elektra, directed by Daniel Fish. Using a translation of the play by award-winning poet Anne Carson, the…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:12AMMonday, September 16, 2024
Anna Zavelson and Benji Santiago will make their Broadway debuts in the roles of Younger Allie and Younger Noah in The Notebook on Broadway. They take over for Jordan Tyson and John Card…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:36PMThe cast is complete for the national tour of Shucked. As previously reported, the tour will kick off at the Providence Performing Arts Center in Rhode Island on October 20 and play more tha…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:12PMStereophonic, the Tony-winning play about tense relations between the members of a '70s rock band, has extended for a final time through January 12, 2025 and announced new cast members. Ori…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:12PMThe 76th Primetime Emmy Awards were held on September 15 at Los Angeles' Peacock Theater, with a number of artists familiar to Broadway and New York theater audiences taking home awards.
Ac…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:12AMAlyssa Milano, best known for her TV roles on Who's the Boss, Melrose Place and Charmed, will make her Broadway debut as Roxie Hart in Chicago on September 16. She is set to play a limit…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:32AMFriday, September 13, 2024
Yellow Face, playwright David Henry Hwang's unreliable comic memoir starring Lost’s Daniel Dae Kim (The King and I), begins performances at the Todd Haimes Theatre on September 13. The pl…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:36AMThursday, September 12, 2024
New York’s hometown one-ring circus, The Big Apple Circus, is returning for its 47th year. The Big Top will be back at Lincoln Center’s Damrosch Park from November 8 to January 5, 2025.
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SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:02PMWicked: Part Two, starring Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande, will arrive in theaters earlier than planned. The second instalment of the highly anticipated two-part movie adaptation of the …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:42PMThe Blood Quilt, a new play by Pulitzer Prize winner Katori Hall, has its cast. The show will begin performances at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater on October 30, with an official opening set …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:36PMWednesday, September 11, 2024
On Broadway, back-to-school season means an influx of must-see shows destined to fill out your fall calendar. The next few months promise a mixture of original plays and musicals, beloved re…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:24PMAcademy Award winner Brendan Fraser will star in the world premiere of Grangeville, reuniting with The Whale writer Samuel D. Hunter. The two-hander, also starring Tony nominee Brian J. Smi…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:24PMTuesday, September 10, 2024
Lear deBessonet has been named Artistic Director of Lincoln Center Theater. She replaces André Bishop, who concludes his 33-year tenure at the end of the 2024-25 season, while LCT resident …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:24PMMonday, September 9, 2024
Broadway casting is complete for Maybe Happy Ending, the new romantic musical comedy about robots starring Darren Criss and Helen J Shen. Performances begin at the Belasco Theatre on Oct…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:42PMJocelyn Bioh has been named the 2024 winner of the Horton Foote Prize for her play Jaja’s African Hair Braiding. The Tony-nominated playwright will be honored at a private celebration at N…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:42PMThe 2024 Creative Arts Emmy Awards were held at Los Angeles' Peacock Theater on September 7 and 8, with the songwriting duo Benj Pasek and Justin Paul achieving EGOT status, having won all f…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:18PMA new show celebrating the 20th anniversary of the original Broadway musical Hairspray and reuniting three of its stars will play New World Stages. Mama I’m a Big Girl Now!, starring Maris…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:18PMThursday, September 5, 2024
Hannah Shankman will play Fanny Brice in the national tour of Funny Girl. She takes over the role from Katerina McCrimmon beginning September 24 in Seattle, WA.
Shankman was previously the…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:24PMThe cast list for Warriors, the upcoming concept album from Lin-Manuel Miranda and Eisa Davis, based on the 1979 film The Warriors, continues to expand in the lead-up to its October 18 re…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:24PM 
