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Friday, February 21, 2020

Grand Horizons' Priscilla Lopez on How to Tell If a Show Is Going to Be a Hit by Diep Tran

Last year, Tony-winning actor Priscilla Lopez got a call from Mandy Greenfield, the artistic director of the Williamstown Theatre Festival in Massachusetts. The summer theater was producing …

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:24PM

Tonight! Tonight! See Vanessa Hudgens, Alec Baldwin & More Celebrate the Opening Night of West Side Story by Diep Tran

The suns and moons and celebrities were all over the place for the West Side Story opening night. The new Broadway revival of the seminal musical opened on February 20 at the Broadway Thea…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:42PM
Thursday, February 20, 2020

Black Swan! Star Wars!: Get a First Look at the New Play All the Natalie Portmans by Diep Tran

The production photos have been released for All the Natalie Portmans by C.A. Johnson, a new off-Broadway play currently running at MCC Theater, and true to its name, there are multiple Na…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:36PM

Shark Actors Kevin Zambrano and Marc Crousillat on Why West Side Story Should Be Reinvented by Diep Tran

Kevin Zambrano may be making his Broadway debut playing a member of the Sharks gang in West Side Story, but this isn’t his first exposure to the iconic Stephen Sondheim, Arthur Laurents an…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:36PM
Wednesday, February 19, 2020

How West Side Story Then and Now Uses Music, Dance and Politics to Portray 'An Anthology of America' by Diep Tran

The West Side Story revival is about to open on Broadway and it promises to be entirely different from the versions that have come before it. For one, the show is no longer set in 1957. It…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 07:06PM

Something's Coming! Get a First Look at the New West Side Story Revival by Diep Tran

Something's coming, something good. The photos for the anticipated revival of West Side Story have been released, and it seems the Stephen Sondheim, Arthur Laurents and Leonard Bernstein c…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 07:06PM

See Ciara Renée and McKenzie Kurtz Take Their First Broadway Bows in Frozen by Diep Tran

The cold definitely did not bother Ciara Renée and McKenzie Kurtz on February 18, as they took their first Broadway bows as the new leads of Frozen. Renée replaced Caissie Levy as Elsa …

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:12PM
Tuesday, February 18, 2020

Corbin Bleu to Star in Catch Me If You Can in Washington, D.C. by Diep Tran

Corbin Bleu, last seen on Broadway in Kiss Me, Kate, is about to dance his way out of some white-collar crimes. Bleu will star as the conman Frank Abagnale Jr. in a production of Catch Me…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:36PM

Take a First Look at Katori Hall's Newest Play, The Hot Wing King at Off-Broadway's Signature Theatre by Diep Tran

Katori Hall is having a busy season. She's the book writer of Tina: The Tina Turner Musical on Broadway, and she has a world premiere play at off-Broadway's Signature Theatre. Titled The H…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:36PM

Krysta Rodriguez to Play Liza Minnelli in Ryan Murphy's Halston Series for Netflix by Diep Tran

Producer Ryan Murphy has released the first look at his upcoming Halston series on Netflix, starring Ewan McGregor as the famed fashion designer who designed for Jackie Kennedy and who the…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:36PM

Odds & Ends: Extensions for Gavin Creel and Sara Bareilles in Waitress and Happy Birthday Doug Off-Broadway by Diep Tran

Here's a quick roundup of stories you might have missed recently. Gavin Creel and Sara Bareilles Are Not Closing Up Shop Yet Tony-winning actor Gavin Creel and Tony-nominated composer Sara …

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:36PM

Bob Marley Musical, Get Up, Stand Up! to Open in London's West End in 2021 by Diep Tran

Let's get together and feel all right, because a new Bob Marley bio-musical is coming to the West End. The new show, titled Get Up, Stand Up! The Bob Marley Story, will begin previews at …

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:42PM

Frozen on Broadway to Incorporate New Song for Anna and Elsa by Diep Tran

On February 18, Frozen on Broadway will welcome its new royals, but that’s not the only thing new about the musical. Ciara Renée and McKenzie Kurtz will begin performances tonight as Els…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:42PM

Patti Murin and Colin Donnell Are Expecting a Baby Girl by Diep Tran

Patti Murin has left Frozen but she is about to step into something more exciting: motherhood. Murin and her husband, fellow actor Colin Donnell, are expecting their first child in July, …

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:42PM

Tony Yazbeck to Direct Concert Version of The Civil War in 2021 by Diep Tran

Tony Yazbeck may be known as a Tony-nominated actor but he's also foraying into directing. Next year, he will be directing The Civil War for Manhattan Concert Productions. The musical by …

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:42PM
Friday, February 14, 2020

How Beetlejuice's Adam Dannheisser Balances Playing a Dad in the Show and in Real Life by Diep Tran

The Beetlejuice cast album has just hit 200 million streams in the United States and 350 million streams globally, making it the most streamed cast album of the 2018-19 season. When Beetleju…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:48PM

It All Began Tonight: How Broadway.com Readers Found Love at the Theater by Diep Tran

We’ve all heard of showmances, that phenomenon that happens when two artists meet while doing a show and fall in real love. But there’s another phenomenon that happens just as often: two…

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

Take a First Look at the Off-Broadway Revival of Young Jean Lee's We're Gonna Die by Diep Tran

Who says death has to be depressing? We're Gonna Die by Young Jean Lee is currently running at Second Stage Theater. First written and performed in 2011 by Lee herself, this new version of…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:54PM

Broadway Producer Richie Jackson on His New Book Gay Like Me and Why the Battle for Gay Rights Isn't Over by Diep Tran

When Richie Jackson set out to write his book Gay Like Me, he decided to construct it as a letter to his openly gay teenage son. “I wanted to share with him what it means to be a gay man…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:54PM

See Joe Pantoliano and the Cast of the New Off-Broadway Play Drift by Diep Tran

The cast of the new off-Broadway play Drift met the press on January 12. The play by William Francis Hoffman is set in a 1950s blue-collar town, about a family filled with secrets that…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:18PM

We're Gonna Die Is an Uplifting Look at Mortality, with Songs by Diep Tran

During one moment in the off-Broadway play We’re Gonna Die, Janelle McDermoth sings the title song, which has the following lyrics: “I’m gonna die, I’m gonna die someday. Then I’ll…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:18PM
Tuesday, February 11, 2020

How Playwright Lauren Yee Took the Khmer Rouge Genocide and Turned It Into the Joyful Cambodian Rock Band by Diep Tran

When actor Joe Ngo was growing up, his parents would tell him stories about their time as labor camp prisoners under the Khmer Rouge regime. One story stuck with him. It was about the time t…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:12PM

See Laura Benanti, Ashley Park and Bobby Cannavale Celebrate at the Williamstown Theatre Festival Gala by Diep Tran

Williamstown Theatre Festival celebrated its annual gala on February 10 at Tao Downtown, on the same day it announced its 2020 production season (which includes an Audra McDonald-led revival…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:48PM
Thursday, February 6, 2020

'There’s a Lot of Screaming!' How The Woman in Black’s Stars Scare Audiences Every Night by Diep Tran

David Acton has acted in three productions of The Woman in Black: in the West End, the U.K. tour and now in the new version currently running off-Broadway at the Club Car at the McKittrick H…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 09:48PM

Shake Shack and Groceries: The Queens of Six Go Through a Typical Day in Episode 2 of Abby Mueller's Vlog by Diep Tran

“It’s another exciting day in the queendom,” says Six star Abby Mueller in the second episode of her vlog Yas, Queen. Mueller gives viewers a backstage look at a busy day in the life o…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:24PM
Wednesday, February 5, 2020

Royal Watch: See the Stars of Broadway's Diana Talk About Why the Late Princess Should Not Be 'Underestimated' by Diep Tran

Watch out Six, there are more royals heading to Broadway. On January 30, the cast and creative team of Diana gathered at the Lotte New York Palace Hotel to preview the new musical about t…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:36PM

How to Make a Feminist Dracula? Give Women the Stakes by Diep Tran

In Dracula at off-Broadway's Classic Stage Company, a woman walks onto the stage. She wears a cowboy hat and a red leather jacket. “Who are you?” asks one of the characters. She respond…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:36PM
Monday, February 3, 2020

The Inheritance's Carson McCalley on His Most Memorable Day Job: Teaching Dungeons & Dragons to Children by Diep Tran

Carson McCalley graduated from Carnegie Mellon University School of Drama in 2018. Now, he’s making his Broadway debut in Matthew Lopez’s two-part play The Inheritance, where he’s hel…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:54PM

Exclusive: Listen to Laura Linney Read the Audiobook of My Name Is Lucy Barton by Diep Tran

If you can't make it to Broadway to see four-time Tony nominee Laura Linney perform in My Name Is Lucy Barton, you're in luck! The audiobook of the one-woman play by Rona Munro, based on…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:12PM
Friday, January 31, 2020

To Kill a Mockingbird's Kyle Scatliffe on His Self-Care Routine and Talking to Neo-Nazis by Diep Tran

Kyle Scatliffe is currently starring on Broadway as Tom Robinson, the black man at the center of a trial in To Kill a Mockingbird. But he was actually in the play in 11th grade (in another v…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 07:18PM
Thursday, January 30, 2020

Bess Wohl Never Thought Her Play Grand Horizons Would Be on Broadway: 'I Was Thinking Like a F**king Female!' by Diep Tran

A little more than a year ago, playwright Bess Wohl was at the theater. She was seeing What the Constitution Means to Me by one of her friends, Heidi Schreck. She sat down in her seat and no…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 07:42PM

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