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Tuesday, February 18, 2020

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

Hello, Queendom! Get Inside the Six Rehearsal Room with the First Episode of Abby Mueller's Vlog by Diep Tran

"I'm one of those people in Times Square with a camera!" Six star Abby Mueller says in the very first episode of her Broadway.com vlog, Yas, Queen. Six, written by Toby Marlow and Lucy Mo…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:54PM
Wednesday, January 29, 2020

Matthew Amendt on How the New Off-Broadway Dracula Is More Ghostbusters Than Twilight by Diep Tran

Matthew Amendt made his stage debut when he was a baby. His mom was a high school drama teacher in Indiana, Pennsylvania (which is also Jimmy Stewart’s hometown). “I was the prop baby in…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:24PM
Tuesday, January 28, 2020

The Six Wives Club: Meet the Cast of the New Broadway Musical by Diep Tran

The Six queens greeted their subjects on January 28 at the Queensyard restaurant. The cast and creators of Six answered questions for the press and posed for photos. The new musical is a loo…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 07:36PM
Monday, January 27, 2020

See Andrew Barth Feldman Pass the Dear Evan Hansen Polo Shirt to Jordan Fisher by Diep Tran

An emotional Andrew Barth Feldman took his final bow as the titular character in Dear Evan Hansen on Broadway on January 26. Feldman made his Broadway debut in the role last year and is …

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:54PM
Friday, January 24, 2020

So, You Want to Be a Phan? The Ultimate Guide to The Phantom of the Opera Phandom by Diep Tran

Since 1988, The Phantom of the Opera has amazed Broadway fans with its mix of romance, melodrama, suspense and vocal acrobatics. Phantom celebrates its 32nd anniversary on Broadway on Janu…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:36PM

Family Matters: See the Cast of Grand Horizons in These Opening Night Portraits by Diep Tran

Grand Horizons, a new play by Bess Wohl, opened at Broadway's Helen Hayes Theatre on January 23. The comedy is about a longtime married couple, played by Jane Alexander and James Cromwell,…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:36PM
Thursday, January 23, 2020

Watch the Girl From the North Country Cast Perform 'Slow Train Coming' and Other Songs From the Show by Diep Tran

The cast of the upcoming Broadway musical Girl from the North Country met the press on January 22 at The Bitter End, the oldest rock 'n' roll club in New York and personal favorite venue of…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:42PM

Come From Away's Pearl Sun on Understudying Alice Ripley and Doing an Unusual Version of Cats by Diep Tran

Pearl Sun knows something about living on the edge. Since 2017, she's been the standby in Come From Away on Broadway where she memorized the stage blocking and lines for five characters, b…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:42PM
Tuesday, January 21, 2020

A Jet All the Way! See Co-Stars Dharon E. Jones and Isaac Powell Backstage at West Side Story by Diep Tran

Isaac Powell returned to West Side Story on Broadway on January 17. Powell plays the romantic lead Tony; he had to take a hiatus fro the show after incurring a knee injury in December.…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:24PM
Friday, January 17, 2020

How Shereen Pimentel Is Balancing West Side Story, Juilliard and Working with John Mulaney by Diep Tran

Age: 21 Hometown: Born in Manhattan, raised in Teaneck, New Jersey  Current Role: Maria, the lead in the Ivo van Hove-directed Broadway revival of West Side Story, the classic musical b…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:03PM

What's New! See the Cast of the Andrew Lloyd Webber Revue Unmasked in Rehearsal by Diep Tran

Mauricio Martinez, Mamie Parris, Alex Finke and the cast of Unmasked gave a preview of the new Andrew Lloyd Webber revue on January 16 at Open Jar Studios. The show, which shares a title …

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:03PM
Thursday, January 16, 2020

See Laura Linney and More on Opening Night of My Name Is Lucy Barton by Diep Tran

Laura Linney may be alone during the entirety of My Name Is Lucy Barton but she was not alone on the opening night red carpet. The one-woman show opened on Broadway on January 15, at the …

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 09:12PM

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