Tuesday, October 24, 2023
It’s a question that prospective leading ladies have been asking themselves for two decades now: Are you an Elphaba or a Glinda? The two witches — neither wicked, but both accessibly imp…
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 10:40AMWicked opened on Broadway on Halloween Eve 2003, just a few years into my tenure as music and theater critic at USA Today. I arrived at a press preview filled with hopeful anticipation, havi…
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 10:30AMTuesday, October 17, 2023
It was back in the late 1990s that pop icon Barry Manilow and lyricist and librettist Bruce Sussman first began work on a musical tracing the rise and fall of the Comedian Harmonists, a Germ…
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 11:30AMTuesday, April 27, 2021
As we look forward to seeing Broadway stars back on stage, they have continued to be recognized during this unusual awards season for their efforts on the big screen, in music, and on our TV…
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 12:18AMTuesday, April 13, 2021
On April 2, more than a year after the COVID pandemic forced the shutdown of all Broadway theaters, 150 lucky people filed into the St. James Theatre to enjoy a pair of short sets by Savion …
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 11:49AMTuesday, September 1, 2020
The theater community is facing an unprecedented obstacle this year in the form of COVID-19, the virus that shuttered Broadway last March and has proven equally devastating for the touring i…
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 12:44AMTuesday, June 23, 2020
The Tony Awards honoring the 2019-20 season were supposed to have been handed out on June 7 at Radio City Music Hall, in an annual ceremony that has been a joyous ritual since 1947 and has b…
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 12:11AMTuesday, April 21, 2020
It goes without saying that the theater industry has been particularly hard hit by the coronavirus pandemic. But stage folk have never been known to let a crisis get them down, and with New …
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 12:06AMTuesday, March 10, 2020
About a dozen years ago, when Duncan Macmillan wrote the foundation for what would become Lungs, the celebrated British playwright and director had not yet become a parent. But the subject w…
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 12:56AMWhen actress Claire Foy was sent a copy of Duncan Macmillan’s acclaimed play Lungs, “I absolutely loved it,” she remembers. “I thought it was extraordinary. But at the time, I’d be…
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 12:52AMMonday, February 10, 2020
Boy meets girl, boy forms rock group to impress girl, boy and girl embark on journeys of self-discovery, accompanied by friends and bandmates and exuberant song and dance. Welcome to Sing St…
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 07:56PMIf you’re wondering how John Carney and Gary Clark collaborated to craft songs for Sing Street — the music-packed 2016 film that became an acclaimed Off-Broadway musical and arrives on B…
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 07:48PMMonday, December 16, 2019
When orchestrator, arranger, and musical supervisor Alex Lacamoire met composer and lyricist Justin Paul for dinner back in 2013, Lacamoire recalls, a “mutual admiration society” was cre…
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 07:09PMMonday, December 2, 2019
Over the past decade, director Marianne Elliott has scored a string of critical and commercial triumphs bringing both highly original works—the Tony Award-winning plays War Horse and The C…
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 07:24PMIn recent years, Katrina Lenk has gained the attention of Broadway audiences — and a Tony Award. She originated roles in daring new works that premiered Off-Broadway and in regional theate…
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 11:10AMMonday, November 11, 2019
More than 35 years after winning the Pulitzer Prize for drama, Charles Fuller’s A Soldier’s Play is at long last headed to Broadway. The cast is led by a pair of veteran stage and screen…
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 07:22PMMonday, November 4, 2019
Three years ago this November, one of Broadway’s most beloved stars declared her own affection for the Great White Way with Kristin Chenoweth: My Love Letter to Broadway. It was a live con…
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 07:58PMTuesday, October 15, 2019
When Scottish stage and screen actor Brian Cox was first approached about playing American president Lyndon Baines Johnson in The Great Society, it was for a dramatic reading. Cox was wrappi…
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 02:09PMFriday, October 4, 2019
Harry Connick Jr. has gotten a kick out of Cole Porter’s music since he was a child piano prodigy. He discovered its essential role in jazz repertoire while he grew up in New Orleans — w…
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 10:51AMMonday, September 30, 2019
For the celebrated Irish playwright Conor McPherson, Girl From the North Country represents a number of firsts: his first musical, his first work set in the United States, and, oh yes, his f…
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 10:38PMShe’s a veteran stage and screen actress, a singer/songwriter, and she has several albums, two Emmy Awards, and Tony and Oscar nominations under her belt. He’s an eminent musician, compo…
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 09:10PMTuesday, August 27, 2019
As the fall theater season approaches, a number of popular and beloved productions are preparing to hit the road, bringing notable musicals from Broadway and beyond to a national audience. T…
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 05:31AMLong before they were cast as the two sisters who drive the plot of Disney’s Frozen in the new touring production of the musical, Caroline Bowman and Caroline Innerbichler were fans of the…
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 05:28AMTuesday, August 6, 2019
David Byrne — singer/songwriter, frontman of the groundbreaking band Talking Heads, author, composer, director — is poised to add another title to his collection: Broadway star. This fal…
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 06:51AMChoreographer Annie-B Parson says that in her latest work, the upcoming Broadway production American Utopia, “the music and dance are the protagonists.” And the leading players providing…
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 06:01AMThursday, June 13, 2019
It was “a strange twist of fate,” according to Tom Sturridge, that brought him together with fellow stage and film star Jake Gyllenhaal for the double bill of one-act plays Sea Wall/A Li…
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 05:41AMFive years ago, the British director Carrie Cracknell won praise in New York for a U.K.–based production of A Doll’s House, a fresh adaptation of Ibsen’s protofeminist play by Simon St…
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 05:30AMMonday, June 10, 2019
Veteran designers Ann Roth, Jennifer Tipton, and Christine Jones can claim more than 130 years of Broadway success combined, not to mention a vast array of other theater credits and work in …
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 02:42PMTuesday, May 21, 2019
Greek mythology, Shakespeare, the Constitution, Rupert Murdoch, old-school R&B, and a pair of beloved films from the 1980s were among the diverse sources of inspiration for 2019’s Tony…
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 09:40AMThis year’s Tony Award nominations for acting recognize a number of stage and screen stars — among them, Annette Bening, Jeff Daniels, Bryan Cranston, Adam Driver, Laurie Metcalf, and Ja…
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 09:20AM 
