Thursday, January 11, 2024
In the 2004 film version of Nicholas Sparks’ The Notebook, director Nick Cassavetes had two pairs of actors play out the love story between brooding millworker Noah Calhoun and wealthy Sou…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:42AMWednesday, January 10, 2024
One month from now, The Summer I Turned Pretty star Lola Tung will be traversing the underworld as the latest Eurydice in Anaïs Mitchell’s Tony-winning musical Hadestown at the Walter Ke…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:24PMTuesday, January 9, 2024
Roundabout Theatre Company has set its slate of productions for the 2024-25 theatrical season—the company's first season planned by Interim Artistic Director Scott Ellis following the pass…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:24PMMonday, January 8, 2024
Tony nominee Derek Klena will reprise his performance as the Bohemian poet Christian in Moulin Rouge! The Musical! beginning on February 6 at Broadway’s Al Hirschfeld Theatre. Klena takes…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:32PMPurple Rain, Prince’s 1984 musical film, is being adapted for the stage with production details to be announced in the coming months. Based on the original screenplay by William Blinn and …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 09:18AMThursday, January 4, 2024
The Broadway-bound musical Smash will begin the next leg of its development this month. With its sights set on a 2024-25 season production, director/choreographer Susan Stroman will lead a s…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:06PMBroadway lovers salivate over a new score they can add to the ever-expanding soundtrack of their lives. But more than that, they relish a new piece of lore—a nugget of history that binds a…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:54PMBroadway electricians don’t necessarily want audiences dissecting every bit of stage magic they engineer. Nevertheless, it’s important to know that behind every awe-inspiring technical f…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:48AMOver a decade ago, Liana Hunt made her Broadway debut at the Winter Garden Theatre as Sophie in the long-running ABBA musical Mamma Mia! In a fittingly thematic turn, Hunt is back at the Win…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:42AMWednesday, January 3, 2024
A Sign of the Times, a new musical featuring hits by Petula Clark, Lesley Gore, Dusty Springfield and other popular artists of the 1960s, will follow its limited off-Broadway engagement with…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:06PMThursday, December 28, 2023
Broadway dancers make their work look effortless, but it takes a village to keep a performer healthy enough to get on stage eight times a week. MJ The Musical—featuring Christipher Wheeldo…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:06PMAlli Mauzey has been donning her double arm casts as Kimberly Akimbo’s quirky matriarch Pattie for over a year now at Broadway’s Booth Theatre. As a five-time Broadway veteran who launch…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 09:54AMFriday, December 22, 2023
Mind Mangler: A Night of Tragic Illusion will end its off-Broadway run at New World Stages on January 28, 2024 ahead of its originally intended March closing. The production plans to have a …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:42AMThursday, December 21, 2023
The Book of Mormon reunion we waited over a decade for is coming to an end on January 28. For the past three months, Andrew Rannells and Josh Gad have repurposed their infectious onstage par…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:48PMIt’s impossible to count all the moving pieces that keep the wheels of Broadway turning, and ushers are some of the most inconspicuous contributors.
The Broadway Show correspondent Perry …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:54AMTony Award winner Kristin Chenoweth will celebrate the life of Roundabout Theatre Company’s late artistic director and chief executive, Todd Haimes, in a special benefit concert, Kristin: …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:54AM“There is no place I would rather be in the world than on Broadway,” says Kevin Cahoon to The Broadway Show correspondent Charlie Cooper. “And I don’t just mean as a performer.”
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SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:54AMThursday, December 14, 2023
In the span of a decade, Jordan Fisher has made a seamless transition from Disney kid to Broadway star.
He launched his career on Disney Channel, showing off his vocal chops on the comedy s…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:18PMMoulin Rouge! The Musical is Broadway’s sparkling diamond—a glittering display of opulence that makes it one of the most sensorially satisfying productions in New York City.
Catherine Z…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:06AMFriday, December 8, 2023
Nearly 50 years into a Broadway career, Milwaukee native Chip Zien (born “Jerome Herbert Zien”) took the pandemic as a moment to start stepping back from the stage. So he tells Broadway.…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:18PMThursday, December 7, 2023
After over a year on Broadway, Some Like It Hot takes its final bow at Broadway’s Shubert Theatre on December 30. Based on the classic 1959 film, the musical features a jazzy score by Marc…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:06PMThursday, November 30, 2023
Ayana Jackson is approaching her two-year anniversary with the cast of MJ The Musical as Jackson family matriarch, Katherine Jackson. This week, The Broadway Show is looking back on her cont…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:12AMWednesday, November 22, 2023
“If you want to write musical theater, you have to create history.”
Only a legend like Harold Prince could pull off such a stately and inscrutable aphorism. But it’s sentiments like t…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:12PMThursday, November 16, 2023
Stephen Sondheim’s legacy is in good hands this season. Thomas Kail’s Tony-nominated revival of Sweeney Todd has extended its life with a top-tier pair of new stars; Sondheim’s final …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:24PMMonday, November 13, 2023
A lot of artists, especially the ones working in live theater, made big pandemic career pivots. Only for LaChanze could such a pivot summon two Tony Awards.
LaChanze—an award-winning stag…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:02AMThursday, November 9, 2023
There’s something about Harmony that breeds relentless commitment. Barry Manilow and Bruce Sussman, the musical’s co-authors, have been working for nearly 30 years to get the piece to Br…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 09:54AMThursday, November 2, 2023
Betty Who strikes an imposing figure on the Walter Kerr stage. She’s 6’1” without help. And boosted by the verdant goddess Persephone’s heels and hair, she estimates her final height…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:42AMMonday, October 30, 2023
Costume designer Susan Hilferty could measure Wicked’s life in the Broadway production’s she’s worked on since building the wardrobe of Oz—15. She could also measure it in the Tony n…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:33AMSunday, October 29, 2023
John Dossett and Michele Pawk don’t wear their resumes on their sleeves—or their décor. The spouses of nearly 20 years have over 30 Broadway credits and a Tony Award between them. But t…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:19AMFriday, October 27, 2023
The countdown to Wicked’s 20th birthday on Monday, October 30 continues with a backstage tour of the Gershwin Theatre, courtesy of the musical’s resident Boq, Jake Pedersen.
Pedersen, w…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:07PMWicked celebrates its 20th Broadway birthday on Monday, October 30—and as part of The Broadway Show’s all-green episode, correspondent Perry Sook went backstage to hear from the person w…
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