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Monday, August 25, 2025

The Summer She Turned Mary: Jinkx Monsoon on Oh, Mary!, Her Broadway Reign and a Killer Theme Song by Mara Reinstein

Jinkx Monsoon had big plans to do absolutely nothing for the second half of the summer. After all, the talented two-time winner of RuPaul’s Drag Race had already spent 2025 performing in h…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:54PM

Monday, August 11, 2025

Burke Swanson Watched Stranger Things in the Dark, Now He’s Lighting Up Broadway by Mara Reinstein

Life can be strange. Consider: Less than a decade after Burke Swanson first binged Netflix’s sci-fi smash Stranger Things on the couch with his sister, he’s on stage at the Marquis Theat…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:42PM

Monday, July 21, 2025

Taye Diggs, Moulin Rouge!'s Next Duke, Isn't Willing to Let Broadway Go by Mara Reinstein

Wait, can this be true? It’s been a full decade since Taye Diggs last appeared on Broadway?! For what it’s worth, he can’t believe it either. “I spent so much time being excited to c…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:06PM

Tuesday, July 15, 2025

10 Fascinating Facts About Chess to Know Ahead of Its Broadway Revival by Mara Reinstein

It’s a game. It’s a battlefield. It’s a musical with, ahem, a checkered past. Yes, it’s Chess—and it’s coming to Broadway for the first time since 1988. The revival, starring Aa…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:36PM

Tuesday, June 10, 2025

Jamie Wax on Call Me Izzy, the One-Woman Show He Built from a Lifetime of Talking to Strangers by Mara Reinstein

Some people collect baseball cards and stamps. Playwright Jamie Wax boasts that he collects people. People’s stories, that is. “Ever since I was a little boy, odd and interesting peopl…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:12PM

Wednesday, May 21, 2025

Tony Nominees Glenn Davis, Harry Lennix and Jon Michael Hill Dig Into Family, Faith and Fallout in Broadway's Purpose by Mara Reinstein

It’s perfectly OK if you didn’t line up in the bitter cold outside the Helen Hayes Theater this past winter to catch some of those early performances of Purpose. But now that the play ha…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:03PM

Tuesday, April 15, 2025

10 Things You Need to Know About Bobby Darin Ahead of Broadway’s Just in Time by Mara Reinstein

“Splish Splash.” “Mack the Knife.” “Dream Lover.” No doubt Bobby Darin’s songs have been part of our cultural fabric for almost 70 years. But beyond the hits, Darin was a chari…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:48PM

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