Wednesday, August 31, 2016
The second coming of David Javerbaum's hit comedy, AN ACT OF GOD, which first came to Broadway in May of 2015 with Jim Parsons in the title role, will be ending its blessed 14-week limited e…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:30PM[SHARE]Hosted by current WICKED on Broadway cast members Dawn E. Cantwell, who plays Nessarose, and Zachary Noah Piser, who plays Boq, the six-part podcast series, Inside WICKED Origin Stories puts…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:03PM[SHARE]Two-time Olivier Award winning playwright Simon Stephens was warmly welcomed to Broadway nearly two years ago when his THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME opened to great accla…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:03PM[SHARE]Summer is just about over and while to most people that means the beginning of the school year and watching the leaves turn magnificent colors, on Broadway it means it's time for the new sea…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:58PM[SHARE]Born outside Chicago and raised in the Westchester, NY village of Pleasantville, the talented performer with BA in Psychology from Yale University Ali Ewoldt made history this summer as the …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:22PM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 30, 2016
When Manhattan Theatre Club presented two-time Olivier Award winner Simon Stephens' HEISENBERG this past spring, director Mark Brokaw's production played at the intimate Off-Broadway space, …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:40PM[SHARE]For the 11th year, the Edinburgh Fringe Encore Series will be bringing some of the best of the year's festival productions to New York.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:39PM[SHARE]Along with the blaring burlesque trumpet that climaxes GYPSY's overture, the soft and hesitant sound of Fiddler on the Roof's opening fiddle solo that leads into Tevye's introduction of the …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:26PM[SHARE]The gang at Off-Broadway's AVENUE Q saw fit to honor Wilder with humor, recreating a classic moment from YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:21PM[SHARE]Charitybuzz's new online auction offers a chance to see Kristin Chenoweth in concert and meet her backstage.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:19PM[SHARE]Though Herschel Bernardi's name was above the title on the opening nights of Broadway's BAJOUR and ZORBA, the musical theatre role he's most known for is one where he came in as a replacemen…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:20PM[SHARE]President Barack Obama once quipped that HAMILTON is the only thing he and Dick Cheney can agree on.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:12PM[SHARE]Monday, August 29, 2016
Gene Wilder, who originated the role of Billy Bibbit in the original 1963 Broadway production of ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST and went on to star film classics like THE PRODUCERS, BLAZING…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:46PM[SHARE]It's a big week ahead for composerlyricist Shaina Taub, whose score for the Public Theater's Public Works production of a new musical adaptation of Shakespeare's TWELFTH NIGHT premieres this…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:09PM[SHARE]The single-panel satirist struck again this week with another skewering of the Broadway-bound codgers.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:32PM[SHARE]Now in its sixth year, The Public Theater's Mobile Shakespeare Unit is focused on bringing Shakespeare to non-traditional venues such as prisons, homeless shelters and centers for disadvanta…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:37PM[SHARE]RAISIN, adapted from Lorraine Hansberry's groundbreaking drama A RAISIN IN THE SUN, has not been frequently produced since winning the 1974 Tony Award for Best Musical.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:02PM[SHARE]Darren Criss, who came into the starring role in Hedwig AND THE ANGRY INCH as a replacement during its Broadway run, is very excited to be opening the musical's national tour in two very fam…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:18PM[SHARE]Te newest online auction from Charitybuzz offers a chance to meet the five-time Grammy nominee.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:20PM[SHARE]Beginning with its 2003 production of Shakespeare's PERICLES, Red Bull Theater has become one of Off-Broadway's most noted not-profit companiesspecializing in plays of heightened language. W…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:28PM[SHARE]Friday, August 26, 2016
It's been a busy week for Broadway's Brandon Victor Dixon as he takes over the role of Aaron Burr in Lin-Manuel Miranda's revolutionary smash, HAMILTON.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:31PM[SHARE]In the Music Circus production the role of Quasimodo is played by Deaf actor, John McGinty.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:31PM[SHARE]'My learning never stops,' THE COLOR PURPLE's Cynthia Ervio tells her Facebook followers. So even with all the awards and accolades, the West End and Broadway star takes her voice lessons ev…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:43PM[SHARE]The dynamic actor, singer and dancer Andre De Shields opened last night at Chicago's Victory Gardens Theater 2433 N. Lincoln Avenue in his own new play, CONFESSIONS OF A P.I.M.P., directed b…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:36PM[SHARE]Don't be surprised if the name Theodosia starts popping up on birth certificates with alarming frequency in the next few years, thanks to the beautiful ballad 'Dear Theodosia,' sung by Aaron…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:25PM[SHARE]A new art installation for the Broadway Pedestrian Plaza between 43rd and 44th Streets consists of three X-shaped outdoor loungers custom designed for Times Square,
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:28PM[SHARE]Like no other writer of his era, Langston Hughes, through his poetry, prose and plays, captured the essence of the early 20th Century's Harlem Renaissance.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:26PM[SHARE]America wasn't quite loving Lucy yet in 1933 when she purchased a home in West Hollywood after signing up with RKO. Heck, Lucy wasn't even loving Desi yet, as the pair wouldn't meet until th…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:22AM[SHARE]If the plot and characters of Leslye Headland new drama THE LAYOVER appear to be contemporary versions of some old film noir feature you used to watch so often on VHS that the images on the …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:21AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 25, 2016
While OH, HELLO's Gil Faizon and George St. Geegland, the comedy alter egos of Nick Kroll Comedy Central's 'Kroll Show' and John Mulaney Netflix's 'The Comeback Kid', may seem like highly cu…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:43PM[SHARE]After making his initial Broadway appearances in ASPECTS OF LOVE and JEKYLL amp HYDE, Brad Oscar's breakthrough Tony-nominated performance as demanding playwright Franz Liebkind in THE PRODU…
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