Wednesday, December 17, 2014
If you need some new tunes to get you in the holiday spirit (or a last-minute gift), many of Broadway’s biggest names have released albums with their twists on holiday classics. Here a…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 12:56PMSomething Rotten!, a new musical set in Shakespearean times, will open on Broadway this spring at the St. James Theater, beginning previews March 23 with an opening date of April 22, just be…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 12:34PMA lot happened on Broadway this year. Emmy winner Bryan Cranston shed his drug-dealing ways from Breaking Bad to shine through as LBJ in All the Way – a performance that added a Tony to hi…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 11:28AMFriday, December 12, 2014
Side Show, the reimagined revival of the 1997 musical about the real-life conjoined twins and vaudeville performers Daisy and Violet Hilton, will end its Broadway run at the St. James Theatr…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 10:00AMThursday, December 11, 2014
Did you ever watch a magician pull a rabbit out of a hat or saw a woman in half and think, “If I knew their secrets, I could do that, too.” What a cool job it would be — touring th…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 10:23AMWednesday, December 10, 2014
Tickets are now on sale to see the amazing modern dance performances from the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater at New York City Center. Every December, the Alvin Ailey team takes up resi…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 02:33PMTony winner Laura Benanti (Gypsy) will headline the New York Spring Spectacular at Radio City Musical Hall, along with the world-famous Rockettes, from March 12 to May 3, 2015. Benantia will…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 01:44PMTuesday, December 9, 2014
Grammy winner Jennifer Nettles will make her Broadway debut as Roxie Hart in the long-running revival of Chicago at the Ambassador Theater from Feb. 2, 2015 to March 29. She made the announc…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 03:38PMLove Letters, A.R. Gurney’s two-character play featuring revolving casts, will close its Broadway run at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre on Dec. 14. The show was originally scheduled to run th…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 12:44PMMonday, December 8, 2014
The Elephant Man, Bernard Pomerance’s 1977 play about the real-life story of John Merrick, a hideously deformed young man who becomes the toast of Victorian society, opened at the Booth Th…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 12:48PMSunday, December 7, 2014
The Elephant Man, starring Bradley Cooper, officially opens tonight on Broadway. Based on a true story, Cooper stars as John Merrick, a disfigured man who was part of a carnival sides…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 10:00AMFriday, December 5, 2014
The Illusionists: Witness the Impossible, the international hit magic show, opened at the Marquis Theatre, on Dec. 4 for a strictly-limited six-week engagement through Jan. 4, 2015 as part…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 11:52AMThursday, December 4, 2014
Two-time Tony winner Katie Finneran and Maulik Pancholy (30 Rock) will join the cast of It’s Only a Play, Terrence McNally’s hit backstage comedy, on Jan. 7, 2015. Finneran will assume t…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 12:51PMTickets are now on sale to see Helen Mirren star as Queen Elizabeth II on Broadway in The Audience. Oscar and Emmy winner Mirren returns to Broadway fresh from the play’s triumphant …
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 10:41AMWhen the world “inspiring” is used to describe Broadway shows, it’s usually being used to refer to the performances on stage. Yet it’s the words of those songs – no…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 10:02AMEmmy nominee Anna Chlumsky (Veep, My Girl) and Emmy winner Richard Thomas (The Waltons) will join the cast of the revival of You Can’t Take It With You, George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart’s…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 09:43AMThe magic show The Illusionists officially opens tonight on Broadway. The Broadway performances are part of a 30-city worldwide tour by seven very different performers. All bring their own s…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 09:15AMMonday, December 1, 2014
Principal cast members have been announced for the musical version of Doctor Zhivago, based on Boris Pasternak’s Nobel Prize-winning novel, set to begin preview performances March 27, 2015…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 03:40PMTuesday, November 25, 2014
Several Broadway shows will be closing soon after the new year, from Tony winning musicals to classic plays starring some big household names. Here’s a rundown of shows set to have the fin…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 02:49PMMonday, November 24, 2014
Rock star Sting will be returning to Broadway in his musical The Last Ship for a limited run from Dec. 9 to Jan. 10, 2015 at the Neil Simon Theatre. The announcement was made live on NBC’s…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 05:24PMThe Heart of Robin Hood, a new play by David Farr, will begin previews at the Marquis Theatre on March 10, 2015 with an opening scheduled for March 29 for a limited engagement through Aug. 2…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 04:49PMJosh Kaufman grew up in a musical family where everyone sang. In fact, his mother was a song writer. And little Josh sang in church from the time he was four. “My mother would write songs …
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 03:49PMFriday, November 21, 2014
Now appearing in Ayad Akhtar’s Pulitzer-Prize winning Disgraced on Broadway, Karen Pittman dazzles in the supporting but pivotal role of Jory, a fiercely ambitious lawyer whose personal an…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 05:32PMTickets are now on sale to see Larry David make his Broadway debut as both a writer and an actor in Fish in the Dark. David is, of course, creator and star of HBO’s hit series Curb Your En…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 03:59PMHoliday shopping need not be stressful. Nor should it require standing in line at the mall to buy your loved ones yet another sweater. We already offered up some New York experiences that ma…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 02:57PMA Delicate Balance, Edward Albee’s Pulitzer Prize-winning 1966 drama, opened at the Golden Theatre on Nov. 20 for a limited run through Feb. 22, 2015. Pam MacKinnon, who won a Tony for hel…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 10:20AMThursday, November 20, 2014
John Cameron Mitchell will don his massive wig again when he returns to play the title role in Hedwig and the Angry Inch. Mitchell first played Hedwig, a German transgender wanna-be rock sta…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 04:45PMOscar nominee Bradley Cooper is now wowing audiences on Broadway by physically transforming eight times a week in The Elephant Man. Cooper plays John Merrick, a man wracked with physical def…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 04:06PMBroadway will pay tribute to legendary stage and film director Mike Nichols on Fri. Nov. 21 at 7:45 p.m. when the marquees will be dimmed for one minute. Nichols, who died on Wed. Nov. 19 at…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 03:44PMEdward Albee’s A Delicate Balance, starring Glenn Close and John Lithgow, officially opens tonight on Broadway. Tony winners Close and Lithgow star as a wealthy couple Agnes and Tobia…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 12:41PMTuesday, November 18, 2014
The rock party will soon be over. Rock of Ages, the long-running musical celebrating the music of the 1980s and performed in a concert-like atmosphere at the Helen Hayes Theatre, will conclu…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 04:26PM 
