I Have A Crush On Freedom Riders: The Civil Rights Musical Dear World, I saw Freedom Riders tonight and I'm in lurve. This docu-musical tackles the subject of the 1961 Freedom Rides, which w…
SOURCE: www.yesbroadway.com at 08:08AM36 Questions Starring #Groffsauce is a Podcast Musical! Now, THIS is cool. Composers Ellen Winter and Chris Littler are exploring unchartered territory: musicals that are designed to be list…
SOURCE: www.yesbroadway.com at 10:59AMYesBroadway founder and "Curator-in-Chief" Sam Maher recently interviewed Broadway and Hollywood A-Listers about their crazy and hilarious audition stories for a video series by Vogue.com. F…
SOURCE: www.yesbroadway.com at 11:26AMThe 2017 Tony Awards introduced the world to Dear Evan Hansen and memorialized some incredible performances that happened on Broadway this year. Here are 8 must-see moments from the broadcas…
SOURCE: www.yesbroadway.com at 10:11PMPhotos: Behind-The-Scenes on the Tony Awards Red Carpet Dear Evan Hansen's Ben Platt and his mom arrive on the red c…
SOURCE: www.yesbroadway.com at 05:17PMFaces of #EduHam Every few weeks, the producers of Hamilton team up with The Rockefeller Foundation, The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, and the NYC Department of Education to …
SOURCE: www.yesbroadway.com at 12:43PM40 Under 40: Broadway (2017) by the YesBroadway team: Sam Maher, Brookelynn Mason, Annie Schiffmann, Tom Coppola, and Gianluca Russo LOOKING FOR THE 2018 40 UNDER 40? Click here. YesBroadwa…
SOURCE: www.yesbroadway.com at 10:24AM7 Reasons You Need The Falsettos Cast Recording In Your Life by Tom Coppola Ghostlight Records recently released the sublime Broadway revival cast recording of Falsettos. The show has been …
SOURCE: www.yesbroadway.com at 11:19AMMy 54 Below Debut & How Taylor Swift Helped Make It Reality Hi, nice to meet you, I’m Tyler Conroy. You may have a few questions: What’s 54 Below? Who’s Tyler Conroy? and tell m…
SOURCE: www.yesbroadway.com at 08:10AMFor those who don't know, Glee's Amber Riley is over in London performing as Effie in Dreamgirls on the West End. The production is rumored to be heading to Broadway. Until then, check out t…
SOURCE: www.yesbroadway.com at 07:09AMSam hangs with Tedra "Teddi" Millan from Broadway's Present Laughter and last year's The Wolves Off-Broadway. Why is he getting soccer and British accent lessons from her? Watch the video to…
SOURCE: www.yesbroadway.com at 03:55PMGrab some popcorn, slide on your sweatpants, and enjoy these curated Broadway-related YouTube videos...or just put them on at the office to help you get through the workday! Let's start with…
SOURCE: www.yesbroadway.com at 01:06AMWe can't deal with these adorable Broadway couples, all of which you can follow on Instagram. Like, do they sing and dance together at home? Either way, #relationshipgoals! Ricky Ubeda &am…
SOURCE: www.yesbroadway.com at 01:51PM1844 William Harrigan, half of the iconic 1880s writing and performing team of Harrigan and Hart, is born today. He and Tony Hart will create the popular Mulligan Guards characters reflectin…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM1919 Frank McGlyn is Abraham Lincoln in John Drinkwater's drama. The story follows Lincoln's life from 1860 to his assassination in 1865. There will be 193 performances at the Cort T…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM1885 Birthday of Brock Pemberton (1885-1950), producer of many Broadway plays and comedies during a 30-year career, including the original Harvey, Miss Lulu Bett, Six Characters in S…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM1902 There will be two debuts in Everyman. Edith Wynne Matthison makes her American debut, and Charles Rann Kennedy makes his stage debut.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM1893 Oscar Wilde gets his second Broadway production in a year with the U.S. premiere of his play A Woman of No Importance at Miner's Fifth Avenue Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM1901 Sadie Martinot, Guy Bates Post, and Junius Brutus Booth play The Marriage Game. This drama, adapted by Clyde Fitch from Emile Augier's Le Marriage d'Olympe, highlights what ruin…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM1902 Birthday of actress Margaret Hamilton, who will appear on Broadway in plays including The Farmer Takes a Wife, The Dark Tower, Goldilocks and a revival of Our Town, but who will forever…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM1903 Mam'selle Napoleon is Anna Held in this musical at the Knickerbocker Theatre. Produced by Held's husband Florenz Ziegfeld, with a score by Gustav Luders, this show will have a 4…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM1879 Composer Rudolf Friml (1879-1972) is born in Prague. He will emigrate to the U.S. and become one of the top Broadway operetta composers of the 1910s and 1920s. His works will includ…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM1888 One of Frances Hodgson Burnett's greatest successes opens today: Little Lord Fauntleroy starring Tommy Russell. The story of a American boy who discovers he's the heir to a Brit…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM1912 The Firefly sparks the Lyric Theatre with music by Rudolf Friml and lyrics and book by Otto Harbach. This tale of an Italian street singer who disguises herself as a boy to be near the …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM1849 Birthday of author Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849-1924), author of several Broadway plays in the early the 20th century, including Little Lord Fauntleroy, The Little Princess, The Pr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM1920 In Rollo's Wild Oat, the title character rents a theatre and hires actors so he can star in Hamlet. Roland Young has the lead in this Clare Kummer play.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM1937 Ethel Barrymore and Dudley Digges star in The Ghost of Yankee Doodle. Written by Sidney Howard, the play deals with a woman pacifist whose industrialist family stands to profit from sel…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:37AM1694 Birthday of French author François Marie Arouet, better known as Voltaire (1694-1778) whose satirical novel "Candide" served as source material for the 1956 Leo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM1922 The Lucky One is the brother who doesn't get the girl in this A. A. Milne play. Staged at the Theatre Guild by Theodore Komisarjevsky with a cast including Dennis King, Romney Brent…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:30AM1906 George Arliss and Mrs. Fiske star in The New York Idea, Langdon Mitchell's play which runs 66 performances at the Lyric Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM1836 Birthday of satirist William S. Gilbert, later to achieve immortality as the lyricist half of the Gilbert & Sullivan operetta-writing team that produced The Mikado, The Pira…
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