How a Black lieutenant, a gay kiss and a catless ballroom are helping reclaim Broadway classics.
SOURCE: The New York Times SubscriptionOf the new musicals slated for the 2024-25 Broadway season, Redwood has the greatest air of mystery. It’s a brand-new title with a brand-new score, and not only brings Tony winner Idina Me…
SOURCE: Broadway.comThe veteran British actress shines in a new revival that is the musical theater highlight of the West End summer.
SOURCE: The New York Times SubscriptionCritics slammed the idea of “restricting audiences on the basis of race,” but at a recent performance, Black spectators praised producers for creating a safe space.
SOURCE: The New York Times SubscriptionBroadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS Executive Director Tom Viola is retiring from the philanthropic nonprofit organization after 36 years. Viola will retire at the end of 2024 and will be su…
SOURCE: The Hollywood ReporterThe renowned Harlem theater will be the first institution to receive the honor. Artists being recognized are Bonnie Raitt, Arturo Sandoval and the Grateful Dead.
SOURCE: The New York Times SubscriptionThe actor Krysta Rodriguez has found an avid audience for her new side business: creating dramatic interiors.
SOURCE: The New York Times SubscriptionAlongside Colman Domingo and Paul Raci, ex-inmates shot “Sing Sing” in a decommissioned correctional facility. Then came the screening in the actual prison.
SOURCE: The New York Times SubscriptionThree-time Tony nominee Carolee Carmello will play Kimberly in the national tour of Kimberly Akimbo. As previously announced, the national tour will kick off in Denver, Colorado on September…
SOURCE: Broadway.comThe Kennedy Center's upcoming production of the Maury Yeston-Arthur Kopit musical Nine, starring Steven Pasquale as Guido Contini, has its complete cast. Directed by Andy Blankenbuehler, …
SOURCE: Broadway.comThe emerging field of dance neuroscience is finding that dance, with its multifaceted demands, engages the mind as intensively as the body.
SOURCE: The New York Times SubscriptionA theater director and playwright were sentenced to prison, a stark indication of the increasing suppression of free speech since Russia’s attack on Ukraine, their lawyers and critics say.
SOURCE: The New York Times SubscriptionCole Escola is dressing the part of a red-carpet star after achieving a new level of fame as the star of the play “Oh, Mary!”
SOURCE: The New York Times SubscriptionYears before they ascended to influential leadership roles, they worked at the Public Theater and became cheerleaders for each other’s professional dreams.
SOURCE: The New York Times SubscriptionGrégory Milan, who works with Biles and the French national team, has found a home in gymnastics, though his pure dance background is unusual in the sport.
SOURCE: The New York Times SubscriptionAfter a tremendous “Swan Lake” performance, Chloe Misseldine was promoted onstage at the Metropolitan Opera House. The audience went nuts.
SOURCE: The New York Times SubscriptionThe playwright Jeremy O. Harris’s “Slave Play. Not a Movie. A Play.” wears its intellectual references on its sleeve.
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SOURCE: The New York Times SubscriptionThe model-turned-actress-turned-businesswoman is the new president of Actors’ Equity. In an interview, she explained what she’s doing there.
SOURCE: The New York Times SubscriptionJonathan Tunick, Stephen Sondheim’s longtime collaborator, unveiled a grand orchestration of “A Little Night Music” that deserves more than a concert.
SOURCE: The New York Times SubscriptionFifty years ago, Baryshnikov defected from the Soviet Union. He discusses that day, the war in Ukraine and the challenges facing Russian artists today.
SOURCE: The New York Times SubscriptionThe organization, which won this year’s best play revival Tony Award for “Appropriate,” has chosen Evan Cabnet as its next artistic director.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription“BOOP! The Betty Boop Musical” had a run in Chicago late last year. It is slated to open at a Shubert theater in April.
SOURCE: The New York Times SubscriptionAfter it closes at the Nederlander Theatre, the rock musical will launch a national tour.
SOURCE: Playbill“The Who’s Tommy,” which has a rock score by Pete Townshend, will end on July 21. A national tour is in the works.
SOURCE: The New York Times SubscriptionThe awards, which celebrated excellence in high school musical theater on Monday, have become a launchpad for future stars and Tony nominees.
SOURCE: The New York Times SubscriptionThe play will be produced by Second Stage, which is also planning an Off Broadway production of a two-character drama by Donald Margulies.
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SOURCE: The New York Times SubscriptionAs the most devoted fans of musicals will tell you, the best way to appreciate a musical is probably to listen to its cast album (click here to check out my BroadwayRadio colleague Michael …
SOURCE: Broadway & MeHe left a career in tech and found success as a producer, winning four Tonys. His mission: staging productions about underrepresented communities.
SOURCE: The New York Times SubscriptionThe English actor was injured during a performance of “Player Kings,” and the show was abruptly canceled. He is expected to perform again on Wednesday.
SOURCE: The New York Times SubscriptionAfter an $80 million expansion, the Folger Shakespeare Library is reopening with a more welcoming approach — and all 82 of its First Folios on view.
SOURCE: The New York Times SubscriptionAbout three-quarters of the way through every performance of David Adjmi’s Tony-winning play Stereophonic, two characters – Holly, the British keyboardist/vocalist (played by Juliana Can…
SOURCE: DeadlineBAM, which has faced cutbacks in recent years, unveiled a reorganization as it announced its Next Wave Festival for the fall.
SOURCE: The New York Times SubscriptionMaria and Sonia Friedman discussed their long history with “Merrily We Roll Along,” after a bittersweet Tony Awards.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription“The Heart of Rock and Roll” is the first new Broadway musical to announce a closing plan following Sunday’s Tony Awards.
SOURCE: The New York Times SubscriptionAs part of a wave of reimagined Andrew Lloyd Webber musicals, a new revival of “Cats” unfolds as a ballroom competition.
SOURCE: The New York Times SubscriptionUPDATE, with League statement: Actors’ Equity Association, the labor union representing more than 51,000 professional actors and stage managers in live theatre, will cease issuing contract…
SOURCE: DeadlineThe two stars brought down the house with “Empire State of Mind,” their 2009 love song to New York City, which they had recorded earlier on a grand marble staircase outside the auditoriu…
SOURCE: The New York Times SubscriptionThe two stars brought down the house with “Empire State of Mind,” their 2009 love song to New York City, which they performed on a grand marble staircase outside the auditorium.
SOURCE: The New York Times SubscriptionAlicia Keys and Jay-Z’s high-wattage performance was a highlight, as were first-time wins for Kecia Lewis, Jonathan Groff and David Adjmi.
SOURCE: The New York Times SubscriptionNo awards show makes it to the end without a few surprises, and tonight’s Tony Awards on CBS had a whopper: It went off without a hitch. The Pluto TV pre-show, not so much. But more on tha…
SOURCE: DeadlineThe musical by Stephen Sondheim follows the implosion of a three-way friendship in reverse chronological order.
SOURCE: The New York Times SubscriptionThe gregarious performer who loves and is loved by Broadway picked up a trophy for best leading actor in a musical.
SOURCE: The New York Times SubscriptionThe gritty, bloody and relentlessly youthful musical features some of the most effectively vivid violence seen on a Broadway stage.
SOURCE: The New York Times SubscriptionIt was the fifth award of the night for the production, a meditation on the joy and torture of creative collaboration.
SOURCE: The New York Times SubscriptionThe Tony Awards begin on Sunday at 8 p.m. E.T., live from Lincoln Center’s David H. Koch Theater.
SOURCE: The New York Times SubscriptionWhitney White will direct the first Broadway production of Jason Robert Brown’s popular musical, which plans to open next spring.
SOURCE: The New York Times SubscriptionAs Broadway prepares to celebrate the best of the season, our theater reporter explores what the nominations tell us about the industry and the art form.
SOURCE: The New York Times SubscriptionAn open letter to the theatre industry from Theatrely Editor-in-Chief Kobi Kassal
SOURCE: Theatrely“Hell’s Kitchen,” “Stereophonic” and others are up for top prizes at Sunday’s ceremony. Our critic takes stock of their cast albums, all available now.
SOURCE: The New York Times SubscriptionThe new musical, about a woman seeking healing, is to arrive early next year.
SOURCE: The New York Times SubscriptionThe Tony Awards are Sunday. Each year we photograph nominated performers and talk to them about their craft. This time, we asked about early theater memories.
SOURCE: The New York Times SubscriptionThe institution, Seattle’s pre-eminent repertory theater, says it is making the cuts so it can focus its resources on productions.
SOURCE: The New York Times SubscriptionAshley R.T. Yergens’s “Surrogate,” premiering at New York Live Arts this week, explores how trans men experience pregnancy and I.V.F.
SOURCE: The New York Times SubscriptionFor this year’s nominees, some of their most rewarding — and realistic — work was in the smaller details.
SOURCE: The New York Times SubscriptionIn the Tony-nominated “Mother Play,” the writer conjures warm memories and thorny ones, not to judge her mother, but to understand — and to forgive.
SOURCE: The New York Times SubscriptionA reworked opening number, less historical bulk and a general push to “have fun with these women” helped a musical find its way.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription“Floyd Collins,” a musical about a trapped spelunker and the media circus surrounding his failed rescue, had a brief Off Broadway run in 1996.
SOURCE: The New York Times SubscriptionTo produce this Tony-nominated show’s climactic rumble, the creators, cast and crew gave it everything they've got.
SOURCE: The New York Times SubscriptionFrom Broadway to the city’s smaller stages, a flurry of shows with wide-ranging appeal, familiar faces and rising talent.
SOURCE: The New York Times SubscriptionTony Award leaders today affirmed their decision to bar Broadway co-producers from the stage of the David Koch Theater on June 16, while offering the investors and bundlers a consolation …
SOURCE: Broadway JournalThe show, expected to arrive on Broadway in 2026, will be called “Hello, I’m Dolly.”
SOURCE: The New York Times SubscriptionBenjamin Millepied, an organizer of La Ville Dansée — a daylong event in Paris and its environs — wants “to tell the invisible stories of the city.”
SOURCE: The New York Times SubscriptionBroadway had been making progress toward an industrywide recovery, but new data shows halted momentum in the most recent season. According to data from the industry trade group The Broadwa…
SOURCE: The Hollywood ReporterThe play, about a group of English sisters who reunite at their mother’s deathbed, plans to open in New York in September. It ends a London run this month.
SOURCE: The New York Times SubscriptionThe Delacorte Theater is being renovated, so a musical version of “The Comedy of Errors” is touring some of the city’s outdoor spaces.
SOURCE: The New York Times SubscriptionAdaptations of films will be a factor at the Tonys this year. Surprisingly the best of these shows are not always the most faithful.
SOURCE: The New York Times SubscriptionMadison Ferris and Danny J. Gomez star in the meet-cute “All of Me” — proof that depictions of disability onstage don’t have to be “a buzz kill,” as Ferris puts it.
SOURCE: The New York Times SubscriptionThe six-time Tony-winning actress will play musical theater’s most famous stage mother in a production directed by George C. Wolfe.
SOURCE: The New York Times SubscriptionPeter Friedman and Sydney Lemmon will star in the two-hander, a psychological thriller that previously found success downtown.
SOURCE: The New York Times SubscriptionThe veteran and the newcomer each had their own fears as they joined the Broadway revival of the beloved all-Black musical.
SOURCE: The New York Times SubscriptionAs Ballet Tech, a tuition-free public school, prepares for its Joyce season, Dionne Figgins teaches the students to see the big picture of their art form.
SOURCE: The New York Times SubscriptionShe takes office immediately. The previous leader, Kate Shindle, had been president since 2015, and did not run again.
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SOURCE: The New York Times SubscriptionA production featuring the screen stars, with music by Jack Antonoff, will open in October at Circle in the Square.
SOURCE: The New York Times SubscriptionWhat’s it like to attend twelve productions in nine days? Michael Paulson, the Times theater reporter, shared his sprint around Midtown Manhattan.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription“I love older theaters in particular,” said the actress, who is up for her third Tony for “Cabaret.” “The new ones don’t have as many ghosts.”
SOURCE: The New York Times SubscriptionThe show, inspired by a 19th-century shipwreck, has had previous runs in Berkeley, Calif., and Washington.
SOURCE: The New York Times SubscriptionThe revival, which had an earlier run at New York City Center, is scheduled to open in August and close in November, followed by a run in Los Angeles.
SOURCE: The New York Times SubscriptionFrom BroadwayWorld's Archive: Bombshell, the show-within-the-show about the life of Marilyn Monroe, was the focus of NBC's Smash, which premiered in February 2012. To celebrate tonight's big…
SOURCE: YouTube at 08:54AMFrom BroadwayWorld's Archive: Today, watch as she (he) recounts the highs and lows of bringing Gypsy back to Broadway!
SOURCE: YouTube at 08:54AMA new trailer for the first-ever Broadway production of Tony Award winner Jason Robert Brown’s THE LAST FIVE YEARS, starring Grammy and Golden Globe Award nominee Nick Jonas and Tony Award…
SOURCE: YouTube at 08:32AMFiddler on the Roof recently ran at the Muny in St. Louis. The cast included Adam Heller (Tevye), Jill Abramovitz (Golde), Samantha Massell (Tzeitel), Hannah Corneau (Hodel), Emerson Glick …
SOURCE: YouTube at 08:32AMChicago Shakespeare Theater (CST) presents the highly anticipated The Lord of the Rings – A Musical Tale. Based on the books by J.R.R. Tolkien, this production comes to the stage in a US p…
SOURCE: YouTube at 08:32AMThe July 25 concert also marked his 150th lifetime performance at The Garden. The conclusion of Billy Joel’s franchise run at MSG comes more than ten years after the residency began and n…
SOURCE: YouTube at 08:32AMThe Wicked films star Cynthia Erivo as Elphaba, Ariana Grande as Glinda, Oscar winner Michelle Yeoh as Madame Morrible, Jonathan Bailey as Fiyero, Tony nominee Ethan Slater as Boq, Marissa B…
SOURCE: YouTube at 08:32AMThe Wicked films star Cynthia Erivo as Elphaba, Ariana Grande as Glinda, Oscar winner Michelle Yeoh as Madame Morrible, Jonathan Bailey as Fiyero, Tony nominee Ethan Slater as Boq, Marissa B…
SOURCE: YouTube at 08:32AMThe Wicked films star Cynthia Erivo as Elphaba, Ariana Grande as Glinda, Oscar winner Michelle Yeoh as Madame Morrible, Jonathan Bailey as Fiyero, Tony nominee Ethan Slater as Boq, Marissa B…
SOURCE: YouTube at 08:32AMThe 2024/25 Broadway season is here at last, with many new productions set to arrive before the end of the year. For eight of those shows (Home, The Roommate, Yellow Face, McNeal, Our Town, …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:06AMBy ALICIA RANCILIO From “Beaches” to “First Wives Club” and “Hocus Pocus,” Bette Midler has starred in a number of projects where women aren’t just at the center of the story �…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMThis week's Courant arts picks offer a throwback to the '70s, '80s and '90s with Chicago, Earth Wind & Fire, New Kids on the Block, Paula Abdul, DJ Jazzy Jeff, SWV, Xscape and Slash.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMBy The Associated Press The Olympics-ready “Challengers” making its streaming debut and an EP from country-turned-pop singer Maren Morris are some of the new television, films, music and…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AM1) Public Announces First Wave of Stars to Lead Shakespeare in the Park's 'Twelfth Night' in 2025. https://playbill.com/article/peter-dinklage ...
SOURCE: Google at 03:18AMThe British actor talks to Jessie Thompson about performing Annie Ernaux’s masterpiece ‘The Years’ on stage, speaking out about the treatment of women in the industry, and why Britain…
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