Monday, July 14, 2025

Aisha Jackson on Playing The Great Gatsby’s ‘Complex Girly’ Daisy Fay Buchanan by Cq Quintana

Aisha Jackson is proud to break barriers on Broadway yet again with her nuanced portrayal of Daisy Fay Buchanan in The Great Gatsby, the musical adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s canonic…

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Sunday, July 13, 2025

Elaine Paige on Sunday Delivers Barn-Raising Summery Show Tunes! by Broadway.com

Olivier-winning actress Elaine Paige is giving Broadway.com listeners a chance to hear her BBC Radio 2 show Elaine Paige on Sunday. This week, Paige has a hot-to-trot selection of barn-rais…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:42PM
Friday, July 11, 2025

With London's Evita and Waiting for Godot on the Way, the Sun Never Sets on Jamie Lloyd by Hayley Levitt

Jamie Lloyd’s simultaneously stripped down and amped up production of Sunset Boulevard, playing its final Broadway performance on July 20, walked away from this year’s Tony Awards with t…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:24PM

Bring on the 'Champagne Problems,' The Great Gatsby's New Backstage Vlog Hosted by Samantha Pauly by Broadway.com

The Great Gatsby's Jordan Baker dwells among the new money of West Egg, a world of blinding parties and dark secrets. But it's all "Champagne Problems" for original cast member Samantha Pau…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:24PM

Odds & Ends: Wicked TV Special Sets Airdate, Joe Locke to Make West End Debut and More by Broadway.com

Here's a quick roundup of stories you might have missed. Live Wicked Musical TV Special, Featuring Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande, Will Air in the Fall Ahead of the November 21 release o…

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Thursday, July 10, 2025

Walk to Work with Krystal Hernandez, SIX's Queen of Confidence by Hayley Levitt

Krystal Hernandez is SIX's Anna of Cleves, the unflaggingly self-possessed fourth wife in Broadway's histo-remix. By the way she gets down at the Lena Horne Theatre with the abandon of Card…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:24PM

How Isa Antonetti’s Broadway Debut in Buena Vista Social Club Taught Her to Enter Rooms Voice First by Rebecca Salzhauer

Age: 23 Hometown: Rochester, NY Current Role: Isa Antonetti plays Young Omara, a singer learning to harness the power of her voice in 1950s Havana, in Marco Ramirez’s Tony-nominated new …

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Floyd Collins Pushes Broadway Cast Album Release to August by Hayley Levitt

Floyd Collins will release its original Broadway cast recording digitally on August 8, with a physical CD due September 5. The album was previously scheduled to be released both physically …

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Tony Awards Administration Committee Announces 2025-26 Season Nominators by Broadway.com

The Tony Awards Administration Committee has announced the Nominating Committee for the 2025-26 Broadway season, comprising 64 actors, directors, writers, designers and other members of the …

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Wednesday, July 9, 2025

Odds & Ends: Dilaria Extends, The Devil Wears Prada 2 Recruits Broadway Talent and More by Broadway.com

Here's a quick roundup of stories you might have missed. Dilaria, Starring Ella Stiller, Extends Off-Broadway The world-premiere production of Julia Randall’s darkly comic new play Dilari…

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History Gets Sexypants: Top 25 Broadway Shows That Really Happened by Darryn King

Of all the art forms, theater may be the best at making the distant past feel immediate. In the right storytelling hands, even long-dead characters and stories can come vividly to life when …

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Call Me Izzy Star Jean Smart on the Role That Pulled Her Back to Broadway by Beth Stevens

Jean Smart is back on Broadway for the first time in 25 years in Call Me Izzy, Jamie Wax’s solo play about a woman in rural Louisiana whose life has been shaped by poverty and violence. Iz…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:06PM

Maybe Happy Ending's Helen J Shen, Call Me Izzy's Jean Smart and More on The Broadway Show by Broadway.com

When it's summer in the city, there's no better way to beat the heat than with a Broadway show. See what's treading the boards in the latest episode of The Broadway Show with Tamsen Fadal.�…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:02PM
Tuesday, July 8, 2025

Helen J Shen on Her Year of Maybe Happy Ending: 'This Is Beyond Anything I Could've Ever Dreamed' by Hayley Levitt

Maybe Happy Ending is the reigning Tony-winning Best Musical—an accolade that seemed all but assured going into the June 8 ceremony. But a year ago, when Helen J Shen had just booked her B…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:18PM

Lencia Kebede on Being Wicked's New Green Girl: 'My Soul Is Singing Right Now' by Kathy Henderson

Sometimes, if an actor is lucky, the role she is playing reflects the kind of person she aspires to be off stage. Lencia Kebede, the first full-time Black Elphaba in the Broadway company of …

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:02PM

The Original Evita Star Spotlights Jamie Lloyd’s New Revival on Elaine Paige on Sunday by Broadway.com

Olivier-winning actress Elaine Paige is giving Broadway.com listeners a chance to hear her BBC Radio 2 show Elaine Paige on Sunday. This week, Paige highlights Jamie Lloyd’s fresh London …

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James Monroe Iglehart Joins Broadway's & Juliet This August by Hayley Levitt

Tony Award winner James Monroe Iglehart will join the Broadway cast of & Juliet at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre this August, playing a limited 13-week engagement as Lance from August 5…

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Monday, July 7, 2025

Richard Greenberg, Tony-Winning Playwright of Take Me Out, Dies at 67 by Hayley Levitt

Richard Greenberg, the celebrated playwright best known for his 2003 Tony-winning play Take Me Out, has died. The cause of death has not been confirmed. He was 67.  Theater director Rober…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:24PM

For Adi Roy, Starring in Broadway’s Aladdin Means Growing Alongside the Role by Darryn King

Adi Roy and Agrabah’s wiliest street rat go way back. Before joining the Broadway production of Aladdin in the title role in June 2024, he spent two years playing the part on the North Am…

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Montego Glover to Star in Broadway’s Gypsy at Sunday Matinees All Summer by Hayley Levitt

Montego Glover's turn as Gypsy's Rose isn't over yet. Following her weeklong run earlier this month during Audra McDonald's vacation, Glover will continue to perform the role at the Majestic…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:24PM

Laurie Metcalf and Micah Stock to Lead Samuel D. Hunter's Little Bear Ridge Road on Broadway by Hayley Levitt

Little Bear Ridge Road, a new play by Samuel D. Hunter, will premiere on Broadway for a limited 18-week run this fall starring two-time Tony winner Laurie Metcalf and Micah Stock, with dire…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:18PM
Thursday, July 3, 2025

Odds & Ends: Lea Salonga Gets Hollywood Star Treatment, Sunset Boulevard Principals Bid Early Farewell to Nicole Scherzinger & More by Darryn King

Here's a quick roundup of stories you might have missed. Lea Salonga Honored on Hollywood Walk of Fame Tony and Olivier Award-winning singer, actress and Disney voice legend Lea Salonga wi…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:06PM

Dilaria’s Ella Stiller Wants More Art For And About Cool, Young Women by Broadway.com

Last year, after graduating from Juilliard, Ella Stiller was contemplating the path forward for her career. “Theater is my first love,” she told Broadway.com Editor-in-Chief Paul Wontor…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:02PM

Broadway Newcomer Myra Molloy on Hadestown, Eurydice and Thai Pride by Rebecca Salzhauer

Age: 27 Hometown: Bangkok, Thailand Current Role: Myra Molloy plays Eurydice in Hadestown, the 2019 Tony Award-winning Best Musical. Credits: Molloy started her career as the winner of Th…

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Lucas Hallauer to Launch New McFly Files Vlog for Back to the Future: The Musical Tour by Broadway.com

On the 40th anniversary of the Back to the Future movie, a new Marty McFly is picking up the vlog camera. Lucas Hallauer, who stars in the national tour of Back to the Future: The Musical, …

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Inside the New Beauty and the Beast Tour with Linda Woolverton and Matt West by Broadway.com

More than 30 years after the animated Disney film premiered, and nearly 25 years since the last national tour, Beauty and the Beast is back on the road in a bold new production. Book writer …

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:36AM
Wednesday, July 2, 2025

Betsy Wolfe, Ella Stiller, Beauty and the Beast and More on The Broadway Show by Broadway.com

From a bookish belle to a bunch of angsty teens, a spirited inventor and a Shakespearean heroine, this week’s episode of The Broadway Show with Tamsen Fadal is packed with magnetic women. …

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:12PM

July on the London Stage: Rachel Zegler in Evita, Orfeh in Burlesque and More by Matt Wolf

Temperatures are rising, and so is the energy across London theater this month. The lineup includes a stage adaptation of a Cher film vehicle, a radical retake on a beloved British musical, …

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:02PM

Romy & Michele: The Musical Will Premiere Off-Broadway in the Fall by Darryn King

Romy & Michele: The Musical, an adaptation of the 1997 cult comedy film, Romy and Michele's High School Reunion, which starred Lisa Kudrow and Mira Sorvino, will premiere off-Broadway th…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:54PM

Michele Pawk on the Joys of Acting, Teaching and Mothering Jonathan Groff in Just in Time by Kathy Henderson

Michele Pawk’s life in the theater extends far beyond her career as a Tony-winning Broadway actress. Now wowing audiences at Just in Time as Polly, the woman who raised singer Bobby Darin,…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:54PM

What's Your Damage? A Look at the Off-Broadway Return of Heathers the Musical by Broadway.com

Westerberg High is back in session. Heathers the Musical has returned to New World Stages with a fresh cast and a lot of love from the creative team. Lorna Courtney stars as Veronica Sawyer…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 09:24AM