Thursday, September 11, 2025

Video: Watch Lucie Jones Sing a New Song From 13 GOING ON 30 THE MUSICAL

Lucie Jones has shared a new look inside rehearsals for 13 Going on 30 the Musical. The Waitress alum took to TikTok to debut a first listen to "Make the World" from the new musical adaptati…

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:42PM
Wednesday, September 10, 2025

Polly Holliday, Flo From TV's Alice and a Tony Nominee for Cat On A Hot Tin Roof, Dies at 88 by Broadway.com

Polly Holliday, the Tony-nominated actress who was best known for playing the waitress Florence Jean "Flo" Castleberry on the 1970s sitcom Alice died on September 9. She was 88. Polly Dean…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:32PM

Polly Holliday, ALICE Star and Tony Nominee, Passes Away at 88

BroadwayWorld is saddened to report that Tony nominee Polly Holliday, best known as Flo the waitress in the 1970s sitcom Alice, has passed away at the age of 88. For her performance in the p…

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:54PM

Polly Holliday, a Sassy Waitress on the Sitcom ‘Alice,’ Dies at 88 by Anita Gates

“Kiss my grits,” her character, Flo, was known to say. But that high-profile role was just one facet of a long, busy stage and screen career.

SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:12PM

Odds & Ends: Cabaret Shares Emcee Schedule, John Doyle Directs The Secret Garden and More by Broadway.com

Here's a quick roundup of stories you might have missed. Cabaret Shares Performance Schedule for Replacement Emcees Cabaret has announced the performance schedule for Marty Lauter and Davi…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:06PM
Monday, September 8, 2025

Ryan McCartan Sets Final Performance in THE GREAT GATSBY

Producers of the smash-hit Broadway musical The Great Gatsby announced today that stage and screen star Ryan McCartan will play his final performance in the title role on Sunday, November 9,…

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:12AM
Thursday, August 28, 2025

Alex Boniello, Santino Fontana, and More Join THE RINK Benefit Concerts

Classic Stage Company has announced additional casting for the two-night-only benefit concert performances of The Rink, featuring a book by Terrence McNally, music by John Kander, and lyrics…

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:32AM
Tuesday, August 26, 2025

Charity Angél Dawson Withdraws From RAGTIME Due to Injury

Charity Angél Dawson has announced that she has withdrawn from the upcoming Broadway revival of Ragtime due to an injury. The Waitress star was due to begin rehearsals for Lincoln Center's …

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:06PM
Monday, August 25, 2025

Ciara Renée Files Suit Against Producers of Wanted Over Broadway Transfer by Logan Culwell-Block

The Waitress and Frozen star co-led the musical's Paper Mill Playhouse bow last year, but her role was recast for Broadway.

SOURCE: Playbill at 01:24PM
Thursday, August 21, 2025

June Squibb, Danny Burstein, Cynthia Nixon and Christopher Lowell to Star in Marjorie Prime on Broadway by Broadway.com

Two-time Tony winner Cynthia Nixon, Oscar nominee June Squibb, Tony winner Danny Burstein and Christopher Lowell will lead the cast of Marjorie Prime, Jordan Harrison’s sci-fi-tinged fa…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:06PM

Bernadette Peters, Lea Salonga, and More Set For American Theatre Wing 'Unsung Heroes' Gala

The American Theatre Wing has announced the lineup for their 2025 Fall Gala Celebration, which will be held on the evening of Monday, September 8, 2025, at 6:30PM, at Cipriani 42nd Street. T…

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:18AM
Saturday, August 9, 2025

Lorna Rose Treen: 24 Hour Diner People review – ‘best joke of the fringe’ winner serves up silliness by Brian Logan

Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghThe character comic returns with another daft set of surreal characters and sharp one-liners – this time stuck in an open-all-hours cafe When Lorna Rose Treen…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:48PM
Monday, August 4, 2025

Aisha Jackson & Ryan McCartan Sing "My Green Light" in 'The Great Gatsby' on Broadway by BroadwayWorld

The Great Gatsby is ‘roaring on’ into its second year at The Broadway Theatre, and producer Chunsoo Shin has released two first look videos of the hit musical’s new principal cast, fea…

SOURCE: YouTube at 05:48PM
Sunday, August 3, 2025

Deaf Broadway Brings WAITRESS to Lincoln Center by BroadwayWorld

In just five short years, Deaf Broadway has become synonymous with authentically Deaf musical theater. The organization was founded during the 2020 pandemic in response to artistic director …

SOURCE: YouTube at 11:18AM
Saturday, August 2, 2025

Joy: A New True Musical ** 1/2, Rolling Thunder ** 1/2 by Barry Gordin

By David Sheward August 1, 2025: Joy, subtitled a New True Musical, Off-Broadway at the Laura Pels, is a serviceable enough product to entertain intermittently for two hours, but it’s ba…

SOURCE: theaterlife at 01:16PM
Thursday, July 31, 2025

Wake Up With BroadwayWorld July 31, 2025- WAITRESS Gets the ASL Treatment from Deaf Broadway and More

Rise and shine, BroadwayWorld! It is July 31, 2025 and it's time to catch up on all of the theatrical happenings you may have missed in the last 24 hours: NEW - BWW For You, Personalized Sto…

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:06AM
Wednesday, July 30, 2025

Beth Leavel And Jessie Mueller To Lead THE RINK Benefit Concert for Classic Stage Company

Tony Award winners Beth Leavel (The Drowsy Chaperone, The Prom) and Jessie Mueller (Beautiful, Waitress) will star in Classic Stage Company's one-night-only benefit concert performance of TH…

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:06AM
Wednesday, July 23, 2025
Thursday, July 17, 2025

Odds & Ends: Carmen Cusack in Bull Durham, ASL Waitress and Arian Moayed’s Marvel Return by Broadway.com

Here's a quick roundup of stories you might have missed. Carmen Cusack and Nik Walker to Star in Bull Durham at Paper Mill Paper Mill Playhouse is stepping up to the plate with Bull Durham…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 07:54PM
Wednesday, July 16, 2025

Video: Go Backstage with Jeremy Jordan at the Royal Albert Hall

Earlier this week, Jeremy Jordan returned to London with his biggest ever solo concert, Live at the Royal Albert Hall. With songs and stories from stage to screen and beyond, fans heard sele…

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:54PM
Tuesday, July 15, 2025

10 Fascinating Facts About Chess to Know Ahead of Its Broadway Revival by Mara Reinstein

It’s a game. It’s a battlefield. It’s a musical with, ahem, a checkered past. Yes, it’s Chess—and it’s coming to Broadway for the first time since 1988. The revival, starring Aa…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:36PM

Aisha Jackson on Playing The Great Gatsby’s ‘Complex Girly’ Daisy Fay Buchanan on Broadway 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…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:32AM
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…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:42PM
Tuesday, July 1, 2025

July 2025 New York Theater Openings by Jonathan Mandell

Below is a calendar of New York theater opening* in July, all of it beyond Broadway, featuring some familiar crowdpleasers, such as a unique “Waitress,” and a starry “Heathers,” with…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:12PM
Monday, June 30, 2025

Vicki and Carl Zeiger Insights Seminar: The Janeiad by The Old Globe

Playwright Anna Ziegler and director Maggie Burrows join The Old Globe's Kim Heil to discuss The Janeiad. Vicki and Carl Zeiger Insights Seminars provide Globe patrons with an opportunity t…

SOURCE: YouTube at 03:29PM

‘Waitress’: A fresh recipe for a musical by Linda Ferguson

Broadway Rose’s "Waitress" successfully blends music and magical realism with a strong message about female empowerment.

SOURCE: Oregon ArtsWatch at 03:19PM

Video: SIX Celebrates Becoming Longest Running Show at the Lena Horne Theatre

On Friday, June 27, SIX, Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss’s Tony Award-winning musical, became the longest running show to play in the Lena Horne Theatre on Broadway with its 1,545th performance.…

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:06PM
Friday, June 27, 2025

SIX to Become Longest Running Show at the Lena Horne Theatre Tonight

With its 1,545th performance tonight (June 27, 2025), SIX will become the longest running show to play in the Lena Horne Theatre (formerly the Brooks Atkinson Theatre). The original producti…

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:32AM
Thursday, June 26, 2025

Tony Award Winner Diane Paulus Unmasked As Andrew Lloyd Webber’s ‘Masquerade’ Director by Greg Evans

Diane Paulus, a 2013 Tony Award winner for her direction of Pippin whose other Broadway credits include Waitress, Jagged Little Pill and Real Women Have Curves, is directing Masquerade, Andr…

SOURCE: Deadline at 04:02PM

Updated: Tickets Now on Sale for Broadway's Chess, Starring Aaron Tveit, Lea Michele and Nicholas Christopher, at the Imperial Theatre by Beth Stevens

The Broadway revival of Chess has locked in its dates and venue, and tickets are now on sale. The Broadway revival of Chess has an official home and dates. The production, starring the previ…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:32PM
Tuesday, June 24, 2025

Chess, Starring Aaron Tveit, Lea Michele and Nicholas Christopher, Sets Broadway Theater and Dates by Beth Stevens

The Broadway revival of Chess has an official home and dates. The production, starring the previously announced Aaron Tveit, Lea Michele and Nicholas Christopher, will begin previews on Octo…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:42PM

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