Linda Buchwald| The Drama League’s Distinguished Performance Award can only be won once in a performer’s lifetime. ||Broadway,Off-Broadway,Off-Off-Broadway|Anna Christie,Bat Boy: The Musical,Beaches,Beau th…

Hello, kitty! Hamilton alum Sydney James Harcourt has been bringing the heat as Rum Tum Tugger in Cats: The Jellicle Ball on Broadway, a Ballroom-inspired reimagining of Andrew Lloyd Webber's classic musical. T…

Before the show starts, Sydney James Harcourt captures the CATS: THE JELLICLE BALL cast in action. How does the Jellicle crew warm up, you might ask? By voguing, singing “Ave Maria,” doing a prayer circle a…

Actors’ Equity Association’s Advisory Committee on Chorus Affairs (ACCA) has announced the nominees for this season’s ACCA Award for Outstanding Broadway Chorus, honoring the chorus performers in a Broadw…

DON'T FORGET TO NOMINATE YOUR FAVORITES FOR THE 2026 JKTS READERS CHOICE AWARDS HERE! NOMINATIONS BALLOT CLOSES SUNDAY!5 2026 Tony AwardsSnubs & DisappointmentsEvery year, right after the Tony Awards nomina…

Meet your Tony Awards Nominees from Broadway’s CATS: THE JELLICLE BALL with André De Shields, Qween Jean and more. Go to Broadway.com for tickets to see the Tony-nominated production ⭐️ https://www.br…

Nomineed have been revealed for The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics' fourth annual Dorian Theater Awards. The awards celebrate the best in Broadway and Off-Broadway,honoring both mainstream and LGBTQ+-th…

The Broadway Opening Night Actors' Equity Legacy Robe Ceremony honoring Emma Sofia for "CATS: The Jellicle Ball" at the Broadhurst Theatre on April 7, 2026.

The Lost Boys earns eight nominations, while Cats: The Jellicle Ball continues to claw into Ragtime's perceived Musical Revival lead.

The countdown to the 2026 Tony Awards is on. This week on the The Broadway Show, get a deeper look into four Tony-nominated shows: Joe Turner's Come and Gone, Ragtime, Titanique and Cats: The Jellicle Ball. Plu…

It’s The Broadway Show, the only nationally syndicated weekly theater television series. The program spotlights exclusive A-list celebrities, the unsung heroes of Broadway and behind-the-scenes stories on Bro…

On Tuesday, May 12, stars Jason Weaver, Jacob Latimore, and Birgundi Baker of Paramount+’s The Chi supported the show's creator, Lena Waithe, with a visit to CATS: The Jellicle Ball on Broadway, produced by W…

Breaking down the choreographic allusions in “Schmigadoon!” and “Cats: The Jellicle Ball,” two gotta-dance, Tony-nominated shows.

Breaking down the choreographic allusions in “Schmigadoon” and “Cats: The Jellicle Ball,” two gotta-dance, Tony-nominated shows.

The moment Sydney James Harcourt steps into the spotlight as Rum Tum Tugger in CATS: THE JELLICLE BALL, the temperature inside the Broadhurst Theatre rises. The audience screams and fans clack. Harcourt’s Tug…

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We also break down some surprise inclusions (Richard Thomas in The Balusters) and shocking omissions ("Tempress" Chasity Moore in Cats: The Jellicle Ball).

The New York Drama Critics' Circle celebrated the 2025-2026 season with honors for Little Bear Ridge Road, Ragtime, Cats: The Jellicle Ball, and more. BroadwayWorld was inside the event for an exclusive look at…

In the second episode of his series, Harcourt brings the party to the stage door and reminisces about his time in the original cast of Hamilton while walking down Shubert Alley. Speaking of Hamilton, Harcourt a…

Hello, kitty! Hamilton alum Sydney James Harcourt has been bringing the heat as Rum Tum Tugger in Cats: The Jellicle Ball on Broadway, a Ballroom-inspired reimagining of Andrew Lloyd Webber's classic musical. T…

The 2026 honorees of the Theatre World Awards, recognizing outstanding debut performances in Broadway or off-Broadway productions, were announced on May 7. The ceremony will take place at the Longacre Theatre o…

The 2026 honorees of the Theatre World Awards, recognizing outstanding debut performances in Broadway or off-Broadway productions, were announced on May 7. The ceremony will take place at the Longacre Theatre o…

The upcoming Broadway revival of Evita has teased a new announcement for tomorrow. In a new Instagram video, an "EVITA" chant is placed over photos from the last year's West End engagement. The word "TOMORROW" …

The 2026 Tony-nominated Cats: The Jellicle Ball co-director is part of the California company's newly announced 2026-2027 season.

CHESS, SCHMIGADOON! CATS: THE JELLICLE BALL, TITANIQUE, GOTTA DANCE! and more were honored at the 2026 Chita Rivera Awards Meet The Nominees Reception in New York City. The ceremony held May 18th celebrates da…

Cats has been radically reimagined in the world of Harlem's queer ballroom culture, and the result is a Broadway lightning strike. Patrick Pacheco talks with co-directors Bill Rauch and Zhailon Levingston about…

May 5, 2026: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron FasslerWell, the 79th Annual Tony Nominations have just been announced and, as usual, theatre fans all over are reviewing the situation. In a year in which musi…

The Lost Boys, Cats: The Jellicle Ball, Ragtime, and Death of a Salesman are expected to be among the most-nominated productions.

For “Tempress” Chasity Moore, stepping into CATS: THE JELLICLE BALL is not simply a performance. It is a culmination of lived experience, cultural legacy, and a long-awaited moment of visibility for a commu…

 The 2026 Tony Awards:If We Were NominatorsFor us, theater awards season is what it must be like for football fans around Super Bowl time. We get super excited by every announcement, every eligibility notice. …

For his inaugural episode, Sydney James Harcourt details how the role of Rum Tum Tugger allows him to live his "Gene Kelly fantasy" and gives a pre-show tour of THE JELLICLE BALL's immersive set. Backstage, he …

Hello, kitty! Hamilton alum Sydney James Harcourt has been bringing the heat as Rum Tum Tugger in Cats: The Jellicle Ball on Broadway, a Ballroom-inspired reimagining of Andrew Lloyd Webber's classic musical. T…

"You want to surround yourself with as many partners who have the same goal in mind, which is build audiences, sell tickets, run a long time. And TDF is there from the start to do exactly that, and it's been a …

Musicals Cats: The Jellicle Ball, Schmigadoon!, Titaníque also favored for multiple nods, based on the official prediction data.

The New York Drama Critics' Circle has named Samuel D. Hunter’s Little Bear Ridge Road Best Play of the season. No award was given for Best Musical. The selections were made at the organization’s 90th annua…

The New York Drama Critics' Circle has named Samuel D. Hunter’s Little Bear Ridge Road Best Play of the 2025-26 season. No award was given for Best Musical. The Circle bestowed the recently instituted aw…

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CATS: THE JELLICLE BALL Music by Andrew Lloyd Webber Based on Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats by T.S. Eliot Choreographed by Omari Wiles & Arturo Lyons Directed by Zhailow Levingston & Bill Rauch …

Get your dancing shoes on! Nominations have been announced for the 2026 Chita Rivera Awards, honoring the best in dance during the 2025-2026 theater and film seasons. The Chita Rivera Awards will be presented o…

The celebration of choreographic excellence, named for the late Broadway icon, will be held in May.

Linda Buchwald| Ragtime, Titanique, and The Rocky Horror Show also received multiple nominations. ||New York City|2026 Chita Rivera Awards,Aakomon Jones,Ani Taj,Anthony Talauega,Arturo Lyons,Baby Byrne,Cats: Th…

Both “Schmigadoon” and “Cats: The Jellicle Ball” get lots of love in the nominations for the 2026 Chita Rivera Awards for dance and choreography, on Broadway and the movies, announced this morning. The …

A remarkable, and in some ways remarkably strange Broadway season is winding down. The number of musicals — new musicals in particular — has been remarkably light. I’ll bet that the producers of last seas…

Live from Mount Olympus, the award-winning podcast for kids and families, has announced that its 7th seaon will be a musical, telling the dramatic stories of divine twins Apollo, god of music, and Artemis, godd…

The Tony Awards Administration Committee has met to confirm the eligibility status of 13 Broadway productions for the 2025-2026 season. This was the fourth and final time this season that the Tony Awards Admini…

Jessica Derschowitz| The costume designer breaks down the inspirations behind the show’s 500 looks. ||Broadway|”Tempress” Chasity Moore,Andre De Shields,Bill Rauch,Gladys Bentley,Jellicle Ball,Junior LaBe…

A new season of Stagebound, the Webby-nominated series from PBS’ Great Performances, will premiere this May, offering a behind-the-scenes look at three Broadway musicals and the artists bringing them to the s…

The final batch of Broadway’s spring 2026 arrivals opened last week, and while press previews and opening night comps took their toll on some of the week’s grosses, a clearer picture of the season’s stron…

Hello, kitty! Hamilton alum Sydney James Harcourt has been bringing the heat as Rum Tum Tugger in Cats: The Jellicle Ball on Broadway. The Ballroom-inspired reimagining of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s classic musica…

By Christopher Caggiano Two productions set out to reinvent Lloyd Webber’s back catalog. Only one of them succeeds. A confession: I’ve never been a big fan of Andrew Lloyd Webber. I will concede that there�…

The artists say that the Broadway mounting of “Cats: The Jellicle Ball” is the deeper expression of their goal to merge forms.

The cast of Cats: The Jellicle Ball took center stage on Good Morning America this week with a taste of the reimagined musical. The new revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s iconic musical swaps out the traditiona…

Betty Buckley will return for her yearly residency at Joe’s Pub for six intimate performances, April 24–26, 2026. Buckley offers audiences the chance to experience one of Broadway’s most celebrated voices…

Broadway mainstays and rising stars lit up the Al Hirschfeld Theatre on April 20, 2026, for Broadway Dream Roles. The lineup shared the songs from roles they’ve never gotten to play on a Broadway stage - u…

Cats: The Jellicle Ball took over Good Morning America on Tuesday, with a dance performance from the cast of the ballroom-inspired Broadway revival. Check out photos below from their morning show appearance, wh…

What's a jellicle cat? The cast of Cats: The Jellicle Ball gave their answer Tuesday morning with a flashy performance from the new revival. The performance opened with a few lines from "Jellicle Songs for Jell…

Betty Buckley will return for her yearly residency at Joe’s Pub for six intimate performances, April 24–26, 2026. Buckley offers audiences the chance to experience one of Broadway’s most celebrated voices…

Peter Filichia, Jena Tesse Fox, James Marino, and Michael Portantiere talk about Titanique (Broadway), Theater 2020 production of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way the the Forum, Cats: The Jellicle Ball, Masque…

Art as Activism on Broadway is a recurring series exploring how theater can move beyond entertainment to serve as a catalyst for social change, advocacy, and cultural dialogue. At a time when stories are being …

Broadway " Broadhurst Theater: 235 West 44 Street. April 7-Sept. 6, 2026. Musical. Music: Andrew Lloyd Webber. Text: T.S. Eliot. Directors: Zhailon Levingston and Bill Rauch. 2 hrs, 15 min. Critic: David Shewar…

By Alex Eichholz . . . If you haven't heard by now, Cats, now dazzlingly rebranded as Cats: The Jellicle Ball, has opened on Broadway at the Broadhurst Theatre after a critically acclaimed and sold-out run in 2…

The cast of Cats: The Jellicle Ball is set to perform next week on Good Morning America. It has not been confirmed which members of the company will appear on the program, but viewers can tune in to watch the p…

"Cats:The Jellicle Ball" at the Broadhurst Theatre is not your mother's "Cats," the 1981 Andrew Lloyd Webber musical based on T.S. Eliot's Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats. In the original musical, the poems…

On a recent episode of Watch What Happens Live, Cats: The Jellicle Ball choreographers Omari Wiles and Arturo Lyons made an appearance and invited host Andy Cohen to be a guest judge at the show. Cohen expre…

The sun is shining and Broadway's spring openings are turning up the heat. Here's what's on the agenda for this week's episode of The Broadway Show. Break out those fans, because Cats: The Jellicle Ball is off…

It's The Broadway Show, the only nationally syndicated weekly theater television series. The program spotlights exclusive A-list celebrities, the unsung heroes of Broadway and behind-the-scenes stories on Broad…

Broadway held strong last week as a bevy of spring arrivals caught ticket-buyers' attention, with Becky Shaw, Cats: The Jellicle Ball, Death of a Salesman and Titaníque opening to strong reviews and full or …

Click below to access all the Broadway grosses from all the shows for the week ending 4/12/2026 in BroadwayWorld's grosses section. Also, you will find information on each show's historical grosses, cumulative …

By David Sheward April 14, 2026: "This is where the story gets kooky crazy," announces Marla Mindelle as a kooky crazy version of Canadian songstress and power-ballad queen Celine Dion halfway through Titaniqu…

The jellicle moon is shining bright! Tonight, CATS: The Jellicle Ball opens on Broadway at the Broadhurst Theatre. Directed by OBIE Award winners Zhailon Levingston and Bill Rauch and choreographed by Chita Ri…

Was there ever a composer so clever as musical Mr. Andrew Lloyd Webber? Fresh off of a purrrfect opening night for Cats: The Jellicle Ball, the musical theatre living legend sat with BroadwayWorld's very own Ri…

Jellicle cats came out Tuesday night to celebrate the arrival of Cats: The Jellicle Ball on Broadway. This revival is not your grandmother's Cats. This reimagined version of Andrew Lloyd Webber's iconic musical…

The Broadway Theatre Review: Two downtown sensations take Broadway by storm By Ross "Hello, kittens," is the greeting that started my two-show Saturday, and I knew from that first moment I was in for something …

By Isa Goldberg April 13, 2026: A spectacle of and about our time, Cats: The Jellicle Ball, sets an exciting new bar in theatrical artistry. Its subject -- people who fashion themselves, creating their own bei…

An inspired refresh swaps leotards and cat ears for queer glam. Loren Noveck goes to a Jellicle Ball. The post Review: Cats: The Jellicle Ball at the Broadhurst Theatre appeared first on Exeunt Magazine NYC.

Campier than the campy Cats: The Jellicle Ball but no less generous in its embrace of queer heritage's seismic impact on American culture, Titaníque on Broadway is bigger than a mere hoot. It's a riotous, hi…

The company of PAC NYC production of "Cats: The Jellicle Ball" at the Broadhurst Theatre (Photo credit: Matthew Murphy and Evan Zimmerman for MurphyMade) In recent years we have been offered reinventions of cla…