Get yourself a partner who looks at you like Will Parker looks at Ado Annie. ❤️ 🎬: Rodgers & Hammerstein's Oklahoma! (1955)

The Best Musical nominee is going full Oklahoma! with this upcoming fundraiser.

Gordon MacRae singing "Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin'" in Rodgers & Hammerstein's Oklahoma! (1955).

Moulin Rouge! The Musical has announced that company member Patrick Clanton will play the role of “Harold Zidler” in the production from Saturday, May 2nd through Sunday, May 17th. As announced this week…

Moulin Rouge! The Musical company member and principal standby Patrick Clanton will swing from the chandelier as Harold Zidler from May 2-17. As previously announced, Megan Thee Stallion plays her final perfor…

Carnegie Hall has released new footage from Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Oklahoma! in concert, which was presented earlier this year starring Micaela Diamond, Emmett O’Hanlon, Andrew Durand, Jasmine Amy Rogers…

Caleb A. Barnett will step into the role of Genie in Aladdin on Broadway beginning Tuesday, May 5. Barnett made his Broadway debut in the company as the Genie standby in the summer of 2023. As BroadwayWorld pre…

Review of the Sunday, April 26, 2026 matinee performance at the Nederlander Theatre in New York City. Starring Alex Brightman, Sara Chase, Ana Gasteyer, Ann Harada, Brad Oscar, Isabelle McCalla, Ayaan Diop, Iva…

Sara Chase (center) and company in “Schmigadoon!”April 28, 2026: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron Fassler.When I began writing this column ten years ago and titled it “Theatre Yesterday and Today,” …

Bambi Linn, the last surviving cast member of the original Broadway cast of Oklahoma!, has turned 100-years-old. The now-retired American dancer, choreographer, and actress celebrated her 100th birthday on on A…

Like Titanique, Schmigadoon seems to want to capitalize on audience familiarity—not just with the Apple TV series it’s based on but with the old-fashioned Broadway musicals of the past it satirizes like Okl…

The concert performance of the Rodgers and Hammerstein classic featured the Orchestra of St. Luke's.

Wishing Bambi Linn—the last surviving cast member of the original 1943 Broadway production of Rodgers & Hammerstein's Oklahoma!—a very happy 100th birthday today! Bambi also originated the role of Louise in…

Earlier this year, Carnegie Hall presented Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Oklahoma! in concert, featuring the Orchestra of St. Luke’s and conducted by Emmy- and Grammy–winning music director Rob Berman. The pe…

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…

Schmigadoon! was released on streaming more than a year into the COVID-19 pandemic, at a time when we all needed an escape from reality. The musical comedy television show, which featured a who's who of Broadwa…

The Dust Bowl Radio Hour is a new bluegrass-folk musical with book and lyrics by Sean McGee and music by Kasey Dillon Yeargain. BroadwayWorld has an exclusive look inside the studio of the recording of "Drink …

🎥: Rodgers & Hammerstein's Oklahoma! (1955)

"Bet she's nineteen!" 😅 🎬: Rodgers & Hammerstein's Oklahoma (1955)

The Dust Bowl Radio Hour is a new bluegrass-folk musical with book and lyrics by Sean McGee and music by Kasey Dillon Yeargain. BroadwayWorld has an exclusive look inside the studio of the recording of "Drink …

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A limited number of tickets for Broadway Dream Roles have just been released to the public, as the first slate of performers joins Broadway Cares newest annual event, returning Monday, April 20, 2026, to the Al…

The first non-English language replica production of The Outsiders is set to premiere at The GS Arts Center in Seoul, South Korea in August 2027, produced by Seensee Company (Producer: Myung Sung Park). The …

The Outsiders has released a new block of single tickets for performances through January 31, 2027 at Broadway's Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre, with group reservations now being accepted through July 4, 2027. The p…

Kennedy Caughell"currently starring as Jersey in the national tour of Hell's Kitchen" joins the pod squad to share her journey from growing up on a small Oklahoma farm to building […] The post Kennedy Caughel…

Don't praise my charm too much. 🤭

We'd join him in the surrey any time. 🧡 📽️: Rodgers & Hammerstein's Oklahoma! (1955)

  At This Theatre: The St. James: 2012-2025 Opening 99 years ago as Erlanger's Theatre, the house played host to the George M. Cohan show, The Merry Malones, and then played host to the popular styl…

THE OUTSIDERS is playing the Orpheum Theatre in San Francisco from December 9"27, 2026. The winner of four 2024 Tony Awards®, including Best Musical, is THE OUTSIDERS. This classic coming-of-age story takes…

Playbill has an exclusive video of Robin de Jesús (The Boys in the Band, In the Heights) singing "Miracle Song" from the new musical Night Side Songs, composed by The Lazours. The show is currently playing O…

She'll snap her fingers to show she doesn't care. 🫰

📽️: Rodgers & Hammerstein's Oklahoma! (1955)

Kennedy Caughell"currently starring as Jersey in the national tour of Hell's Kitchen"shares her journey from growing up on a small Oklahoma farm to building a career on Broadway, reflecting on […] The post Ke…

Kennedy Caughell"currently starring as Jersey in the national tour of Hell's Kitchen" joins the pod squad to share her journey from growing up on a small Oklahoma farm to building a career on Broadway, reflecti…

The intimacy of Bug makes the revival of Tracy Lett's play moving and powerful. Waitress Agnes White (Carrie Coon) lives in a seedy Oklahoma motel. Except for a certain amount of clutter, there's little to show…

Blue Moon, Richard Linklater's portrait of Broadway lyricist Lorenz Hart, will be available to stream on Netflix on Saturday, February 14. Released in theaters last October, the movie is currently available to …

📽️ Rodgers & Hammerstein's Oklahoma! (1943)

"Absolutely beautiful." 💛

Jimmy Fallon brought a Broadway institution to Studio 6B this week. For Wednesday's episode of The Tonight Show, the host recreated Sardi's restaurant for his conversation with Ethan Hawke, whose portrayal of B…

The Glimmerglass Festival has announced casting for its 2026 season, which will run July 10 through August 17, 2026, in Cooperstown, New York. The season brings together returning favorites, International Artis…

Brecht and Weill's Happy End and Gregory Spears' Fellow Travelers will be among the works featured in the summer opera festival.

Manhattan Theatre Club's Broadway premiere of Bug has been extended for a second time. Originally scheduled to play through February 8, the production was first extended through February 22 and will now play…

Roundabout Theatre Company has announced the complete cast and design team for the upcoming production of Fallen Angels by Noël Coward, directed by Tony Award-nominee Scott Ellis. Fallen Angels will star …

They've gone about as fur as they c'n go! 🎥: Rodgers & Hammerstein's Oklahoma (1956)

The show: "Bug" by Tracy Letts on Broadway What makes it special?: The show stars Carrie Coon (TV's "The Gilded Age," third season of "The White Lotus") in a play by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright (and Coon…

Maybe it's the current dystopic state of the world but I had a hard time with Bug, the revival of Tracy Letts' 1996 play that opened this month at Manhattan Theatre Club's Samuel J. Friedman Theatre. It trac…

By Alix Cohen Oklahoma! redefined the American musical by fully integrating songs, dances, and story into a unified dramatic whole. Richard Rodgers first collaboration with Oscar Hammerstein II, it premiered in…

The concert performance of the Rodgers and Hammerstein classic featured the Orchestra of St. Luke's.

From Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tracy Letts and Tony Award-winning director David Cromer comes the Broadway premiere of Bug, now running at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre. What's it all ab…

"The Farmer and the Cowman" from Rodgers & Hammerstein's Oklahoma (1956).

The performance of the Rodgers and Hammerstein classic features the Orchestra of St. Luke's.

Tracy Letts's Bug, making its Broadway debut three decades after its first performance, is a psychological thriller that has a timely prescience in David Cromer's riveting production. Carrie Coon delivers a pow…

Manhattan Theatre Club's Broadway premiere of Bug will extend its run for an additional two weeks. Originally scheduled to play through February 8, the production will now play through February 22 at the Sam…

By Alix Cohen 40ish Agnes White (Carrie Coon) lives in a low end motel room on an interstate highway in Oklahoma. A bar waitress, she seems to spend the rest of her time high. Today, ex-husband Jerry Gross (Ste…

Letts's play is a sordid, spiky creature, a two-hour descent into a pit of paranoia within the dingy walls of an Oklahoma motel room. It's also an acting showcase, especially for its female lead, and Coon tears…

Blue Moon, Richard Linklater's portrait of Broadway lyricist Lorenz Hart, will be available on Blu-ray on January 27 from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. Released in theaters last October, the movie is curren…

The play is currently making a long-awaited Broadway debut via Manhattan Theatre Club, with Carrie Coon and Namir Smallwood starring.

When the special effects at a fictional performance of Stranger Things: The First Shadow suddenly went haywire, the cast leaned into the upside-down and dove headfirst into a fever-dream production of Oklahoma!…

The cast of Stranger Things: the First Shadow took Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS to the Upside Down with a special performance at this year's Red Bucket Follies! The performance featured nods to Into the Wo…

The new project features music by Kasey Dillon Yeargain and a book and lyrics by Jersey Boys star Sean McGee.

A brief nod in the direction of western character actor Guy Wilkerson (1899-1971). Wilkerson was a native of Whitewright, Texas, an hour north of Dallas, just over the Oklahoma border. He began dancing and clow…

Never mind that Halloween is long gone. Thanks to Bug, you can still scratch your itch for a deeply creepy psychological thriller that preys on paranoia. Set in a shabby motel room in Oklahoma, the story focuse…

Psychological thriller Bug, starring Carrie Coon and Namir Smallwood, begins performances at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre on December 16. The official opening is set for January 8, 2026. Written by …

The Outsiders' Kevin Csolak will play his final performance as Bob on December 14. Current swing John Patrick Collins will assume the role for three weeks, from December 16 to January 4 at the Bernard B. Jacobs…

Carrie's back! After taking the world be storm with acclaimed appearances in The Gilded Age and The White Lotus, Carrie Coon returns to Broadway this season in Bug, written by her husband a frequent collaborato…

Jake Meyer, a Jew from Latvia, escapes conscription into the Russian Army by emigrating to America, landing first in New York, but winding up in Oklahoma,  where he and his bride Hattie are the only Jews.…

Jordan Fein (Fiddler On The Roof, Oklahoma) joined the London Theatre Review podcast to chat directing Into The Woods at Bridge Theatre this winter. Watch more of the interview: https://youtu.be/Vf-0VL7CixA G…

Jordan Fein (Fiddler On The Roof, Oklahoma) joined the London Theatre Review podcast to chat directing Into The Woods at Bridge Theatre this winter. Get tickets for Into The Woods: https://officiallondontheatr…

For Tony and Emmy nominee Carrie Coon, set to star in Tracy Letts' Bug on Broadway, nothing says "holiday season" quite like a nerve-shredding descent into paranoia and madness. "I give MTC a lot of credit f…

Alice Eve Cohen's Oklahoma Samovar traces a Jewish family from 1887 Latvia to Oklahoma. But can family stories alone produce drama? The post Oklahoma Samovar appeared first on The Front Row Center.

CBS Sunday Morning recently dedicated a segment to stage and screen performer Ethan Hawke, who stars as Broadway lyricist Lorenz Hart in the new film Blue Moon. The movie takes place in Sardi's Restaurant in 19…

Alfred Molina starred in Signature Theatre's one-night-only benefit reading of Will Eno's TITLE & DEED, directed by Lila Neugebauer. See photos from the event here! See photos of Molina on the red carpet, a…

Immerse yourself in the timeless magic of Rodgers & Hammerstein's cinematic treasure The Sound of Music with the beloved soundtrack's first-ever picture disc edition. This video features the vinyl record in its…

Immerse yourself in the timeless magic of Rodgers & Hammerstein's cinematic treasure The Sound of Music with the beloved soundtrack's first-ever picture disc edition. This live stream features the vinyl on a co…

Here's to hoping you can avoid that three-day belly ache. #Oklahoma

Blue Moon, Richard Linklater's biographical portrait of Broadway lyricist Lorenz Hart, is now available to rent or purchase on digital platforms including Amazon, Apple TV, Google Play, Vudu, Fandango, and more…

In shows like "Black Watch," "The Jungle" and "Oklahoma!," the institution has affirmed the theater's singular power to shock and illuminate our world.