Otto, a student at the University of Oklahoma, was recognized for her work in sustainability in theatre.

A concert celebrating Broadway’s greatest musicals and the works that inspired them! Thursday, July 18 at 8PM; Friday, July 19 at 8PM; Saturday, July 20 at 3PM & 8PM “THEY MADE IT A MUSICAL!” pulls back …

New York Stage and Film (NYSAF), a vital incubator for new theatrical works, has announced additional casting for its previously reported 2024 summer season, including a number of artists who will be familiar t…

Summer has come roaring in this year. Temperatures seem to be setting records everywhere, making many of us (O.K., me) want to kick back and chill out with a cold drink and a cool book. The drink of choice for …

From BroadwayWorld's Archive: With a decades-spanning career and an unmatched list of accolades including Kennedy Center Honors and Tony, Grammy, and Drama Desk awards, Broadway icon Barbara Cook is beloved for…

Theodore “Tiny” Roebuck (1906-1969) was a Native American athlete who dabbled in film acting in the 1930s. A member of the Choctaw tribe, Roebuck hailed from the Lenton Territory in what is now Oklahoma. Hi…

(Image courtesy of playbill.com). 5. “The Outsiders,” based on the bestselling novel by S.E. Hinton, won Best Musical at the 77th Annual Tony Awards ...

See the Oklahoma! star visit Broadway Celebrates Juneteenth and Cats: "The Jellicle Ball" in celebration of Juneteenth and Pride.

The Outsiders  may have had the inside track at the Tony Awards after all. In awarding Best Musical to the $22 million adaptation of the S.E. Hinton novel and Francis Ford Coppola movie about an ill-fated gang…

The Outsiders won the Tony Award for Best Musical at the 77th Annual Tony Awards. The production won a total of four awards throughout the evening, with Danya Taymor winning for Best Direction of a Musical, Br…

Angelina Jolie and Debra Martin Chase took home the Tony Award for best musical for The Outsiders. The show takes place in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 2967, when Ponyboy Curtis, his best friend, Johnny Cade and their G…

From BroadwayWorld's Archive: Aaron Lazar was last seen on Broadway in the role of Enjolras in the recent revival of Les Misérables. His other Broadway credits include Light in the Piazza, Oklahoma and The Pha…

From BroadwayWorld's Archive: Gerard Alessandrini's Forbidden Broadway, one of NYC's best-loved and highly anticipated productions, is back this season after a five-year absence. Spoofs include Hadestown, Mouli…

Physical media collectors can now get their hands on My Favorite Things, the 80th-anniversary concert celebrating the partnership of renowned composer and lyricist Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein. Directe…

My Favorite Things: The Rodgers & Hammerstein 80th Anniversary Concert features a star-studded cast including Joanna Ampil, Michael Ball, Maria Friedman, Daniel Dae Kim, Audra McDonald, Julian Ovenden, Lucy St.…

Go inside the sitzprobe for the upcoming West End revival of Cole Poter's KISS ME, KATE starring Olivier nominee Charlie Stemp (Crazy For Yoanu, Mary Poppins) and rising star Georgina Onuorah (The Wizard of Oz,…

This month’s roundup includes the versatile actor’s 75th birthday show, Succession’s Harriet Walter playing Lorca’s matriarch and supreme showman Hugh Jackman in the classic musical To mark his 75th bir…

"Climb Ev'ry Mountain" Music by Richard Rodgers Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II Performed by Audra McDonald My Favorite Things: The Rodgers & Hammerstein 80th Anniversary Concert features a star-studded cast in…

Audra McDonald, Julian Ovenden, Marisha Wallace, and Patrick Wilson are among the 2023 concert's starry line-up celebrating the Oklahoma! and South Pacific creators.

The musical will launch its North American tour from Tulsa, Oklahoma.

The Outsiders, the Tony-nominated musical based on the novel by S.E. Hinton and the 1983 film, will embark on a national tour. The tour will kick off in Tulsa—where the story is set—at the Tulsa Performing …

Tony-nominated Best Musical The Outsiders, the new musical based on the seminal novel by S.E. Hinton and Francis Ford Coppola’s landmark motion picture, will officially open a North American Tour in Fall …

In Tulsa, Oklahoma, 1967, the hardened hearts and aching souls of Ponyboy Curtis, Johnny Cade and their chosen family of "outsiders" are in a fight for survival and a quest for purpose in a world that may never…

The company's current managing director will merge that role with that of artistic director, which Kelly Kerwin will leave in June.

In December of 2023, Broadway luminaries gathered together to celebrate the historic partnership and songs of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, 80 years after the premiere of their first musical, Oklaho…

Rodgers & Hammerstein’s 80th Anniversary premieres on PBS later this month.

Steven Pasquale will star in the Kennedy Center’s upcoming production of the Maury Yeston–Arthur Kopit musical Nine. Directed by three-time Tony winner Andy Blankenbuehler (Hamilton), the production will p…

By Douglas Mayo Full casting is announced for Rodgers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma! in concert at Theatre Royal Drury Lane. This post Oklahoma! in concert – Full cast announced first appeared on British Theatre…

Phil Dunster and Zizi Strallen are leading the Rodgers and Hammerstein classic as it returns to its first London home, Theatre Royal Drury Lane.

Review of the Saturday, May 11, 2024 matinee performance at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre in New York City. Starring Brody Grant, Sky Lakota-Lynch, Joshua Boone, Brent Comer, Dan Berry, Emma Pittman, Daryl Tofa…

One afternoon in Tulsa, Oklahoma in the 1960s, a 15-year-old student at Will Rogers High School named Susan Hinton—her close friends called her Suzie—witnessed a friend being attacked by a gang of boys on h…

After serving for 3 years as the successor of founder Donald Jordan, she'll leave the company to be closer to her family in New York.

Tyson Bennett is out as his position of Superintendent following a transgender student being denied a role in the school production of Oklahoma!.

By: Iris Wiener April 24, 2024: The new musical adaptation of S.E. Hinton’s classic novel The Outsiders and Francis Ford Coppola’s 1983 film of the same name is a quiet, though gut-punching gem now ope…

The cast of "The Outsiders: A New Musica"l bring their own substantial charisma to the stage, but it's been dramaturgically constrained by Adam Rapp and Justin Levine's book, which sacrifices poetry for explana…

Tony-nominated actor Damon Daunno has just dropped his first single. While Daunno may be a “new artist” when it comes to releasing his own music, he is hardly a novice. With a compelling, acrobatic voice t…

Audra McDonald, Julian Ovenden, Marisha Wallace, and Patrick Wilson are among the 2023 concert's starry line-up celebrating the Oklahoma! and South Pacific creators.

April 12 was the birthday of the film actor known as Chief Thundercloud (1899-1955). As it happens, there is a “thundercloud” surrounding the actor’s true identity. His real name has been given as Victor …

Tony Award winner Shuler Hensley will direct and star in a one-night only performance of Fiddler on the Roof in Concert. The event will take place in the Michael Klein Music Tent in Aspen, CO on July 23. Hensl…

MCC Theater has released first look photos of the New York premiere of The Lonely Few, a new rock musical featuring an all-star cast including Tony Award-winner Lauren Patten (Jagged Little Pill), Damon Daunno…

The Outsiders, now running at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre, will release its Original Broadway Cast Recording in digitial form on May 22 with the physical CD available June 28. Produced by Sony Masterworks Br…

Stars Line Up for ‘Our Town’ Revival, Durang Passes Away, Phil Dunster to Lead ‘Oklahoma’ Concert “Today on Broadway” is a daily, Monday through Friday, podcast hitting the top theatre headlines of …

Ted Lasso’s Phil Dunster will play Curly opposite West End star Zizi Strallen's Laurey in a London concert production of in Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Oklahoma! The concert will play for two performances …

The performance will see the Rodgers and Hammerstein classic returning to its first London home, Theatre Royal Drury Lane.

RODGERS & HAMMERSTEIN’S OKLAHOMA! in Concert stars Emmy, Critics Choice & Olivier Award-nominated actor Phil Dunster (Ted Lasso) as Curly alongside West End star Zizi Strallen (Mary Poppins) as Laurey…

Daniel Fish's "Oklahoma!" in Los Angeles, Taylor Mac, Kiki and Herb and other tales of "Black Box to Broadway". Essay #3 in a series about the unique power of live performance in small venues.

For Classic Stage Company's second annual Classics Gone Mad Gala, which was Rodgers and Hammerstein themed, The Skivvies created and performed a mega R&H medley. Brandon James Guinn also on piano and vocals. Th…

Oklahoma! opened at the St. James Theatre on March 31st, 1943. The musical, with music by Richard Rodgers and book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, was based on Lynn Rigg's 1930 play 'Green Grow the Lilacs…

Elmer J. McCurdy was killed in a shoot-out with sheriff’s deputies in Oklahoma in 1911, but took 66 years to be buried, his mummified remains having been exhibited all that time by a series of macabre showme…

See you at the cinema! 🍿 My Favorite Things: The Rodgers & Hammerstein 80th Anniversary Concert premieres on the big screen in the UK & Ireland on 14 and 18 February. Featuring a star-studded cast including …

See you at the cinema! 🍿 My Favorite Things: The Rodgers & Hammerstein 80th Anniversary Concert premieres on the big screen in the UK & Ireland on 14 and 18 February. Featuring a star-studded cast including …

Marisha Wallace has left the Big Brother house. The Olivier Award-nominated West End star was the fifth contestant to be eliminated from the competition, just days before the season finale on Friday. Other cont…

Watch Mary Martin sing "It Might As Well Be Spring" from Rodgers & Hammerstein's State Fair – featured in the 1954 TV special “General Foods 25th Anniversary Show: A Salute to Rodgers and Hammerstein.” Th…

The stars of "My Favorite Things: The Rodgers & Hammerstein 80th Anniversary Concert" share their thoughts on the enduring legacy of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II. Celebrate 80 years of Rodgers & H…

The Outsiders, based on the novel by S.E. Hinton and the 1983 film that starred Tom Cruise, Matt Dillon, Emilio Estevez, Rob Lowe and Patrick Swayze, begins performances on March 16 at the Bernard B. Jacobs The…

Here’s a crazy yarn about a crazier yarn! In 2006, Broadway brilliantine David Yazbek (Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, The Full Monty, Tootsie), having read my book No Applause and learning that I was also a playwri…

Adrianna Hicks will star in the title role of Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma’s Summer Season opener, MARY POPPINS. Learn more about the show and see how to purchase tickets.

The family favorite will open the company's summer season.

Celebrate this 25-year-old production of Rodgers & Hammerstein's Oklahoma! – coinciding with the 80th anniversary of the musical’s groundbreaking 1943 premiere on Broadway – with these exclusive interview…

Celebrate 80 years of Rodgers & Hammerstein with this landmark anniversary concert – streaming online in North America for one week only beginning March 24! Hear your favorite R&H songs performed by stars Joa…

Audra McDonald, Julian Ovenden, Marisha Wallace, and Patrick Wilson are among the 2023 concert's starry line-up celebrating the Oklahoma! and South Pacific creators.

"Something Good" From Rodgers & Hammerstein's THE SOUND OF MUSIC Performed by Julie Andrews & Christopher Plummer (Original Vocals) Music and Lyrics by Richard Rodgers Order your copy of The Super Deluxe Editi…

The Outsiders, based on the novel by S.E. Hinton and the 1983 film, begins performances on March 16 at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre, opening April 11. The new musical follows misfits Ponyboy Curtis, Johnny Cad…

Growing up in Orlando, Florida, Wayne Brady fell in love with Golden-Age movie musical fare along the lines of Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Oklahoma! and Singin’ in the Rain. “My grandmother raised me o…

Spring is just around the corner and so are the 18 new Broadway shows raring to heat up New York City’s biggest stages. From the teenage battlegrounds of Oklahoma, to the magical land of Oz, to Berlin’s gri…

MCC Theater has completed casting for the New York premiere of The Lonely Few, a new rock musical directed by Trip Cullman and Ellenore Scott. Performances will run at MCC's Newman Mills Theater from April 26…

See you at the cinema! 🍿 My Favorite Things: The Rodgers & Hammerstein 80th Anniversary Concert premieres on the big screen in the UK & Ireland on 14 and 18 February. Buy your tickets now at https://rnh.soci…

Dominion theatre, LondonBartlett Sher’s gingerly feminist take on the problematic mid-century musical has superb dancing but is ponderously paced ‘Stories of the east have seldom reached the western stage w…

Rockville Little Theatre’s production of “The Grapes of Wrath” follows much the same path as John Steinbeck’s classic novel. Tom Joad (Doug Richesson) returns to Oklahoma from a stint in prison to find …

2023 - 2024 Broadway Musical Logos: Gutenberg! The Musical! The first first thing you notice about the logo for the soon-to-close Gutenberg! The Musical! is the warm orange color. According to several sources…

Get ready for karaoke! Sing along to "The Sound of Music," featured on The Sound of Music Super Deluxe Edition – now available to stream or purchase. The definitive Super Deluxe Edition of the beloved soundtr…

Get ready for karaoke! Sing along now to "Maria," featured on The Sound of Music Super Deluxe Edition – now available to stream or purchase. The definitive Super Deluxe Edition of the beloved soundtrack, with…

Get ready for karaoke! Sing along now to "I Have Confidence," featured on The Sound of Music Super Deluxe Edition – now available to stream or purchase. The definitive Super Deluxe Edition of the beloved soun…

Get ready for karaoke! Sing along now to "Sixteen Going On Seventeen," featured on The Sound of Music Super Deluxe Edition – now available to stream or purchase. The definitive Super Deluxe Edition of the bel…

Get ready for karaoke! Sing along now to "My Favorite Things," featured on The Sound of Music Super Deluxe Edition – now available to stream or purchase. The definitive Super Deluxe Edition of the beloved sou…

Get ready for karaoke! Sing along now to "Do-Re-Mi," featured on The Sound of Music Super Deluxe Edition – now available to stream or purchase. The definitive Super Deluxe Edition of the beloved soundtrack, w…

Get ready for karaoke! Sing along now to "The Sound of Music (Reprise)," featured on The Sound of Music Super Deluxe Edition – now available to stream or purchase. The definitive Super Deluxe Edition of the b…

Get ready for karaoke! Sing along now to "The Lonely Goatherd," featured on The Sound of Music Super Deluxe Edition – now available to stream or purchase. The definitive Super Deluxe Edition of the beloved so…

Get ready for karaoke! Sing along now to "Edelweiss (Duet)," featured on The Sound of Music Super Deluxe Edition – now available to stream or purchase. The definitive Super Deluxe Edition of the beloved sound…