Jessica Vosk has joined the cast of Liza! at 80: A Celebration in Song and Dance, honoring the legendary performer and her 80th birthday. Nicole Fosse has been added to the roster of the evening's speakers. …

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,” …

Transport Group has announced a star-studded lineup for Liza! at 80: A Celebration in Song and Dance, celebrating the legendary performer and her 80th birthday. Tickets are on sale now. The cast will include…

There is no escaping Schmigadoon! The new musical is getting ready to begin performances (April 4) at the Nederlander Theatre, where it is set to open on April 20. Check out photos of the new Broadway marquee h…

Symphony Space has revealed the lineup of Broadway stars performing A Gala Celebration of Fleetwood Mac's Rumours. The Gala Celebration of Fleetwood Mac's Rumours takes place Monday, April 13, at 8pm, nearly 50…

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Schmigadoon! is welcoming a number of new townspeople to the Broadway company. As previously announced, Alex Brightman and Sara Chase will star as Josh Skinner and Melissa Gimble. Here's who's jo…

Today, Schmigadoon! announced additional members of the production's Broadway company who will join the previously announced Alex Brightman and Sara Chase. Brightman and Chase will star as Josh Skinner and Meli…

Sierra Boggess, Kelli O'Hara, Tituss Burgess, and several other Broadway performers are featured on Bell Tower, an upcoming album of twenty-six theatrical art songs from composer and lyricist Georgia Stitt. The…

The American Theatre Wing (Heather Hitchens, President & CEO), along with Spectrum News NY1, announced the recipients of the 69th Annual Obie Awards, Off and Off-Off-Broadway's Highest Honor, today, Saturda…

Once Upon a Mattress (1971) with Carol Burnett

The first-ever Broadway revival of CHESS officially opened at Broadway's Imperial Theatre last night, Sunday, November 16. Check out a video from curtain call, featuring Aaron Tveit, Lea Michele and Nicholas Ch…

The first-ever Broadway revival of CHESS officially opened at Broadway's Imperial Theatre last night, Sunday, November 16. Check out a video from curtain call, featuring Aaron Tveit, Lea Michele and Nicholas Ch…

Campaigns for "Buena Vista Social Club," "Once Upon a Mattress" and more took home prizes. 

The first-ever Broadway revival of Chess officially opened at Broadway's Imperial Theatre last night, Sunday, November 16. Check out photos of the cast, featuring Aaron Tveit, Lea Michele and Nicholas Christoph…

Queens Theatre (QT) will present a one-night-only staged reading of Douglas Lyons' Broadway comedy Chicken & Biscuits on Monday, November 24, 2025, at 7:00 PM, starring Tony Award nominee Norm Lewis (The Ph…

At This Theatre: The Hudson When it re-opened in 2017, The Hudson Theatre became one of Broadway's newest old theaters, having been brought back into legitimate service with the starry revival of Sunday in th…

Tickets are now on sale for Craig Baldwin's adaptation of Shakespeare's Richard II starring Michael Urie. The production runs off-Broadway at Astor Place Theatre from October 28-November 30. Opening night is No…

Tony winner Jane Krakowski begins her run in Cole Escola's Oh, Mary! as Mary Todd Lincoln on October 14. Her limited eight-week engagement will conclude December 7. "I am so honored to slip into the b…

Rockers On Broadway: Live " Volume 2 will be available on all major streaming platforms beginning October 3, 2025, from R.O.B. Records in partnership with Jazzheads. Following the release of Rockers On Broadway…

There's more Oh, Mary! casting news this week. In addition to the announcement that show alums James Scuilly and Phillip James Brannon are returning to Tony winner Cole Escola's unhinged comedy, Broadway vet…

As summer winds down with the beach chairs stored away, the last of the ripe tomatoes devoured, and the tans finally faded, we now turn to the fall and those extra special shows to get us excited " and to diver…

LONDON REPORT: "THE PRODUCERS" IS BACK " JUST FOR THE FUN OF IT! Andy Nyman and Marc Antolin as Max Bialystock and Leo Bloom in "The Producers" (2025).September 11, 2025: Theatre Yesterday and To…

The pieces are coming together! BroadwayWorld has just learned the complete cast for the first-ever Broadway revival of CHESS. Joining the previously announced Tony Award winner Aaron Tveit, Emmy Award nominee …

Dissecting designer J. Jared Janas' creations like Sutton Foster's "Once Upon a Mattress" wigs and makeup for "Buena Vista Social Club."

Will Chase, Ingrid Michaelson, James Naughton, and more are among the Broadway stars featured in titles at the 2025 Chain NYC Film Festival, happening this month. This year's festival features over 160 films fr…

Tonight, award-winning actress and Drag Queen Jinkx Monsoon ("RuPaul's Drag Race," "Doctor Who") will take to the Lyceum Theatre stage for the first time in the Tony Award-winning hit comedy, Oh, Mary!. Monsoon…

Kumail Nanjiani, Michael Urie and Jenn Harris will join the Broadway cast of Oh, Mary! as Mary's Husband, Mary's Teacher and Mary's Chaperone, respectively. Alongside Jinkx Monsoon, who will be the sho…

Kumail Nanjiani (Marvel's Eternals, The Big Sick) and Michael Urie (Apple TV's Shrinking, Broadway's Once Upon a Mattress) will join the Broadway cast of Oh, Mary! alongside the previously announced Jinkx Monso…

Broadway's hit comedy Oh, Mary! will welcome three new stars this summer. Kumail Nanjiani, Michael Urie, and Jenn Harris will join the Tony-winning production beginning Monday, August 4. The trio will appear in…

Over-the-top silliness undermines what can be a clever little musical.

Director Peter Francis James joins The Old Globe's Kim Heil to discuss Shakespeare's All's Well That Ends Well. Vicki and Carl Zeiger Insights Seminars provide Globe patrons with an opportunity to closely conn…

Shakespeare's witty comedy opens the 2025 Shakespeare Festival, directed by Peter Francis James, and running June 8 through July 6, 2025. Find tickets at https://www.theoldglobe.org/pdp/25-season/alls-well-tha…

 Editors' Choice, Part Two Yesterday, we presented the first part of our 2025 JKTS  Awards honoring those theater people - new faces and familiar faces - that made the 2024-2025 Broadway season the spe…

Earlier tonight at the 78th Annual Tony Awards, Francis Jue took home a Tony Award for 'Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play' for his outstanding work in Yellow Face. After leaving the st…

Kara Young and Kerry Washington will take the stage in a series of monologues written by Whoopi Goldberg as part of Lincoln Center Theater's 2025-2026 season. The season marks the first full for new artistic di…

The winners of the 69th Annual Drama Desk Awards were announced in a ceremony at NYU Skirball on June 1. Debra Messing and Tituss Burgess co-hosted the event, which celebrated the 2024-25 season of Broadway,…

The winners of the 69th Annual Drama Desk Awards were announced in a ceremony at NYU Skirball on June 1. Debra Messing and Tituss Burgess co-hosted the event, which celebrated the 2024-25 season of Broadway,…

Tony Award nominee Kerry Butler has joined the upcoming off-Broadway production of Heathers the Musical as Ms. Fleming/Veronica's Mom. The musical will make its New York City return in a limited engage…

You can now get a look at photos and video from The Entertainment Community Fund's Annual Gala on Monday, April 21, 2025 in New York City, which raised $1.6 million to support their programs and services. The e…

"Buena Vista Social Club" has reason to celebrate with its ten Tony nominations announced today.May 1, 2025: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron Fassler It's always a thrill for me to read the Tony nominatio…

The 2025 Tony Awards:  If We Were Nominators This year, Mike and I still have several Tony-eligible shows to see before the nominations are announced tomorrow. So, instead of our typical list of informed pr…

Jeremy Jordan in "Floyd Collins" First, a big thanks to Adam Feldman for setting me straight (so to speak) on a few eligibility issues.. I rushed …

The 2024-2025 theater season ends on Sunday with the dual openings of the musicals Dead Outlaw and Real Women Have Curves. And I'm exhausted. But it's the kind of good exhaustion that comes from doing someth…

BroadwayWorld's Richard Ridge spoke with Once Upon a Mattress star Michael Urie about his journey with the show! Direct from its sold-old, record-breaking New York City Center Encores! run, Once Upon a Mattres…

Watch as BroadwayWorld's Richard Ridge discusses the journey of Once Upon a Mattress with one of the production's stars, Michael Urie! Urie discusses his co-star Sutton Foster and more.

Sutton Foster, Michael Urie, Daniel Breaker, Will Chase, Ana Gasteyer, and Nikki Renée Daniels appeared at The Museum of Broadway to perform songs from the Once Upon a Mattress cast recording and to sign CDs. …

... 28, 2025. Michael Urie and Sutton Foster Record 'Song of Love' from Once Upon a Mattress. 11 views · 4 minutes ago ...more. Playbill. 232K.

Center Stage Records released the Broadway revival cast album earlier this year.

Center Stage Records released the Broadway revival's cast recording March 28, 2025.

Ana Gasteyer calls Brooks Ashmanskas "the funniest man on Broadway," and who are we to argue? In a 30-year career on and off-Broadway, Ashmanskas has lent his comic expertise to farces (The Ritz), sketch revues…

Sutton Foster and more will join the Once Upon a Mattress cast album signing and performance at the Museum of Broadway. Learn more and see how to attend.

Sutton Foster, Michael Urie, Daniel Breaker, Will Chase, Ana Gasteyer, and Nikki Renée Daniels will appear at The Museum of Broadway on April 22nd to perform a few selections from the Once Upon a Mattress c…

At the 1960 Tony Awards, the original Broadway productions of Gypsy and Once Upon a Mattress were among the nominees for Best Musical. This year, their latest incernations are in contention for Best Mu…

Six new Broadway productions opened in March, inaugurating the spring season and foreshadowing the 12 additional openings to come before Tony Awards nominations are announced. See below for a breakdown of how o…

The Broadway Cast Recording for the New York City Center Encores! revival of Once Upon a Mattress is available now! The album has been released physically and digitally, and can be purchased and streamed …

Ana Gasteyer and Michael Urie co-starred at the Hudson Theatre.

Michael Urie earned consistent laughter in the recent revival of Once Upon a Mattress thanks to the mannered way in which his infantilized Prince Dauntless called for his mother. "But Maw-MAW," he'd cry out …

By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic ("Steppin' Out") The Hans Christian Andersedn fairy tale "The Princess and the Pea" is the basis for Once Upon a Mattress, the 1959 musical that launched the Broadway care…

Daniel Breaker looks every inch a suave messenger of the gods when he steps on stage to start the action in Hadestown. The long-running musical is in good hands with Breaker singing about the road to hell in He…

Kara Lindsay, the original Katherine Plumber in Broadway's Newsies, got a mid-show surprise during a performance at Walt Disney World. She's one of the Disney on Broadway Concert Series' featured artis…

Three theatres, thousands of Angelenos, ONE LA! 😇 Over the last month, all three of our stages have been active with ONCE UPON A MATTRESS at the Ahmanson Theatre, the world premiere of FAKE IT UNTIL YO…

On Monday night, internet sensation Trisha Paytas, made her long-awaited Broadway debut in one-night-only musical theatre extravaganza, Trisha Paytas' Big Broadway Dream, at Broadway's St. James Theatre. The …

It seems that Mary Rodgers was famous for many things. She's part of a Broadway family - she was the daughter of Richard Rodgers, and she's Adam Guettel's mother. She was an acclaimed and popular children's aut…

SIX has announced new casting for the Broadway production. The incoming Queens will begin performances February 19 at the Lena Horne Theatre. Taking over the roles of Henry VIII's six wives will be Najah He…

Seaview, the Tony Award winning production company behind such Broadway shows as Stereophonic, Romeo + Juliet, Once Upon a Mattress and All In and recent Off Broadway stagings of Hold Onto Me Darling and Danny …

The record will be released in March.

The curtain may have fallen on the record-breaking revival of Once Upon a Mattress, but the show's magic is far from over. Sutton Foster, Michael Urie, and the star-studded Broadway cast of the acclaimed New Yo…

Once Upon a Mattress, the fairytale musical comedy that starred two-time Tony winner Sutton Foster as Winnifred the Woebegone, is set to record a cast album to be released in the spring. The album w…

The Broadway cast of New York City Center Encores! revival of Once Upon a Mattress, directed by Lear deBessonet, will go into the studio to record the Cast Album of their production at the end of January.

Original Once Upon a Mattress star Carol Burnett went to see the Broadway revival starring Sutton Foster for its final performance in Los Angeles. See photos with Ana Gasteyer, Michael Urie, Kevin Del Aguila, a…

Measure a year in Broadway shows. Take a look back on the Broadway shows of 2024, including: Prayer for the French Republic, Days of Wine and Roses, Doubt, The Notebook, An Enemy of the People, Water for Elepha…

Before we sign off for 2024, Mike and I thought we'd weigh in on our favorite productions that we saw over the past twelve months. Overall, the shows we loved far outweighed those we didn't. That said, there we…

2024 in Review: Our Favorite Performances We were fortunate enough to see 23 different productions in 2024: 20 Broadway, 2 off-Broadway, and 1 regional; these are the shows we considered in all categories fo…

2024 in Review: Our Favorite Design Elements (6 Categories + 2 Special Citations) We were fortunate enough to see 23 different productions in 2024: 20 Broadway, 2 off-Broadway, and 1 regional; these are the sh…

2024 in Review: Our Favorite Writing & Direction (6 Categories) We were fortunate enough to see 23 different productions in 2024: 20 Broadway, 2 off-Broadway, and 1 regional; these are the shows we consid…