Betsy Wolfe plays the mortality-defying diva Madeline Ashton in Death Becomes Her on Broadway. For six weeks, she’s taking us behind the velvet curtain at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, where the fountain of you…

Beginning February 16, SIX: The Musical will crown a new set of queens. Dylan Mulvaney and Abigail Barlow will make their Broadway debuts in the roles of Anne Boleyn and Katherine Howard, respectively. Returni…

Beginning February 16, SIX: The Musical will crown a new set of queens. Dylan Mulvaney and Abigail Barlow will make their Broadway debuts in the roles of Anne Boleyn and Katherine Howard, respectively. Returni…

The Broadway and West End hit will also welcome back Olivia Donalson as part of an all-star cast.

Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss’s musical, SIX, has found its new Queens! Beginning February 16, the cast will feature two newcomers to the Queendom who are making their Broadway debuts - Dylan Mulvaney (The Least …

The 2026 cast will also mark the return of two original Broadway cast members.

Don’t lose your head! Today, it was announced that we have a new group of queens for twenty twenty Six. Beginning February 16, 2026, the new company will include Dylan Mulvaney as Anne Boleyn and Grammy winne…

The big day is almost here! After months of hard work, the six finalists of BroadwayWorld's Next on Stage: Season 6 will hit the stage in New York City for the our live finale at 54 Below. The performers wil…

Sensational lineup to feature new national tour launches, market debuts and returning favorites Starting at just $343, eight-show subscription packages include Maybe Happy Ending, Hell’s Kitchen, The Sound…

He was a familiar face from Broadway productions of “Company,” “Titanic” and “Six Degrees of Separation” and numerous film and TV appearances.

Producers of the Korean musical Let Me Fly have begun exploring Broadway theaters as part of a broader push to bring South Korean musicals to New York, according to reporting by Gordon Cox in his Jaques industr…

Following a sold-out run at the Edinburgh Fringe and multiple five-star reviews, Tom Foreman Productions has announced its biggest tour yet with Boiler Room Six: A Titanic Story The post Critically Acclaimed Bo…

Aladdin on Broadway will welcome Rodney Ingram in the title role beginning February 3. Ainsley Melham will play his final performance on February 1. Ingram made his Broadway debut in the ensemble of Aladdin, w…

Hadestown will welcome an all new principal cast to Broadway on Tuesday, March 3rd. The company will feature Disney Channel and Broadway star Joshua Colley as ‘Orpheus,’ television & film star Gary Dour…

The ASCAP Foundation has recognized musical theater writing duo Will Aronson and Hue Park, creators of the Tony Award-winning musical Maybe Happy Ending, with The ASCAP Foundation Richard Rodgers New Horizons A…

The official trailer has been released for The Land of Sometimes, the upcoming animated feature with a star-studded cast and new songs from EGOT-winning songwriter Sir Tim Rice. The movie will be released in UK…

SIX the Musical has announced a fresh lineup of queens set to take the stage at the Vaudeville Theatre starting February 24. This record-breaking hit, created by Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss, will continue its rul…

A trip to the pantomime is a Christmas tradition but they also lift the January gloom and even run later in the year The Christmas decorations have been packed away, kids are back at school and new year resolut…

Aidan Close plays Scorpius Malfoy in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child on Broadway. For six weeks, he’s taking fans backstage at the Lyric Theatre to see where the real magic happens. On this week's episode,…

Broadway powerhouse Betsy Wolfe is no stranger to the vlogging game, having previously hosted the series “Sugar, Butter, Betsy” for Broadway.com during her stint as Jenna in Waitress. On January 16, the Ton…

By Alix Cohen Composer Burt Bacharach’s harmonically adventurous pop songs reshaped popular music from the late 1950s onward. Working most famously with lyricist Hal David, he wrote dozens of enduring hits th…

January 13 was the birthday of Tin Pan Alley composer James V. Monaco (1885-1945). Monaco was an Italian immigrant who moved to the U.S. with his family when he was six years old. He was raised in Albany, where…

Austin Colburn (Fixing Frankie) and Jana Larell Glover (Six: The Musical) will be joining the company of Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York) as standbys for Dougal and Robin. The musical is currently p…

John Cunningham (1932–2026) in “Rose” (1981). Photo by Martha Swope.January 12, 2026: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron Fassler. It took me a few days to talk to some people, look up a few facts, and …

New stars are flying into the Broadway blockbuster Wicked this spring. Keri René Fuller, currently the Elphaba standby, will assume the role full time, and Emma Flynn, who most recently played the lead role o…

Wicked on Broadway will welcome two new cast members to the Gershwin Theatre this spring. Beginning Tuesday, March 3, Keri René Fuller, who is currently the standby for the role of Elphaba, will assume the rol…

Jan 30 - Feb 22 Official tickets: https://www.denvercenter.org/tickets-events/godspeed/ It’s 1865. Slavery has just been abolished in Texas. And a gunslinger named Godspeed returns to the Lone Star State wit…

Hamnet, Chloé Zhao's film about William and Agnes Shakespeare, has won a Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama. Fellow nominees in the category were Guillermo Del Toro's Frankenstein, It Was Jus…

Jessie Buckley has won the Golden Globe for Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama for her emotional performance as Agnes Shakespeare in Hamnet. This is the first Golden Globe nominati…

"Golden," the hit song from the Netflix animated film KPop Demon Hunters, has received a Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song, beating out songs from Wicked: For Good, Avatar: Fire and Ash, Sinners, and Tr…

John Cunningham, a prolific Broadway actor who appeared in such acclaimed productions as the original stagings of Cabaret, 1776, Company, Six Degrees of Separation and The Sisters Rosensweig, and whose many scr…

BroadwayWorld is saddened to report that stage and screen actor John Cunningham died on Tuesday, January 6 at the age of 93. On Broadway, Cunningham was seen in Amour (2002), in which he originated the roles of…

Photos by Frank Rizzo Below is my piece on Carmen de Lavallade for Encore magazine..The great dancer, actor, teacher, choreographer died earlier t…

The Broadway cast of “Aladdin” recently appeared on TODAY to perform a four-song medley of songs from the hit musical as part of the Citi Concert Series. The performance was led by Michael James Scott, who …

Zama Magudulela is joining the North American tour of Disney’s The Lion King as Rafiki. Magudulela will begin performances on January 13 in Sacramento at the Safe Credit Union Performing Arts Center, where th…

The North American tour of Disney’s The Lion King will welcome Zama Magudulela as Rafiki. Magudulela will begin performances on Tuesday, January 13 in Sacramento at the Safe Credit Union Performing Arts Cente…

Leung is one of six actors currently playing the Phantom in the immersive production of the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Off-Broadway.

Following a triple extended engagement in New York, a box office record-breaking two-week run in Chicago, San Francisco, Seattle, and a six-week London run—which Dame Judi Dench called ‘Spectacular’—Ton…

Click below to access all the Broadway grosses from all the shows for the week ending 1/4/2026 in BroadwayWorld's grosses section. Also, you will find information on each show's historical grosses, cumulative g…

At the 2025 edition of Red Bucket Follies, Chaz Wolcott directed and choreographed a lively salute to the 20 national touring productions that joined the fall fundraising effort. The baseball-inspired tap numbe…

Interview: Step inside six hotel rooms and uncover wedding secrets. Read our interview with director Daphna Attias on I Do at Malmaison London! The post Interview: Daphna Attias on I Do at Malmaison London appe…

Watch a video of the national tour casts of Six, Wicked, Hamilton, MJ, Suffs, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child and more perform at the 2025 edition of Red Bucket Follies!...

Exciting casting news has arrived for the upcoming UK tour of Legally Blonde The Musical. Hannah Lowther, known for her performances in Six and Heathers, will take on the roles of Margot and Alternate Elle Wood…

Bret Hanna-Shuford, a veteran of six Broadway shows and popular social media influencer, died after a brief battle with a rare and aggressive form of lymphoma and HLH died in Orlando, Florida on January 3, 2026…

This year's Red Bucket Follies opening number took a delightfully meta turn, following Stephen Lloyd Rodgers von Schwartzenheim – played by James T. Lane – as he struggled to write the opening number for Re…

Check out the 2025 Red Bucket Follies opening number, from the annual variety show performed December 8 and 9, 2025 at the New Amsterdam Theatre. This year's Red Bucket Follies opening number went meta, followi…

There are more than 100 shows produced by the six annual theater festivals listed below, all of which begin in January. On offer are Beckett and Kabuki; a campy Princess Diana and an outraged Anita Hill; a word…

Click below to access all the Broadway grosses from all the shows for the week ending 12/28/2025 in BroadwayWorld's grosses section. Also, you will find information on each show's historical grosses, cumulative…

The fan-favorite musical is celebrating its sixth anniversary on Broadway with a series of special Playbills.

Over six decades she worked in theater, opera, film and television alongside luminaries like Alvin Ailey, Lena Horne, Agnes de Mille and Harry Belafonte.

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!…

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times" so opens Charles Dickens' novel, "A Tale of Two Cities," and while this blog post has nothing to do with the French Revolution, we would like to celebrate t…

A native of Dartmouth (Halifax?), Nova Scotia, Ruby Keeler (b. 25 August 1910; d. Rancho Mirage, CA, 23 February 1993) was one of the first great performers in the early days of the Broadway and Hollywood music…

Colleen Dewhurst and Jason Robards in Eugene O’Neill’s “A Moon for the Misbegotten” (1973).December 29, 2025: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron Fassler Eugene O’Neill (1888–1953), the only Americ…

The Kennedy Center is going to be very quiet this winter and spring. The only show of note coming in for the next six months is a national tour of “Chicago,” from March 29th. Otherwise, the famed institutio…

The Make-Up Artists & Hair Stylists Guild has announced the nominations for the 13th Annual MUAHS Guild Awards, which include honors for Broadway's Death Becomes Her and Beetlejuice, along with Wicked: For …

The multitalented artist now plays Anna of Cleves in the hit musical at the Lena Horne Theatre.

Episodes five and six premiere on PBS December 28.

It’s The Broadway Show, the only nationally syndicated weekly theater television series. The program features Broadway’s biggest stars, exclusive interviews and behind-the-scenes access both on and off the …

Hamilton earned the runner-up performance award as the founding fathers got down in “Sons of Liberty Gone Wild,” a piece written, directed and choreographed by original cast member Thayne Jasperson. The hig…

The original Korean production of Maybe Happy Ending has sold out every performance of its Seoul engagement and has announced plans for a nationwide tour following the conclusion of its run. The musical opened …

Aidan Close plays Scorpius Malfoy in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child on Broadway. For six weeks, he’s taking fans backstage at the Lyric Theatre to see where the real magic happens. For this week's episode…

Jan 30 - Feb 22 Official tickets: https://www.denvercenter.org/tickets-events/godspeed/ Dig deeper with playwright Terence Anthony on the world premiere of Godspeed, debuting at the Denver Center Theatre Comp…

The American College Theatre Festival (ACTF) has announced that it is suspending its affiliation with The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts after nearly six decades of partnership. In a statement s…

When Hell’s Kitchen composer Alicia Keys stepped on stage at the curtain call of Yolanda Adams’ first performance as Miss Liza Jane, the audience realized something special was happening. “Have you ever h…

Operation Mincemeat – Dear Bill (Official Lyric Video) Stream and Download Operation Mincemeat Album here: https://OperationMincemeat.lnk.to/AlbumOutNowAY Subscribe to the Operation Mincemeat YouTube Channel…

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The mystery of who first encouraged superstar singer Taylor Swift to go on a date with Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce has been revealed. Two more episodes of Swift’s six-part “End of an …

Rent fans and musical theatre devotees have big news to mark their calendars for in 2026. The Jonathan Larson Project, a heartfelt tribute to the iconic composer behind Rent and tick, tick… BOOM!, is official…

Ben Platt: Live at the Ahmanson completed the first six performances of its two-week concert residency and now heads into its final weekend of performances; the show must close Sunday, December 21. The producti…

Earlier this week Titanique and Beaches: The Musical announced in quick succession that they will be taking the St. James and Majestic Theatre’s, each for a limited run this spring into summer. That, combined…

Rehearsal images have been released for Cable Street, ahead of its highly anticipated six-week run at Marylebone Theatre The post First Look: Rehearsal Images Released for Cable Street at Marylebone Theatre app…

Two of the best plays I saw this year are closing on Sunday – way too soon, if you ask me. They are reason enough to post this list of shows (seven of them on Broadway) that are closing within the next six we…

A group of influencers and musicians, including Kelsie Watts (Broadway's Six), Brandon Brits, Penelope Road, Four Washington, Marisa McKaye, Nico Annello, Tony and the Kiki, and Fulton Lee, have all teamed up f…

Join the Broadway Bradshaws as they spend a great evening at Disneyland resort! Just Jared, Lindsay and Georgia Bradshaw and some Rides and churros! Disneyland Resort: A Timeless Kingdom of Imagination, Celeb…

Tony Award winner J. Harrison Ghee will appear alongside Tony Award nominee John Cariani in a workshop presentation of THE GORGEOUS NOTHINGS, a new musical set in 1930s New York City. The work centers on the lo…

Aidan Close plays Scorpius Malfoy in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child on Broadway. For six weeks, he’s taking fans backstage at the Lyric Theatre to see where the real magic happens. The holidays are in ful…

McKenzie Kurtz played her final performance as Heather Chandler in Heathers The Musical on Monday, December 15. The production will welcome back Jodie Steele in her original West End role as Heather Chandler fo…