What is your favorite Broadway love song? It's a question BroadwayWorld has been asking your favorite Broadway stars every Valentine's Day, and this year, our list has grown to over 1500 responses. Which songs …

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…

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!...

Chris Dimond and Michael Kooman penned the opening, featuring James T. Lane, Jenna Bainbridge, Antwayn Hopper, Jermaine Miles, and Rachelle Rak.

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…

The play's two youngest stars, Zaynn Arora and Eric Williams, brought down the house at the Broadway Cares fundraiser.

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…

Award winning Elaine Paige, actress, singer, producer, radio presenter, has made a unique and major contribution to the stage musical. She has starred in more smash hit West End & Broadway musicals than anyone …

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…

Hamilton infused songs by Michael Jackson, Sam Smith and Beyoncé into their 2025 Red Bucket Follies performance. Watch the video of “Sons of Liberty Gone Wild,” a piece written, directed and choreographed …

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…

Best onstage performance at Red Bucket Follies went to Waiting for Godot for an endearing piece starring the show’s youngest cast members – Zaynn Arora and Eric Williams. Fed up with waiting for a titular s…

The Best Onstage Performance honor at this year’s Red Bucket Follies was awarded to Waiting for Godot for a performance featuring the production’s youngest cast members, Zaynn Arora and Eric Williams. The d…

There are only 27 performances left to see Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter in Jamie Lloyd’s Broadway production of Samuel Beckett’s Waiting For Godot. The revival is playing a strictly limited engagement at th…

The annual variety show celebrated the shows that participated in fall post-performance fundraising.

With a whirlwind of songs, skits and dances created by Broadway’s best, this year’s Red Bucket Follies delivered humor, heart and theater magic to the legendary New Amsterdam Theatre. The annual variety sho…

This year’s Red Bucket Follies took place at the New Amsterdam Theatre. The annual variety show, performed December 8 and 9, 2025, celebrated 55 Broadway, Off-Broadway and national touring companies that part…

A FIRST-HAND REPORT ON NEW YORK THEATRE . . . FROM A HALF-CENTURY AGO Alan Bates in the title role of Simon Gray’s “Butley,” which played the old and venerable Morosco Theatre (1972).December 10, 2025…

Seth Rudetsky will once again host the annual fundraiser for Broadway Cares.

Red Bucket Follies will transform six weeks of fundraising into two afternoons of one-of-a-kind songs, skits and dances created by Broadway’s best. A treasured theatrical tradition, the event takes the stage …

Afra Hines and Jesse LeProtto As someone who clears their head by rewatching iconic choreography—“Let’s Have a Glass Together” from Grand Hotel, “American Son” from Will Rogers Follies, “I’m a B…

Jackie Siegel leads a larger than life existence, so it was only a matter of time before her story was turned into a musical. Her attempt to build a 90,000 square-foot Florida mansion in the midst of a national…

As I watched the excellent production of BAT BOY at City Center, two other musicals came to mind. ANNIE and FOLLIES. You’re laughing. Fine. But back in 1977, many walked into the Alvin Theatre thinking that t…

The six-week campaign kicks off at Broadway theatres October 24, with the Red Bucket Follies in December.

The Broadway Cares Red Buckets will return to theater lobbies in New York City and across the country beginning tonight, October 24, 2025. Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS' in-theater fundraising tradition ret…

Nearly three dozen Broadway, Off-Broadway and touring productions are slated to participate.

Royal Albert Hall, London Riding high off Tony and Olivier wins, the Pussycat Doll turned theatre star showcases her astonishingly versatile singing chops and a standup’s gift for chaotic humour As an impatie…

From The PMP Archives: Ann Miller performs "I'm Still Here" from our 1998 production of Follies! For more information on our archives, please visit The PMP Legacy Project page at: https://tinyurl.com/PMPLegacy…

BroadwayWorld is saddened to report the death of singer and Broadway performer Jane Morgan. She passed away in her sleep on August 4 at her home in Naples, Florida, at the age of 101. Her death was confirmed by…

With its Best Musical Tony win, Maybe Happy Ending became the first Best Musical to open at the Belasco Theatre. You'll note that their ad announcing this achievement qualifies it by saying "Original Musical."…

Advertisement for the one-night only “Hello, Dolly” in Concert at Carnegie Hall.June 24, 2025: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron Fassler. Last night at Carnegie Hall, those in attendance for an all-star…

Northern Ireland Opera has announced the first wave of casting for its landmark revival of Follies, the legendary musical by Stephen Sondheim and James Goldman

Dominic Cooke directs the George Bernard Shaw play, reuniting with Staunton after their work on Hello, Dolly! and Follies.

Hello, Dolly!, featuring an all-star cast of Tony Award winners and nominees, will be the eleventh presentation in Transport Group's Anne L. Bernstein Concert Series—for one night only—on Monday, June 23, a…

Dominic Cooke is directing the George Bernard Shaw play, reuniting with Staunton after their work on Hello, Dolly! and Follies.

Stephen Sondheim’s final musical reaches the National, a SIX queen flirts with the supernatural and the corn is as high as an elephant’s eye outdoors at Regent’s Park. These are just a few of the shows on…

Bernadette Peters has long been heralded as one of legendary composer Stephen Sondheim’s greatest interpreters. The actress originated roles in Sunday in the Park with George and Into the Woods and starred in…

Donna McKechnie onstage at 54 Below in her new Sondheim show.April 22, 2025: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron Fassler In her current three-performance engagement at 54 Below, the amazing Donna McKechnie te…

Get a first look at a new trailer for Volksoper Wien's a new futuristic production of Follies, the celebrated musical by Stephen Sondheim and James Goldman in Austria. The production is performed in German with…

Get a first look at Volksoper Wien's a new futuristic production of Follies, the celebrated musical by Stephen Sondheim and James Goldman in Austria. The production is performed in German with English subtitles…

After three Broadway revues of Stephen Sondheim’s music you would think a fourth wouldn’t offer anything fresh, have any surprises, or be anything special. Think again. “Old Friends” began life as a Lon…

Get a first look at the futuristic production of Stephen Sondheim and James Goldman's Follies at Volksoper Wien. The musical is performed in German with English subtitles. The production is directed by Martin G…

Bernadette Peters and Lea Solanga star in a jam-packed Stephen Sondheim celebration. The musical review covers Sondheim's work from West Side Story, Follies, Gypsy, Into The Woods, Company, Merrily We Roll Alon…

The legendary musical introduced such favorites as "Broadway Baby" and "Losing My Mind" and gave Michael Bennett his first directing credit.

Brian Stokes Mitchell and Kate Baldwin in 2025’s “Love Life” (photo by Joan Marcus).March 28, 2025: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron Fassler You would think that the only musical ever conceived and w…

It all started with a one night only concert in London, which turned into a West End run. And now it is a Broadway musical. Of course, given its subject - the songs of the late, great Stephen Sondheim - how co…

Watch a video of Liz Callaway and Paulo Szot performing 'Too Many Morning' from Stephen Sondheim's Follies while in concert at Crazy Coqs in London. Callaway played Young Sally in the legendary Follies in Conc…

Dominic Cooke is directing the George Bernard Shaw play, reuniting with Staunton after their work on Hello, Dolly! and Follies.

Ziegfeld Jr. was a powerful showman, with his eponymous Follies defining early 20th century Broadway.

Entering “Buena Vista Social Club” is like stepping into a heady world of the senses, of heightened emotions, and of passionate music and dance. The Social Club was a real place for locals in Havana in the …

Enjoy songs from musicals like The Bridges of Madison County, Hadestown, Wicked, Carousel, The Sound of Music, The Color Purple, Aida, West Side Story, The Phantom of the Opera, South Pacific, Parade, Follies, …

 Posting this at this time for both Bernadette Peters and Danny Burstein being back on Broadway in Sondheim shows -   This was a tribute to the glorious Danny Burstein going from playing opposite Bernadette P…

 Remembering David E. Byrd Generations of theater fans are familiar with the work of artist David E. Byrd, who passed away yesterday. You may have some of his work hanging on your wall, or maybe you have a t…

David Edward Byrd, an artist whose swirling, psychedelic, instantly entrancing illustrations gave the rock mecca Fillmore East its signature look and contributed at least two of the greatest, most recognizable …

That lyric from FOLLIES – “Thank-you-for-the-present-but-what’s-wrong-with-it-stuff?” – will never be heard in the home of Cheryl Solimini and Martin Farawell. For Cheryl’s birthday in 2017, Martin …

Musical theater choreographer Chaz Wolcott directed and choreographed a salute to the 16 national touring productions that joined in the 2024 Red Bucket Follies fall fundraising competition. The celebratory and…

Bernadette Peters performs Losing My Mind at the 2014 Olivier Awards with Mastercard Ceremony hosted by Gemma Arterton and Stephen Mangan. The Olivier Awards with Mastercard are not only world-renowned, they�…

Pasadena Playhouse has canceled its concert events of Anything Goes and Follies due to the California wildfires. “Pasadena Playhouse is heartbroken by the devastation that this week’s fires have inflicted …

The ongoing fires in Los Angeles have forced Pasadena Playhouse to cancel their planned concert productions of Anything Goes and Follies. PLAYBILL ...

Mother-daughter duo Imelda Staunton and Bessie Carter will appear on stage together for the first time as Mrs. Kitty Warren and Vivie Warren in a West End revival of George Bernard Shaw’s 1893 play Mrs. Warr…

The actors will share the stage for the first time in George Bernard’s Shaw’s drama about ‘the role of women in society’ Imelda Staunton and her daughter, Bessie Carter, are to share the stage for the f…

Stars to Lead LCT’s ‘Ghosts,’ Broadway Week Announces Participating Shows, Red Bucket Follies Highlights Since 2016, “Today on Broadway” has been the first and only daily podcast recapping the top the…

Mildred Natwick (on the moon) with the cast of “70, Girls, 70” (1971). Photo by Martha Swope.January 7, 2025: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron Fassler. Between the years 1965 and 1997, eleven John Kand…

Take a look inside BC/EFA's 2024 Red Bucket Follies, featuring performances from Back to the Future, The Lion King, and more Broadway stars. Watch videos of Casey Likes, Melody A. Betts, Arielle Jacobs, Rema We…

The 2024 Opening Number for Red Bucket Follies emphasized the importance of honoring those who have fought for justice and equity, and inspiring us to rise up and fight for those marginalized today. The numbe…

The best onstage presentation award at the 2024 edition of Red Bucket Follies, went to Back to the Future: The Musical. After laughably lamenting that their show had been “Clooney’d” — a nod to their…

The Lion King earned the runner-up presentation title at the 2024 edition of Red Bucket Follies for “Mental,” a powerful piece that delved into the overwhelming anxiety and pain that often accompany mental …

This week, Seth Rudetsky recaps Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS' Red Bucket Follies, where Betty Buckley made an appearance and sang “Memory.”.

Casting has been announced for Follies in Concert at Pasadena Civic Auditorium. Rachel Bay Jones will star as Sally Durant Plummer, Stephanie J. Block will star as Phyllis Rogers Stone, Derrick Baskin wil…

Powerhouse vocal performances, stirring dances and community joy swelled inside Broadway’s New Amsterdam Theatre at this year’s Red Bucket Follies. The heartwarming annual variety show, performed December 9…

The Broadway and touring productions of “Wicked” were the industry’s top fundraisers.

Powerhouse vocal performances, stirring dances and community joy swelled inside Broadway’s New Amsterdam Theatre at this year’s Red Bucket Follies. See photos!

Broadway stars and productions will come together next week for Red Bucket Follies, a performance celebrating six weeks of in-theater fundraising for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS.