From a food truck for “Mean Girls” to a second-line parade for “A Wonderful World,” box office opening events are an increasingly popular way to grab attention and build an audience.

This year’s Grand Marshal for The Village Halloween Parade will be the legendary Tony Award-winning actor André De Shields.

Stay tuned for new disney cruise line episodes next week! The Magic Kingdom, one of the crown jewels of Walt Disney World Resort, invites guests to step into a realm of dreams and wonder. With its iconic Ci…

MINNEAPOLIS — The list-loving Rolling Stone cultural arbiters love them some “Purple Rain,” declaring that the 1984 Prince project is the greatest movie soundtrack album ever. In a list of the 101 Greates…

Abingdon Theatre Company has announced that Tony Award Winner Lena Hall (Hedwig and the Angry Inch) and Jay Armstrong Johnson (Parade) will round out the cast for their 32nd anniversary gala.

A Wonderful World has found a new home on Broadway! The new musical, which played in Chicago and New Orleans last year, has officially arrived at Studio 54, and the company made sure that all of the theatre dis…

Adam Lambert and Auli'i Cravalho have officially made their Broadway debuts! Watch the interview to learn more about their journey to Cabaret New ...

The producers of the acclaimed Broadway revival of Parade, winner of the 2023 Tony Award® for Best Revival of a Musical, are proud to announce that Max Chernin and Talia Suskauer will play Leo Frank and Luc…

A Wonderful World has found a new home on Broadway! The new musical, which played in Chicago and New Orleans last year, has officially arrived at Studio 54, and the company made sure that all of the theatre dis…

BroadwayWorld has learned that Max Chernin and Talia Suskauer will lead the tour of Broadway revival of Parade as Leo and Lucille Frank, which will tour in 2025.

Broadway veterans Max Chernin and Talia Suskauer will lead the national tour of Michael Arden's Tony-winning revival of Parade as Leo and Lucille Frank. They begin performances in January 2025, but offered Bro…

Broadway veterans Max Chernin and Talia Suskauer will lead the national tour of Michael Arden's Tony-winning revival of PARADE as Leo and Lucille Frank. They begin performances in January 2025, but offered Broa…

The show: “Table 17” at Manhattan Class Company in New York City. What is it?: A new play by Douglas Lyons, who last wrote Broadway’s “Chicken and Biscuits” What makes it special?: Several things: Lyo…

The hills are alive with all kinds of music this week on The Broadway Show with Tamsen Fadal—from homegrown harmonies on the English seaside, to Louis Armstrong's blaring trumpet, to the jazzy underground ru…

James Monroe Iglehart Leads New Orleans-Style Parade to A Wonderful World's Broadway Home. 579 views · 6 hours ago ...more. Playbill. 213K.

The Louis Armstrong biomusical begins performances October 16 at Broadway's Studio 54.

James Monroe Iglehart, Vanessa Williams, and the company of A Wonderful World: The Louis Armstrong Musical led a New Orleans-style Second Line parade from Times Square to Studio 54 to celebrate the opening of t…

Tony winner Ben Platt and Noah Galvin—Broadway's Dear Evan Hansen-est power couple—married on Sunday, September 1 at Pioneer Works in Red Hook, Brooklyn. The pair's festivities began on Friday evening with…

This is something I only became aware of a few days ago, on a recent trip to the Museum of Modern Art. On September 1, 1966, artist Öyvind Fahlström staged and filmed a work of street theatre that involved a …

Theatre Royal, Bath; Sadler’s Wells, LondonFresh talent shines, though nuance could try harder, in a 20th anniversary revival of Alan Bennett’s glinting schoolroom comedy, while the Broadway classic remains…

The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts’ production of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee has its cast and creative team. The show will play Kennedy Center’s Eisenhower Theater from Octob…

The cast is set for the world premiere of the My Best Friend's Wedding musical. The new musical adaptation of the Julia Roberts-led 1997 romantic comedy, set to the songs of Burt Bacharach and Hal David and di…

Our Parade of Roses growses: to Jack Rose, Harry Rose, Billy Rose, Ike Rose, Julian Rose, Broadway Danny Rose, and Max Rose, we now add Fred Rose (1898-1954). Fred Rose is basically the missing link between Tin…

Click below to watch the 2024 Tony Award nominee sing “Before the Parade Passes By”

From BroadwayWorld's Archive: Taking on one of the more complex characters of this Broadway season is Alex Joseph Grayson, who is bringing audiences to their feet with his performance in Parade.

From BroadwayWorld's Archive: Earlier this week, Broadway star and Orlando native Michael James Scott kicked off Walt Disney World Resort’s Black History Month celebration as the grand marshal in a magical pa…

From BroadwayWorld's Archive: Earlier tonight at the 76th Annual Tony Awards, Michael Arden took home a Tony Award for 'Best Direction of a Musical' for his outstanding work on Parade (currently running at the…

From BroadwayWorld's Archive: In this video, watch as Tony nominee Micaela Diamond chats about her road to Broadway, why she loves singing Jason Robert Brown's music in Parade, and so much more.

All content by courtesy-of-playbill.com. The Broadway musical Parade reopened on Feb. 21, 2023 and closed on Aug.

From BroadwayWorld's Archive: Your favorite podcast hosts Jason A. Coombs and Samantha Tuozzolo are back with the mega talented, charming and kind actor Alex Joseph Grayson, who is currently playing ‘Jim Conl…

From BroadwayWorld's Archive: Parade officially began previews last night at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre (242 W 45th St), before a sold-out audience. Tony Award-winner Ben Platt and Micaela Diamond lead …

From BroadwayWorld's Archive: In solidarity with the cast, crew, and creative team of PARADE, tonight, New York City Mayor Eric Adams took the stage of the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre to address the sold-out audi…

From BroadwayWorld's Archive: New York City Center is presenting Jason Robert Brown and Alfred Uhry's Tony Award-winning musical Parade, starring Ben Platt and Micaela Diamond, with direction by Michael Arden. …

From BroadwayWorld's Archive: New York City Center is presenting Jason Robert Brown and Alfred Uhry's Parade, starring Ben Platt and Micaela Diamond, with direction by Michael Arden. The production opened with …

From BroadwayWorld's Archive: New York City Center is presenting Jason Robert Brown's Parade Tuesday, November 1 through Sunday, November 6. The production stars Ben Platt as Leo Frank, Micaela Diamond (…

From BroadwayWorld's Archive: BroadwayWorld has a first look inside rehearsals for New York City Center's production of Jason Robert Brown and Alfred Uhry's 1998 Tony Award-winning musical Parade,. Watch stars…

From BroadwayWorld's Archive: Today we celebrate Black History Month by taking a closer look at After Midnight. Directed and choreographed by Warren Carlyle, it played for 273 performances at the Brooks Atkinso…

The Broadway Show with Tamsen Fadal, the weekly nationally syndicated, Broadway-focused TV program, co-produced by Broadway.com’s parent company the John Gore Organization, received two 2024 New York Emmy A…

Palladium; Dorfman; Lyric Hammersmith, LondonImelda Staunton turbocharges a wondrous West End revival; a heart-warming tale of gay masculinity takes kitchen-sink drama to the next level; and in a hit Australian…

      Operettaish bitter-sweetness raised to the sublime in a miracle of perfect timing Jerry Herman is the king of pep. Way too much of it in the first 20 minutes of the recent revue Jerry’s Girls had me…

This week I was honored to be the first guest (but somehow also, seemingly, the host) on Dick Zigun’s new youtube show. Best known as the Founder of Coney Island USA, the Mermaid Parade, and much else, Zigun …

Three-time Tony nominee Carolee Carmello will play Kimberly in the national tour of Kimberly Akimbo. As previously announced, the national tour will kick off in Denver, Colorado on September 22, playing more th…

The producers of Kimberly Akimbo are proud to announce that three-time Tony Award nominee Carolee Carmello will play Kimberly in the National Tour.  Carolee Carmello is a three-time Tony Award nominee and ha…

Those of us who love musicals root hard for each new one that comes along. And we root extra hard when we know that a new creative team is getting its first big break or that the show is based on an original id…

All content by Courtesy of https://playbill.com/. The Broadway musical Parade reopened on Feb. 21, 2023 and closed on Aug.

Paramount+ is buying up more real estate in Roku City to promote SpongeBob SquarePants ahead of the popular series’ 25th anniversary.  Paramount and Roku have partnered on an immersive campaign that will inc…

From BroadwayWorld's Archive: Simon Green chats to director Kirk Jameson about highlights from his impressive 30-year career, including winning a Drama Desk Award, working with Steven Sondheim, and his upcoming…

Audiences step out of their comfort zone at this annual extravaganza in the historic old town of the Swiss city, where the shows are staged in eye-catching settings Lausanne has been the official Olympic capita…

Winner of the 2023 Tony Award® for Best Revival of a Musical, Parade has been proclaimed as “a work of art! As commanding as any musical revival to hit Broadway in years” (Deadline). Leo and Lucille Frank…

From BroadwayWorld's Archive: It's not long until the launch of the first national tour of THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY, led by Elizabeth Stanley (On the Town, Million Dollar Quartet) as Francesca and Andrew S…

 For Gay Pride Parade Day:   This was my “I’m Still Queer” -a  parody-tribute of Stephen Sondheim's “I’m Still Here” looking at four decades of New York City theatergoing  https://www.youtube.co…

The yearly event serves as the culmination of Playbill's third annual Pride in Times Square.

Opening in 1927 as the Royale Theatre, the house was renamed the John Golden for a few years (the John Golden today is one door down now, of course), then back to the Royale for 65 years. That's the name on sev…

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From BroadwayWorld's Archive: Watch BroadwayWorld's Richard Ridge discuss Parade's journey to the stage with Alfred Uhry and Jason Robert Brown. Learn more: https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Video-Jason-R…

From BroadwayWorld's Archive: Parade officially opened on Broadway last night and BroadwayWorld was there to celebrate with the company. Check out interviews with the cat and creative team in this video! Lear…

From BroadwayWorld's Archive: How did some of your favorite songs come to be? BroadwayWorld is getting the story behind the song in exclusive interviews from your favorite Broadway composers. Below, watch as Ja…

From BroadwayWorld's Archive: Time stopped last night at the American Airlines Theatre, when Time and the Conways officially returned to Broadway. The Roundabout Theatre Companyproduction opened last night, Oct…

The Annapolis inspiration who won Season 4 of “Project Runway” on returning to his hometown.

Today we salute one of the key figures in the silent movie Renaissance of the last several decades: author, collector, preservationist, director, producer, screenwriter, cinematographer, and editor Kevin Brownl…

From BroadwayWorld's Archive: Abingdon Theatre Company has a star-studded gala in the works featuring a musical revue with some of Broadway's best and brightest. And the World Goes 'Round is a stunning musical …

When La Liga Teatro Elástico came to Chicago, they built a puppet parade to dramatize our ecological interdependence.

Happy National Smile Day! With several Coney Island events fresh in our rear view mirror, and the Mermaid Parade just three weeks away, the natural topic of exploration today would appear to be the big smiling …

From BroadwayWorld's Archive: Camp Broadway, under the direction of Artistic Director Tony Parise, has been selected to perform the parade's closing number, 'I Believe in Santa Claus' with music written by Wesl…

Tony, Grammy and Emmy Award winner Ben Platt will reopen Broadway’s Palace Theatre on May 28. The Dear Evan Hansen and Parade star will perform a limited 18-performance concert residency in celebration of the…

From BroadwayWorld's Archive: The Finger Lakes Musical Theatre Festival (FLMTF) presents Jason Robert Brown's Tony Award winning musical drama, Parade. The show runs now through July 26 at the Merry-Go-Round Pl…

From BroadwayWorld's Archive: Manhattan Concert Productions is bringing the Drama Desk and Tony Award-winning score of PARADE back to Lincoln Center, where it all began in 1998. This concert performance of PARA…

Three talented performers in a revue that doesn’t add up to much Catchy even when the lyrics are at their cheesiest, the Jerry Herman Songbook serves up a string of memorable tunes: you’ll probably find tha…

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…

A more-than-respectable entry in the endless parade of movies-to-musicals, this genuinely funny, effervescently performed pre-Broadway take on the 1992 Robert Zemeckis dark comedy “Death Becomes Her” has a …

Katerina McCrimmon captivated the crowd with her stirring rendition of the National Anthem at a San Francisco Giants game on Monday, May 13, 2024! FUNNY GIRL is playing at the Orpheum Theatre in San Francisco …

Video shows Original Broadway Cast, 2023 Winner of the 2023 Tony Award ® for Best Revival of a Musical, PARADE has been proclaimed as “a work of art! As commanding as any musical revival to hit Broadway in …

Darren Criss will return to Broadway this fall in the new musical Maybe Happy Ending.  The musical features music by Will Aronson, lyrics by Hue Park, a book by Aronson and Park and direction by Michael Arden,…

FUNNY GIRL is now playing at the Orpheum Theatre in San Francisco through May 26, 2024. WELCOME TO MUSICAL THEATER COMEDY HEAVEN! Featuring one of the most iconic scores of all time by Jule Styne and Bob Merr…

The Queen of Versailles, the new Stephen Schwartz musical starring Kristin Chenoweth and F. Murray Abraham as billionarie-couple Jackie and David Siegel, has completed casting and extended its world-premiere…

A modern musical theatre masterpiece. Directed by Anne Kauffman (The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window) and featuring Tony winner Chuck Cooper (Trouble in Mind), Eddie Cooper (Parade), Andrew Durand (Shucked),…