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Tony winner Anika Noni Rose has joined the cast of The Balusters on Broadway, replacing the previously announced Renée Elise Goldsberry in the role of Kyra Marshall. Goldsber…
In honor of Black History Month, Broadway.com is celebrating some of the theater industry's most influential Black artists. We invited actors who are currently (or soon-to-be) on Broadway…
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No Substitution Will Do
As previously reported, Rachel Zegler and Ben Platt will star in a weeklong run of Jason Robert Brown's mar…
In the midst of a punishing winter, the Cold War-era musical Chess has been heating up Broadway with an East-West love triangle comprised of Tony winner Aaron Tveit, Lea Michele and Nicho…
A musical adaptation of the vampire flick The Lost Boys is motorcycling onto Broadway this spring. Before performances begin, the production held a press event to showcase the cast and cr…
Nobody puts Baby in a corner. A new stage production based on the beloved film Dirty Dancing will launch a North American tour this August at the Ordway Center for the Performing Arts …
Broadway's blockbuster musical The Lion King has many astounding qualities: sweeping sets, meticulously-designed costumes, larger-than-life puppetry. But none of these things would carry …
Rachel Christopher plays Hogwarts' resident know-it-all, now Minister for Magic, Hermione Granger in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child on Broadway. The actress chatted with Broadway.com M…
Hope for another Spelling Bee extension is no longer chimerical. The off-Broadway revival of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee will extend its run at New World Stages th…
Broadway has a new heart-stealing street urchin on its hands. On Febuary 3, Rodney Ingram takes over the title role in Disney's Aladdin at the New Amsterdam Theatre.Â
Ingram is no …
There's a new First Lady stomping around the Lyceum Theatre. John Cameron Mitchell takes office as Mary Todd Lincoln in Oh, Mary! on February 3, where he'll don the infamous bratty cur…
"I remember being in my high school career day class, saying, 'I'm going to be on Broadway. I'm going to do a tour," recalls Jeremy Noel. "My teacher was like, 'Well, could you be more speci…
Fresh off its six-month run on Broadway, which played its final performance on February 1, Mamma Mia! is hitting the road again. The ultimate feel-good musical based on the songs of ABBA …
Whitney Leavitt, who garnered notoriety on Hulu's The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives and showed her choreo chops on the most recent season of Dancing With the Stars, is stepping into the sp…
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…
Antonia Gianino has spent 20 years as the production stage manager for Broadway's crowd-pleasing mainstay The Lion King. In her estimate, she's called around 2,000 performances. For Gianino,…
"We have something in common," says Whitney Leavitt of Roxie Hart, the merry murderess at the center of Broadway's Chicago. "Although I may not agree morally with how she goes about getti…
Director Marc Bruni has brought the Roaring Twenties to the 2020s on Broadway with his Jazz Age spectacle The Great Gatsby. Broadway.com Managing Editor Beth Stevens chatted with Bruni ab…
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AÂ Beachy-Keen Duet
Beaches is headed to Broadway this spring, with powerhouse performers Jessica Vosk and Kelli Barrett playi…
Leave the garlic cloves at home, because tickets are now on sale for the original musial Blood/Love. The vampire pop opera created by Carey Renee Sharpe and Grammy nominee Dru DeCaro will…
The 2026 Outer Critics Circle Awards, celebrating the 2025-26 Broadway and off-Broadway season of theater, will be held on May 21. Nominations will be announced during the afternoon of April…
Jersey Boys, the international sensation that follows the rise of Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons, is hitting the road for its 20th anniversary. A North American tour of the beloved ju…
On January 20, the Broadway community gathered at the Hard Rock Café in Times Square for the 16th annual Broadway Salutes, a celebration honoring those who have dedicated decades of their l…
Descendants: The Rise of Red breakout star Morgan Dudley has been braving the underworld as Eurydice in Hadestown on Broadway. The young talent stopped by the Broadway.com studio to si…
Diane Paulus is one of the most imaginative forces working in theater, constantly raising the bar for what can be achieved within the medium. She holds the special ability to breathe new lif…