More than 700 people tried their luck at the first-ever Hamilton Broadway ticket lottery on July 13, the night of the show's first preview at the Richard Rodgers Theatre. There's an added bo…
It's been 15 years since Andrew Lippa's musical The Wild Party was last seen in New York, with a cast of heavy-hitters led by Julia Murney, Brian d'Arcy James, Idina Menzel, and Taye Diggs. …
The original cast of William Finn and Rachel Sheinken's musical The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee reunited for a one-night-only, 10th-anniversary concert performance of the musical …
Broadway will welcome back its favorite magical pair on July 12, when Penn & Teller on Broadway celebrates the opening of a new six-week run. The duo will bring elements of their long-runnin…
How do you turn a sprawling young-adult story into a solo show? That's the question for James Lecesne, the Trevor Project cofounder who recently transformed his book Absolute Brightness into…
What do Robert Preston, Craig Bierko, Patti LuPone, Tyne Daly, and Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane have in common? At one point in each of their careers, they've performed the classic sho…
Any audition coach will caution against over-confidence, but there are some times when it's hard…especially when the character breakdown has your name written all over it. Fresh off some e…
"How do we not mess up what already works?" According to lyricist Glenn Slater, that's one of the main questions he and Andrew Lloyd Webber asked when creating the new musical version of Sch…
Inspired by Finn's personal experiences, A New Brain is a medical tragedy seen through the iris of a Looney Tunes short. After struggling composer Gordon Michael Schwinn (Jonathan Groff) col…
In the early 1990s, songwriter William Finn was riding the wave of success of his Tony-winning musical Falsettos when he was struck down with an inoperable brain tumor. His experiences in th…
Three actresses are getting ready to take Broadway by storm this fall when they make their debuts in the London transfer of John Doyle's acclaimed new production of the musical The Color Pur…
At the heart of the Tony-winning musical An American in Paris are three different love stories, all involving the same woman. She is the beautiful ballerina Lise Dassin, played by Tony nomin…
Carey Mulligan and Bill Nighy share an uncommon commitment to their craft, as evidenced by the audition stories they shared with TheaterMania. At a recent event, Nighy recalled an audition s…
In this anecdote from Mulligan, the actress recalls going all out in a Skype audition for "a very famous space film."
Amazing Grace, a new musical inspired by the story behind the famed Christian hymn, plays its first performance at Broadway's Nederlander Theatre on June 25. The cast, led by Tony nominee Jo…
Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical adaptation of the hit 2003 film School of Rock is set to storm Broadway's Winter Garden Theatre this November. But before the show can graduate to the big s…
Carole King's famous female power ballad "Natural Woman" made its way to the Broadway stage in 2013 when Jessie Mueller first performed its Tony-winning rendition in Beautiful " The Carole K…
Press room moments with Kelli O'Hara, Annaleigh Ashford, and more of the 2015 Tony Award winners. The victors are announced, the trophies distributed, and celebrations are underway. But b…