Joseph Hardy, prolific theatermaker and director of the original off-Broadway, Broadway and West End productions of You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown, died on June 6. His death, initially not…
The Broadway revival of Once Upon a Mattress, starring Sutton Foster and Michael Urie as Winnifred the Woebegone and Prince Dauntless, has its principal cast, including two perfo…
Age: 21 Hometown: Ann Arbor, Michigan Current Role: Maya Boyd stars as Juliet in the Broadway production of & Juliet, a remixed Shakespearean love story scored by the pop hits of Max M…
In January, Apple TV pulled the plug on season three of the musical series Schmigadoon!, co-created by Cinco Paul and Ken Daurio. As Paul commented at the time, "The season is written …
Julie Benko, the standby-turned-star of Funny Girl, is expecting her first child with her husband Jason Yeager. The actress announced the pregnancy on July 8 on Instagram, with the caption:…
Eight new theater artists have been inducted into the Theater Hall of Fame, which annually honors lifetime achievement in the American theater. Inductees for the 53rd annual edition are the …
Olivier-winning actress Elaine Paige is giving Broadway.com listeners a chance to hear her BBC Radio 2 show Elaine Paige on Sunday. This week, Paige offers show tunes, movie songs and the…
On July 26, Nick Cartell, currently playing the role of Jean Valjean in the national tour of Les Misérables, will release A Thousand Spotlights. The album features Cartell's renditionsÂ…
Pamela Palmer, a new play written by David Ives premiering, as previously reported, at Williamstown Theatre Festival, has announced its cast. The play will star Tina Benko, who r…
Wicked: Part One, starring Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande, will arrive in theaters five days earlier than planned. The highly anticipated first part of a two-part movie adaptation …
Tony Award winner Barlett Sher has signed on to direct the upcoming Dolly Parton biomusical, Hello, I'm Dolly, recently announced to be eyeing a 2026 Broadway run. Sher's next Broadway…
Hadestown welcomes three new principal cast members to Broadway's Walter Kerr Theatre on July 2. Beginning performances are Stephanie Mills as Hermes, Maia Reficco as Eurydice an…
Ian McKellen has withdrawn from the national tour of a Shakespearean production after falling off the stage during a performance. The veteran stage actor had been playing Falstaff in Player …
New York Stage and Film (NYSAF), a vital incubator for new theatrical works, has announced additional casting for its previously reported 2024 summer season, including a number of artists wh…
The comlete cast is set for Ogunquit Playhouse's summer production of Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler's A Little Night Music, directed by Tony nominee Hunter Foster. Performances wil…
Plays take center stage in London this July after a musicals-heavy June, with a host of heavy-hitting American titles leading the charge. A Broadway phenomenon, Slave Play, crosses the Atlan…
Olivier-winning actress Elaine Paige is giving Broadway.com listeners a chance to hear her BBC Radio 2 show Elaine Paige on Sunday. This week, Paige offers the latest news from stage and …
There's more to New York theater than Broadway"particularly right now, in the collective exhalation of the post-Tonys period. In our new column, Broadway.com will highlight the extraordinary…
In 2009, the alt-comedian and occasional Bernadette Peters impersonator Cole Escola had an idea for a play: "What if Abe's assassination wasn't such a bad thing for Mary Todd Lincoln?" T…
On June 27, the Stephen Sondheim-Hugh Wheeler musical A Little Night Music will be presented in concert at Lincoln Center's David Geffen Hall, its ravishing, romantic score having been lavis…
Producers Robert Greenblatt and Neil Meron have announced plans to develop Studio 54 The Musical for Broadway. The production will have a book by Chad Hodge (Holiday Inn) and music by …
Back to the Future, which has been running at Broadway's Winter Garden Theatre since last summer, is taking the show on the road for its first North American tour. The cast is led by Cade…
Evan Cabnet will be the next artistic director of the nonprofit theater company Second Stage, joining the organization in September and officially launching his first season of programming i…
The Tony Award-winning production of Cabaret has announced the summer schedule for its alternates"the performers replacing Eddie Redmayne and Gayle Rankin in the roles of the Emcee and Sally…
Grant Gustin, who made his Broadway debut as Jacob Jankowski in Water for Elephants, will play his final performance in the show on September 1. His replacement is yet to be announced. On s…