To celebrate its five-year anniversary on Broadway, "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" has announced a series of celebratory events. Titled "5 Days of Magic" and slated to begin on April 19…
Actors' Equity Association, the national union representing more than 51,000 professional actors and stage managers working in live theater, and The Broadway League, the national trade assoc…
Few scenarios are ripe with as much drama as a Black family barbecue. Secrets, revenge and war (usually over the best dishes, but war nonetheless) play out over a steaming grill and a good b…
A film version of the Tony Award-nominated 1982 sung-through musical "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat" is in development for Amazon Studios. The movie will include the Tony-nomi…
Academy Award winner and Tony nominee Ariana DeBose has signed on to host the 76th annual Tony Awards, celebrating the 2022-2023 Broadway season. DeBose first emceed the ceremony in 2022. A …
Entertainment events company LiveCo has announced a partnership with Broadway producing and presenting firm MagicSpace Entertainment. Based in Park City, Utah, MagicSpace Entertainment is he…
The week of holidays and school vacations moved the Broadway box office to its second-highest-grossing week of the current season. Some productions played an altered schedule, including "Ala…
On April 11, the Tony Awards Administration Committee announced eligibility rulings for seven productions in the 2022-2023 Broadway season. This follows the first announcement on eligibility…
A reverend and a rabbi walk into a Broadway show. The cast and crew are offstage, grappling beautifully with questions of identity, exclusion and the ongoing struggle against white supremacy…
An industry reading of the new musical comedy "Death Becomes Her," based on the eponymous 1992 film, will be held the week of April 10 in New York City. "Death Becomes Her" follows Helen, a …
"About eight years ago, I decided I wanted to work with a Shakespeare [play] to do a new play," said playwright James Ijames at the start of an April 9 post-show talkback of his new Broadway…
The 23rd annual Broadway.com Audience Choice Awards, recognizing fan-favorite productions and performers from the 2022-2023 Broadway season, will be presented on June 1. The winners are deci…
The new Broadway musical "Kimberly Akimbo" will set off on a 75-week North American tour. The tour will launch at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts in September 2024 and continue on …
After the April 11 evening performance of "Wicked," the musical about the witches of Oz will supplant "Cats" to become the fourth longest-running Broadway show in history. "Wicked" is set to…
The previously announced original Broadway cast recording of "KPOP" will be released digitally on May 8 and on CD on May 12. The album was originally set to be released in February. Featurin…
A CD version of the original cast album to Broadway's "Kimberly Akimbo" will be released by Ghostlight Records on May 19. The CD will feature lyrics and photos, as well as liner notes by the…
"Life of Pi" has arrived on Broadway. Lolita Chakrabarti's theatrical retelling of Yann Martel's novel opened on March 30 at the Schoenfeld Theatre. The play unfolds when a cargo ship sinks …
Following multiple extended Off-Broadway runs in 2022, Alex Edelman's one-man show, "Just For Us," will open on Broadway this summer. The show will begin previews on June 22, 2023, at the Hu…
Erich Bergen will return to the cast of Broadway's long-running "Chicago" revival on April 10. Bergen will again play the role of Billy Flynn, replacing James T. Lane, who will exit the prod…
Seedy is normally the last descriptor any new comedy wants to earn, but in the case of the newBroadway musical "Shucked," nothing is as consecrated as the kernel. The riotous new work, with …
Concord Theatricals has acquired the exclusive global rights to Michael R. Jackson's "A Strange Loop." The title is now available for license by professional theaters in North America. Featu…
In its first week of post-opening night performances, "Sweeney Todd" grossed $1,734,930, an increase of 24% from the previous week. The revival played to standing-room-only crowds. Notably, …
A North American tour of the musical comedy "Mrs. Doubtfire" is set to launch this fall. The production will open at Shea's Performing Arts Center in Buffalo, New York, on a date to be annou…
Tony Award nominee Dominique Morisseau has been named one of the recipients of the Windham-Campbell Prize, which celebrates established and emerging literary talent across fiction, nonfictio…
On the heels of the news that casting agency Stewart/Whitley will close its doors, cofounder Benton Whitley has announced the launch of Whitley Theatrical, a new company specializing in cast…