Sunday, August 2, 2026
Earlier this week, the producers of Broadway’s Hadestown – Mara Isaacs, Dale Franzen, Hunter Arnold, and Tom Kirdahy – announced a new principal cast for the long-running musical,…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:56PM[SHARE]Monday, July 13, 2026
Pamela Gray--an insightful writer with a terrific ear for dialogue--has turned her 1999 motion picture, "A Walk on the Moon," into a new musical with a knockout cast. The score is uneven,…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:00PM[SHARE]Monday, July 6, 2026
Ogunquit Playhouse has revealed the complete cast for City of Angels, featuring a book by Larry Gelbert, music by Cy Coleman, and lyrics by David Zippel. Directed by Hunter Foster, performan…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:14PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 30, 2026
In the past year, Ethan Mathias has won one award and honor after another, from the Broadwayworld Award to the MAC Award, to first-place honors at the NATS. To learn more about this rising …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:46PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 25, 2026
Rob Berman will conduct the Orchestra of St. Luke's, launching a five-year initiative of classic musicals in concert.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:19PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 18, 2026
Small is back in a big way this summer! Following its 2023 production at 59e59 Theatres and productions around the country, the Penguin Rep Theatre production of Small, written by and starri…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:34PM[SHARE]Monday, June 8, 2026
Earlier tonight at the 79th Annual Tony Awards, Kai Harada took home a Tony Award for Best Sound Design of a Musical for Ragtime. After leaving the stage at Radio City Music Hall, he checke…
SOURCE: YouTube at 04:30PM[SHARE]Sunday, June 7, 2026
Earlier tonight at the 79th Annual Tony Awards, Kai Harada took home a Tony Award for Best Sound Design of a Musical for Ragtime. After leaving the stage at Radio City Music Hall, he checke…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:34PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 2, 2026
There are plenty of podcasts dealing with theater and pop culture. (I’ve been a guest on my share of them.) The podcast “Broadway Before Bedtime”—presenting new episodes eve…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:35PM[SHARE]Monday, June 1, 2026
The Penguin Rep Theatre production of SMALL, written by and starring Robert Montano, is officially open at The Alice Griffin Jewel Box Theatre at The Pershing Square Signature Center. The pr…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:09PM[SHARE]Friday, May 29, 2026
The Penguin Rep Theatre production of SMALL, written by and starring Robert Montano, has officially opened Off-Broadway at The Alice Griffin Jewel Box Theatre at The Pershing Square Signatur…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:36PM[SHARE]Thursday, May 28, 2026
Watch the replay of my LIVE interview with Broadway Star Jay Armstrong Johnson (The Phantom of the Opera, HAIR, On the Town, Hands on a Hard Body, Catch Me If You Can).
In this NEW convers…
SOURCE: YouTube at 09:50AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 26, 2026
Penny Fuller in the recording studio (Photo credit: Chip Deffaa) I drove down to the Bucks County Playhouse, in New Hope, Pennsylvania, to catch “Penny Fuller: A Life in the Theater.” …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:52PM[SHARE]Thursday, May 14, 2026
ON THE TOWN WITH CHIP DEFFAA AT “THE PEOPLE VERSUS LENNY BRUCE” On Sunday, May 12th, I attended a press performance of the world-premiere production of “The People Versus Lenny Bruc…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 06:22PM[SHARE]Monday, May 4, 2026
The 70th Annual Drama Desk Awards is set to be the largest gathering in the organization's seven-decade history — with the most Drama Desk winners and nominees, past and present, ever asse…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:06PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 7, 2026
"School Pictures," Milo Cramer's last New York show, a solo musical, was wildly inventive, hilarious funny, and extremely insightful about the New York education system, based on his own exp…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 07:43PM[SHARE]Monday, March 30, 2026
Milo Cramer's musical parody is currently running Off-Broadway at Playwrights Horizons.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:02AM[SHARE]Sunday, March 29, 2026
The program for Milo Cramer's new musical revue No Singing in the Navy includes a witty and well-researched note from the playwright suggesting that sailors are "*the* True Subject of the Am…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 09:00PM[SHARE]Three sailors are on 24-hour shore leave in New York City before being shipped off to war. No, this is not a simple spoof of the 1944 musical "On The Town." The initial premise is a fe…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:52PM[SHARE]Friday, March 13, 2026
Playbill's guide to restaurants to visit before or after you see a show.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:12PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 3, 2026
All new video footage has been released from Newsies at The Argyle Theatre, directed by Tommy Ranieri, choreographed by Trent Soyster, with musical direction by Jonathan Brenner. Performance…
SOURCE: YouTube at 02:18PM[SHARE]Friday, February 6, 2026
Today, Joy Machine Records announced the second single from the All The World's a Stage: Original Cast Recording and Theatrely has your listen. "Other Lives" is performed by Eliza Pagelle an…
SOURCE: Theatrely at 01:05PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 4, 2026
The On the Town parody is coming to Playwrights Horizons this spring.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:30PM[SHARE]Monday, February 2, 2026
The new Heated Rivalry parody musical has found its stars! Heated Rivalry: The Unauthorized Musical Parody will star Jay Armstrong Johnson (Parade; Quantico; On The Town) as Ilya and Zachary…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:23PM[SHARE]Thursday, January 1, 2026
Born in New York City in 1936, Marilyn Cooper was an actress best known for her work in musical comedy. She made her Broadway debut in Jule Styne and George Gilbert's musical Mr. Wonderful (…
SOURCE: YouTube at 04:14AM[SHARE]Monday, December 29, 2025
Johnnie Lucille Collier, better known as Ann Miller was an American singer, dancer and actress.
Miller was born in Chireno, Texas to Clara Emma and John Alfred Collier, a criminal lawyer wh…
SOURCE: YouTube at 08:50PM[SHARE]Friday, November 28, 2025
Amid his monumental success with the Avatar franchise, James Cameron almost entered the world of Wicked. During a recent interview on The Town with Matt Belloni podcast, the acclaimed direct…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:14PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 29, 2025
Get a first look at Leo Roberts singing 'The Song of Roland' from the new musical Huzzah!, with book, music, and lyrics by Olivier Award winners and Tony Award nominees Nell Benjamin (Legall…
SOURCE: YouTube at 05:24PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 23, 2025
Two-time Olivier Award nominee Adam Garcia will make his New York stage debut next month as 'Father' in Pete Townshend's Quadrophenia, A Rock Ballet featuring direction by Rob Ashford and ch…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:06PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 22, 2025
Paced by spirited performances by Max Ryon and Jake Ryan Flynn, Rider University's production of Jason Robert Brown's musical "13" is the best college show I've seen in years. And offers pr…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 06:32AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 15, 2025
For my money, 'Ragtime' is the greatest musical of the last 40 years, and the glistening new Lincoln Center Theater production is not to be missed. It is moving, thought-provoking, and inspi…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:00PM[SHARE]Friday, October 3, 2025
Broadway Games:
Famous Composers
and Their Least Famous Shows
Many theater fans can readily name shows written by their favorite Broadway composers. Lovers of the classics know Jerry Herman…
SOURCE: www.jkstheatrescene.com at 06:31AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 19, 2025
The Queen of Versailles, the Stephen Schwartz-scored musical starring Kristin Chenoweth and F. Murray Abraham as real-life couple Jackie and David Siegel, has completed casting. The…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:42PM[SHARE]Thursday, July 24, 2025
At This Theatre:Â The Lyric
At the turn of the 20th century, 42nd Street between 8th and Broadway was thriving, lined with new theaters - both legitimate and movie houses. In 1903, a new…
SOURCE: www.jkstheatrescene.com at 06:42AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 22, 2025
Roku has released a trailer and first look photos for The Great American Baking Show: Celebrity Summer, the newest iteration of the fan-favorite franchise. The lineup of the special show fea…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:02PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 13, 2025
I don't like the way the new Broadway production of "The Last Five Years" was directed. But that unique Jason Robert Brown musical"long a favorite of mine--still offers rewards aplenty…. …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:44PM[SHARE]The Skivvies (Lauren Molina and Nick Cearley) perform a medley all about New York City.
Songs include: (Theme From) New York, New York (Frank Sinatra), Native New Yorker (Odyssey), New York…
SOURCE: YouTube at 12:34AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 18, 2025
Once or twice a year, I like to recognize exceptional work at the high-school or college level. The students of New York's Frank Sinatra School of the Arts have outdone themselves with a ma…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:03PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 13, 2025
Jay Armstrong Johnson, whose Broadway credits include Parade, The Phantom of Opera and On the Town, will take over the role of Christian in the North American tour of Moulin Rouge! Rep…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:48PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 5, 2025
It's always fascinated me, seeing how different actors can interpret the same material. In "Sunset Boulevard," Nicole Scherzinger delivers a bold, bravura star turn I'd never have expected …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:33PM[SHARE] 
