The new BroadwayStars
Monday, May 25, 2026
BroadwayStars was begun in 1997 as a blog that linked to news and commented about it. There was hardly anything on the internet at the time about Broadway or theater in general, but we found an audience, you. Here we are almost 30 years later, Broadway has changed, the world has changed, and so has BroadwayStars. With 1.5 million stories linked in our database, you are looking at BroadwayStars V6. It is not a dramatic departure from V5, but more along the lines of a refinement, and recognition of the changes in the world, Broadway, and technology. Let me show you around.
Everything you know is still here
A few familiar things just found better homes:
- On Broadway moved up to the top of the right column, with new filters to find the shows you want — and you can click any show card to pull up its news.
- Featured Stories (Recommended and Popular) and Authors & Sites now live in the red section inside The News.
- The Season is still here, now with Preview, Opening, and Closing dates — click a show’s name to search its news.
- Search is faster and smarter: we built our own, replacing the old Google box.
A few new things
- Save a story for later with the ☆ on any headline.
- Report a problem with the ⚑ if a link is broken or points somewhere wrong — it comes straight to us.
- Share a story with the share icon .
- Videos play right on the page now (and YouTube Shorts, which used to be broken, work).
- The News keeps going — it no longer stops at midnight; just keep scrolling.
And under the hood
The site loads faster, there’s a cleaner mobile version, and Submit a Headline, Contact, and account sign-in have all been rebuilt.
A note from James
To those out there who hate change and hate when websites are redesigned, I feel you. I am right there with you. Which is why V5 is still available. At the very top of the site, there is a “To V5” link in the yellow area. You can go back in time like it was THE LAST FIVE YEARS, but I encourage you to keep trying V6. I have come to love it. I’d like to think that V6 is “…a Hollywood ending,” (someone please revive CITY OF ANGELS!) but BroadwayStars is far from over. Please drop me a line — or email me directly at [click to reveal email] — if you have something you want us to consider adding to V6. Or maybe V7…
With much love,
James