Thursday, January 16, 2025
The Lucille Lortel Awards, the New York theater award that exclusively honors off-Broadway, have announced Special Award recipients for 2025.
Playwright Alice Childress (1916-1994) will be …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:12PM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 15, 2025
Lynne Taylor-Corbett, a Tony-nominated choreographer who also choreographed the iconic steps for the 1984 movie Footloose, has died. Her death was confirmed by her son, actor Shaun Taylor…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:06PM[SHARE]Nominations for the British Academy Film Awards (BAFTA) were announced on January 15, with Wicked receiving seven nominations, though not for Best Film. The film earned nominations for Cynth…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:06PM[SHARE]Lynne Taylor-Corbett, a Tony-nominated choreographer who also choreographed the iconic steps for the 1984 movie Footloose, has died. Her death was confirmed by her son, actor Shaun Taylor…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:03PM[SHARE]In 1958, the up-and-coming composer-lyricist Stephen Sondheim was in need of a phrase.
He was working on the lyrics for the musical Gypsy, specifically for the moment when the indomitable s…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:03PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 14, 2025
Stranger Things and Asteroid City actress Maya Hawke will make her off-Broadway debut in a revival of Sarah Ruhl's Eurydice. The play begins performances at Signature Theater's…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 07:48PM[SHARE]Lynne Taylor-Corbett, a Tony-nominated choreographer who also choreographed the iconic steps for the 1984 movie Footloose, has died. Her death was confirmed by her son, actor Shaun Taylor…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:42PM[SHARE]Additional Broadway casting has been announced for Just in Time, the new musical starring Tony Award winner Jonathan Groff as "Dream Lover" crooner Bobby Darin. The show begins performances …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:12AM[SHARE]Monday, January 13, 2025
Pasadena Playhouse has canceled its concert events of Anything Goes and Follies due to the California wildfires.
"Pasadena Playhouse is heartbroken by the devastation that this week's fires…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:32PM[SHARE]The concert presentation of Little Shop of Horrors in Los Angeles has been canceled due to the California wildfires. The one-night-only event was scheduled to take place at the Catch O…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:32PM[SHARE]Friday, January 10, 2025
Casting has been announced for the second leg of the national tour of The Wiz. The multi-year tour will kick off in Rochester, NY at the West Herr Auditorium Theatre on February 22.
The pri…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:36PM[SHARE]In the new revival of Gypsy, Olivier Award winner Lesli Margherita plays demure stripper Tessie Tura, who utters the immortal couplet: "You gotta get a gimmick if you wanna get applaus…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:36PM[SHARE]Once Upon a Mattress, the fairytale musical comedy that starred two-time Tony winner Sutton Foster as Winnifred the Woebegone, is set to record a cast album to be released in the sp…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:24AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 9, 2025
Tony Award nominee Daniel Breaker and Grammy Award nominee Merle Dandridge will join the cast of Hadestown on Broadway. The duo begin performances at the Walter Kerr Theatre on February 1…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:32PM[SHARE]Complete casting has been announced for the world premiere of a new musical that celebrates the dozens of unheard songs, and unfinished and unproduced musicals left behind by RENT creator Jo…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:18AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 8, 2025
Paul Sparks will replace Academy Award winner Brendan Fraser in the upcoming world premiere of Grangeville off-Broadway. Fraser is departing the production due to "unforeseen circumstances."…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:42AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 7, 2025
Laura Woyasz will join the national tour of Kimberly Akimbo as Pattie. Woyasz steps into the role on January 28 in Costa Mesa, CA. She takes over from Dana Steingold, who will play her final…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:36PM[SHARE]Monday, January 6, 2025
Casting has been announced for Lincoln Center Theater's upcoming production of Henrik Ibsen's Ghosts, adapted by Mark O'Rowe. The show begins performances at Lincoln Center's Mitzi E. Newhou…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:12PM[SHARE]Richard Foreman, the avant-garde playwright, died on Saturday in Manhattan from complications with pneumonia. He was 87.
Born on June 10, 1937, Foreman grew up in Scarsdale, New York. He fe…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:18AM[SHARE]Friday, January 3, 2025
Greg Hildreth will join Broadway's Chicago as Amos Hart. Hildreth will take over the role from Red Concepción, who will play his final performance on January 4. Hildreth begins perform…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:02AM[SHARE]Thursday, December 19, 2024
Phillip James Brannon (Macbeth, Junk) and Chris Renfro (Queer as Folk) will join Cole Escola's hit Broadway comedy Oh, Mary! at the Lyceum Theatre. Brannon will star as Mary's Hu…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:24PM[SHARE]After a successful run off-Broadway, Dead Outlaw, the twisted, toe-tapping folk musical about an ill-fated gunslinger, is coming to Broadway in spring 2025. The show begins performances a…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:12AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 18, 2024
Singer, actress and TV star Erika Jayne"whose performance of Roxie Hart in Broadway's Chicago was cut short by the pandemic in 2020"will return to the role in early 2025. She will temporaril…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:32PM[SHARE]Modern Family's Sarah Hyland will star as Daisy Buchanan in The Great Gatsby on Broadway. Hyland replaces original star Eva Noblezada, who will play her final performance in the role on J…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:24PM[SHARE]Eureka Day, Jonathan Spector's dark comedy about a heated vaccine policy debate at a California private school, has extended by two weeks. The production, which opened on December 16 at M…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:06PM[SHARE]Tony Award winner Alex Newell will star in the one-night-only concert presentation of Little Shop of Horrors at the Catch One nightclub in Los Angeles on January 17, 2025. Newell will perfor…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:54AM[SHARE]Monday, December 16, 2024
In miniscule type, buried in the credits in the theater program for the current Broadway revival of Sunset Boulevard, a brief note appears: "The producers gratefully acknowledge the role of …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:06AM[SHARE]Maybe Happy Ending, the romantic musical comedy starring Darren Criss and Helen J Shen as robots in love, will release a cast album. The original Broadway cast recording will be rel…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:06AM[SHARE]Friday, December 13, 2024
New York City is a veritable immersive production this time of year: dazzling lights, singing in the squares and a supporting cast of too many tourists. There's plenty of Christmas spirit of…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:48AM[SHARE]Thursday, December 12, 2024
Jessica Vosk will make her debut in the role of Jersey in the Alicia Keys musical Hell's Kitchen on December 12. She replaces the show's original Tony-nominated star Shoshana Bean, …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:18AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 11, 2024
Casting is complete for the Broadway transfer of Buena Vista Social Club. The musical, telling the story behind the landmark Afro-Cuban jazz album of the same name, will begin performance…
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