Saturday, March 21, 2020
The Broadway League and The Coalition of Broadway Unions and Guilds (COBUG) have reached an emergency relief agreement to pay Broadway employees and provide them with health insurance while …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:54PM[SHARE]Friday, March 20, 2020
Like another Tony-winning composer stuck at home, Andrew Lloyd Webber has been drawn to the side of his piano. The seven-time Tony winner took to Twitter recently to entertain fans,…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:18PM[SHARE]Not to worry;Â Sutton Foster is healthy and happy. While the spread of COVID-19 has temporarily shuttered Broadway, the two-time Tony winner, set to return to the stage in a star-studded r…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:03PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 19, 2020
Like all of us, Lin-Manuel Miranda, the Tony-, Grammy- and Emmy-winning creator of Hamilton, is stuck at home. Last night, Miranda appeared on a special episode of The Tonight Show,…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:54PM[SHARE]Broadway.com illustrator Tug Rice has been thinking up what our favorite Broadway characters are doing while theaters are closed and they're at home social distancing. First up, how are W…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:54PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 11, 2020
Marc Kudisch, the perennial stage actor who's appeared in 15 Broadway shows and earned three Tony nominations, thinks he's an unlikely Broadway star. "I didn't sing when I got to New York…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:54PM[SHARE]Some new arrivals to North Shore High School just took a bow on Broadway. Sabrina Carpenter, Chad Burris, Olivia Kaufmann and Laura Leigh Turner all joined the cast of the Tony-n…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:32PM[SHARE]72 Miles to Go, playwright Hilary Bettis' examination of a Mexican-American family under the duress of deportation, opened on March 10. The cast"led by Maria Elena Ramirez as Anita,…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:32PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 10, 2020
Chad Burris is up for a challenge. In September, he helped develop the first production of Cameron Crowe's Almost Famous musical at San Diego's Old Globe, originating the role of Vic Nune…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:12PM[SHARE]Monday, March 9, 2020
In time with the show's first preview at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre, Mrs. Doubtfire has released the first photos of star Rob McClure as the titular character. Wearing the nanny's…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:42PM[SHARE]Friday, March 6, 2020
The Minutes, two-time Tony winner Tracy Letts' new dramedy that uses a mundane town hall meeting to explore the state of American politics, is currently in previews at the Cort Theatre. I…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 07:06PM[SHARE]Jerry O'Connell is having a lot of fun on Broadway. "I can get a table at Bar Centrale these days!" the prolific television and film actor of Stand By Me fame laughed in a #LiveAtFive int…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 07:06PM[SHARE]Tony-winning lyricist Don Black will receive the Olivier Awards' 2020 Special Award, which recognizes individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the theater. Black will …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:48PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 5, 2020
This week, Abby Mueller took a break from filming her vlog, Yas, Queen!, and handed the camera off to fellow Six cast members Andrea Macasaet, Samantha Pauly and Brittney M…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:42PM[SHARE]Joe Pantoliano has made a career out of playing the crooked, the criminal and the corrupt. He played a pimp in Risky Business (1983), a murderous criminal in Goonies (1985), a selfish traito…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:42PM[SHARE]Come From Away, the 2017 Tony nominee for Best Musical about a Canadian town that's inundated with dozens of grounded planes on 9/11, celebrated three years on Broadway on March 4. The ca…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:18PM[SHARE]While writing 72 Miles to Go, Hilary Bettis found herself at the Mexican-American border. She traveled to Arizona so she could research locations, setting the play in the same city …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:48PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 4, 2020
Conor McPherson, the three-time Tony-nominated writer and director whose musical Girl From the North Country opens on Broadway March 5, sat in his Dublin house with dozens of Bob Dylan al…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:18PM[SHARE]Monday, March 2, 2020
Contrary to its title, C.A. Johnson's new off-Broadway play All the Natalie Portmans is not a play about Natalie Portman, assured Montego Glover. "Probably half the time people think N…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:36PM[SHARE]David Byrne, the two-time Grammy-winning recording artist whose theatrical concert America Utopia was a breakout hit on Broadway last fall, performed on Saturday Night Live February 29. B…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:48PM[SHARE]Nollywood Dreams, a new play by Jocelyn Bioh making its world premiere, will begin previews on March 19 and open on April 13 at the off-Broadway Robert W. Wilson MCC Theater Space. Directed …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:48PM[SHARE]Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick are reuniting on stage in a John Benjamin Hickey-directed revival of Neil Simon's 1968 play, Plaza Suite. The play three couples who…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:48PM[SHARE]Gerald S. Krone, a founding member of the Negro Ensemble Company who joined Douglas Turner Ward and Robert Hooks in building a landmark center for African-American theater, died on February …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:48PM[SHARE]Sunday, March 1, 2020
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 plays a selection of show tunes…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:18AM[SHARE]Saturday, February 29, 2020
To celebrate Black History Month, we asked black theater-makers to tell us about the African-American artists who inspired them. Over the course of February, 15 actors, singers and choreogra…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:12AM[SHARE]Friday, February 28, 2020
Years before Timothy Leary popularized psychedelic experimentation, LSD found a home in Hollywood. Lysergic acid diethylamide"then legal"was used in elite circles during the 1950s, emp…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:24PM[SHARE]The Perplexed, Tony-winner Richard Greenberg's new play about two tumultous families gathered in the massive library of a gaudy Fifth Avenue apartment, opens off-Broadway at the Manhat…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:06PM[SHARE]This week, the queens turned introspective in episode 5 of Abby Mueller's vlog, Yas, Queen! Mueller asked leading ladies Andrea Macasaet, Samantha Pauly, Brittney Mack, Adrianna …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:03PM[SHARE]James Cromwell met his Sardi's self on February 27. He was the latest Broadway star to receive a Sardi's restaurant portrait. Cromwell is currently starring in Bess Wohl's Grand Hor…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:03PM[SHARE]In honor of Black History Month, Broadway.com asked actors, directors and playwrights to tell us about black theater-makers who inspired them. Stars jumped at the chance to honor those…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:03PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 27, 2020
Back to the Future, a new musical based on Robert Zemeckis' hit 1985 movie, is making its world premiere in London. As previously announced, the new musical will run from February 20 through…
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