Audra McDonald, who just wrapped up leading the Broadway revival of Gypsy, posted a video on Instagram recently to share an unsettling experience she had with a fan. McDonald shared that she had been opting out…

Director James Vásquez join The Old Globe's Becks Redman to discuss The Comedy of Errors. Vicki and Carl Zeiger Insights Seminars provide Globe patrons with an opportunity to closely connect with productions …

Merriment and mayhem come to life in the Bard’s hilarious and fun-filled play, The Comedy of Errors, running July 27 through Aug. 24, 2025. Find tickets at https://www.theoldglobe.org/pdp/25-season/the-comed…

Casting is complete for Broadway’s Waiting for Godot. Brandon J. Dirden will join Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter in the Samuel Beckett classic, directed by Tony winner Jamie Lloyd. Performances will begin at …

Join the Broadway Bradshaws as Jared and Georgia leave Lindsay at home and have a great Disney water Park day! Blizzard Beach is one of two water parks at Walt Disney World Resort in Bay Lake, Florida, near Or…

How Did I Get Here Elizabeth Gillies Was a Little Shop 'Super Fan,' Now She's Starring in the Hit Revival She has reunited with her 13 co-star, Graham Phillips, in the long-running produ…

Milo Manheim is ready for Broadway. During the premiere of Zombies 4: Dawn of the Vampires, the performer, who recently concluded his run as Seymour in off-Broadway's Little Shop of Horrors, shared his plans to…

The 1969 marquee for “1776” in its original production at the 46th Street Theatre (now the Richard Rodgers).July 4, 2025: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron Fassler. This is a re-working of a column origi…

This fall, Broadway audiences will get to see theater history made when Chess returns to the Imperial Theatre, 37 years after its original debut there in 1988. Set during the Cold War, the sweeping musical foll…

Musician John Grant was blown away by Christopher Isherwood’s 1964 novel, finding deep resonances in its tale of gay love and loss. Now, he’s put songs to choreographer Jonathan Watkins’s new dance adapta…

The 15th Anniversary Edition of the Next to Normal Original Broadway Cast Recording has been released in its first-ever vinyl pressing and on CD, available now. Both the 2-CD set and the 2-LP vinyl edition feat…

 Editors' Choice, Part Two Yesterday, we presented the first part of our 2025 JKTS  Awards honoring those theater people - new faces and familiar faces - that made the 2024-2025 Broadway season the special o…

Editors' Choice, Part One Last week, you had your say with The 2025 JKTS Readers' Choice Awards (HERE). Now it is our turn! Today, we offer up our more serious awards, honoring those theater people - new faces…

Take a walk with Darren Criss (your favorite Model 3) through the streets of downtown NYC and get an inside look as to what led his career from "A Very Potter Musical" all the way to receiving a Tony Nomination…

Don't miss this hilarious new comedy written by Gloria Calderón Kellett of Netflix's "One Day at a Time" running May 24 through June 22, 2025. Get tickets at https://www.theoldglobe.org/pdp/25-season/one-of-t…

Playwright Gloria Calderón Kellett joins The Old Globe's Kim Heil to discuss One of the Good Ones. Vicki and Carl Zeiger Insights Seminars provide Globe patrons with an opportunity to closely connect with pro…

(Photo by Milestones Studios) AJ is a storyteller from Pensacola, FL. She received a BFA in Theatre for Youth from Samford University. As a writer, she strives to share bold and bittersweet stories both on …

World Premiere Play A FREEKY INTRODUCTION written by & starring NSangou Njikam directed by Dennis A. Allen II featuring DJ Monday Blue May 16 – June 22, 2025 Atlantic Stage 2 | 330 West 16th St. EVERYBODY S…

If you have ever wanted to see how the sausage gets made and be in the room where it happens, now is your chance. Directed by Jon Halperin, Netflix is giving viewers a special peak behind the curtain to see how…

Everyone in the audience jumped.  The house lights were still all the way up as a thunderous crash reverberated through the Eisenhower. People scrambled for their seats as a second clap echoed. The lights dimm…

Two-time Tony winner, six-time Emmy winner and Olivier winner Bryan Cranston will reunite with director Ivo van Hove in a production of Arthur Miller’s All My Sons in London’s West End in late 2025. The sho…

They starred in the Australian production and can now seen on Broadway through April 20.

The mounting is an incredible accomplishment — for Snook’s performance and Williams’ tech innovation, yes, but also for its reclamation of a queerness the publicly shamed Wilde couldn’t lean all the way…

Sadie Sink is back on Broadway this spring in John Proctor is the Villain, but fans need not travel all the way to the Booth. Theatre to watch the stage and screen star in action! Sink stars in O'Dessa, now str…

Sadie Sink is back on Broadway this spring in John Proctor is the Villain, but fans need not travel all the way to the Booth. Theatre to watch the stage and screen star in action! Sink stars in O'Dessa, now str…

Royal Lyceum, EdinburghA Glasgow country-singing ex-con single mother dreams of the big time in Nicola Taylor’s new musical, directed by John Tiffany Rose-Lynn is twentysomething and wild, feisty (an understa…

Schoenfeld Theatre, New York The 1997 album that later became a hit documentary now reaches the stage in a play with thrilling music performances but a lacking script Was it restraint or oversight that resulted…

Tickets: https://www.mirvish.com/shows/inside-american-pie Sure, you know the chorus, but do you know the stories behind the song? It’s no secret that ‘American Pie’ was written by Don McLean to commemo…

Review of the Saturday, February 8, 2025 evening performance at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre in New York City. Starring Megan Hilty, Jennifer Simard, Christopher Sieber, Michelle Williams, Josh Lamon and Taurean E…

Stranger Things: The First Shadow, the theatrical prequel to Netflix’s ’80s nostalgia/sci-fi horror series, is gearing up for its Broadway run precisely as anticipation for the television series’ final se…

After revealing videos from the auditions of Christopher Jackson and Philippa Soo, Lin-Manuel Miranda has now gone all the way back to 2008 – when In the Heights had just opened on Broadway – when he first …

Country music singer Charley Crockett was born and raised in Texas, grew up in a single-wide trailer with his mom and says his family lineage traces all the way back to the frontiersman Davy Crockett. This Sund…

BroadwaySF, an ATG Entertainment company, is thrilled to launch the inaugural Sara Bareilles Awards in honor of Eureka’s own two-time Grammy Award winner and three-time Tony Award nominee. This regional award…

★★★☆☆ Robert Schenkkan’s semi-satirical historical study appears Under the Radar The post Old Cock: Fowl Doings all the Way from Portugal appeared first on New York Stage Review.

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. Newhouse Theater o…

The Welsh dancer turned down her first chance to appear on Strictly – then illness and injury twice took her off TV. She talks about her new tour, her best friend Carlos Gu and her ‘completely new upper bod…

Sure, you know the chorus, but do you know the stories behind the song? It’s no secret that ‘American Pie’ was written by Don McLean to commemorate the plane crash that killed Buddy Holly, Richie Valens …

A recent Slate piece covered the music rights issues being faced by athletes who use music in competition – among them figure skating, gymnastics, artistic swimming, cheer, ballroom dance, and competitive dan…

Elf The Musical is back on Broadway and spreading Christmas cheer at the Marquis Theatre where Philip Wm. McKinley's new production opened on November 17. Grey Henson leads the cast as the lovable, oversized e…

Review of the Saturday, November 9, 2024 evening performance at the St. James Theatre in New York City. Starring Nicole Scherzinger, Tom Francis, David Thaxton, Sydney Jones and Diego Andres Rodriguez. Music by…

Join Big Gay Christmas Party with Angel GAY-briel, “demonic David Bowie” and performance tour-de-force Aidan Sadler on a sleigh ride that’ll have you following their shining star all the way to HEAVEN

“Rock and Roll Is Here to Stay, It Will Never Die.” This declaration was first expressed by the now largely forgotten doo-wop group Danny & The Juniors all the way back in 1958.  It’s a feeling that …

Andrew Lloyd Webber is rarely absent from a stage somewhere and it’s safe to say his work will outlive the scoffers, of whom there are many. Oh well, he can always cry all the way to the bank having landed hi…

Today marks the 100th birthday of former American President Jimmy Carter (b. 1924). Apart from Gerald Ford, who scarcely counts, Carter is the first President whose tenure I remember from soup to nuts, from his…

From BroadwayWorld's Archive: BroadwayWorld's Richard Ridge says, 'This episode of Broadway Rewind features a heart, a hustler and a hoofer.' We give you a sneak peek at the Broadway musical 'The Drowsy Chapero…

Our 2023|2024 season took audiences on a captivating journey, spanning from the vibrant sounds of 1950s Havana all the way to the countryside of 18th century England. We’re so grateful to everyone who makes…

Sad news about the death of Dr. Ruth Westheimer at the age of 96. I remember fondly spending an afternoon with her in her Washington Heights apartment in NYCm in 2013 to advance a production of “Becoming Dr. …

FOMO is a familiar feeling for theater fans. But of course, it's impossible to catch everything—or to even know what's unmissable until you've already missed it. Fortunately, New York City's summer lineup is …

From BroadwayWorld's Archive: Today we continue our Tonys coverage with Bryan Cranston, a nominee for Best Leading Actor in a Play for All the Way, who chats about why he's living the dream, how he cherishes li…

Two major benchmarks for Barry Manilow (b.1943) passed last year: the singer/musician/songwriter/producer turned 80 years old; and his self-titled debut LP turned 50. This year marks another 50th, as well: that…

Even the cats are K-drama devotees Summer is here...and I've been struggling to find good dramas. One show I can highly recommend this month but otherwise it's been frustrating. **************** The Story o…

Broadway's biggest night is just days away, and that means it's time to spill the tea on this year's Tony-nominated artists.  Who among us hasn't crafted a resume with a few strategically placed white lies? A…

Who among us hasn't crafted a resume with a few strategically placed white lies? A handful of this year's nominees are honest to a fault, but plenty admit to massaging that list of special skills. Find out who …

Here’s my prediction for this year’s Tony Awards.  This year,... The post How a show goes from an idea all the way to Broadway and Beyond first appeared on Ken Davenport.

He is up for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play and Best Revival of a Play (as a producer).

William Jackson Harper stopped by GMA3 on Friday to talk about his role as Astrov in Uncle Vanya, for which he just received his first Tony nomination. Harper has an extensive background in theater, previously …

Wendall K. Harrington’s career has embraced many diverse disciplines including theater, publishing and multi-image/video design and production and academia. As a designer of scenic projections for the stage, …

From BroadwayWorld's Archive: Ellis Island got a little more Broadway last night, as Ragtime was presented in an  invitation-only, one-night-only event, narrated by two-time Tony Award winner and original Ra…

From BroadwayWorld's Archive: All the Way, the new play by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Robert Schenkkan, starring BREAKING BAD's Bryan Cranston, opened last week, March 6, 2014, on Broadway at the Neil Si…

“What we both shared was a love for those movies we grew up with in the 80s: the John Hughes, ‘St. Elmo’s Fire,’ all the way through ‘Less Than Zero,’” remarks Gordon Greenberg about how he and bo…

Join @bwaySHO as she does (possibly the 1st) set of interviews after losing her voice. See how the stars give her the best impressions she could ask for & watch all the way through - you’re not gonna want t…

After the first off-Broadway preview of Kimberly Akimbo at the Atlantic Theater on November 6, 2021, Victoria Clark remembers coming home and sobbing in her husband’s arms. “We had canceled our invited dres…

“We played games and we laughed. And I felt like that was where the trust really began,” recalls Zenzi Williams of a pivotal potluck where she and her “Jaja’s African Hair Braiding” cast members bonde…

Philadelphia, Here I Come! is no exception. It's a fulfilling evening of theatre all the way around and worth your time beyond the opportunity to see Brian Friel's work.

Green and gold shiny streamers hang around the space. Purim, a Jewish holiday that commemorates the saving of Jews from annihilation, and dated all the way back to the fifth century BC, is being celebrated. Rem…

Two-time Tony Award winner John Lithgow is set to play Roald Dahl in a new play about the author's antisemitism. Giant, the debut play of Mark Rosenblatt, will be directed by Nicholas Hytner for London's Royal…

US actor will appear in Mark Rosenblatt’s drama Giant, directed by Nicholas Hytner, in first season of new artistic director David Byrne His bestselling children’s books are regularly turned into hit plays …

I've had a bit too much time on my hands and have been watching too much TV. Some shows were not even worth finishing. I'm listing them for completeness.  But 12 shows in one month is too many (ethe shortest m…

Theater Review by Marcina Zaccaria . . . . For almost 15 years, I lived on Greenwich Street, a long road that extends north from downtown Manhattan, past the World Trade Center site, all the way to Greenwich Vi…

The & Juliet star has been with the SHO since its original days and saw it all the way through to Broadway. Now in her final weeks in the musical, we look back at Melanie La Barrie's Opening Night conversation …

The week features a screening of a rare Christmas special, an audio experience all the way from Dublin, holiday festivities at a historic mansion, and more. Kyle V. Hiller rounds up.

November 15 was the birthday of humorist, columnist, radio personality and Algonquin wit Franklin P. Adams (Franklin Pierce Adams, 1881-1960). In his day, Adams was best known as a regular on the radio quiz sho…

Kirsten Vangsness (Photo by J Doyel Photography) Reviewed by Julyza CommodoreOutside in TheatreThru October 30th Set in 1887 in High Court of Knobbs end, Lottie Platchett Took a Hatchet is set around the murder…

Tony Award-winning composer Anaïs Mitchell will donate artifacts that represent development of the show all the way up to its Broadway premiere.

40 Years of Broadway: 2013-2023: Favorite Songs & Scores Continuing with that third decade (August 20, 2013 - August 19, 2023), I've been thinking of my favorite songs and scores from that decade. There's…

  The cast of Goodspeed's THE 12. Photo: Diane Sobolewski The 12 Music and Lyrics by Neil BergBook and Lyrics by Robert SchenkkanDirected by John DoyleGoodspeed Musicals Through Oct. 29, 2023 By Lauren …

ICYMI, THE NACIREMA SOCIETY has been extended by popular demand through October 22! Get tickets at GoodmanTheatre.org/Society and see why audiences are calling it "amazing all the way through."

40 Years of Broadway: 2003-2013: Favorite Songs & Scores Continuing with that third decade (August 20, 2003 - August 19, 2013), I've been thinking of my favorite songs and scores from that decade. There's…