‘Mary Jane,’ ‘Hell’s Kitchen’ and More New Broadway Shows by The New York Times

This past week has been jam-packed with openings. Our reviewers think these new shows are worth knowing about even if you’re not planning to see them.

HAMILTON Star Jasmine Cephas Jones Releases New Single 'Come My Way'

EMMY and GRAMMY-award winning singer, songwriter, and actress Jasmine Cephas Jones has unveiled another taste of her forthcoming album as she released her newest single, “Come My Way.” T…

Photos: Get a 1st Look at Sufjan Stevens Dance Musical Illinoise On Broadway by Margaret Hall

Directed and choreographed by Justin Peck, the show previously played an Off-Broadway premiere at Park Avenue Armory.

Need Help Taking A Show to the Edinburgh Fringe? FringeMakers is Here to Help by Margaret Hall

FringeMakers can help performers fund the costs associated with travel, accomodation, and marketing through the Fringe.

Watch Joy Woods Belt Out The Notebook's 'My Days' on The Kelly Clarkson Show by Andrew Gans

Composer Ingrid Michaelson also chats with host Clarkson about the new Broadway musical.

The Outsiders Director Danya Taymor on What the Musical Taught Her About Leadership by Andrew Gans

The new Broadway musical based on the classic S.E. Hinton novel recently opened at the Jacobs Theatre.

Life Is a ‘Cabaret’: Bebe Neuwirth’s Latest Role Is a High-Stakes Broadway Homecoming by Gordon Cox

Bebe Neuwirth calls herself a “theater rat.” So it’s natural she’d be sitting in an old-school New York diner on Eighth Avenue, on the edge of the Broadway district, right around the…

Video: Eddie Redmayne Talks CABARET on LIVE WITH KELLY AND MARK

Eddie Redmayne joined Live with Kelly and Mark on Thursday to discuss his role in Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club, which just opened on Broadway. Having previously played the role of the Emcee i…

Me and the “Miscellany” on the Marx Brothers Council Podcast! by Trav S.D.

Some 50 episodes after my last appearance (Look at Chicolini), I had the good fortune this week to return as a guest on the Marx Brothers Council Podcast to talk about my new book The Marx B…

The Outsiders Director Danya Taymor on What She Learned From Her Aunt, Julie Taymor by Andrew Gans

The new Broadway musical based on the classic S.E. Hinton novel recently opened at the Jacobs Theatre.

Listen to Barbra Streisand Sing Haunting New Single, 'Love Will Survive' by Andrew Gans

The song will be heard in Peacock's upcoming event series The Tattooist of Auschwitz.

9 New Musicals Selected for Development at Rhinebeck Writers Retreat by Margaret Hall

The musicals were selected from a record 219 applications representing 474 musical theatre writers.

Get a 1st Listen to the Exit Music From Final Stephen Sondheim Musical Here We Are by Logan Culwell-Block

A track from the upcoming cast album, releasing May 17, is out.

Video: Joy Woods and Ingrid Michaelson Talk THE NOTEBOOK: THE MUSICAL on THE KELLY CLARKSON SHOW

Joy Woods stopped by The Kelly Clarkson Show on Thursday to perform the song My Days from The Notebook: The Musical, which is currently running on Broadway. Before the performance, writer In…

Photos: First Look at ILLINOISE on Broadway

All new photos have been released of the cast of the new Broadway musical Illinoise! Illinoise is now playing at Broadway's St. James Theatre.

‘The Wiz’ Revival Announces Broadway Cast Recording by Matthew Herzog

Kyle Ramar Freeman as Lion, Nichelle Lewis as Dorothy, Phillip Johnson Richardson as Tinman, Avery Wilson as Scarecrow. Photo by Jeremy Daniel, (c) 2023.jpg Interscope Records and The Wiz …

How Will Keen Brings Vladimir Putin to Chilling Life in Broadway's Patriots by Darryn King

In 2015, the British Medical Journal published a study on a phenomenon that the researchers observed among highly ranked Russian political figures and officials, including President Vladimir…

The Wiz Will Release a 2024 Broadway Cast Recording by Hayley Levitt

The Wiz, now running at the Marquis Theatre, will release a 2024 Broadway Cast Recording on July 12 through Immersive/Interscope Records. The Broadway revival, directed by Schele Williams, …

WATER FOR ELEPHANTS Will Release Original Broadway Cast Recording; Listen to the First Two Songs!

The Original Broadway Cast Recording of Water for Elephants will be released on Friday, May 17. The first two singles, “Wild” and “Silver Stars,” are available today, Friday, April…

Pre-Order Cast Recording For Sondheim's HERE WE ARE; Plus Watch the New Music Video For 'Exit Music'!

The original cast recording of Here We Are, David Ives and Stephen Sondheim’s critically-acclaimed new musical, is now available to preorder and pre-save on digital platforms worldwide ahe…

Broadway's Wiz Revival Is Getting a Cast Album by Logan Culwell-Block

Nichelle Williams, Debra Cox, and Wayne Brady lead the company at the Marquis Theatre.

Deliberately Bad Faux Jukebox Musical Fun at the Beach Romp-Bomp-a-Lomp!! Finds Full Cast for London Premiere by Logan Culwell-Block

The Play That Goes Wrong director Mark Bell is staging the new musical, written by Brandon Lambert and Martin Landry.

Listen to Barbara Streisand Sing Haunting New Single, 'Love Will Survive' by Andrew Gans

The song will be heard in Peacock's upcoming event series The Tattooist of Auschwitz.

Photos: Stars Walk the Red Carpet on Opening Night of THE GATSBY

And that's a wrap on the 2023/24 Broadway season! The final two shows of the spring officially opened last night, and BroadwayWorld was on the red carpet for The Great Gatsby as the VIP gues…

What a “1 for X” Deal Means In Broadway Investing & Producing. by Ken Davenport

You’ve heard it before. But maybe you haven’t quite understood... The post What a “1 for X” Deal Means In Broadway Investing & Producing. first appeared on Ken Davenport.

THE GREAT GATSBY – RUNNING ON EMPTY by Oscar E Moore

As we bid a not so fond farewell to the most recent Broadway season with this car wreck of a musical THE GREAT GATSBY we ask ourselves why?  Why import a mediocre musical from New Jersey’…

Photos: Jeremy Jordan, Eva Noblezada & the Company of THE GREAT GATSBY Celebrate Opening Night

Welcome to Broadway, old sport! The Great Gatsby has officially opened on Broadway! The show held its opening night last night, April 25 at the Broadway Theatre. BroadwayWorld was there for…

Burning Down the Spouse by American Theatre Editors

A new book looks at the marriages of convenience—and backstage inconveniences—behind the filming of 'Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?'

Bonnie Milligan to Host 2023-24 Roger Rees Awards by Molly Higgins

The awards celebrate high school student performances in New York, with two Outstanding Performer winners to go on to the Jimmy Awards in June.

Photos: See Kenny Leon and the Company of Broadway's Home by Molly Higgins

Leon will direct the upcoming Roundabout Theatre Company revival of the Samm-Art Williams play.

Review: In Rough Trade, Gay Millennials Look Toward Middle Age and Shudder

Review: Broadway Revival of Dancin' Knows Fosse's Steps but Lacks His Vibe

THE WIZ 2024 Broadway Cast Recording Will Be Released This Summer

The 2024 cast recording of The Wiz will be released this summer! Learn more about The Wiz here!

Doctor Brown: Beturns review – the original clown prince in total control by Brian Logan

Soho theatre, LondonPhil Burgers made clowning hip after winning the Edinburgh comedy award in 2012. Now older, if not wiser, his new show is a little undercooked, but his skill as a perform…

Photos: The Cast of THE GREAT GATSBY Takes Opening Night Bows

The Great Gatsby has officially opened on Broadway! The show held its opening night last night, April 25 at the Broadway Theatre. Check out photos of the cast taking their opening night bows…

Photos: Inside Opening Night of MOTHER PLAY on Broadway

Mother Play officially opened on Broadway last night, April 25. We're taking you inside opening night in the all new photos here!

In ‘Jaja’s African Hair Braiding,’ playwright Jocelyn Bioh achieves ultimate balance by Ruthie Fierberg

Set in a Harlem-based African braiding salon, Bioh’s comedy blends humor and sincerity, familiarity and hyper-specificity and a micro story with macro issues.

Renate Müller: The Original Viktor/Viktoria by Trav S.D.

Synchronicitously, I learned about Renate Müller (1906-1937) from two trusted sources within days of each other a few months back. One was Eve Golden, who wrote terrific articles about the…

Melanie La Barrie and Jon Jon Briones on the Challenges of Playing Hermes in Hadestown by TheaterMania

Anaïs Mitchell’s Tony and Grammy Award-winning musical Hadestown is currently lighting up both sides of the Atlantic, enjoying a record-breaking run at the Walter Kerr Theatre in New York…

Montage: Rachel McAdams Makes Broadway Debut in Amy Herzog's Mary Jane by TheaterMania

Academy Award nominee Rachel McAdams stars in the Broadway premiere of MARY JANE, written by Pulitzer Prize finalist Amy Herzog (4000 Miles, the recent Tony-nominated adaptation of A Doll’…

Wayne Brady, Deborah Cox, and The Wiz Cast Take Opening-Night Bows by TheaterMania

This groundbreaking twist on The Wizard of Oz changed the face of Broadway—from its iconic score packed with soul, gospel, rock, and finger-snapping 70s funk to its stirring tale of Doroth…

Leslie Odom Jr. and Kara Young in a Scene From Purlie Victorious by TheaterMania

Purlie Victorious is a comedy about a Black preacher’s scheme to reclaim his inheritance and win back his church from a plantation owner. Written by Kennedy Center honoree Ossie Davis with…

"Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic" from Sting Ballet Message in a Bottle by TheaterMania

Initially inspired by Sting’s “Desert Rose” and including “Every Breath You Take,” “Roxanne,” “Fields of Gold,” and 23 more of the artist’s most beloved songs, this dance…

Trailer for Broadway's Alicia Keys Musical Hell's Kitchen by TheaterMania

That’s Hell’s Kitchen, a new musical created by 15-time Grammy Award winner Alicia Keys that’s about to make Broadway feel brand new. In the mid 90’s, in an apartment high above the…

Trailer for Patriots on Broadway, Starring Michael Stuhlbarg and Will Keen by TheaterMania

In 1991, after the fall of the Soviet Union, the new Russia belongs to its oligarchs — and no one is more powerful than billionaire Boris Berezovsky. When an eventual successor to Presiden…

You Are Going to Die review – nothing is off-limits in this naked meditation on mortality by Arifa Akbar

Southwark Playhouse, LondonAdam Scott-Rowley struts, writhes and jiggles his way from ancient Celt to Hieronymus Bosch wretch in this potent cross between physical theatre and performance ar…

Baby Blues: A Review of “Baby” at Citadel Theatre by Tristan Bruns

A range of trepidations about having children is presented in “Baby,” a restaging of the 1983 Broadway musical that runs through May 19 at Citadel Theatre.

Today on Broadway: Friday, April 26, 2024 by Matt Tamanini

Broadway Reviews for ‘The Great Gatsby’ and ‘Mother Play,’ Patti Murin and Christopher Ryan Grant to Lead New Johnny and June Carter Cash Musical, Tamika Lawrence Performs ‘Power …

MJ The Musical | 2024 West End Trailer by Official London Theatre

Michael Jackson’s unique and unparalleled artistry comes to the West End stage direct from Broadway in the multiple Tony Award®-winning new musical MJ. Book now: https://officiallondonth…

Catching Up With Marsha Mason, Now Starring in All My Sons at Hartford Stage

Did you follow the local news this week? Take our Greater Boston news quiz. by Peter Chianca

Consternation on campus, a Wahlberg-Beckham battle, and “Hadestown” history all figure into this week’s news quiz. The post Did you follow the local news this week? Take our Greater Bo…

ArtsBeat TV.Radio 4/26/24: Sevenars and Berkshire Opera by Mark G. Auerbach

ArtsBeat TV/Radio 4/26/24. from Westfield Community Programming, 89.5fm/WSKB, Agawam Media and Southwick Community TV. Season Previews: Rorianne Schrade from Sevenars, and Geoffrey Larson fr…

New CT restaurant breaks with tradition. They say modern twists mean food that’s ‘best of its kind’ by Pamela McLoughlin

The owners believe the restaurant to be a first of its kind in Connecticut, and that "If we don't want to eat it we don't give it to the customers."

Review: ‘Jordans’ Tackles Race at Work at the Public Theater by Maya Phillips

Alternating between funny and bleak, the Public Theater’s latest production tackles race and the modern workplace.

Wake Up With BroadwayWorld April 26, 2024

Rise and shine, BroadwayWorld! It is April 26, 2024 and it's time to catch up on all of the theatrical happenings you may have missed in the last 24 hours.

The Great Gatsby Opening Night curtain call starring Jeremy Jordan & Eva Noblezada by bwaySHO

Head inside the Broadway Theatre for opening night of The Great Gatsby on Broadway. Filmed & edited by @bwaySHO Outro filmed by Tricia Baron #thegreatgatsby #evanoblezada #jeremyjordan

The Broadway Review:  With ‘The Great Gatsby,’ a production that’s more pyrite than treasure by Brittani Samuel

Director Marc Bruni mounts a sumptuous musical adaptation of the American classic that represents how dazzling theater can look, but now how impactful it can be.

The Grinning Man to make Australian premiere this May

The post The Grinning Man to make Australian premiere this May appeared first on Australian Arts Review.

Melbourne Opera presents Lucia di Lammermoor at the Athenaeum Theatre this May

The post Melbourne Opera presents Lucia di Lammermoor at the Athenaeum Theatre this May appeared first on Australian Arts Review.

Daniel Marconi, Cathryn Wake, John Yi Star in Tick, Tick...BOOM! at George Street Playhouse, Opening April 26 by Logan Culwell-Block

Artistic Director David Saint is directing the Jonathan Larson musical at the New Jersey company.

The Broadway Review: ‘Mother Play’ — Paula Vogel’s mother of a memory play by Brittani Samuel

Vogel’s nuanced exploration of her own family sets the stage for a profound and humorous new American play. 

2024 Coriole Music Festival to take you on a unique and thrilling musical journey

The post 2024 Coriole Music Festival to take you on a unique and thrilling musical journey appeared first on Australian Arts Review.