Wednesday, August 28, 2024
Broadway casting is complete for the Elton John musical Tammy Faye. The show begins performances at the Palace Theatre on October 19 with an official opening set for November 14.
As prev…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:54PMThe cast is set for the world premiere of the My Best Friend's Wedding musical. The new musical adaptation of the Julia Roberts-led 1997 romantic comedy, set to the songs of Burt Bacharach …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:48AMTuesday, August 27, 2024
Emmy winner Debra Messing (Will & Grace), Tony nominee Billy Magnussen (Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike) and Golden Globe nominee Constance Wu (Crazy Rich Asians) will star in the wo…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:18PMTony winner James Monroe Iglehart, the star of the upcoming Louis Armstrong biomusical A Wonderful World, will also co-direct the production alongside Christina Sajous and the show's origi…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:42AMMonday, August 26, 2024
Tony nominee Orfeh joins the cast of Chicago at the Ambassador Theatre on August 26. She takes on the role of Countess of the Clink Matron “Mama” Morton for a limited run through Se…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:03PMFriday, August 23, 2024
Yes. We were all hoping that Oh, Mary! would transfer to the Booth.
There would have been something delightfully perverse, so appropriately wrong about seeing Cole Escola’s filthy, riot…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:02AMThursday, August 22, 2024
Broadway’s Aladdin will welcome several new cast members. Michael Schimmele, Nathan Levy (Once Upon a One More Time) and Colt Prattes (Aladdin national tour) will play Aladdin’s sidekick…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:24PMSeveral cast members, hailing from Broadway and beyond, have been announced for Warriors, the new concept album from Lin-Manuel Miranda and Eisa Davis, based on the 1979 action cult film T…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:12PMTwo-time Oscar winner and Tony nominee Cate Blanchett will star in a new version of Chekhov’s The Seagull in London. Thomas Ostermeier, who adapted the play with Duncan Macmillan, will dir…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:02PMA musical about the Gwyneth Paltrow ski crash trial is headed to the West End. I Wish You Well: The Gwyneth Paltrow Ski-Trial Musical will play the Criterion Theatre in London from September…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:02PMA video of the star-studded performance of “The Impossible Dream,” from Aaron Lazar’s upcoming debut album, has been released. Lazar, the singer and actor diagnosed with the neurodege…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:02PMWednesday, August 21, 2024
Grammy Award winner Alicia Keys and Tony-nominated playwright Kristoffer Diaz—collaborators on the Broadway musical Hell’s Kitchen—will be honored at this year’s Arthur Miller Found…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:03PMTuesday, August 20, 2024
Jim Barry, a longtime usher at the St. James Theatre and a familiar face to many in the Broadway community, died on August 18. He was 69.
Tributes have poured in on social media. “The kin…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:12PMSwept Away, the new seafaring musical scored by the Avett Brothers, has completed casting for its upcoming Broadway production. Performances will begin at the Longacre Theatre on October 29 …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:06AMMonday, August 19, 2024
Twenty years ago, a curly-haired Australian writer and performer named Tim Minchin applied chemical straightener to his locks and started referring to his solo cabaret show as “comedy.”
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SOURCE: Broadway.com at 07:02PMJordan Fisher, Maia Reficco and Phillip Boykin will stay in Hadestown a little longer. The trio, who play Orpheus, Eurydice and Hades, respectively, will play their final performance at Broa…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:32PMCasting is complete for the second national tour of Ain’t Too Proud: The Life and Times of the Temptations. The tour will officially launch on September 19 at the Clemens Center in Elmira,…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:18AMFriday, August 16, 2024
The Notebook will launch a North American Tour in fall 2025. Performances will begin in September 2025 at Playhouse Square in Cleveland, OH. Additional cities will be announced at a later d…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:46AMThursday, August 15, 2024
Adam Epstein, the political pundit and Broadway producer of Hairspray—whose productions garnered a total of 46 Tony nominations and won 12 Tony Awards—died on August 13, following a batt…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:11PMGena Rowlands, known for her wrenching and revelatory film performances, has died. A four-time Emmy and two-time Golden Globe winner, she was nominated for Academy Awards for her performance…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:37AMWednesday, August 14, 2024
The Student & Youth Travel Association (SYTA), dedicated to providing life-enhancing travel experiences to students and young people, held their annual conference in New York from August…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:16PMJOB, the psychological thriller starring Peter Friedman and Sydney Lemmon, has extended its run by four weeks. The 80-minute two-hander will now play at Broadway's Hayes Theater until Octob…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:24AMTuesday, August 13, 2024
The Gilded Age, Tony nominee Julian Fellowes' HBO drama series about late-19th-century New York City, has announced new cast members for its upcoming third season, including several familia…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:07PMCasting is complete for the national tour of Kimberly Akimbo. As previously announced, the tour will star Carolee Carmello as Kimberly and kick off in Denver, Colorado on September 22, pla…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:49AMThe traveling-circus musical Water for Elephants, currently playing at Broadway's Imperial Theatre, will launch its national tour in Baltimore in the fall of 2025. The full tour route is …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 09:00AMMonday, August 12, 2024
Amy Berryman’s Walden has been added to Second Stage Theater’s 2024-25 season, replacing the previously announced production of Donald Margulies’ Lunar Eclipse. Berryman's play will be…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:55PMThe upcoming Broadway revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Sunset Boulevard, starring Nicole Scherzinger as Norma Desmond—and Mandy Gonzalez in the role at certain select performances—has …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:00PMThe upcoming Broadway production of Romeo + Juliet, starring Kit Connor and Rachel Zegler, has completed casting. The Sam Gold-directed production will begin performances on September 26 wit…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:29AMSaturday, August 10, 2024
The Greatest Showman, the 2017 Hugh Jackman-led musical film, with songs by Tony- and Oscar-winning duo Benj Pasek and Justin Paul (Dear Evan Hansen La La Land), will be Disney's next scre…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 08:27AMFriday, August 9, 2024
The 2024-25 Broadway season is shaping up to be unusually big on special effects.
Beginning performances in September, McNeal will feature a “Metahuman” digital likeness of its star, Ro…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:00PMThursday, August 8, 2024
Theatre for a New Audience's 2024-25 season is set to feature works from a number of artists familiar to Broadway and New York theater audiences, including MacArthur “genius” and 24-Deca…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:04PM 
