Thursday, March 21, 2024
As a young child forced to endure the drudgery of piano practice, Alan Menken got bored playing other people’s music. Instead he would fake it, absorbing and then imitating the characteris…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:18PMIf you know one thing about the story of the The Outsiders, you know that, at some point, there’s a hell of a fight. In the S.E. Hinton novel and the film adaptation by Francis Ford Coppol…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:18PMDead Outlaw, the world-premiere folk musical about a gunslinger-turned-side-show attraction, has extended its off-Broadway run by one week. The show, which began performances at Audible’s …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:18PMFew people today know the Richard Rodgers Theatre—the Broadway theater currently home to Hamilton—as intimately as Tim Pettolina. As the theater’s house manager, he ensures that the bu…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:12AMWednesday, March 20, 2024
The original cast recording for Broadway’s Water for Elephants, with a score by the musical collective PigPen Theatre Co., will be released by Ghostlight Records later this Broadway season…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:36PMSince 1969, there’s been no shortage of ways to see, hear and feel The Who’s epic rock opera Tommy. Born as a groundbreaking double-LP, it served as a stunning vehicle for The Who’s py…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:12PMTuesday, March 19, 2024
In January, Amber Ardolino donned the blue jeans (and blonde wig) to play Marcia Murphey in A Beautiful Noise, The Neil Diamond Musical opposite Nick Fradiani’s Neil Diamond. Now she’s t…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:32PMThe new Broadway revival of An Enemy of the People, adapted by Amy Herzog and directed by Sam Gold, opened on March 18 at the Circle in the Square Theatre. The Broadway Show hit the red carp…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:32PMWith starring roles in the Netflix series The Haunting of Hill House, The Haunting of Bly Manor and You, 28-year-old actress Victoria Pedretti has spent a remarkable amount of time shrouded …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:02PMIllinoise, the theatrical reimagining of the Grammy- and Oscar-nominated concept album Illinois by Sufjan Stevens, will have a limited Broadway run at the St. James Theatre, beginning perfo…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:02AMLempicka, the new musical about famed Art Deco painter Tamara de Lempicka, begins performances March 19 ahead of an April 14 opening at the Longacre Theatre. Eden Espinosa stars in the tit…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:07AMMonday, March 18, 2024
Dee Roscioli will take over the role of Céline Dion in Titanique, beginning April 3 at the Daryl Roth Theatre. She replaces Nicole Parker, who will play her final performance March 31.
Ros…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:12PMSaturday, March 16, 2024
The Outsiders, based on the novel by S.E. Hinton and the 1983 film that starred Tom Cruise, Matt Dillon, Emilio Estevez, Rob Lowe and Patrick Swayze, begins performances on March 16 at the B…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:06AMFriday, March 15, 2024
The new musical The Notebook, based on the Nicholas Sparks novel and the 2004 romantic film, opened on Broadway on March 14 at the Schoenfeld Theatre. Broadway.com was there to toast the cas…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:24PMA new North American tour of Dear Evan Hansen will launch in September. The tour will kick off in Houston, Texas, and proceed to stops in Dallas, Texas; St. Paul, Minnesota; Lincoln, Nebrask…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:54PMThursday, March 14, 2024
The original Broadway cast recording of the new musical The Notebook, based on the Nicholas Sparks novel and 2004 romantic film, will be released by Atlantic Records on April 19. Before then…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:18PMLast year, Boy George, the former Culture Club frontman, songwriter, fashion designer, producer and global queer icon, found himself being roundly and routinely booed on stage.
He loved it.…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:18PMThe Heart of Rock and Roll, the new Broadway musical built around the music of Huey Lewis and the News, is set in the 1980s.
Of course it is. Slick, positive and as garishly, irresistibly c…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:12PMThe Lincoln Center Theater production of Uncle Vanya, newly translated by Heidi Schreck and directed by Lila Neugebauer, begins performances on April 2 at the Vivian Beaumont Theater, with a…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:06PMWednesday, March 13, 2024
The first Broadway revival of John Patrick Shanley’s Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning play Doubt: A Parable celebrated its return to the New York stage at Roundabout Theatre Company’s Tod…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:12PMBroadway Backwards, the annual, one-night-only performance of show tunes with an LGBTQ+ twist, played the New Amsterdam Theatre on March 11. The event raised a record-breaking $917,651 to be…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:06PMA roster of Roundabout alums will join Emmy and Tony Award winner Kristin Chenoweth for Kristin: An Evening with Friends for Todd, a one-night-only special benefit concert directed by Tony w…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:06PMTuesday, March 12, 2024
In January, Amber Ardolino donned the blue jeans (and blonde wig) to play Marcia Murphey in A Beautiful Noise, The Neil Diamond Musical opposite Nick Fradiani’s Neil Diamond. Now she’s t…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:18PMThe revival of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street will play its final performance on Broadway at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre on May 5. The production opened on March 26, 2023.
Wit…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:06PMThe Broadway-bound production of Sunset Boulevard has received 11 Olivier Award nominations, more than any other play or musical, this year. Nominations for the revival of the Andrew Lloyd …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:02AMSunday, March 10, 2024
The 96th Academy Awards were held on March 10, with a number of Broadway artists receiving honors. Jimmy Kimmel hosted the ceremony, televised live on ABC from the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:54PMFriday, March 8, 2024
Former Hamilton cast members Emmy Raver-Lampman and Tony Award winner Daveed Diggs have welcomed a new baby. Raver-Lampman and Diggs made the birth announcement in a joint post on their res…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:54PMTony nominee Robyn Hurder will play nightclub murderess Velma Kelly in Chicago at Broadway's Ambassador Theatre from March 26 through June 16. Hurder takes over the role from Amra-Faye Wri…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:42PMStranger Things: The First Shadow, a theatrical prequel to the Netflix ’80s-nostalgia horror series, is one step closer to Broadway. The show, which opened on December 14, 2023 at the Phoe…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 09:24AMThe Who’s Tommy, the rock opera based on the 1969 concept album, will have its first preview performance on March 8 at the Nederlander Theatre, with an official opening set for March 28. T…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:36AMThursday, March 7, 2024
Tony Award winner Aaron Tveit is trading the pie shop for the elegant confines of the Café Carlyle. Tveit, who ends his run as the title character in Sweeney Todd on May 5, will perform at …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:54PM 
