Friday, April 27, 2018
Every Broadway season generates at least one “star is born” moment from a charismatic newcomer. The fact that this year’s breakout performer, Lauren Ridloff, had never acte…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:42PMWednesday, April 25, 2018
The final volume of J.K. Rowling’s seven-book saga of young wizard Harry Potter ends with an intriguing epilogue. Jumping ahead 19 years, Harry and his wife, Ginny, are sending their son A…
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 11:41AMThursday, March 22, 2018
In the heyday of Studio 54, Donna Summer’s megahit “Last Dance” signaled an end to the evening’s revelry, recalls Ron Melrose, a keyboard player at the time in Liza Minnelli’s Broa…
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 10:40AMDuring the disco era, Donna Summer reigned as queen of the dance floor, infusing pop music with sexiness and glamour. But there was a lot more to Summer — born LaDonna Adrian Gaines — th…
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 10:34AMMonday, March 12, 2018
In the world of entertainment, there’s not much Katharine McPhee hasn’t done. Reality TV? She placed second on American Idol in 2006. Television dramas? After costarring in the cult hit …
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 12:35PMThursday, February 22, 2018
The spring theater season has officially begun, and a slew of highly anticipated musicals and plays, both brand-new and revisited, are set to bow. Broadway.com's Spring Preview series ca…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:00PMWhen The Boys in the Band debuted Off-Broadway in the spring of 1968, it caused a sensation as the first mainstream play centering on a group of gay men. With biting humor and no-holds-barre…
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 04:35AMMonday, January 29, 2018
Second Stage Theater’s road to Broadway began almost 40 years ago in a funky penthouse space atop the Park Royal Hotel on West 73rd Street. Led by cofounder and artistic director Carole Ro…
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 03:55PMKenneth Lonergan transforms the everyday lives of ordinary people into extraordinary art. His portrait of a grieving family in Manchester by the Sea earned the 2017 Academy Award for Best Or…
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 10:04AMTuesday, January 16, 2018
Before Tina Fey created “30 Rock” and penned the best-selling memoir Bossypants, and before she earned one of her nine Emmy Awards for playing Sarah Palin on “Saturday Nigh…
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 08:00AMFriday, January 5, 2018
A night at the opera rarely resembles the floor-shaking roar of a rock concert. But Broadway veteran Rob Evan, a lover of both classical music and classic rock, had a vision in which masterw…
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 05:25PMTuesday, December 5, 2017
The gorgeous hit musical Dear Evan Hansen — with music by Academy and Tony Award winners Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, book by Tony Award winner Steven Levenson, and direction by four-time T…
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 04:30AMMonday, November 6, 2017
In the summer of 1997, South African–born actress Lindiwe Dlamini was a new mom struggling to find work on the New York stage almost a decade after her Broadway debut in Sarafina. Her luck…
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 01:35PMTuesday, October 24, 2017
In a birthday celebration fit for Pride Rock royalty, The Lion King will mark its 20th anniversary on Broadway with an extraordinary gift to the city of New York: a free performance on Wedne…
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 04:17PMTuesday, October 17, 2017
Jason Mraz is a singer with a deeply romantic streak, composing and performing hummable hits such as “I’m Yours,” “I Won’t Give Up,” and “Lucky.” Now the two-time Grammy Awar…
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 05:00AMTuesday, October 10, 2017
When an Egyptian police orchestra finds itself stranded in the Israeli desert after traveling to the wrong town, the newcomers’ presence sparks a night of unusual encounters and unexpected…
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 11:15AMMonday, September 11, 2017
Look around, look around, Chicago: A Tony-nominated powerhouse has landed in the Windy City, where she's assumed the role of Angelica Schuyler in Hamilton. Montego Glover is taking …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:42PMFriday, August 18, 2017
Julie White brings an extra helping of humor and humanity to every role, even one as fierce and uncompromising as Nora Helmer in A Doll’s House, Part 2. Set 15 years after the heroine …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 09:54AMSunday, August 13, 2017
In this 1985 interview, Tomlin and her now-wife then-writer/co-producer Jane Wagner, talk about bringing The Search for Intelligent Signs of Life in the Universe to Broadway.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMMonday, June 5, 2017
The youngest and eldest female Tony nominees of 2017 personify the season’s top trends: 21-year-old Best Actress hopeful Eva Noblezada is making a breakthrough debut as Kim in Miss Sai…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:06PMWednesday, May 10, 2017
Paula Vogel’s 1998 Pulitzer Prize-winning play, starring Mary-Louise Parker and David Morse, painted a complex portrait of an abusive relationship.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFriday, February 24, 2017
There’s a new gynecologist in town: TV favorite Chris Diamantopoulos will join the cast of Waitress on March 31 as Dr. Pomatter opposite incoming leading lady and composer Sara Bareill…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:03PMMeet the Pollitts! Stage and screen stars Sienna Miller and Jack O’Connell have signed on to play Maggie and Brick in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof on London’s West End. The Young V…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:42AMThursday, February 23, 2017
The long-delayed production of Hamlet starring Oscar Isaac has found a summer home at the Public Theater. Sam Gold’s production of the Shakespeare classic will begin previews on June 2…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:06PMMore than three decades after her Tony-winning performance in Cats, Betty Buckley is savoring a hit movie and a hot new album. On the big screen, the Broadway legend won raves as James McAvo…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:48AMWednesday, February 22, 2017
Broadway vets Lisa Emery (Casa Valentina), Michael Countryman (Wit) and Michael Siberry (The Sound of Music) are among the additional cast members announced for the forthcoming Broadway revi…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:54AMThe critically praised New York debut of Tracy Letts’ Man From Nebraska, starring Tony winner Reed Birney and Annette O’Toole, will get a two-week extension at Second Stage, thro…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:48AMMonday, December 26, 2016
Family life is messy in the new hit musical Dear Evan Hansen, and that’s exactly the way Rachel Bay Jones and Jennifer Laura Thompson like it. After years of solid work in Broadway mus…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:54AMTuesday, October 18, 2016
Two of the most beloved supporting characters in modern-day musicals are “the lesbians next door,” kosher caterer Cordelia and internist Dr. Charlotte, in Falsettos. Introduced b…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:51PMThursday, October 6, 2016
Of all the frisky felines in Cats, Mungojerrie and Rumpleteazer are the biggest mischief-makers, grabbing Sunday dinner from the oven one minute and swiping a string of pearls the next. Thes…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:29PMTuesday, September 6, 2016
A glamorous drag queen and a strait-laced shoe manufacturer form an unconventional alliance in Kinky Boots, a relationship that’s both funny and touching thanks to Cyndi Lauper’s…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:33PM 
