The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical by Victor Gluck, Editor-In-Chief

Theaterworks NYC’s stage version of Rick Riordan’s best-selling novel, "The Lighting Thief," about Percy Jackson and other demi-gods, first seen in 2014, has returned in an expanded two …

Coming Up This Week in Theatre - 4/15/2017

BroadwayWorld.com's Upcoming Events calendar for the week - updated on 4152017.

'Smart People' Asks Hard Questions About Racism In America by Michel Martin

Smart People is a thought provoking play that examines the difficulties of talking about race. Playwright Lydia R. Diamond discusses the genesis of the play.

Review: Born Yesterday (Remy Bumppo Theatre) by Catey Sullivan

After a rather uneventful first act, Born Yesterday picks up the steam of a runaway downhill freight train in the second act, powering through to a finale that feels downright prophetic. Pla…

War Paint – Woman Power by Sandi Durell

    By Sandi Durell     This is the story that dreams are made of. And so let us give thanks to two extraordinary performers with extraordinary presence and voices that …

Photo Flash: CHICAGO Has an Easter Egg Hunt, SUNSET BOULEVARD Wishes Everyone a Hoppy Easter, and More Saturday Intermission Pics! by BroadwayWorld

It's Saturday, and that means it's time for what has become one of the theatre community's most beloved traditions- BroadwayWorld's 'Saturday Intermission Pics' roundup This week the casts a…

CAGED ANIMALS by Diane Snyder

Bobby Cannavale gives an electric performance in a play that hasn t lost relevance in 100 years.

Review: ‘The Light Princess’ at Arden Theatre Company by Deb Miller

A world-premiere musical adaptation of George MacDonald’s 19th-century Scottish fairytale The Light Princess, with book and lyrics by Tony Lawton and music by Alex Bechtel, is the latest o…

Everything We Know About the ‘Star Wars’ Disney Theme Parks by Seth Kelley

Fans won’t be able to immerse themselves in “Star Wars” land until 2019, but new details and concept art revealed at “Star Wars Celebration” should keep them en…

VIDEO: 54 Below Princess Party Honors Original Broadway Belle Susan Egan by Stage Tube

Feinstein's54 Below just released a brand-new Princess Party video starring Susan Egan and featuring Laura Osnes, Christy Altomare, Adrienne Warren, Courtney Reed and more

Call Answered: Facetime Interview: Michael Zam: "Feud: Bette and Joan" Writer by Call Me Adam

Call Answered: Live from The Algonquin Hotel, "Call Me Adam" goes face to face with "Feud: Bette and Joan" writer Michael Zam! From the story lines to the characters to clearing up misconcep…

Review: ‘Equus’ at The Forge Theatre by Neal Newman

Theatergoers of the 1970s will remember Peter Shaffer’s Equus as the ultimate phantasmagorical theater ride. The revolving stage, the omnipresent stage smoke, the blasting music, and the …

Marilyn Maye is Carrying the Torch by Sandi Durell

      By Sandi Durell     And that torch is shining ever so bright and brilliantly as the doyenne of Jazz, lyric interpretation and storyteller extraordinaire, dress…

Broadway Theater Review: The Play That Goes Wrong TOP PICK by Lauren Yarger

The Play That Goes WrongBy Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer and Henry ShieldsDirected by Mark BellMischief Theatreat the Lyceum TheatreBy Lauren YargerA transfer of the Olivier Award winning come…

Kevin Spacey Rocks an Extraordinarily Strong Look to Duet With Billy Joel by Karen Brill

What exactly is Kevin Spacey wearing in footage of his duet with Billy Joel at Madison Square Garden on Friday? Hard to say. There’s a lot of different textures and wavelengths happening, …

Off-Broadway Theater Review: Joan of Arc: Into the Fire by Lauren Yarger

Jo Lampert .Photo: Joan MarcusJoan of Arc: Into the FireBook, music, and lyrics by David ByrneDirected by Alex Timbers Choreography by Steven HoggettThe Public TheaterThrough April…

DCMerTheaterArts’ Publisher and Editor Joel Markowitz To Receive The Gary Maker Award from DCTheatreScene At A Benefit Cabaret at MetroStage on Mond by Guest Author

DCMetroTheatreArts’ Pubisher and Editor Joel Markowitz has received the Gary Maker Award from DCTheatreScene. In her annoucement Publisher and Editor of DCTheatreScene Lorraine Treanor…

2017-2018 Season Announcement: Chesapeake Shakespeare Company by Self-Post News

Chesapeake Shakespeare Company:  Season 2017-2018  BALTIMORE (April 13, 2017) – A political thriller, a Maryland premiere, Shakespeare favorites, and family classics are among the highl…

BWW TV: Auditions (Also) Go Wrong with the Cast of THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG by BroadwayWorld TV

Does anything go right for the cast of THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG The mishaps don't stop on the stage.Watch below as the company tells their own audition horror stories

HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS WITHOUT REALLY TRYING – Wilton’s Music Hall by Ian Foster

Sadly, their current revival of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying - the first major one in this country since its 1963 premiere - falls on the side of the fatally old-fashione…

Groundhog Day’s Andy Karl Injured. Infamous Broadway Injuries. by New York Theater

Today’s matinee of Groundhog Day has been canceled, and the evening performance will go on with an understudy, after the show’s star Andy Karl injured himself at its Friday evening perfo…

Photo coverage and Review of Sutton Foster At The American Songbook Series At Alice Tully Hall. by Corine Cohen

  Friday, April 14, 2017, at 7:30 pm All photos by: Kevin Yatarola Photography Sutton Foster A Cockeyed Optimist, from South Pacific  Oscar Hammerstein II and Richard Rodgers Everybody…

Mourning the Living by Darryl Reilly

Ms. Hogan’s dialogue is well crafted and the structure is stageworthy, but it all comes across as a playwriting exercise rather than a full-fledged dramatic work. Medically, Hogan’s pre…

Harvey Lembeck: High and Low by Trav S.D.

Harvey Lembeck (1923-1985) was born on April 15.  Lembeck is a wonderful illustration of a transitional time in American show business. As with Gabe Dell of the Dead End Kids, there is surp…

Barack and Michelle Obama Are Hanging Out With Oprah, Tom Hanks, and Bruce Springsteen on a Yacht by Claire Landsbaum

The American people might really miss Barack Obama, but unfortunately for the American people, the former president seems much happier far, far away from them. A Tahitian news outlet is repo…

AUDRA McDONALD IN CONCERT – Leicester Square Theatre by Laura Kressly

With a record breaking six Tony Awards to her name, Audra McDonald is one of Broadway’s living legends. This series of intimate concerts at Leicester Square Theatre reflects upon her ongoi…

"Learn to Fly" - Disneynature's Born in China - In Theatres Friday by Disney Movie Trailers

The Los Angeles Theatre Digest: April 9–15 by Patrick Pizzolorusso

Jay Leno comes to the Geffen and the Little Fish Theatre makes big repairs, plus openings and closings on the West Coast.

Thomas Hart Benton and Hollywood by Trav S.D.

Today is the birthday of the great American painter Thomas Hart Benton (1889-1975). Benton was the namesake and great grand-nephew of the five term Missouri Senator who was one of America…

Taran Killam Crowns Brian D’Arcy James As Hamilton’s New (Old) King George III, Finally Catching Onto British History’s Monarchical by Karen Brill

Finally, we’re getting some historical accuracy, or at least the feeling of historical accuracy, in Hamilton’s royal-succession ceremonies. Up until now, the so-called Order of the Garte…

'Groundhog Day' star Andy Karl injured during preview

Andy Karl, the star of the new musical, "Groundhog Day," injured his knee toward the end of Friday's performance, which may have jeopardized Monday's opening of the much-anticipated show.

MSP’s Marjorie Prime: A Second Chance To Say What Was Left Unsaid To Your Parents by Bill Hirschman

Jordan Harrison’s Marjorie Prime at Main Street Players posits 21st Century technology giving people a chance to say what was left unsaid, to finish unfinished business. The insightful scr…

Broadway ‘Groundhog Day’ star busts knee onstage days before open by Larry McShane

Andy Karl had just won an Olivier award for best actor and the show received a best musical Olivier for its run in London.

The Tony Talk Podcast, Episode 4: Too Much of A Good Thing by Broadway & Me

If you love musicals, this is the season for you. Fourteen new ones will have opened by the time the season officially ends on April 27. And they range from small edgy chamber pieces to…

‘Groundhog Day’ Musical’s Lead Actor Injured Days Before Broadway Opening by Gordon Cox

The April 15 matinee of the previewing Broadway musical “Groundhog Day” has been cancelled after Andy Karl, the lead actor in the production, injured himself during the second ac…

Block Talk- Episode 15- Dominique Salerno by Michael Block

Today on Block Talk, I sat down with the extraordinary Dominique Salerno to talk all things The Box Show, making a return engagement at The PIT!For more on The Box Show, visit theboxshow.org…

THE PLAGUE – Arcola Theatre by Carole Woddis

As Brecht also observed tellingly at the end of The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, 1941, shortly being revived at the Donmar, things come round again. Just when you think humans may have lear…

How to Get Rid of Chairs: Dilemmas of the Independent Performing Arts Sector in Romania by [email protected] (ramona)

By Iulia Popovici. Iulia Popovici writes about independent theatre in Romania.

Features: My Top 5 Showtunes: Rebecca Trehearn

The Olivier Award-winning actress tells us the musical numbers she couldn't live without

Billy Porter’s Richard Rodgers Tribute Album Grabs No. 2 Spot on iTunes’ R&B Chart by Robert Viagas

Cynthia Erivo, Leslie Odom Jr., Renee Elise Goldsberry are among the album’s guests.

April 15 Saturday Matinee of Groundhog Day Canceled Due to Injury of Andy Karl by Andy Lefkowitz

The April 15 2:00pm matinee of the Broadway musical Groundhog Day has been canceled following the injury of star Andy Karl that occurred during the April 14 evening perfo…

UPDATE: Groundhog Day Matinee Canceled After Lead Actor Andy Karl’s Onstage Injury by Ruthie Fierberg

The April 15 matinee performance has been canceled after updates about Karl’s condition.

New York and the Titanic by Trav S.D.

Today is the anniversary of the 1912 sinking of the R.M.S. Titanic. The disaster took place in the Atlantic, far from New York City, but NYC has always had a strong connection to the event. …

Review: War Paint at curtainup.com/ by Elyse Sommer

musical stars Patty LuPone and Christine Ebersole do their utmost to make to stars of the beauty industry fascinating.

Update: GROUNDHOG DAY Cancels Saturday Matinee Due to Star's Injury by BroadwayWorld

This afternoon's performance of GROUNDHOG DAY has been cancelled. The production's lead, Andy Karl, injured himself at the Friday night performance of the new musical and is unable to perfor…

BWW TV: Richard Ridge Chats Up the Stars of Lincoln Center's OSLO on Opening Night by Tv - Opening Night Special

Lincoln Center Theater's smash hit production ofJ.T. Rogers' new playOslo, directed byBartlett Sher, re-opens this weekat the Vivian Beaumont Theater 150 West 65 Street, after a sold-out run…

LIMEHOUSE – Donmar Warehouse by Shanine Salmon

Waters once again focuses on a real-life event, the emergence of the SDP after a disastrous Labour Party Special Conference in January 1981, where it was clear that those on the centre-left …

Theater News: Andy Karl Injured During April 14 Performance of Groundhog Day

Karl completed the show and was then taken to a doctor.

Bonus Weekend Podcast: Yevgeny Yevtushenko, James Rosenquist, Timothy Pigott Smith by WNYC

Over the past few weeks, we were saddened to learn that three former guests of the show had passed away. Yevgeny Yevtushenko was a rock star of a poet – who used his work and acclaim as a …

Coming Soon: ‘Dreamgirls’ Original London Cast Recording by Matthew Wexler

Masterworks Broadway proudly announces the release of the highly anticipated Original London Cast Recording of Dreamgirls. The new double album will be available via online retailers an…

John Coltrane’s music comes to life in Urban Bush Women’s ‘Walking with ‘Trane’ by Admin

The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, D.C. April 7, 2017. After years of admiring Jawole Willa Jo Zollar’s work from afar, I was excited to have the chance to see…

REVIEW ROUND-UP: 46 Beacon at Trafalgar Studios by Emma Clarendon

Now open at the Trafalgar Studios, Alexander Lass directs the West End debut of Bill Rosenfield’s play. Here is what critics have been saying about it...

#BLKARTS Artists of the Week by [email protected] (ramona)

By Erin Washington. Erin Washington highlights Black women who are doing extraordinary work, and encourages others to leave shout-outs in the comments.

Book Review: “Shooting Creek and Other Stories” — The Presence of Evil by Roberta Silman

These well-crafted stories are not for the faint-hearted.

Cuisine and Confessions by Sandi Durell

    By Marcina Zaccaria       At Cuisine and Confessions, anything can happen next. The tumbles, twists, and slides to the ground are truly extraordinary. The acroba…

Groundhog Day’s Lead Injured During Show Days Before Opening Night by Devon Ivie

If only there was a way to turn this day backward by 24 hours. Andy Karl, who’s currently leading Broadway’s new production of Groundhog Day — yes, he’s playing Bill Murray’s weath…

BWW's On This Day - April 15, 2017

Here are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on April 15 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events

THE PLAGUE – Arcola Theatre by Jonathan Baz

In the unnamed town that the five characters inhabit, any hope or joy is promptly quashed and left in a pool of despair on the floor, just like the mysteriously dying rats that plague the st…

How Sweet It Is! A Jackie Gleason Toast by Nitelifeexchange

George Bettinger, host of The Mom & Pop Shop, invites you to join him for How Sweet it Is! A Jackie Gleason Toast, starring Friars Club comedian Bob Greenberg & singer Jimmie Bush, Jr. at t…

Review: Betroffenheit at Sadler’s Wells by Anna Winter

"A profoundly imaginative, sad and humorous exploration of agony and loss, of meaning and its absence". Review by Anna Winter. The post Review: Betroffenheit at Sadler’s Wells appeared…

ON BROADWAY: Sunday in the Park with George by Simon Parris

After creating a sensation in a four-night run at New York City Center last October, the stars aligned for the production to transfer to Broadway for an all too brief season. This revival of…

2 BECOME 1 – King’s Head by Emma Clarendon

Returning to the King’s Head Theatre, Swipe Right’s hilarious musical devoted to the 90’s is nostalgic and high spirited. As I write this, I’m having a nostalgic moment by listening …

Edward Fox: ‘I cry all the time. I like crying’ by Rosanna Greenstreet

The actor on being changed by Hamlet, good suits and playing the piano badlyBorn in London, Edward Fox, 80, went to Rada. During the 1970s, he starred in The Day Of The Jackal and won Baftas…

Taking a Spin With Bobby Cannavale

"The Hairy Ape" at the Park Avenue Armory uses a turntable stage that rotates around the audience and, at 140 feet in diameter, is the largest in the modern history of New York theater. In t…

AUDRA McDONALD IN CONCERT – Leicester Square Theatre by Johnny Fox

She’s joky, and open, and delightful company – and when she sings, although that Juilliard operatic training diction is ever present and the resonance of her chest cavity empowers even t…

Richard 3 by Arts Review

If you’re of the mind that sitting in a theatre watching a rarely performed 400 year-old Shakespearean play about a murderous king, with the king played by a slip of a girl, might not be y…

MICF: The Omission of the Coleman Family by Arts Review

“Unconventional,” is too clichéd, “Surprises,” is too brash and loud; rather, The Omission of the Coleman Family, has no shortage of… “unexpected elements” – both in and…

MICF: Tash York – These Things Take Wine by Arts Review

Billy Joel’s opening “A bottle of white, a bottle of red \  Perhaps a bottle of rosé instead” in Scenes from an Italian Restaurant notes the importance of variety. If you’re needin…

Hit musical ‘Something Rotten!’ heads to the Hippodrome by Tim Smith

Picture it. England, 1595. Some guy from the sticks named William Shakespeare is writing plays that are all the rage, while two way more talented brothers, Nick and Nigel Bottom, struggle to…

Theater Feature: BRIDGE TO AFRICA! (B.R.I.D.G.E. Theatre Project in Kigali, Rwanda) by Jason Rohrer

BRIDGE TO SOMEWHERE I once picked up a hitchhiker a half-mile from a state prison. It was dusk. He wore prison blues and carried a child’s backpack full of knives, cigarette lighters a…

Why I love… Dave Chappelle by Bim Adewunmi

I will never not laugh at his bit on chicken and racismBack when easy streaming was a twinkle in some young executive’s eye, some TV was just… unavailable. If you were desperate to …

The Arts on the Stamps of the World — April 15 by Doug Briscoe

An Arts Fuse regular feature: the arts on stamps of the world.

There Are No Small Parts by Lindsay Price

Are small parts a major letdown, or are they “actor crack”? Here are 3 tips from Theatrefolk founders Craig Mason & Lindsay Price, that show you and your students how to make the mos…

Final Bow: Final Bow: Sunday in the Park's Erin Davie Prepares for Last Not-So-Ordinary Sunday

For Davie, the art of making art involves backstage floods, snack addictions, and "monkeys!"

Andy Karl, Star of Musical ‘Groundhog Day,’ Is Injured During Preview by Michael Paulson

Two days before the musical was set to open, its star was injured during a preview performance. After a 15-minute break, he finished the show, using a cane.

‘Groundhog Day’ star suffers painful injury during show, finishes anyway by Michael Riedel

The new musical “Groundhog Day’’ had its own “Spider-man’’ moment Friday night when its star, Andy Karl, suffered a painful injury during a preview and finished his performance o…

Andy Karl Injured During Performance of Groundhog Day on Broadway by Andy Lefkowitz

Andy Karl, who plays Phil Connors in the new Broadway musical Groundhog Day, was injured during the second act of the show on April 14. The production’s press representative made the f…

‘Groundhog Day’ Star Andy Karl Is Injured During Critics’ Preview, Halting Show by Jeremy Gerard

Andy Karl, the Olivier Award-winning star of Groundhog Day The Musical, was injured Friday night near the end of a critics’ preview of the show, bringing the curtain down at 10:20 P.M.…

Social: Andy Karl Injured During Friday Night Performance of GROUNDHOG DAY by BroadwayWorld

It has been reported on Twitter that Groundhog Day's leading man, Andy Karl, sustained an injury during the Friday night performance of the new musical.

‘We Are One Jazz Project’ at Toronto Centre for the Arts by Blouin Artinfo

The Toronto Centre for the Arts, Toronto, presents a concert by ‘We Are One Jazz Project,’ at the George Weston Recital Hall on April 19, 2017.The 8th Annual Gala Concert will feature a …

‘Before I Fall’ at Marcus Safari Cinema, Minnesota by Blouin Artinfo

‘Before I Fall’, directed by Ry Russo-Young, is being screened at Marcus Safari Cinema, Minnesota, through April 20, 2017.The film casts Zoey Deutch, Elena Kampouris, Halston Sage, Jenni…

‘The Great Wall’ at Marcus Value Cinema, Wisconsin by Blouin Artinfo

‘The Great Wall’ is being screened at Marcus Value Cinema, Wisconsin, through April 20, 2017.The film is directed by Zhang Yimou and casts Matt Damon, Jing Tian, Pedro Pascal, Willem Daf…

Kelli O’Hara Discusses 'Crossing Over' from Musical Theatre to Opera by Ryan McPhee

“I got my degree in opera almost 20 years ago and left the dream to go to acting school. But people still dream.”

What’s Hot in London April 15–22 by Mark Shenton

Audra Mcdonald speaks our for advocacy, and an audience brawl disrupts Michael Flatley’s Lord of the Dance.

Take a Visual Tour of the Best of Broadway’s Signage by Hannah Vine

From Times Square to Shubert Alley, see the posters and billboards that light up Broadway.

“I Refuse to Try and Reverse Engineer A Hit”: Tim Minchin on His Score for Groundhog Day by Ruthie Fierberg

The Tony-nominated songwriter of Matilda reveals the next-level concept behind his score for the new Broadway musical.

Behind the Onstage Transformations of Come From Away’s Cast of Characters by Ruthie Fierberg

How costume designer Toni-Leslie James uses a single piece of clothing to create dozens of characters.