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Tuesday, January 14, 2025

Gracie Lawrence and Emily Bergl Join Jonathan Groff in Bobby Darin Musical Just in Time by Darryn King

Additional Broadway casting has been announced for Just in Time, the new musical starring Tony Award winner Jonathan Groff as "Dream Lover" crooner Bobby Darin. The show begins performances …

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:12AM
Monday, January 13, 2025

Pasadena Playhouse Cancels Anything Goes and Follies Concerts Amid L.A. Fires by Darryn King

Pasadena Playhouse has canceled its concert events of Anything Goes and Follies due to the California wildfires. “Pasadena Playhouse is heartbroken by the devastation that this week’s f…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:32PM

Little Shop of Horrors Los Angeles Concert, Featuring Tony Winner Alex Newell, Canceled Due to California Wildfires by Darryn King

The concert presentation of Little Shop of Horrors in Los Angeles has been canceled due to the California wildfires. The one-night-only event was scheduled to take place at the Catch One n…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:32PM
Friday, January 10, 2025

Alan Mingo Jr. Returns for Second Leg of The Wiz National Tour; Complete Cast Announced by Darryn King

Casting has been announced for the second leg of the national tour of The Wiz. The multi-year tour will kick off in Rochester, NY at the West Herr Auditorium Theatre on February 22. The pri…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:36PM

Tessie's Turn with Gypsy's Lesli Margherita, Episode 3: Overtures and Overacting by Darryn King

In the new revival of Gypsy, Olivier Award winner Lesli Margherita plays demure stripper Tessie Tura, who utters the immortal couplet: “You gotta get a gimmick if you wanna get applause.…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:36PM

You Can Count Down the Sleeps Until the Once Upon a Mattress Cast Album Drops by Darryn King

Once Upon a Mattress, the fairytale musical comedy that starred two-time Tony winner Sutton Foster as Winnifred the Woebegone, is set to record a cast album to be released in the spring.�…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:24AM
Thursday, January 9, 2025

Merle Dandridge and Tony Nominee Daniel Breaker Join Broadway's Hadestown by Darryn King

Tony Award nominee Daniel Breaker and Grammy Award nominee Merle Dandridge will join the cast of Hadestown on Broadway. The duo begin performances at the Walter Kerr Theatre on February 18,…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:32PM

Adam Chanler-Berat, Taylor Iman Jones and More to Star in The Jonathan Larson Project by Darryn King

Complete casting has been announced for the world premiere of a new musical that celebrates the dozens of unheard songs, and unfinished and unproduced musicals left behind by RENT creator Jo…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:18AM
Wednesday, January 8, 2025

Brendan Fraser Departs Grangeville Off-Broadway, Paul Sparks Steps Up by Darryn King

Paul Sparks will replace Academy Award winner Brendan Fraser in the upcoming world premiere of Grangeville off-Broadway. Fraser is departing the production due to "unforeseen circumstances."…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:42AM
Tuesday, January 7, 2025

Laura Woyasz Will Join Kimberly Akimbo National Tour by Darryn King

Laura Woyasz will join the national tour of Kimberly Akimbo as Pattie. Woyasz steps into the role on January 28 in Costa Mesa, CA. She takes over from Dana Steingold, who will play her final…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:36PM
Monday, January 6, 2025

Tony Winner Billy Crudup, Ella Beatty, Hamish Linklater and More to Star in LCT’s Ghosts by Darryn King

Casting has been announced for Lincoln Center Theater’s upcoming production of Henrik Ibsen’s Ghosts, adapted by Mark O’Rowe. The show begins performances at Lincoln Center’s Mitzi E…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:12PM

Richard Foreman, Avant-Garde Playwright Who Nurtured New Voices, Dies at 87 by Darryn King

Richard Foreman, the avant-garde playwright, died on Saturday in Manhattan from complications with pneumonia. He was 87. Born on June 10, 1937, Foreman grew up in Scarsdale, New York. He fe…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:18AM
Friday, January 3, 2025

Greg Hildreth to Join Broadway's Chicago as Amos Hart by Darryn King

Greg Hildreth will join Broadway’s Chicago as Amos Hart. Hildreth will take over the role from Red Concepción, who will play his final performance on January 4. Hildreth begins performan…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:02AM
Thursday, December 19, 2024

Hit Comedy Oh, Mary! to Welcome Phillip James Brannon and Chris Renfro by Darryn King

Phillip James Brannon (Macbeth, Junk) and Chris Renfro (Queer as Folk) will join Cole Escola's hit Broadway comedy Oh, Mary! at the Lyceum Theatre. Brannon will star as Mary’s Husband,…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:24PM

Twisted Gunslinger Musical Dead Outlaw Is Coming to Broadway This Season by Darryn King

After a successful run off-Broadway, Dead Outlaw, the twisted, toe-tapping folk musical about an ill-fated gunslinger, is coming to Broadway in spring 2025. The show begins performances at …

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:12AM
Wednesday, December 18, 2024

Real Housewives Star Erika Jayne to Return as Roxie in Broadway’s Chicago by Darryn King

Singer, actress and TV star Erika Jayne—whose performance of Roxie Hart in Broadway’s Chicago was cut short by the pandemic in 2020—will return to the role in early 2025. She will temp…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:32PM

Modern Family's Sarah Hyland to Play Daisy in The Great Gatsby on Broadway by Darryn King

Modern Family’s Sarah Hyland will star as Daisy Buchanan in The Great Gatsby on Broadway. Hyland replaces original star Eva Noblezada, who will play her final performance in the role on J…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:24PM

Eureka Day Gets a Booster Shot, Extends on Broadway by Two Weeks by Darryn King

Eureka Day, Jonathan Spector's dark comedy about a heated vaccine policy debate at a California private school, has extended by two weeks. The production, which opened on December 16 at Man…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:06PM

Tony Winner Alex Newell Joins One-Night-Only Little Shop of Horrors by Darryn King

Tony Award winner Alex Newell will star in the one-night-only concert presentation of Little Shop of Horrors at the Catch One nightclub in Los Angeles on January 17, 2025. Newell will perfor…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:54AM
Monday, December 16, 2024

Amy Powers, Sunset Boulevard's Original Lyricist, Speaks: 'It Changed the Entire Course of My Life' by Darryn King

In miniscule type, buried in the credits in the theater program for the current Broadway revival of Sunset Boulevard, a brief note appears: “The producers gratefully acknowledge the role o…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:06AM

Maybe Happy Ending to Release Broadway Cast Recording in Spring 2025 by Darryn King

Maybe Happy Ending, the romantic musical comedy starring Darren Criss and Helen J Shen as robots in love, will release a cast album. The original Broadway cast recording will be released …

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:06AM
Friday, December 13, 2024

Beyond Broadway: It's Christmastime in the City (and the Theater) by Darryn King and Hayley Levitt

New York City is a veritable immersive production this time of year: dazzling lights, singing in the squares and a supporting cast of too many tourists. There’s plenty of Christmas spirit …

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:48AM
Thursday, December 12, 2024

Jessica Vosk Is Fallin' into the Alicia Keys Musical Hell's Kitchen Tonight by Darryn King

Jessica Vosk will make her debut in the role of Jersey in the Alicia Keys musical Hell's Kitchen on December 12. She replaces the show's original Tony-nominated star Shoshana Bean, who pl…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:18AM
Wednesday, December 11, 2024

Casting is Complete for Buena Vista Social Club on Broadway by Darryn King

Casting is complete for the Broadway transfer of Buena Vista Social Club. The musical, telling the story behind the landmark Afro-Cuban jazz album of the same name, will begin performances …

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:42PM

Dancer and Social Media Star Charli D'Amelio Extends Run in & Juliet by Darryn King

Charli D'Amelio, a dancer and social media personality with over 155 million followers on TikTok, has extended her run as part of the cast of & Juliet. She joined the ensemble in the d…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:42PM

Jamie Lloyd to Direct Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s Evita in London by Darryn King

The director Jamie Lloyd, whose production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Sunset Boulevard is currently playing Broadway's St. James Theatre, will direct another musical by the composer in London…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:24PM
Tuesday, December 10, 2024

Glengarry Glen Ross, Starring Kieran Culkin, Bob Odenkirk and Michael McKean, to Play Palace Theatre by Darryn King

The upcoming Broadway revival of David Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross will play the Palace Theatre. Performances of the strictly limited 12-week run will begin March 10, 2025, with an officia…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:54AM

Olivier Award Winner and Tony Nominee Andy Karl to Join Moulin Rouge! on Broadway by Darryn King

Olivier Award winner and Tony nominee Andy Karl is headed to the Moulin Rouge! Karl will join the Broadway production in the role of the Duke of Monroth for a limited engagement. Karl takes …

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 09:42AM

Jamaal Fields-Green to Take Over Lead Role in London’s MJ by Darryn King

After having starred in MJ on the show's national tour earlier this year, Jamaal Fields-Green will now take over the role in London. Fields-Green, who has now performed in productions of t…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:12AM
Monday, December 9, 2024

Twisted Musical Comedy Teeth to Take its Final Bite Off-Broadway by Darryn King

The commercial remount of Teeth, the twisted musical comedy written by Anna K. Jacobs (book and music) and Michael R. Jackson (book and lyrics), will play its final performance at off-Broad…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 09:42PM

Tony Winner Danya Taymor to Direct American Premiere of Queer High-School Comedy Trophy Boys by Darryn King

Danya Taymor, the Tony Award-winning director of The Outsiders, will direct the U.S. premiere of the queer high-school comedy Trophy Boys. The play will begin previews on June 5, 2025, wi…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:06PM

All that Chat

2024-2025 BROADWAY SEASON
Jun 05, 2024: Home - Todd Haimes Theatre
Jul 11, 2024: Oh, Mary! - Lyceum Theatre
Jul 30, 2024: Job - Hayes Theater
Sep 12, 2024: The Roommate - Booth Theatre
Nov 14, 2024: Tammy Faye - Palace Theatre
Dec 12, 2024: Cult of Love - Hayes Theater
Dec 19, 2024: Gypsy - Majestic Theatre
Mar 17, 2025: Purpose - Hayes Theater
Apr 10, 2025: Smash - Imperial Theatre
TBA: Titanic
TBA: Ragtime