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Wednesday, April 30, 2025

Vietnam War Musical Rolling Thunder to Get Off-Broadway U.S. Premiere This Summer by Darryn King

Rolling Thunder, a show grappling with the Vietnam war and its aftermath set to the rock songs of the era, will have its U.S. premiere off-Broadway this summer. The show will begin performan…

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Maybe Happy Ending, Just in Time, BOOP! and More Recognized with Drama Desk Award Nominations by Darryn King

The nominations for the 69th Annual Drama Desk Awards, honoring work on Broadway, off-Broadway and off-off-Broadway, have been announced. The ceremony, hosted by Debra Messing and Tituss Bur…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:42PM
Tuesday, April 29, 2025

Mamma Mia! Announces Complete Cast for Broadway Return by Darryn King

Mamma Mia!, the musical set to ABBA's greatest hits, has announced complete casting for its upcoming Broadway return. The show will run for six months at the Winter Garden Theatre from Aug…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:42PM

Buena Vista Social Club Leads Chita Rivera Award Nominations; Wicked: Part One, Smash and BOOP! Also Recognized by Darryn King

Nominations for the 2025 Chita Rivera Awards, recognizing outstanding choreography, featured dancers and ensembles in shows on Broadway, as well as outstanding choreography in film during th…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:42PM

A Wilde Encounter with The Picture of Dorian Gray Adapter-Director Kip Williams by Darryn King

Last year, when The Picture of Dorian Gray, starring the actress Sarah Snook, premiered at the Theatre Royal Haymarket in London, the show’s Australian adapter-director Kip Williams made…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:42PM
Monday, April 28, 2025

Tony Awards Committee Determines Eligibility for Smash, Old Friends, John Proctor is the Villain and More by Darryn King

The Tony Awards Administration Committee met on April 28 to confirm the eligibility status of 12 Broadway productions for the 2024-25 season. This was the fourth and final time this season t…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 07:24PM

Sunset Boulevard's Tom Francis Is Not About to Slow Down by Darryn King

Of all the ways to make one’s Broadway debut, lying center stage in a body bag in the dark has to be among the strangest. In Sunset Boulevard, Tom Francis has spent a lot of time wrapped i…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:02PM
Friday, April 25, 2025

Spamalot North American Tour Set to Launch in December by Darryn King

The North American tour of Monty Python’s Spamalot, a very silly take on the Arthurian legend, will launch at Playhouse Square in Cleveland, Ohio next winter. The tour will tech in Clevela…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:03AM
Thursday, April 24, 2025

Harvey Fierstein to Receive Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre by Darryn King

Four-time Tony-winning playwright, actor, author and quilter Harvey Fierstein will receive the 2025 Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre at this year's Tony Awards. �…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:12PM

Louis McCartney of Stranger Things: The First Shadow on His Anti-Hero's Journey by Darryn King

Age: 21 Hometown: Helen's Bay, Northern Ireland Current role: Louis McCartney plays a young Henry Creel in Stranger Things: The First Shadow, the theatrical prequel to the Netflix series,…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:12PM

Michael Patrick Thornton Joins Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter's Waiting for Godot on Broadway as Lucky by Darryn King

Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot, starring Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter and directed by Jamie Lloyd, has cast its Lucky. Michael Patrick Thornton, who uses a wheelchair since suffering t…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:12PM
Wednesday, April 23, 2025

Tony-Winning Composer Shaina Taub Among Dramatists Guild of America Award Recipients by Darryn King

Tony winner Shaina Taub is to be honored by the Dramatists Guild of America for her score for Suffs. Taub will be presented with the Frederick Loewe Award, presented annually for achievemen…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:06PM
Tuesday, April 22, 2025

Tony Winners Wendell Pierce and Sarah Paulson Will Announce 2025 Tony Nominations by Darryn King

Sarah Paulson and Wendell Pierce will announce the nominations for the 78th Annual Tony Awards on May 1. A selection of categories will be revealed live from Sofitel New York on CBS Mornings…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:18PM

Death Becomes Her to Launch North American Tour in Fall 2026 by Darryn King

Death Becomes Her will head out on a multi-year North American tour beginning in fall 2026. The tour will launch at Playhouse Square in Cleveland, Ohio, with planned stops in Los Angeles, Sa…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:12PM

2025 Drama League Nominations Announced; Idina Menzel, Helen J Shen, Nicole Scherzinger, Lea Salonga and More Up for Awards by Darryn King

The Drama League has announced the nominees for the 2025 Drama League Awards. Honoring Broadway and off-Broadway achievements, the nominations were announced by Sarah Hyland and Orville Pec…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:12PM
Sunday, April 20, 2025

Tony Winner Reed Birney and Lisa Emery to Star in Postponed Lunar Eclipse Off-Broadway by Darryn King

Tony Award winner Reed Birney and Drama Desk Award nominee Lisa Emery are set to star in the postponed New York premiere of Pulitzer Prize winner Donald Margulies’ Lunar Eclipse. The play…

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

Tony Winner Reed Birney and Lisa Emery to Star in Lunar Eclipse Off-Broadway by Darryn King

Tony Award winner Reed Birney and Drama Desk Award nominee Lisa Emery will star in the New York premiere of Pulitzer Prize winner Donald Margulies’ Lunar Eclipse. The play, a Second Stage…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:48PM

Jeremy Jordan, Lizzy McAlpine and Jason Gotay on Floyd Collins' Ascent to Broadway by Darryn King

For musical theater aficionados inclined to spelunk through the obscurest corners of the canon looking for treasures, Adam Guettel’s Floyd Collins—which ran for 25 performances off-Broad…

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Thursday, April 17, 2025

Floyd Collins to Release Original Broadway Cast Recording by Darryn King

Floyd Collins will release an original Broadway cast recording both physically and digitally on July 11. Star Jeremy Jordan, who plays the cave explorer of the title in the Lincoln Center T…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:18AM
Tuesday, April 15, 2025

TLC Musical CrazySexyCool Set for World Premiere Next Summer by Darryn King

They’re not chasing waterfalls—but they may be chasing Broadway. A musical about and driven by the songs of the female R&B superstars TLC—the group behind such enduringly smooth a…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 07:24PM

TLC Musical CrazySexyCool Set for World Premiere This Summer by Darryn King

They’re not chasing waterfalls—but they may be chasing Broadway. A musical about and driven by the songs of the female R&B superstars TLC—the group behind such enduringly smooth a…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:48PM
Monday, April 14, 2025

Tony Winner Leslie Odom Jr. to Return to Hamilton as Aaron Burr by Darryn King

Tony and Grammy-winning, three-time Emmy and two-time Oscar-nominated performer Leslie Odom Jr. is set to return to his role as Aaron Burr in Hamilton. Odom will reprise the role, which he o…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:36AM

Waiting for Godot, Starring Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter, Sets Venue and Dates by Darryn King

Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot, starring Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure co-stars Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter, has set its venue and performance dates. The production will begin…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:36AM
Friday, April 11, 2025

Tony Awards Committee Determines Eligibility for Glengarry Glen Ross, Operation Mincemeat, Redwood and More by Darryn King

The Tony Awards Administration Committee met on April 10 to confirm the eligibility status of eight Broadway productions for the 2024-25 season. This was the second time this season that the…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:54AM
Thursday, April 10, 2025

Off-Broadway Hit Titanique to Set Sail For the Last Time (But Our Hearts Will Go On) by Darryn King

The musical comedy Titanique will play its final performance off-Broadway on June 15. The splash-hit comedy, sending up the blockbuster film Titanic and driven by the songs of pop icon Cé…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:42PM

Broadway Cast Recording for Gypsy, Starring Audra McDonald, to Be Released This Month by Darryn King

The cast recording for the current Broadway revival of Gypsy, starring Audra McDonald as Momma Rose, will be released on streaming and digital formats on April 25. CD and vinyl editions wil…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:42PM

Two-Time Tony Winner Bryan Cranston to Star in All My Sons in London, Directed by Ivo van Hove by Darryn King

Two-time Tony winner, six-time Emmy winner and Olivier winner Bryan Cranston will reunite with director Ivo van Hove in a production of Arthur Miller’s All My Sons in London’s West End i…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:36AM
Tuesday, April 8, 2025

William Finn, Tony-Winning Composer of Falsettos, A New Brain and The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Dies at 73 by Darryn King

William Finn, the two-time Tony-winning composer and lyricist known for subversive, bitingly funny and tragic musicals—including Falsettos, A New Brain and The 25th Annual Putnam County S…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:42PM

See Jonathan Groff Rehearse Just in Time, His Most Dance-Heavy Role Yet by Darryn King

Best known for his golden tenor, Jonathan Groff will be the first to admit that he's never really had the chance to dance—to really dance—on Broadway before. Now, thanks to his training…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:42PM

Real Women Have Curves Broadway Cast Album, Produced by Grammy Winner Julio Reyes Copello, Due in June by Darryn King

Julio Reyes Copello, the 15-time Grammy and Latin Grammy Award-winning music producer, composer and pianist, will produce the original Broadway cast recording for Real Women Have Curves: The…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:42PM

Cole Escola Sworn In for Second Term at Oh, Mary! Tonight with Original Cast by Darryn King

Cole Escola, the writer and original star of Oh, Mary!, returns to the role they created—a gloriously demented take on First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln—at the Lyceum Theatre on April 8. Es…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:48AM

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2024-2025 BROADWAY SEASON
Jun 05, 2024: Home - Todd Haimes Theatre
Jul 30, 2024: Job - Hayes Theater
Sep 12, 2024: The Roommate - Booth Theatre
Nov 14, 2024: Tammy Faye - Palace Theatre
Nov 17, 2024: Elf - Marquis 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