Wednesday, January 22, 2025
The nominees have been announced for the 2025 Glaad Media Awards, recognizing fair, accurate and inclusive representation of the LGBTQ community across television, film, Broadway, music and …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:54PMThe Drama League has announced the 2025 Special Recognition Honorees of the 91st Annual Drama League Awards. The honorees will be celebrated for their outstanding lifetime contributions to t…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:32PMBroadway’s Wicked is set to welcome a new Elphaba and Glinda this spring. Lencia Kebede will play Elphaba, while Allie Trimm takes on the role of Glinda. They take over the roles from Mar…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:12PMTuesday, January 21, 2025
Claire van Kampen, a musical director and Tony-nominated playwright who frequently worked with her husband Mark Rylance, died on January 18 in Kassel, Germany. Her daughter, Juliet Rylance, …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 07:06PMJules Feiffer, the Pulitzer-winning political cartoonist, writer and Tony-nominated Broadway playwright, died on January 17. He died of congestive heart failure at his home in Richfield Spri…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:42PMLea Salonga and Arielle Jacobs are set to star in the Stephen Sondheim-James Lapine musical Into the Woods in the Philippines. Salonga will play the Witch and Jacobs will play Cinderella in…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:42PMThe cast and creative team of Dead Outlaw, the folk musical about an ill-fated gunslinger, is set for Broadway. The show, which features music and lyrics by Tony winner David Yazbek and Eri…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:24AMBetty Gilpin will don the bratty curls in the title role of Mary Todd Lincoln in Cole Escola's hysterical, unhistorical comedy Oh, Mary! on January 21, taking over the role from Escola.…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:42AMFriday, January 17, 2025
Greg Hildreth will play Officer Lockstock in the upcoming Encores! production of Urinetown, running at New York City Center from February 5 through 16. Previously announced to be playing …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:24PMThe upcoming world-premiere production of Schmigadoon!, based on the Emmy-winning Apple Original series, has completed casting and announced its full creative team. The show will be presente…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:12PMThursday, January 16, 2025
Kyle Selig and Jacob Dickey complete the cast of the Sondheim revue Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends. The show begins performances at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre on March 25 and opens …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 07:36PMLynne Taylor-Corbett, a Tony-nominated choreographer who also choreographed the iconic steps for the 1984 movie Footloose, has died. Her death was confirmed by her son, actor Shaun Taylor-C…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:12PMReal Women Have Curves: The Musical, the Mexican-American coming-of-age musical, has announced two of its leading ladies. The show will open at the James Earl Jones Theatre on April 1 with…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:12PMA musical based on the popular manga and anime franchise Sailor Moon will launch a North American tour in the spring, concluding its run in New York.
Beginning performances in Pittsburgh on…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:12PMThe Lucille Lortel Awards, the New York theater award that exclusively honors off-Broadway, have announced Special Award recipients for 2025.
Playwright Alice Childress (1916-1994) will be …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:12PMWednesday, January 15, 2025
Lynne Taylor-Corbett, a Tony-nominated choreographer who also choreographed the iconic steps for the 1984 movie Footloose, has died. Her death was confirmed by her son, actor Shaun Taylor-C…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:06PMNominations for the British Academy Film Awards (BAFTA) were announced on January 15, with Wicked receiving seven nominations, though not for Best Film. The film earned nominations for Cynth…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:06PMLynne Taylor-Corbett, a Tony-nominated choreographer who also choreographed the iconic steps for the 1984 movie Footloose, has died. Her death was confirmed by her son, actor Shaun Taylor-C…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:03PMIn 1958, the up-and-coming composer-lyricist Stephen Sondheim was in need of a phrase.
He was working on the lyrics for the musical Gypsy, specifically for the moment when the indomitable s…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:03PMTuesday, January 14, 2025
Stranger Things and Asteroid City actress Maya Hawke will make her off-Broadway debut in a revival of Sarah Ruhl's Eurydice. The play begins performances at Signature Theater's Romulus …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 07:48PMLynne Taylor-Corbett, a Tony-nominated choreographer who also choreographed the iconic steps for the 1984 movie Footloose, has died. Her death was confirmed by her son, actor Shaun Taylor-C…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:42PMAdditional 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 10:12AMMonday, January 13, 2025
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 02:32PMThe 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 01:32PMFriday, January 10, 2025
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 12:36PMIn 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 12:36PMOnce 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 11:24AMThursday, January 9, 2025
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 12:32PMComplete 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 11:18AMWednesday, January 8, 2025
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 02:42AMTuesday, January 7, 2025
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 
