Sunday, April 30, 2017
Schmackary’s, New York’s uniquely gourmet cookie company, will host its Fifth Annual Broadway Bakes event May 15-19, 2017. Over 20 of the biggest names on Broadway will join together to …
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 10:12AMSaturday, April 29, 2017
A young woman in search of her past. A country in the midst of a revolution. Two schemers looking to escape the violence of a new Communist regime. These grand scenarios have the making for …
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 12:48PMFriday, April 28, 2017
Try to remember… when The Fantasticks wasn’t playing Off-Broadway. The production opened in 1960 and has been a fixture for nearly 60 years. But catch it while you can. Producers announc…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 10:12AMThursday, April 27, 2017
By Samuel L. Leiter There’s a lot of heart and a considerable amount of talent off and onstage in Bandstand, a sincere, upbeat, but overly sudsy and clichéd musical that’s moved to Broa…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 11:06AMWednesday, April 26, 2017
By Samuel L. Leiter “There are two sides to every story,” says a character in John Guare’s prize-winning dramedy, Six Degrees of Separation, now getting its first Broadway revival sinc…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 12:12PMTuesday, April 25, 2017
By Samuel L. Leiter As we squeezed our way through all the Oompa Loompas, I mean small children, clogging the arteries, I mean aisles, of the Lunt-Fontanne after eating, I mean seeing, Charl…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 10:02AMMonday, April 24, 2017
Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winner Wendy Wasserstein’s prescient play An American Daughter returns to New York on May 8, 2017 at 7 p.m. for a one-night-only benefit reading at the To…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 09:42AMSaturday, April 22, 2017
By Samuel L. Leiter As I looked around during the standing ovation greeting Paula Vogel’s Indecent, now on Broadway after its successful run Off-Broadway last season, a few people were str…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 01:31PMFriday, April 21, 2017
By Samuel L. Leiter Rebel in the Soul, a brisk, compact biodrama by musician/composer/writer Larry Kirwin, is set in Ireland a few years after World War II but its tale of Dr. Noel Browne’…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 08:18AMThursday, April 20, 2017
The producers of the hit Broadway revival of New York City Center’s productionSunday in the Park with George starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Annaleigh Ashford, announced today that the show w…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 05:31PMAudra McDonald heads west! The record-breaking, six-time Tony Award-winner makes her anticipated debut, as part of the acclaimed Broadway @ series, at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Pe…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 10:02AMWednesday, April 19, 2017
By April Stamm A life so rich with pain and beauty and so complex with love and betrayal can be enticing and daunting to take on in performance. Many have tackled the challenge of Frida Kahl…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 06:54PMArena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater will host An Evening with Bebe Neuwirth on Monday, May 1, 2017. The exclusive benefit features the presentation of the second annual Beth …
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 01:36PMMonday, April 17, 2017
St. Louis again celebrates its world-renowned Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright—Tennessee Williams—with the 2nd Annual Tennessee Williams Festival St. Louis, May 3 – 7, in venues …
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 10:24AMSaturday, April 15, 2017
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…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 09:48AMFriday, April 14, 2017
by April Stamm If only your dinner parties were this cool: your adorable kitchen packed with well-placed hipster kitsch and peopled with fascinatingly gorgeous, mustachioed, skinny-jeans-wea…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 03:24PMThursday, April 13, 2017
The musical Hamilton’s very first King George III, three-time Tony nominee Brian d’Arcy James, returns to the role for a limited engagement on Broadway starting April 14. James created …
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 03:06PMWednesday, April 12, 2017
by Ryan Leeds CasablancaBox, the experimental play currently playing at HERE Arts Center had the potential to become a complete disaster. To begin with, it uses sacred material (The 1942 cl…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 04:12PMTuesday, April 11, 2017
On Monday, May 1, 2017, The New York Pops will celebrate its 34th birthday with a grand gala evening honoring Karen van Bergen, the CEO of Omnicom Public Relations Group, and Tony Award winn…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 09:18AMMonday, April 10, 2017
By Samuel L. Leiter Given today’s preoccupations with Islam, Zayd Dohrn couldn’t have hit upon a more succulent subject for a domestic dramedy than the one he uses in The Profane, his p…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 12:42PMby Ryan Leeds Life is full of choices but for Sheri Sanders, there’s no reason to choose. When it comes to performing, Sanders believes that you can combine legit trained musical theater s…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 10:31AMFriday, April 7, 2017
Curtain up! There’s plenty of Broadway caliber talent that’s ventured west, and that’s where Lara Scott and Will Armstrong come into play. Their new podcast, West of Broad…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 03:02PMThursday, April 6, 2017
Let’s cut to the chase. Director Moritz von Stuelpnagel’s revival of Noël Coward’s Present Laughter is a brilliantly fine-tuned comedy of style and substance, and if you want to see a…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 12:48PMTuesday, April 4, 2017
By Samuel L. Leiter Perhaps, like me, you didn’t notice that, beneath the Harry Potter hoopla of the past two decades, a series of young adult novels about another boy with supernatural po…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 09:48PMTickets went on sale this morning, April 4, for the 62nd Annual Drama Desk Awards, and can be purchased at www.DramaDeskAwards.com. This year’s awards, hosted by Michael Urie,�…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 12:54PMMonday, April 3, 2017
By Samuel L. Leiter A bit of advice: if you’re going to see The Play That Goes Wrong make sure you visit the facilities first. Otherwise you’re going to have a hard time not peeing in yo…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 01:31PMThe new Broadway production of Hello, Dolly! starring Bette Midler has just, in its third week of preview performances, shattered the house record for the highest weekly gross of any show in…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 11:18AMSaturday, April 1, 2017
Sweat, a new play Lynn Nottage, may make you do just that. It’s an occasionally squirmish drama that delves into the lives of a handful of residents in Reading, Pennsylvania, an industr…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 11:18AMFriday, March 31, 2017
by Samuel L. Leiter Despite its title, Church & State, a thoughtful but patchy political dramedy by Jason Odell Williams, has very little to do with the separation of powers as mentioned…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 07:06PMThursday, March 30, 2017
It’s no surprise that Bette Midler’s Broadway arrival is generating big buzz. Hello, Dolly! producers reported a record-breaking $9 million in first-day sales. But what happened during l…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 09:18AMWednesday, March 29, 2017
Broadway.com announced today that the 18th Annual Broadway.com Audience Choice Awards will be presented at a private reception on Thursday, May 25, 2017. Each year, the excitement of the B…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 01:48PM 
