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 01:48PMMCC Theater announced today the launch of a matching gift challenge made possible by The Robert W. Wilson Charitable Trust. The Trust has awarded a $2.5 million challenge grant in support of…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 01:42PM“Rainbows & Ribbons,” a new show by Ross Hewitt, will be presented tomorrow, Saturday, March 25, at 5:00 p.m. at Don’t Tell Mama (343 West 46th Street, New York City). This is a…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 12:36PMI didn’t leave the Broadway Theatre with tears in my eyes after seeing Miss Saigon, the mega-musical revival by Claude-Michel Schönberg, Richard Maltby, Jr., and Alain Boublil. Ab…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 09:12PMThis month’s Theater Buff offers you a slice of Americana via the good looks and charm of David T. Patterson, currently starring in Transport Group’s ambitious William Inge reper…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 09:42AMOn April 1, Broadway Backstage will give audience members a behind-the-scenes look at Broadway with an all new show. Six Broadway stars will belt out tunes from the world’s grandest stages…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 08:54AMby Samuel L. Leiter Courtney Baron’s When It’s You, the Keen Company’s latest offering, is a one-person play about a woman coming to terms with her grief. For 70 minutes, she stands o…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 09:32PMDon’t miss CONCERT FOR AMERICA: STAND UP, SING OUT! Featuring Chita Rivera, Melissa Manchester, Alice Ripley, Ana Gasteyer, the Chicago cast of Hamilton, Sharon Gless, Lynne Jordan, M…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 08:54AMTelly Leung — the Broadway and television star of “Glee,” Godspell and Rent, currently starring on Broadway in In Transit — will debut at the new concert space The Green Room…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 10:48AMBy Ryan Leeds There was more than enough razzle dazzle to blind Manhattan on Friday night as The New York Pops presented Life is a Cabaret: The Songs of Kander and Ebb. The always-stunni…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 05:02PMThe Drama League will honor two outstanding stage luminaries at this year’s 83rd Annual Drama League Awards, set for Friday afternoon, May 19, 2017, at the Marriott Marquis Times Square. T…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 11:12AMTony and Grammy Award-Winner Billy Porter’s new studio album, Billy Porter Presents The Soul of Richard Rodgers, will be released April 14, 2017 and is now available for pre-order. The alb…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 03:02PMBy Ryan Leeds Thank goodness for Max Vernon, the 28-year-old wunderkind who continues to carry the torch of gay history to a new generation. Vernon, an NYU graduate, is the author, composer,…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 10:42AMAll Broadway shows will perform evening performances tonight as scheduled. For questions about exchange policies, theatregoers should contact their point of purchase. Charlotte St. Martin,…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 03:32PMBy Samuel L. Leiter The Irish Repertory Theatre has a rather liberal interpretation of its titular mission, which can be seen by its occasional production of plays by Irish Americans, like E…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 10:02AMby Ryan Leeds Michael Cerveris has sunk a ship (Titanic), shot a U.S. President (Assassins), slashed a few throats (Sweeney Todd), and committed suicide by throwing himself in front of a …
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 02:24PMby April Stamm Motherhood is no f-ing joke. And comic Jamie Aderski will be the first to agree with me on that. Terrible stuff happens when you carry, birth, and try to raise a baby; vividly…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 08:18AMI have no doubt that Sam Gold’s stark, contemporary interpretation of Tennessee Williams’ masterwork, The Glass Menagerie, will polarize audiences and critics alike. The current Broadway…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 02:42AMWhat happens when life on earth just becomes too much? It’s a not-so-existential question asked by Ethan Lipton in his latest quirky musical story adventure, The Outer Space, which opened …
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 02:32AM“There’s no people like show people!” (Or so says Mama Rose.) The Broadway Blog is thrilled to announce our partnership with ShowTickets.com, one of the best online resourc…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 05:42PMSpring is around the corner and the means a whole new crop of Broadway shows bursting on the scene. Here are our three picks of the month: The Glass Menagerie It’s Tennessee Williams like …
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 09:06AMMrs. Yazbeck might not have had a dream about her son being on the Orpheum circuit, but she knew that her son, Tony, was meant for a Broadway stage. For two years, she drove the future Tony …
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 04:12PMby Ryan Leeds You might, as Rihanna sings, “find love in a hopeless place,” but you won’t find anything particularly worth the hefty price of an orchestra seat at the Booth Theatre, wh…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 08:48AMby Samuel L. Leiter Thornton Wilder’s 1942, Pulitzer Prize-winning “tragicomedy” The Skin of Our Teeth has received only two Broadway revivals (1955 and 1975) and a Central Park stagin…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 03:12PMby April Stamm What could be better fodder for a play than the oppressive wretchedness and frenetic glee of being a middle school girl in small town America in the 80s? You’ve got your dis…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 09:36PMPreviews begin Wednesday, March 1 at 8 pm for Cameron Mackintosh’s acclaimed new production of Boublil and Schönberg’s legendary musical Miss Saigon, at The Broadway Theatre (1681 Broad…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 05:06PMKid Victory, the new musical that opened last week by Greg Pierce (book and lyrics) and John Kander (music) at the Vineyard Theatre, is not easy to watch. That’s not always a bad th…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 06:06PMOne of Broadway’s biggest voices will be rolling into the Highline Ballroom on Monday, February 27, but don’t expect show tunes. LaChanze will be celebrating the launch of her new EP, Fe…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 01:42PM“White. A blank page or canvas. The challenge: bring order to the whole.” These words embody the gauntlet thrown down before generations of artists. The opening line of Stephen Sondheim …
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 06:04PMBy Ryan Leeds Near the end of playwright Cándido Tirado’s well-crafted play Fish Men, one of his characters looks offstage, reflecting on the events that have just occurred. “People are…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 05:42PMThe Eugene O’Neill Theater Center has announced the New York City Broadway premiere of the musical, Tales of the City on March 27, 2017 at the Music Box Theatre. The iconic ensemble st…
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