Wednesday, June 29, 2016
MCC Theater has confirmed that its previously announced benefit reading of a new Neil LaBute play, Reasons to be Pretty Happy, will be led by star of stage and screen—and frequent La…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 01:22PMTuesday, June 28, 2016
It’s no secret that we’re living in harrowing times. Trump. Brexit. Floods and fires. Turning on the television (or a quick swipe of your mobile device) can induce a Xanax-worthy anxiety…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 12:07PMFriday, June 24, 2016
by Ryan Leeds Tales of forbidden love are as old as storytelling itself, but rarely are they told with as much painstaking heartbreak as Fellow Travelers, a new opera by composer Gregory Spe…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 11:08AMThursday, June 23, 2016
Producer Scott Rudin announced today that SHUFFLE ALONG Or The Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed, will play its final Broadway performance on Sunday, July 24…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 09:15PMWhen the curtain rises on opening night this evening at The New York Spectacular starring the Rockettes at Radio City Music Hall, there will be more than flashy costumes, high-kicking precis…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 03:52PMby Samuel L. Leiter When I got home after the theatre, my wife, who’d been otherwise engaged, asked, “What’d you see tonight?” “One of those Scott Siegel, one night-only, Broadway …
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 12:38PMWednesday, June 22, 2016
BROADWAY BARKS announces their 18th annual star-studded dog and cat adoption event to benefit New York City animal shelters and adoption agencies. Founded by Bernadette Peters and Mary Tyler…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 09:39PMTuesday, June 21, 2016
Chiseled morning show hosts, rock-hard reality show contestants and pumped up politicos took over the airwaves at this year’s ratings-raising edition of Broadway Bares, an evening of …
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 03:32PMSaturday, June 18, 2016
by Jim Gladstone “After seven years of being a featured actor,” quips Barrett Foa, who brings his cabaret act to Feinstein’s at the Nikko June 24 and 25 in San Francisco. “It’s nic…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 10:24AMThursday, June 16, 2016
Cirque du Soleil’s inaugural Broadway venture, Paramour, which officially opened at the Lyric Theatre on May 25, has elements of a big, splashy, death-defying new musical—but they…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 06:55PMLin-Manuel Miranda’s alternate in the Tony Award-winning musical Hamilton on Broadway and the actor who portrayed Alexander Hamilton when President Barack Obama saw Hamilton last July …
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 12:30PMWednesday, June 15, 2016
Every month, a fabulous actor/singer/dancer fills out editor Matthew Wexler’s nosey little questionnaire and offers a glimpse of what he looks like from a bit closer than the mezzanine. …
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 04:15PMTuesday, June 14, 2016
Producer Joey Parnes today announced that Bright Star, the new musical from 2016 Tony Award nominees Steve Martin and Edie Brickell, will play its final Broadway performance on Sunday…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 07:45PMAmerican comedian W.C. Fields is credited with the adage, “Never work with children or animals.” Fortunately for us, Director Michael Unger and the York Theatre Company has defied such…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 06:30PMMonday, June 13, 2016
Best Musical Hamilton Best Play The Humans Best Musical Revival The Color Purple Best Play Revival: A View From the Bridge Best Leading Actor in a Play Frank Langella, The Father Best Lead…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 10:39AMThe American Theatre Wing (Heather Hitchens, President and CEO) announced via the live telecast of the Tony Awards on CBS, its new Andrew Lloyd Webber Initiative. This major new national …
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 10:39AMSunday, June 12, 2016
Broadway’s greatest honors will be bestowed on a luck few at tonight’s Tony Awards, but we’d like to look beyond the red carpet to shine light on some of the season’s best (and worst…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 04:28PMFriday, June 10, 2016
The original cast recording of Bright Star, the new musical from Grammy and Emmy Award winner Steve Martin and Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Edie Brickell – has hit five differe…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 06:45PMThursday, June 9, 2016
‘Tis the season to break out all things rainbow colored and celebrate the LGBT community. Pride events abound throughout the country, but Broadway stars are gathering for two not-to-be…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 03:52PMTuesday, June 7, 2016
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SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 03:31PMMonday, June 6, 2016
by Samuel L. Leiter What kind of historical figures make the best subjects for biographical musicals? Political leaders and royalty? Musical, theatrical, or cinematic personalities? Religiou…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 10:21PMProducer Scott Rudin announced today that two-time Academy Award winner Sally Field and two-time Tony Award winner Joe Mantello will return to the Broadway stage next season to star in…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 05:14PMWith today’s news on the passing of playwright Peter Shaffer, The Acting Companywill be dedicating their one night only staged reading of Lettice and Lovage on Monday, June 13 at 7 p.m…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 05:14PMSunday, June 5, 2016
Winners for the 61st Annual Drama Desk Awards were announced this evening at The Town Hall. In keeping with Drama Desk’s mission, nominators considered shows that opened on Broadway, …
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 11:58PMFriday, June 3, 2016
PS CLASSICS, the label dedicated to celebrating the heritage of Broadway and popular song, has released Renaissance, the new solo album from Grammy Award-nominee Cheyenne Jackson. Fresh …
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 11:07AMThursday, June 2, 2016
There’s a hush that’s fallen upon Broadway this summer as a number of this year’s musicals have shuttered (so long, Tuck Everlasting, American Psycho, and the soon-to-close Finding Nev…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 02:26PMWednesday, June 1, 2016
Returning to the Tony Awards stage for the first time since 1970, legendary EGOT and show business icon Barbra Streisand will present at the 2016 Tony Awards. Hosted by Tony Award-winner J…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 04:57PMby Jim Gladstone Kuhn’s work as Helen Bechdel, long-suffering wife of a closeted gay man, in the show adapted from lesbian cartoonist Alison Bechdel’s autobiographic novel, is indelible.…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 10:09AMTuesday, May 31, 2016
by Samuel L. Leiter That subterranean rumbling you may feel as you walk by the New York Theatre Workshop isn’t a forgotten subway line suddenly come to life; it’s the basso-profundo voi…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 10:51AMFriday, May 27, 2016
Several Broadway shows posted their closing notices this week. So if you don’t win that #Ham4Ham lottery ticket, consider supporting all those other hardworking Broadway performers! Tu…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 09:38AMThursday, May 26, 2016
Fans of classical theater are probably most familiar with Henrik Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler and A Doll’s House — and if you’re a diehard, PEER GYNT may be on your radar. Written in 1867, t…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 05:13PM 
