Thursday, February 11, 2016
Our sister blog, Global Cocktails, beat us to the rum punch when it came to the big news about Frozen‘s arrival on Broadway next season. Click here for the Disney details!
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 12:51PMby Ryan Leeds Fewer criminals evoke more fear and terror than the infamous Charles Manson. In the summer of 1969, he masterminded nine gruesome murders in California with the aid of his comm…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 12:51PMTuesday, February 9, 2016
Vineyard Theatre will present a special series of post-show discussions to be moderated by special guests throughout the run of its production, DOT, by Colman Domingo, directed by Susan…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 03:43PMMonday, February 8, 2016
Before there was Hedwig and the Angry Inch, there was the wildly evocative underground theatrical world in New York City during Prohibition. This comes to live in a new production by written…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 12:51PMFriday, February 5, 2016
Austin McCormick—founder, choreographer, and artistic director of Company XIV—is back with his signature brand of unique storytelling that mashes up Baroque dance, circus, opera, ballet,…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 06:19PMWednesday, February 3, 2016
It’s been a mild winter but things are heating up Off Broadway. Take a look at our top picks of the month! Company XIV’s Snow White Artistic director Austin McCormick is back with anothe…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 12:34PMThe GRAMMY®-nominated musical Hamilton ushers Broadway back to the GRAMMY Awards® stage after a more than five-year hiatus. GRAMMY winner Lin-Manuel Miranda and his extraordinary cast will…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 10:19AMTuesday, February 2, 2016
The Tony Awards announced today that James Corden of CBS’s “The Late Late Show” will host the 70th Annual Tony Awards live from the Beacon Theatre in New York City, Sunday, June …
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 11:04AMMonday, February 1, 2016
The producers of the hit Broadway revival of Fiddler on the Roof announce that the production will donate $2 from every full-price ticket purchased to the show for all February 2016 perfor…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 12:38PMFriday, January 29, 2016
The Weston Playhouse Theatre Company announces Kirsten Childs’ Bella: An American Tall Tale as the winner of its tenth annual New Musical Award. The only honor of its kind in the cou…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 03:12PMThursday, January 28, 2016
by Samuel L. Leiter It must have been a challenging task for British playwright Jeremy Tiang to dramatize one of China’s four major classical novels, which he’s titled A Dream of Red Pav…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 09:45PMWednesday, January 27, 2016
Curious as to how FOX’s Grease: Live is shaping up? The all-star cast includes Julianne Hough as Sandy and Broadway favorite Aaron Tveit (Catch Me If You Can, Next to Normal) as Dann…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 03:37PMTuesday, January 26, 2016
It’s going to be a wild night at Carnegie Hall come February 8, when Alan Cumming headlines in his Carnegie Hall debut in Alan Cumming Sings Sappy Songs with Friends. Those friends hap…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 03:33PMSunday, January 24, 2016
Principal casting continues for the much-anticipated Broadway production of “Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812” starring Josh Groban . Denée Benton will make her Bro…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 07:33PMThursday, January 21, 2016
The brilliant Christine Pedi conjures up what might have happened in the audition room before Bette Midler landed the role in the much-anticipated revival of Hello, Dollly!
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 06:50PMProducers The Shubert Organization and The Nederlander Organization announced today that CATS, one of the biggest hits in theatrical history, will return to Broadway this summer at the…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 11:19AMWednesday, January 20, 2016
by Samuel L. Leiter Richard Greenberg’s Our Mother’s Brief Affair, at the Manhattan Theatre Club, is a star vehicle for Linda Lavin. A star vehicle is a play that, whatever other vir…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 10:09PMEvery 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 11:00AMTuesday, January 19, 2016
Producer Scott Rudin announced today that Bette Midler will return to Broadway in one of the most cherished musicals in theater history when she takes on the role of Dolly Gallagher Levi…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 09:06AMFriday, January 15, 2016
Off Broadway’s Storm Theatre Company, which has produced more than 50 plays since 1997, has made its mark by selecting a diverse repertory ranging from the classics to the modern, usually …
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 10:26PMThursday, January 14, 2016
by Samuel L. Leiter In 1964, when the fledgling Repertory Theatre of Lincoln Center was struggling to establish its creds, Elia Kazan, America’s most famous director, undertook a productio…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 09:15AMWednesday, January 13, 2016
by Samuel L. Leiter Plays dabbling in Christian theology may not be everybody’s cup of dramatic tea, but for those whose tastes run in that direction the residency this winter at th…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 09:28PMTuesday, January 12, 2016
by Ryan Leeds Watching Dragon Boat Racing, a limited engagement presentation that recently played Lincoln Center’s David H. Koch Theater, is similar to eating cotton candy; it’s visuall…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 06:57PMMonday, January 11, 2016
It doesn’t take a meteorologist to notice the drastic temperature fluctuations New Yorkers have been experiencing this winter, but those who find themselves at midtown’s New World Stages…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 09:44PMHe was a rock star that redefined nearly every generation in which he recorded music, but David Bowie was also a great influence on pop culture. Bowie made two brief appearances on Broadway,…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 10:43AMSunday, January 10, 2016
When it opened more than 50 years ago at the Imperial Theatre, Fiddler on the Roof received tremendous critical and audience acclaim. The sweeping musical starred Zero Mostel as Tevye, a poo…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 03:33PMFriday, January 8, 2016
Andrew Lloyd Webber will sit in for Elaine Paige on the Olivier Award-winner’s weekly BBC 2 Radio program, “Elaine Paige on Sunday,” this Sunday, January 10, 2016. Lloyd Webber …
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 03:38PMThursday, January 7, 2016
It’s the end of the road for Allegiance, the new musical inspired by George Takei’s experience in a Japanese internment camp during World War II. The production will play its fi…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 09:51AMWednesday, January 6, 2016
Guess who showed up for Jason Robert Brown’s concert last night in Hollywood? International superstar Ariana Grande, who made her Broadway debut in Brown’s short-lived musical, …
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 12:27PMFollowing their recent sold-out run featuring the U.S. premiere of the Peking Opera star Zhang Huoding, the China Arts and Entertainment Group (CAEG) returns to the David H. Koch Theater …
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 10:22AMTuesday, January 5, 2016
We got off easy up until now. The bitter, cold winter has finally descended on New York City. If you’re one of the throngs of Hamilton fans hoping to score a coveted $10 lottery tick…
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