Thursday, April 2, 2015
Want more Broadway Blog? Follow us on Facebook and Twitter! It’s a French revolution on Broadway this spring (and not of the Les Miserables variety). Two French-inspired shows make thei…
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The Broadway community mourns the loss of acclaimed director and performer Gene Saks, who passed away on Saturday at age 93. The marquees of Broadway theatres in New York will be dimmed i…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 08:07AMTuesday, March 31, 2015
Who’s next to tackle the role of Rose, made famous by Ethel Merman in the original 1959 production of Gypsy? We’ve seen Angela Lansbury, Tyne Daly, Bernadette Peters and Patti L…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 05:00PMMonday, March 30, 2015
Producers of Off-Broadway’s The Fantasticks have announced that the long running musical will close on Sunday, May 3rd—the 55th anniversary of the opening of the show in 1960. At the t…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 02:39PMFriday, March 27, 2015
Fun Home, the highly-anticipated, award-winning American musical that begins previews tonight, has announced an exclusive mobile lottery partnership with TodayTix. With music by four-time To…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 05:42PMHip-hop pioneer, Tony Award-winning producer and multi-hyphenate entrepreneur Russell Simmons has announced the development of The Scenario, a new stage musical that will be driven by th…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 10:29AMThursday, March 26, 2015
Are you ready to celebrate the best of Broadway? The Broadway League and United Airlines are hosting this year’s Stars in the Alley in legendary Shubert Alley. The two hour concert with li…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 06:22PMWednesday, March 25, 2015
It was one of our favorite new musicals of the fall, and now The Fortress of Solitude will celebrate the release of the original cast album at Joe’s Pub at the Public Theater on Monday, Ap…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 10:00AMTuesday, March 24, 2015
The Broadway transfer of The Royal Shakespeare Company’s Wolf Hall: Parts 1 & 2 announced that a same day general rush will be available at the box office of the Winter Garden Theatr…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 10:02AMMonday, March 23, 2015
While many tourists clamor to Broadway for their theater fix when visiting New York City, those in the know often opt for Off Broadway, where they’re closer to the action and usually p…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 10:00AMSaturday, March 21, 2015
Though the new screwball Broadway comedy Living on Love begins performances on April Fools’ Day, it’s no joke that the play’s producers are offering $19.57 tickets, including a limi…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 11:02AMThursday, March 19, 2015
One of the most thrilling arrivals on Broadway this spring is the transfer of Fun Home from its off Broadway run at the Public Theater last year. Tony Award-winner Michael Cerveris, th…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 10:00AMWednesday, March 18, 2015
Every third Wednesday of the 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…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 10:00AMTuesday, March 17, 2015
The Roundabout’s much-anticipated revival of On The Twentieth Century opened on Sunday. What did critics think of this musical farce that follows a luxury coach traveling from…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 09:40AMMonday, March 16, 2015
Want more Broadway Blog? Follow us on Facebook and Twitter! “This is a dream come true,” said Sutton Foster on Friday evening as she made her solo debut at Carnegie Hall with The New …
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 12:32PMSunday, March 15, 2015
The new Broadway musical Finding Neverland will play its first today, Sunday, March 15 at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre (205 West 46th Street, between Broadway and 8th Avenues). And for those wh…
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She’s already won six Tony Awards. Will Audra McDonald’s return to Broadway bring lucky number seven? USA Today reports about the new show, to be directed by George C. Wolfe and …
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 11:22PMFriday, March 13, 2015
The Drama Desk and Obie Award-winning Keen Company will present a one night only concert to benefit the company: Tony Award and Grammy Award-nominated composer and lyricist Andrew L…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 11:26AMWednesday, March 11, 2015
Following a sold-out 2013 debut at 54 Below, Tony Award nominee Euan Morton returns to the acclaimed Manhattan nightspot to launch his newest project, I ❤ THE CARPENTERS. Backed by the D…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 02:00PMTuesday, March 10, 2015
by Samuel L. Leiter Cush Jumbo isn’t an easy name to forget; nor, for that matter is the electrifying British actress to whom it belongs. Jumbo is the “I” in Josephine and I, the winni…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 10:00PMMonday, March 9, 2015
Want more Broadway Blog? Follow us on Facebook and Twitter! by Samuel L. Leiter I was in the sixth grade in 1952 when Elizabeth II became Queen of England, a year before her international…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 01:56PMLeave it to theater people to conceive of a benefit that doesn’t involve snoozy speeches and cold canapés. MCC Theater (currently presenting The Nether through March 29) once again g…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 10:00AMSaturday, March 7, 2015
by Samuel Leiter Although remembered today chiefly for Liliom, which had its Broadway premiere in 1921 and later became the source of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Carousel, Hungarian playwrig…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 01:07PMFriday, March 6, 2015
Tony and Olivier Award-winning star and recording artist Lea Salonga continues to captivate audiences worldwide. Celebrated for her lead performances in the Broadway hits Miss Saigon and Le…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 03:00PMThursday, March 5, 2015
Do you want to see Hamilton, one of the hottest shows of the season, but didn’t score a ticket to the now sold-out run? TodayTix, the mobile app for securing discount and hard-to-get …
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 12:58PMTuesday, March 3, 2015
Want more Broadway Blog? Follow us on Facebook and Twitter! It seems like only yesterday (well… 15 years ago) that CATS played its last epic performance at the Winter Garden Theatre. …
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Want more Broadway Blog? Follow us on Facebook and Twitter! The Audience Calling all Anglophiles. Academy Award winner Helen Mirren will return to Broadway this spring as Elizabeth II in Pet…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 01:00PMFriday, February 27, 2015
by Samuel Leiter As anyone who’s been following the theater season lately is undoubtedly aware, Hamilton, Lin-Manuel Miranda’s new musical at the Public Theatre, based on the life of Fou…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 02:46PMThursday, February 26, 2015
Want more Broadway Blog? Follow us on Facebook and Twitter! It’s been 20 years since the original production of John & Jen, a song cycle musical by Andrew Lippa and Tom Greenwald. A lo…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 09:28PMWednesday, February 25, 2015
by Samuel Leiter It’s a long way from the 1982 film Tron to Jennifer Haley’s play, The Nether, now being produced by the MCC Theater at the Lucille Lortel Theatre, but both do concern a …
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 12:00PMby Samuel Leiter The wind-chill factor may have been zero degrees outside on Monday night, but numerous dyed-in-the-wool Broadway musical theater fans, who may that morning have complained, …
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