Thursday, September 19, 2024
Up two treacherous flights of stairs at the Lyceum Theatre, Cole Escola sits demurely in their dressing room, awaiting the delivery of a green smoothie. It’s a rare moment of downtime for …
SOURCE: Variety at 11:15AMDanny Burstein, the Tony-winning actor of “Moulin Rouge” who has appeared in many, many other Broadway shows, has joined the upcoming revival of “Gypsy.” He’ll play Herbie, a forme…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00AMWednesday, September 18, 2024
Shailene Woodley, “Star Trek” actor Zachary Quinto and “Euphoria” star Barbie Ferreira will lead the Broadway cast of “Cult of Love,” a play by “Star Wars: The Acolyte” and �…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:00PMMonday, September 9, 2024
John Mulaney, who made his Broadway debut in “Oh, Hello” with Nick Kroll, is returning to the stage. He’s starring in “All In: Comedy About Love,” a play by former “Saturday Nigh…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:49AMWednesday, August 14, 2024
“Purpose,” a new show from “Appropriate” playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, will open on Broadway in the spring of 2025. Phylicia Rashad will direct the play, which is set to begin p…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:00AMTuesday, August 13, 2024
Anthony Rapp and Adam Pascal know they’re inextricably linked as Mark Cohen and Roger Davis, the characters they played in the original Broadway cast of “Rent.” Their status as one of …
SOURCE: Variety at 11:41AMThursday, August 8, 2024
Kieran Culkin, Bob Odenkirk and Bill Burr will star in the upcoming revival of David Mamet’s lauded play “Glengarry Glen Ross.” The production is scheduled to open on Broadway in the s…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00AMTuesday, August 6, 2024
“Stranger Things: The First Shadow,” a stage play based on the hugely popular Netflix series, is heading to Broadway in 2025. The show will run at the Marquis Theatre with preview perfor…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:00PMThursday, August 1, 2024
Adam Driver will lead the off-Broadway revival of Kenneth Lonergan’s play “Hold on to Me Darling.” The show will run at the Lucille Lortel Theatre for a limited 13-week engagement. Pre…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:15AMThursday, July 18, 2024
JoAnn M. Hunter, the choreographer of Broadway’s “School of Rock” and “Bad Cinderella,” has been hired to direct the upcoming musical “Yasuke: The Black Samurai.” This producti…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:54PMMonday, June 17, 2024
Angelina Jolie may get the award for most enthusiastic audience member. The A-list star was seated in the front row at the Tony Awards on Sunday and jumped to her feet at every win for “Th…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:30PMWednesday, May 29, 2024
Audra McDonald will portray the ultimate stage mom, Mama Rose, in the upcoming Broadway revival of “Gypsy.” George C. Wolfe, a Tony winner for “Angels in America: Millennium Approaches…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:30PMTuesday, May 7, 2024
Robert Downey Jr. will make his Broadway debut this fall in the new play, “McNeal.” Written by Ayad Akhtar and directed by Bartlett Sher (“To Kill a Mockingbird”), “McNeal” will …
SOURCE: Variety at 01:07PMWednesday, April 24, 2024
Mary Todd Lincoln had grand ambitions of being a cabaret star, at least according to playwright Cole Escola. Now, the former first lady is getting her due on the grandest stage of all. “Oh…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00AMWednesday, April 17, 2024
Break out the dumpling wrappers and mahjong sets because “Crazy Rich Asians” is coming to Broadway. The beloved romantic comedy is being developed as a Broadway musical by director Jon M…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00AMTuesday, April 16, 2024
“West Side Story” star Rachel Zegler and “Heartstopper” breakout Kit Connor will make their Broadway debuts in “Romeo+ Juliet,” a modern-day adaptation of Shakespeare’s classic…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:59AMWednesday, March 27, 2024
Ariana DeBose will host the Tony Awards for the third consecutive year. Broadway’s biggest night will take place on June 16 in New York City at the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center.…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:00PMTuesday, March 19, 2024
Sufjan Stevens is bringing his musical talents to Broadway. The singer-songwriter’s show “Illinoise,” based on his album of the same name, will open at the St. James Theatre in the spr…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:01AMFriday, March 15, 2024
Climate change protestors disrupted Thursday night’s performance of Broadway’s “An Enemy of the People.” The disturbance briefly halted the play and resulted in several of the cast m…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:31AMWednesday, March 6, 2024
Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal will return to Broadway to interpret the Bard. They will star in a revival of Shakespeare’s tragedy “Othello,” which opens in the spring of 2025 a…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:46AMTuesday, February 27, 2024
Netflix is getting into the business of Broadway. The streaming behemoth is producing the upcoming play “Patriots,” from “The Crown” creator Peter Morgan. The show, set in 1991 after…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:22PMThursday, February 8, 2024
“My Son’s a Queer (But What Can You Do?)” has postponed its Broadway debut. The comedic play, which premiered on London’s West End, will open next season instead of this spring. The …
SOURCE: Variety at 01:47PMMonday, January 29, 2024
Hats off to “Gutenberg! The Musical!” The Broadway show, starring Josh Gad and Andrew Rannells (whose characters wear dozens of caps) as they reunited 12 years after “The Book of Mormo…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:56PMWednesday, December 6, 2023
“Vanderpump Rules” star Ariana Madix will make her Broadway debut as Roxie Hart in “Chicago.” She will play the blond-haired ingenue, the one whose name is on everybody’s lips, for…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:37AMThursday, November 16, 2023
Jason Biggs, Edie Falco and Hank Azaria have joined the producing team of “The White Chip,” a comedy that will premiere Off-Broadway in 2024. Described as a “wry and wild” journey, t…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:00PMMonday, November 13, 2023
RWS Global, the world’s largest producer of live experiences, has hired former NBCUniversal executive Chris Lucarz as chief financial officer. In his new role, Lucarz will oversee all fina…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00AMWednesday, September 6, 2023
Jessica Lange, Jim Parsons and Celia Keenan-Bolger will star in the world premiere of “Mother Play,” a new Broadway show by playwright Paula Vogel. Tina Landau is directing the limited e…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:00PMMonday, August 21, 2023
“Once Upon a One More Time,” a fairy tale-inspired musical powered by the discography of Britney Spears, is closing on Broadway. The show, which opened in June, will play its final perfo…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:44PM“The Outsiders,” a musical adaptation of S.E. Hinton’s 1967 novel and Francis Ford Coppola’s 1983 movie, is heading to Broadway. The show will open on April 11, 2024 at the Bernard …
SOURCE: Variety at 10:36AMMonday, August 7, 2023
Broadway Across America, a touring network of shows and musicals, has set a new executive team. As part of the shakeup, Richard Jaffe, who currently serves as co-CEO, is taking over as the s…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:07PMThursday, August 3, 2023
Lin-Manuel Miranda is adapting a stage musical version of “The Warriors,” Sol Yurick’s 1965 novel. That book inspired a 1979 cult action thriller directed by Walter Hill that is even …
SOURCE: Variety at 07:31PM 
