Thursday, March 21, 2019
The play, called “Bella Bella” and written by Mr. Fierstein, casts him as the outspoken New York congresswoman and activist.
Linked From The New York Times SubscriptionMatt Walker just got his big acting break in the farce “The Play That Goes Wrong.” But he’s not giving up his day job in a Nobel winner’s biology lab.
Linked From The New York Times SubscriptionWednesday, March 20, 2019
Taylor Mac's play, starring Nathan Lane, Kristine Nielsen, and Julie White, previously delayed its start date after an injury caused Andrea Martin to depart the production.
Linked From PlaybillMr. Doyle will also helm a production of “Macbeth” in a season that focuses on gothic horror, too, with “Dracula” and “Frankenstein.”
Linked From The New York Times SubscriptionThe Glee and Beautiful alum channels her musical theatre roots while on set for the CW series.
Linked From PlaybillThe Kenyan-Mexican star of “Us” and “Black Panther,” who seems to excel at everything — even rap — is an exception in her industry, for better and worse.
Linked From The New York Times SubscriptionSantino Fontana’s turn as a man in a wig comes at a time when Broadway has been reckoning with the idea that musical comedies need to offer fully realized female characters.
Linked From The New York Times SubscriptionTuesday, March 19, 2019
Steven Spielberg has cast Corey Stoll and Brian d’Arcy James as police officers in his movie adaptation of “West Side Story.” Stoll will take on the role of Lieutenant Schrank, the New…
Linked From VarietyA re-imagining of the 1997 Broadway musical Jekyll and Hyde will be the first project under Birdman screenwriter Alexander Dinelaris’ Lexicon and Richard Saperstein's Bluestone Entertainme…
Linked From DeadlineThe Tony Award winner previously emceed the ceremony in 2016.
Linked From PlaybillArtistic directors, the faces of local theater and tastemakers in their communities, have long been white men who have held the posts for many years. That’s changing.
Linked From The New York Times SubscriptionThe Powszechny Theater in Warsaw faced protests and acid attacks when it staged a play about the Catholic Church. Will its staging of “Mein Kampf” cause more uproar?
Linked From The New York Times SubscriptionMonday, March 18, 2019
A team of workers spent Friday at the Park Avenue Armory putting together the centerpiece of the set for “The Lehman Trilogy,” an 800-square-foot transparent cube.
Linked From The New York Times SubscriptionWelcome to this week's edition of BroadwayWorld's exclusive WEEKLY GROSSES ANALYSIS Read on for all the weekly grosses statistics for the movers and shakers from the latest grosses, for the …
Linked From BroadwayWorldRock n' Roll Hall-of-Famer Dion DiMucci – best known simply as Dion for his hits including “Runaround Sue” and “The Wanderer” – is the latest classic rocker to get the jukebox mu…
Linked From DeadlineThe playwright and actor tells Stephen Colbert about how the new Broadway play almost stopped before it started.
Linked From PlaybillSunday, March 17, 2019
Waitress has released a not-so-subtle clue as to who its next Dr. Pomatter is The show's Twitter account posted an audio snippet, asking the fans if they can guess the next Pomatter. The aud…
Linked From BroadwayWorldThe new Michael Riedel column on Beetlejuice is a subtext-rich doozy. Time for a new Reidel translator.
Linked From twitter.comOluwaseyi Omooba had just landed the starring role of the upcoming Curve Leicester and Birmingham Hippodrome production of The Color Purple when an old Facebook post of her resurfaced.
Linked From www.gaystarnews.comFriday, March 15, 2019
The event featured theater “changemakers” on Broadway and beyond.
Linked From ShowTickets.comThe musical, featuring a score by Joe Iconis, opened at Broadway’s Lyceum Theatre March 10.
Linked From PlaybillIf/when he manages to separate from his group of friends, Mr. Rannells will take a Swiffer to his floors, attempt to work out, or listen to a podcast.
Linked From The New York Times SubscriptionThe first Broadway revival of Lanford Wilson's Burn This begins preview performances on March 15 at the Hudson Theatre. Michael Mayer directs the new production, set to officially open on Ap…
Linked From Broadway.comThursday, March 14, 2019
Consumer protection advocates fear that the folks featured in a new Aladdin commercial might not be friends like me.
Linked From ForbesA Washington Post critic sprayed a can of Raid on the out-of-town tryout of “Beetlejuice” last fall. Peter Marks called the $20 million musical “overcaffeinated, overstuffed and virtua…
Linked From The New York PostNew works by Jackie Sibblies Drury, Adam Rapp, and Celine Song imagine futures that range from the utopian to the dystopian, from the fantastical to the very real.
Linked From PlaybillWednesday, March 13, 2019
The world premiere, slated to round out the 2019 season, will run at a later date.
Linked From PlaybillThe Actors Fund benefit starring the show's original Broadway cast took place at the Broadhurst Theatre March 11.
Linked From PlaybillSara Bareilles has landed the sweetest of small-screen gigs. The Tony-nominated Waitress songwriter has been selected as the musical guest for the April 6 edition of NBC's Saturday Night L…
Linked From Broadway.comTony winner Anna D. Shapiro has been named director of the Broadway-aimed new musical The Devil Wears Prada. The previously announced tuner, featuring a book by Paul Rudnick, music by Elton …
Linked From Broadway.comHugh Jackman will return to Broadway in an upcoming revival of Meredith Willson’s “The Music Man.” It marks Jackman’s first musical role in more than a decade, which should make it a…
Linked From VarietyEfforts to diversify the popular and influential form are no laughing matter.
Linked From American TheatreTuesday, March 12, 2019
The show, featuring the songs of the pop superstar, will make its world premiere this fall.
Linked From PlaybillMonday, March 11, 2019
New York’s Third Rail Projects stages immersive production in Folger reading room.
Linked From Washington PostThe Arkansas theatre has announced the first season in its new 50,000-square-foot theatre center.
Linked From American TheatreJohn Mulaney has been heating up the small screen lately between a high-profile hosting gig on Saturday Night Live and a turn as Stephen Sondheim on Documentary Now!'s Original Cast Album: C…
Linked From Broadway.comOn the heels of the recent announcement that celebrated English singer-songwriter Morrissey will appear at Broadway's Lunt-Fontanne Theatre from May 2-11, a residency has been launched that…
Linked From Broadway.comComing this spring, hard on the heels of opening day at Wrigley Field: A new Chicago-born stage musical, officially encouraged and approved by the Chicago Cubs and produced by a former state…
Linked From Chicago Tribune SubscriptionOne of the top folks responsible for putting Broadway performers in plum roles is not a casting director.
Linked From ForbesSunday, March 10, 2019
One of the top folks responsible for putting Broadway performers in plum roles is not a casting director.
Linked From ForbesFriday, March 8, 2019
The 'Hamilton' star is back onstage for a Suzan-Lori Parks play and reflects on what he learned from acting in the Bay Area.
Linked From American TheatreWe're merely three weeks away from the release of Sing to Me Instead, the debut solo album from Tony-winning original Dear Evan Hansen star Ben Platt. In advance of the album's release, the…
Linked From Broadway.comThe Broadway production, and its new lead, brim with life, onstage and off.
Linked From Washington PostMorrissey’s seven-night engagement at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre sold well in the first hour of general public availability, suggesting a bright future for rock stars on Broadway. As of 11 …
Linked From Broadway JournalTK: “I’ve always been a little skeptical of the notion that there’s something sort of shamanistic or medicinal or restorative about theater in a kind of mysterious way, but I really fe…
Linked From ArtsJournalA filing seeking arbitration says the estate allowed eight theaters around the United States to stage “To Kill a Mockingbird,” then flip-flopped at the last minute.
Linked From The New York Times SubscriptionThursday, March 7, 2019
The biggest little hit in town right now is “Fiddler on the Roof,” which has lifted the curse from the Shubert Organization’s Stage 42, an off-Broadway theater on far West 42nd Street.…
Linked From The New York PostEnjoy free performances, concerts, communal art-marking, and more at the May event.
Linked From PlaybillTwitter users, check out your next list of must-follow accounts for 2019
Linked From BroadwayWorldI’ve been working on Broadway for 2.5 decades now, and a lot of things have changed over those years . . . from the types of lights we use, to how our customers order our tickets . . . and…
Linked From The Producer's PerspectiveThe Shubert Organization is teaming up with two partners to bring Silicon Valley to Broadway. Alongside venture capital firm Exponential Creativity Ventures and tech training company IT Ment…
Linked From broadway.newsWednesday, March 6, 2019
These 10 sexy chorus gals will make your heart sing and dance in this season's Broadway musicals
Linked From Time OutThese 10 sexy chorus guys will make your heart sing and dance in this season's Broadway musicals
Linked From Time OutAfter 30 years in the business, what one of the most powerful women in the theatre has learned along the way.
Linked From American TheatrePatti LuPone has claimed that the hierarchy within musical theatre productions can make them “very tough” environments to work in. LuPone, who
Linked From The Stage RegistrationTuesday, March 5, 2019
A revival of Oklahoma! may not sound very state-of-the-art. The show’s very name conjures a bygone era of song and dance: cheerful cowboys, tunes about mornings and fancy carriages, Americ…
Linked From Time OutBroadway producer Scott Delman has acquired live theatrical rights to Nashville, the country music-themed series that spanned six seasons on ABC, CMT and Hulu, and will team with Lionsgate t…
Linked From DeadlineThe two West End productions received nine nominations each.
Linked From PlaybillIn a development likely to reshape, and possibly reignite, the Halsted Street corridor in Lincoln Park and impact the fiscal and artistic fortunes of the Steppenwolf Theatre Company for year…
Linked From Chicago Tribune SubscriptionMonday, March 4, 2019
The opera company said the move had been prompted by a desire to “give audiences even more choice in the new season”, which will be announced in April. “This confirms ENO’s commitmen…
Linked From ArtsJournalWhen Glenda Jackson’s King Lear and the new Temptations jukebox musical arrive on Broadway in the same week, the fledgling spring season has officially kicked into gear. Still, box office …
Linked From DeadlineThe new Broadway version, and its legal battles, are just the latest chapter in a complicated 50-year history of the popular novel’s theatrical life.
Linked From American TheatreKristine Nielsen will now star opposite Nathan Lane in the Taylor Mac play, with White assuming Nielsen's original role.
Linked From PlaybillAT&T has just handed the keys to WarnerMedia’s most high-profile business initiative to Bob Greenblatt, the seasoned TV executive whose resume includes helping to build the Fox network…
Linked From VarietyThe TV musical comedy series will perform a live show in New York City in May.
Linked From PlaybillMorrissey announced today that he will perform on Broadway for the first time in his career this May. The seven dates, at New York’s Lunt-Fontanne Theater, will be “an intimate yet excit…
Linked From VarietyFriday, March 1, 2019
UPDATE, with response After some community theaters were forced to cancel planned productions of a 1991 version of To Kill A Mockingbird following litigation threats by Broadway producer Sco…
Linked From DeadlineMonday, February 4, 2019
Broadway historian makes Broadway history
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Linked From Dramatics MagazineThursday, January 24, 2019
Time catches everyone by surprise. For Betty Buckley, the rude awakening happened when director Michael Wilson called to say he was planning a revival of the musical “Grey Gardens.”
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Mr. Miranda and three of his “Hamilton” collaborators have purchased the Drama Book Shop, a century-old theater district purveyor of scripts, sheet music and other stage-related reading …
Linked From The New York Times SubscriptionFriday, October 26, 2018
Political pundits have long been giving drama critics a bad name. Inevitably, in the run-up to an election, some op-ed columnist will make a crack comparing recent political coverage to thea…
Linked From Los Angeles TimesSunday, October 21, 2018
The latest play from the celebrated writer of Jerusalem opens on Broadway following a sold-out London run where it won the 2018 Olivier Award for Best New Play.
Linked From PlaybillFriday, October 19, 2018
The average age of the Broadway theatergoer last season was 40.6 — the lowest since 2000, the Broadway League says, and 15 percent of theatergoers were under 18.
Linked From The New York Times SubscriptionFriday, October 12, 2018
Frank Spadafora, Ryan Ratelle and Sam Ratelle joined forces to create The Cast, the first dedicated digital talent agency which represents leading Broadway talent.
Linked From ForbesThe kidcaster has hired Susan Vargo to lead creative development and production for its live stage shows, resorts and attractions.
Linked From kidscreen.comThursday, October 11, 2018
Tituss Burgess, enjoying small-screen fame as the struggling actor of Netflix’s “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt,” is also the driving creative force behind “The Preacher’s Wife,” a ne…
Linked From The New York PostTuesday, October 9, 2018
It’s exciting news for Broadway, but not for Lady Gaga fans. The star of “A Star is Born” will not be playing Categories:
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