Joy: A New True Musical, Starring Betsy Wolfe, Completes Casting by Broadway.com

The complete cast is set for Joy: A New True Musical, opening off-Broadway this summer at the Laura Pels Theatre. The show will have an eight-week run from June 21 through August 17 wit…

Betsy Wolfe-Led JOY: A NEW TRUE MUSICAL Finds Full Cast

Complete casting has been announced for JOY: A New True Musical starring Tony Award nominee Betsy Wolfe as ‘Joy.' JOY begins rehearsals on May 5 and will make its off-Broadway debut at the…

POV: Boy Blue Rehearsal at Lincoln Center by Lincoln Center

Boy Blue performs "Neva Die" - Sidewalk Sessions by Lincoln Center

Hip-Hop Dance Company Boy Blue performs "NEVA DIE" from their work "Cycles." Filmed in the Kenneth C. Griffin Sidewalk Studio at Lincoln Center Choreographer - Kenrick 'H20' Sandy Associa…

Boy Blue performs "NEVA DIE" by Lincoln Center

Boy Blue performs "NEVA DIE" from their work "Cycles." Filmed in the Kenneth C. Griffin Sidewalk Studio. Choreographer - Kenrick 'H20' Sandy Associate Choreographer - Jade Hackett "NEVA …

Maybe Happy Ending, Just in Time, BOOP! and More Recognized with Drama Desk Award Nominations by Darryn King

The nominations for the 69th Annual Drama Desk Awards, honoring work on Broadway, off-Broadway and off-off-Broadway, have been announced. The ceremony, hosted by Debra Messing and Tituss Bur…

Drama Desk Nominations by Suzanna Bowling

Nominations for the 69th Annual Drama Desk Awards were announced today on Spectrum News NY1 by stage and screen star Norm Lewis, Spectrum News NY1 “On Stage” host Frank DiLella, and a…

Bye Bye Birdie by The 5th Avenue Theatre

🎸 Put on your blue suede shoes and get ready to swoon — Bye Bye Birdie will berockin’ the stage at The 5th Avenue Theatre! This high-energy musical comedy bursts with show-stopping nu…

Hollywood Bowl & LA Phil’s Blue Note Jazz Fest 2025 by Pauline Adamek

Get Ready, Los Angeles: The Blue Note Jazz Festival Returns to the Hollywood Bowl in 2025! The iconic Blue Note Jazz Festival is coming back to the Hollywood Bowl in 2025—and it’s shapi…

Blue Man Group at the Luxor Hotel and Casino

‘BOOP! The Musical:’ A Chat With 2025 Tony Contender Ainsley Melham [VIDEO] by Frank J. Avella

Australian-born musical theater actor extraordinaire Ainsley Melham is quite the sensation this season as Dwayne, the baby-blue-eyed, Jazz-loving beau of Jasmine Amy Roger’s titular charac…

Gabriela Carrillo and Paul Whitty Join Joy: A New True Musical by Broadway.com

Gabriela Carrillo and Paul Whitty have joined the cast of Joy: A New True Musical, opening off-Broadway this summer at the Laura Pels Theatre. The show will have an eight-week run from J…

2024 - 2025 Broadway Musical Logos: Just In Time by JK

Is it possible for an advertising campaign to sell the star of the show at the expense of the show itself? The people behind the show art for the new bio-musical Just In Time may have done …

Blue Electra – Movement 2: A Violin Concerto Inspired by Amelia Earhart | Anne Akiko Meyers & NSO by The Kennedy Center

Experience Michael Daugherty’s Blue Electra, a violin concerto inspired by the legendary Amelia Earhart, performed by the National Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Gianandrea Nose…

Saving Ms. Blue: VFX Studio Uses LiDAR Scans to Preserve Landmark by Pr Agency

LiDAR Scans of Over 300 Bones Led to a Digital Replica, Augmented Reality Display, Educational Lessons and 3D Printed Replacements. For nearly 25 years, more than one million visitors to the…

Hugh Jackman-Led SONG SUNG BLUE Sets Christmas Release

Song Sung Blue, the new film starring Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson, has received a release date of December 25, 2025, from Focus Features. The movie tells the inspiring true story of two …

New App StagePlay Will Bring Live Performances to Mixed Reality Headsets

A new app is coming to mixed reality headsets which will allow fans to be immersed into live stage performances. The app will launch with a performance from Blue Man Group.

New app StagePlay will offer live stage performances on mixed-reality headsets by Michael Abourizk

The inaugural offering will be a live capture of Off-Broadway’s ‘Blue Man Group.’

2024 - 2025 Broadway Musical Logos: Pirates! by JK

2024 - 2025 Broadway Musical Logos: Pirates! (The Penzance Musical) In probably the best advertising move concerning a Broadway musical in years, Roundabout changed its show art for Pira…

40 Years of LCT - Jerry Zaks by Lincoln Center Theater

“Lincoln Center Theater is the place where my dreams came true.” Director Jerry Zaks looks back at directing THE HOUSE OF BLUE LEAVES(and more!) at the Beaumont, marking the start of his…

Speed review – comic tale of road rage and race is approachably provocative by Arifa Akbar

Bush theatre, LondonMohamed-Zain Dada’s play set at a speed awareness course bristles with humour and snarls with home truths about the bigotry experienced by British Asians Representation…

Off-Broadway Hit Titanique to Set Sail For the Last Time (But Our Hearts Will Go On) by Darryn King

The musical comedy Titanique will play its final performance off-Broadway on June 15. The splash-hit comedy, sending up the blockbuster film Titanic and driven by the songs of pop icon Cé…

Dance Review: ‘A&I’ by Orange Grove Dance at Dance Place  by Justin Rustle

“Ok Luna, let’s start the show.” A single dancer leaned forward, speaking to a blue light on the table. There was a moment, the house lights dimmed and the music began. Orange Grove D…

IMPRESSIONS: Boy Blue in “Cycles” at Jazz at Lincoln Center by The Dance Enthusiast

"Precise, syncopated steps charge, burst, and reverberate through Boy Blue’s electrifying cast. Asante’s pulsating electronic score surges through the space, its driving beats embodied b…

Titanique Makes A Big Splash At Chicago’s Broadway Playhouse by Jeffery Lyle Segal

There’s no sinking feeling in the uproarious Porchlight Music Theatre production of the parody musical Titanique,”now playing at Chicago’s Broadway Playhouse.  I missed seeing this sh…

Balanchine: Three Signature Works review – visions of perfection by Sarah Crompton

Royal Opera House, LondonAn immensely satisfying tribute to the choreographer is full of invention, emotion and dazzling precision George Balanchine’s Serenade has the most beautiful openi…

Glengarry Glen Ross ***, Deep Blue Sound **** by Barry Gordin

By David Sheward April 5, 2025. Glengarry Glen Ross, David Mamet’s savagely funny takedown of cutthroat Chicago real-estate salesmen, has been a magnet for male actors to prove their thea…

The Whales are Missing: In Abe Koogler’s DEEP BLUE SOUND, Politics Linger While Characters Humanize and The Audience is Drawn Near by Lindsey Walko

  Every American town has some marker that sets it apart from every other American town. I’m not talking about geography, population, values, or even baseball teams, but rather, those qui…

On Rhythmic Utterances, The Catharsis of Musicality, and Destabilizing Interactions: A Conversation with Playwright Abe Koogler by Eve Bromberg

When Deep Blue Sound announced its residence at The Public Theater, the playwrights in my MFA program were thrilled. Their response gave me an inkling as to what kind of playwright Abe Koogl…

Theatre by the Blind presents “The Enemy of Oz” in May by Pauline Adamek

ArtsUP! LA and Theatre by the Blind present The Enemy of Oz, an original play by Christopher Ureña, featuring the *only* All-Blind Theatre Company in the USA. Performances are May 2 – …

Blue Ink Award, Burry Fredrik Design Fellowship, New Harmony Project, and More by American Theatre Editors

A roundup of prizes, fellowships, and other recognitions.