Wednesday, April 30, 2025

The 2025 Tony Awards: If We Were Nominators by JK

The 2025 Tony Awards:  If We Were Nominators This year, Mike and I still have several Tony-eligible shows to see before the nominations are announced tomorrow. So, instead of our typical l…

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Saturday, April 26, 2025

Celebrating the OCC's 75th Anniversary— and Its Nominees for the 2024-2025 Season by Jan Simpson

The 2024-2025 theater season ends on Sunday with the dual openings of the musicals Dead Outlaw and Real Women Have Curves. And I’m exhausted. But it’s the kind of good exhaustion that c…

SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 06:24PM
Monday, April 21, 2025

Tommy Dorfman Unpacks the Poetic and Poignant 'Becoming Eve' by BroadwayWorld

It's been just weeks since Tommy Dorfman concluded her Broadway debut run in Romeo + Juliet, and in no time at all, she's back onstage, off-Broadway this time. Dorman is playing 'Chava' in E…

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Thursday, April 17, 2025

2025 Tony Awards: How 'Romeo + Juliet' could break a surprising Shakespearean shutout

Romeo and Juliet Playbill. Playbill. Since premiering in 1597, William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet has endured as one of the greatest and most ...

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2025 Tony Awards: How ‘Romeo + Juliet’ could break a surprising Shakespearean shutout by Jeffrey Kare

Since premiering in 1597, William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet has endured as one of the greatest and most tragic love stories ever written. It's been performed countless times all over the …

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Video: Tommy Dorfman Unpacks the Poetic and Poignant BECOMING EVE

It's been just weeks since Tommy Dorfman concluded her Broadway debut run in Romeo + Juliet, and in no time at all, she's back onstage, off-Broadway this time. Dorman is playing 'Chava' in …

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:24PM

Tommy Dorfman Discusses Going From Broadway's 'Romeo and Juliet' to 'Becoming Eve' by Playbill

Tommy Dorfman has been having a busy season. She started out the year playing the dual roles of the Nurse and Tybalt in the Broadway revival of "Romeo + Juliet. She's now leading the cast of…

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Is it curtains up on a new generation on Broadway? by Jesse Hassenger

Younger audiences are helping to reposition a typically older-skewed activity with hot ticket gen Z stars and impassioned online fanbases For much of the past decade, probably longer, regula…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:15AM
Wednesday, April 16, 2025

Kit Connor, Jake Gyllenhaal, Denzel Washington could make Tonys history for ‘Othello’ and ‘Romeo + Juliet’ by David Buchanan

In all of Tony Awards history, there has never once been a season in which three performers have been nominated for Best Actor in a Play for Shakespearean roles. That could very well change …

SOURCE: Gold Derby at 05:27PM

Video: Tommy Dorfman Was Doing Romeo + Juliet on Broadway When She Got Offered Becoming Eve by Diep Tran, Jeffrey Vizcaíno

The busy performer is leading the cast of a new play about Abby Chava Stein, a rabbi who came out as trans.

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Monday, April 14, 2025

‘John Proctor Is the Villain’ puts Gen Alpha through a modern crucible (Broadway review) by Thom Geier

There’s something refreshing about seeing a Broadway theater packed with Gen Alpha patrons. Many of them flocked to the recent Romeo + Juliet with barely-twentysomething stars Kit Connor a…

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Gabby Beans discusses the ‘oppressive and violent’ world of ‘Romeo + Juliet’ and starring opposite the ‘absolutely brilliant’ Kit Connor by David Buchanan

“Romeo and Juliet has featured in my life at these pivotal moments in a really funny way,” Gabby Beans smiles as she considers all the times she has crossed paths with one of Shakespeare…

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Tuesday, April 8, 2025

Video: Kit Connor Recalls ROMEO + JULIET On-Stage Mishap

In an interview on Late Night with Seth Meyers, Kit Connor recalled a performance during the recent production of Romeo and Juliet when one of his stunts almost went awry. Watch the intervie…

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:54AM
Monday, March 24, 2025

Othello review – Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal’s underwhelming blockbuster by Adrian Horton

Ethel Barrymore Theatre, New York The record-breaking take on the Shakespearean tragedy might already be a smash, but it’s disappointingly muddled With the smell of doom and regression in …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:48AM
Friday, March 14, 2025

Rachel Zegler to Lead Jamie Lloyd's Evita in London by Darryn King

Rachel Zegler—not Ariana DeBose as previously supposed—will lead Jamie Lloyd's revival of the Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice musical Evita in London. It will be Zegler's West End debu…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:32AM
Monday, March 3, 2025

Looking Forward to Spring: March - May 2025 by JK

Winter is starting to wind down, and spring will be here in full bloom before we know it! And as always, the Broadway theater scene is starting to heat up, too. We have more shows that we wa…

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Tuesday, February 25, 2025

‘Buena Vista Social Club’ And ‘Operation Mincemeat’ Sell Out Preview Performances; ‘Gypsy’ Slips With Audra Absent – Broadway Box Office by Greg Evans

Broadway seemed to be shedding a bit of winter weight last week as the industry gears up for a busy March and busier April. With two fewer shows on the roster during the week ending February…

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Tuesday, February 18, 2025

‘Romeo + Juliet’ exits on a high; most shows get a Presidents’ Day weekend boost by Michael Abourizk

For the week ending Feb. 16, the 28 currently running productions grossed $32,188,003.

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‘Operation Mincemeat’ Sells Out Unlit Preview; ‘Romeo + Juliet’ And ‘All In’ Go Out On Big Notes – Broadway Box Office by Greg Evans

Even with its name in unlit lights, Operation Mincemeat, the hit London musical that’s just arrived on Broadway, sold out its first preview Saturday at the John Golden Theatre, taking in $…

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Broadway Box Office: ‘Romeo + Juliet’ Ends Run On $1.5M High by Caitlin Huston

The musical played the last performance of its run, as did 'All In.' Both recouped their capitalizations.

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 05:32PM
Monday, February 17, 2025

Broadway’s ‘Romeo + Juliet’ revival recoups investment ahead of closing by Andy Lefkowitz

The revival broke the Circle in the Square’s single-performance gross record three times.

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Broadway’s ‘Romeo + Juliet’ With Kit Connor & Rachel Zegler Recouped $7 Million Capitalization Before Closing by Greg Evans

Romeo + Juliet, the just-closed Broadway production starring Kit Connor and Rachel Zegler, recouped its $7 million capitalization during its extended, sold-out 20-week limited engagement at …

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ROMEO + JULIET Recoups on Broadway

Sam Gold’s production of ROMEO + JULIET recouped its $7 million capitalization during its extended, standing-room-only, 20-week limited engagement at  Broadway’s Circle in the Square Th…

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:00AM
Sunday, February 16, 2025

My craziest stage door experience | Romeo + Juliet by bwaySHO

I was invited behind the barricade by Dina at the stage door to film the audience and Dina wanted to share a message. See you at the SHO!

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RACHEL ZEGLER x KIT CONNOR | BWAYSHO by bwaySHO

Join @bwaySHO for an inside look of Romeo + Juliet's Opening night on Broadway starring Kit Connor + Rachel Zegler with this new episode of SHO ME! See you at the SHO! Filmed by #bwaySHO …

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Rachel Zegler + Kit Connor: Romeo + Juliet final curtain call by bwaySHO

Rachel Zegler + Kit Connor: Romeo + Juliet final curtain call 🎥: @bwaySHO

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Flashback: Kit Connor + Rachel Zegler in Romeo + Juliet on Broadway by bwaySHO

Final performance of Kit Connor + Rachel Zegler in Romeo + Juliet on Broadway

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POV: Rachel Zegler Gives Me Exclusive Interview by bwaySHO

Rachel Zegler and I caught up at the NYTW gala Monday night! From Romeo + Juliet with Kit Connor, to Snow White with Andrew Burnap and of course, Shrek: The Musical & Jeanine Tesori, we go…

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Saturday, February 15, 2025
Thursday, February 13, 2025

Kenny Leon Sets His Denzel Washington-Led Othello in the Near Future: 'Let's Set It in October 2028' by Hayley Levitt

Director Kenny Leon is hard at work crafting a brand-new Othello, Shakespeare's tale of vengeance starring Denzel Washington as the title general and Jake Gyllenhaal as his sociopathic ens…

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