239 stories by "Broadway News"
"MJ," the Michael Jackson musical, will embark on a multi-year North American tour in 2023. The tour will launch in Chicago at the James M. Nederlander Theatre on July 15, 2023 and later pla…
Jewelle Blackman will take over the role of Persephone in "Hadestown" starting April 5, producers announced Friday. Blackman currently plays one of the Fates and has been an original cas…
Roundabout Theatre Company will launch a North American tour of "A Soldier's Play" starring Norm Lewis. The 20-week tour is set to begin in December 2022, with tour stops and additional cast…
The Old Globe announced the cast Wednesday for "Bob Fosse's Dancin.'" The reimagining of Fosse's 1978 revue is scheduled for a six-week engagement in San Diego starting April 19. Producer Jo…
Gene Weygandt will assume the role of 'Claude & others' in "Come From Away" on Broadway starting March 22, the production announced Tuesday. Weygandt joins the Broadway company after hav…
A portion of ticket sales from the Broadway production of "The Minutes" will be donated to Save The Children's Ukraine Crisis Relief Fund, the production said Tuesday. The humanitarian organ…
Broadway, Off-Broadway and national touring productions will resume red bucket fundraising for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS this month. The six-week campaign, in which company members m…
Hugh Jackman will receive the Drama League's Distinguished Achievement in Musical Theater Award, the organization announced Wednesday. Jackman is one of several honorees to be recognized at …
Keri René Fuller will temporarily take over the role of Jane Seymour in "Six," producers announced Tuesday. Fuller takes over the role from Abby Mueller, who is taking a medical leave of ab…
Daniel Radcliffe will star in "Merrily We Roll Along" at New York Theatre Workshop in late 2022, the Off-Broadway theater announced Monday. Radcliffe will play Charley, a leading role origin…
Will Swenson will take on the title role in the out-of-town tryout of "A Beautiful Noise: The Neil Diamond Musical," producers Ken Davenport and Bob Gaudio announced Friday. The new musical,…
The musical adaptation of "Some Like It Hot" is holding a developmental work session this month, in lieu of an out-of-town tryout, the production said Tuesday. The musical, which features a …
Network Presentations announced Monday that "The Book of Mormon" will visit 48 US cities on a national tour set to begin in fall 2022. Twenty-five of the destination cities will host the mus…
Joy Woods will make her Broadway debut as Catherine Parr when she joins the cast of "Six" in March, producers said Monday. Woods takes over the role from original Broadway cast member Anna U…
Amara Granderson, Tendayi Kuumba, Kenita R. Miller, Okwui Okpokwasili, Stacey Sargeant, Alexandria Wailes and D. Woods have been cast in the upcoming Broadway revival of Ntozake Shange's "fo…
A memorial celebration for Philip J. Smith will be held on Tuesday, March 22 at the Music Box Theatre, the Shubert Organization announced Wednesday. Smith, who died in January 2021 at th…
Lincoln Center Theater's revival of "The Skin of Our Teeth" will play its first preview on April 1, one day later than previously scheduled. The Thornton Wilder play will feature a large ens…
This season's revival of "Macbeth" will invite at least 2,022 students to attend the play for free, producers said Thursday. The initiative, supported by Omega, Baccarat, The Capri Foundatio…
Lana Gordon will assume the role of Persephone full time in "Hadestown," producers Mara Isaacs, Dale Franzen, Hunter Arnold and Tom Kirdahy said Wednesday. Gordon, who has been serving as th…
"Paradise Square" began rehearsals Monday, ahead of a scheduled Broadway run starting this March. Joaquina Kalukango and Chilina Kennedy lead the cast, most of whom were part of the show's C…
Amber Gray will play Banquo in "Macbeth" on Broadway this spring, producers announced Monday. Gray, an original cast member of "Hadestown," joins previously announced Daniel Craig and Ruth N…
"Tina"The Tina Turner Musical" will launch a multi-year North American tour starting this fall, producers announced Thursday. The tour will stop in more than 40 cities in its first year, sta…
Elizabeth Teeter will take on the role of Lydia when "Beetlejuice" returns to Broadway this spring. Teeter, who recently led the Off-Broadway musical "The Secret Life of Bees," will star alo…
"The Music Man" will offer 10,000 subsidized tickets at $20 each to New York City students, their families and teachers, producers Barry Diller, David Geffen and Kate Horton announced Wednes…
"Jagged Little Pill" will launch a multi-year North American tour in fall 2022, producers Vivek J. Tiwary, Arvind Ethan David and Eva Price announced Tuesday. The tour is set to make more th…
