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Broadway's Back to the Future will welcome two new principal cast members to the Winter Garden Theatre beginning June 25. Evan Alexander Smith and David Josefsberg will join the cast a…
The national tour of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, launching this September in Chicago, has found its cast. Previews begin September 10 at Broadway In Chicago's James M. Nederland…
Lincoln Center Theater has released the lineup of productions set for its 40th anniversary season, André Bishop's final season as the company's producing artistic director. As previously an…
Broadway veteran Skylar Astin will host the American Express "Broadway Fanfare" simulcast event on June 16 in Damrosch Park at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. The event will kick off…
Are the nicest kids in town coming back to Broadway? In a recent interview with Broadway.com, director Jack O'Brien teased a revival of Hairspray, the musical comedy that won eight Ton…
American Repertory Theater at Harvard University has announced three of the four productions to comprise its 2024-25 subscription season, kicking off with a reunion between Jagged Little …
Just two months before starting rehearsals for Cabaret"the Broadway transfer of Rebecca Frecknall's Olivier Award-winning production"Steven Skybell underwent open heart surgery. He downpl…
If the Tony Awards speak to what's happening on Broadway now, the Jimmy Awards provide a forecast of Broadway's future. Formally known as the National High School Musical Theatre Awards, the…
Paula Vogel gave Celia Keenan-Bolger a heads-up 15 years ago that she was writing a play with the actress' voice in mind. They never discussed what the play was about or anything about the c…
Broadway Bets, an evening of Texas Hold 'em poker at Sardi's produced by and benefiting Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, raised a record $540,600 at this year's June 3 event. The amo…
The Notebook is aware of its reputation. Hence its winking decision to sell branded tissue boxes at the Schoenfeld Theatre (a souvenir that's both practical and clever). Imagine the pressure…
Two-time Tony nominee Josh Groban will host the 15th Annual Jimmy Awards, to be held on June 24 at Broadway's Minskoff Theatre. A showcase of the country's top high school musical theater ta…
Julianne Hough and Utkarsh Ambudkar will co-host The Tony Awards: Act One, a live pre-show ahead of the official Tony Awards ceremony. Available to viewers for free on Pluto TV, the sh…
"When my doctor told me the diagnosis, I said, 'I promise you if I get through this, I will speak about it.'" Sara Chase is already making good on that promise"a show of faith that her docto…
Empire: The Musical, a new musical centered around the history of the Empire State Building, will premiere this summer with a 12-week limited engagement at New World Stages. Directed by T…
If the Tony Awards speak to what's happening on Broadway now, the Jimmy Awards provide a forecast of Broadway's future. Formally known as the National High School Musical Theatre Awards, the…
Eden Espinosa has one of Broadway's most recognizable voices"a strong, clear belt that has earned her a lifelong coterie of fans, some of whom still gift her Wicked-related trinkets in honor…
Gypsy, the musical by Jule Styne, Arthur Laurents and Stephen Sondheim, will be revived on Broadway with six-time Tony Award winner Audra McDonald starring as Momma Rose. The production w…
Michael Urie will join Sutton Foster in the Broadway revival of Once Upon a Mattress this summer. Urie returns to the role of Prince Dauntless while Foster reprises her performance as …
Stephanie Mills, best known for her performance as Dorothy in the original 1975 production of The Wiz, will return to Broadway as Hermes in the Tony-winning musical Hadestown. Sh…
Pre-Existing Condition, a new play written by Tony-nominated actor Marin Ireland, will premiere off-Broadway this summer in the Connelly Theater's intimate 60-seat Upstairs space. Directe…
Richard M. Sherman, half of the award-winning sibling songwriting team behind Disney's Mary Poppins, died on May 25 at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Beverly Hill, CA. The news was confirmed…
Andrew Barth Feldman and Sarah Hyland begin their runs as Seymour and Audrey in Little Shop of Horrors at the Westside Theatre on May 28. They follow in the footsteps of Corbin Bleu an…
Few things are more agonizing than the lethargy of progress. Shaina Taub's musical Suffs theatricalizes just the last seven years of the fight for the 19th Amendment, and even without the co…
William Jackson Harper has traded one version of angst for another. Best known for his Emmy-nominated role as the morally anguished Chidi Anagonye in NBC's The Good Place, he now plays…