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Over a decade ago, Liana Hunt made her Broadway debut at the Winter Garden Theatre as Sophie in the long-running ABBA musical Mamma Mia! In a fittingly thematic turn, Hunt is back at the Win…
A Sign of the Times, a new musical featuring hits by Petula Clark, Lesley Gore, Dusty Springfield and other popular artists of the 1960s, will follow its limited off-Broadway engagement with…
Broadway dancers make their work look effortless, but it takes a village to keep a performer healthy enough to get on stage eight times a week. MJ The Musical"featuring Christipher Wheeldon'…
Alli Mauzey has been donning her double arm casts as Kimberly Akimbo's quirky matriarch Pattie for over a year now at Broadway's Booth Theatre. As a five-time Broadway veteran who launched h…
Mind Mangler: A Night of Tragic Illusion will end its off-Broadway run at New World Stages on January 28, 2024 ahead of its originally intended March closing. The production plans to have a …
The Book of Mormon reunion we waited over a decade for is coming to an end on January 28. For the past three months, Andrew Rannells and Josh Gad have repurposed their infectious onstage par…
It's impossible to count all the moving pieces that keep the wheels of Broadway turning, and ushers are some of the most inconspicuous contributors.
The Broadway Show correspondent Perry So…
Tony Award winner Kristin Chenoweth will celebrate the life of Roundabout Theatre Company's late artistic director and chief executive, Todd Haimes, in a special benefit concert, Kristin: An…
"There is no place I would rather be in the world than on Broadway," says Kevin Cahoon to The Broadway Show correspondent Charlie Cooper. "And I don't just mean as a performer."
As thril…
In the span of a decade, Jordan Fisher has made a seamless transition from Disney kid to Broadway star.
He launched his career on Disney Channel, showing off his vocal chops on the comedy s…
Moulin Rouge! The Musical is Broadway's sparkling diamond"a glittering display of opulence that makes it one of the most sensorially satisfying productions in New York City.
Catherine Zuber…
Nearly 50 years into a Broadway career, Milwaukee native Chip Zien (born "Jerome Herbert Zien") took the pandemic as a moment to start stepping back from the stage. So he tells Broadway.com …
After over a year on Broadway, Some Like It Hot takes its final bow at Broadway's Shubert Theatre on December 30. Based on the classic 1959 film, the musical features a jazzy score by Marc S…
Ayana Jackson is approaching her two-year anniversary with the cast of MJ The Musical as Jackson family matriarch, Katherine Jackson. This week, The Broadway Show is looking back on her cont…
"If you want to write musical theater, you have to create history."
Only a legend like Harold Prince could pull off such a stately and inscrutable aphorism. But it's sentiments like these, …
Stephen Sondheim's legacy is in good hands this season. Thomas Kail's Tony-nominated revival of Sweeney Todd has extended its life with a top-tier pair of new stars;Â Sondheim's final musi…
A lot of artists, especially the ones working in live theater, made big pandemic career pivots. Only for LaChanze could such a pivot summon two Tony Awards.
LaChanze"an award-winning stage …
There's something about Harmony that breeds relentless commitment. Barry Manilow and Bruce Sussman, the musical's co-authors, have been working for nearly 30 years to get the piece to Broadw…
Betty Who strikes an imposing figure on the Walter Kerr stage. She's 6'1" without help. And boosted by the verdant goddess Persephone's heels and hair, she estimates her final height must be…
Costume designer Susan Hilferty could measure Wicked's life in the Broadway production's she's worked on since building the wardrobe of Oz"15. She could also measure it in the Tony nominatio…
John Dossett and Michele Pawk don't wear their resumes on their sleeves"or their décor. The spouses of nearly 20 years have over 30 Broadway credits and a Tony Award between them. But the h…
The countdown to Wicked's 20th birthday on Monday, October 30 continues with a backstage tour of the Gershwin Theatre, courtesy of the musical's resident Boq, Jake Pedersen.
Pedersen, who j…
Wicked celebrates its 20th Broadway birthday on Monday, October 30"and as part of The Broadway Show's all-green episode, correspondent Perry Sook went backstage to hear from the person who k…
When Wicked picked its thematic birthday in 2003, no one could have anticipated that October 30, in all its spooky splendor, would still be Wicked's special day 20 years hence. Yet here we a…
Jaja's African Hair Braiding, this season's hit comedy by Jocelyn Bioh, pulls off the most dumbfounding magic trick on Broadway. Now, before Harry Potter's Dementors or Aladdin's magic carpe…