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Billy Porter, who recently concluded his Tony Award-winning run in Broadway's Kinky Boots, posed for The Creative Faces Project, an evolving portrait series photographed and curated …
Twenty years ago, the theatre world lost one of its greatest writers, Jonathan Larson, whose career was just about to take off — as his groundbreaking musical Rent had just finishe…
Spanning nine seasons on Nickelodeon, SpongeBob SquarePants has had his fair share of underwater adventures. But, on Broadway, he's going to have to save the world.
Angelica Schuyler was "working" from the very beginning. Renée Elise Goldsberry, who received raves her performance in Hamilton, was one of the only leading players to a…
To most, the potential for nuclear war may not scream "musical theatre," but the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 is the inspiration for Nick Blaemire and Kyle Jarrow's new musical…
Tony Award winner Judith Light, who most recently appeared on Broadway in Thérèse Raquin, posed for The Creative Faces Project, an evolving portrait series pho…
From starring on Broadway in Disney's hit musical to releasing a new solo CD, it seems like Adam Jacobs' wishes are coming true. Still, there's one thing the actor is most thankf…
Gabriella Montez is all grown up, and she's taking on Grease. We caught up with the actress about life since "HSM" and what she wants to do next now that she's learned to h…
Tony Award nominee Jonathan Groff, who stars as King George in Hamilton, posed for The Creative Faces Project, an evolving portrait series photographed and curated by Jason Zeren, and we hav…
Singers and Broadway performers Jessica Vosk (Fiddler on the Roof) and Zak Resnick (Mamma Mia!) take on the heartfelt duet "You Matter to Me" from the upcoming Sara Bareilles music…
Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey, the Tony Award and Pulitzer-winning songwriters behind Next to Normal and If/Then, have penned new songs for the Fox musical event Grease: Live, which will hit…
Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey, the Tony Award and Pulitzer-winning songwriters behind Next to Normal and If/Then, have penned a new song for the Fox musical event Grease: Live, which will hi…
Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey, the Tony Award and Pulitzer-winning songwriters behind Next to Normal and If/Then, have penned a new song for the Fox musical event Grease: Live, which will hi…
Nick Rashad Burroughs (Kinky Boots) and Marisha Wallace (Something Rotten!) will join forces for an encore performance of Baptized By Broadway Jan. 14 at Feinstein's/54 Below.
A foursome of funny girls turn all Noises Off backstage at Broadway's American Airlines Theatre to ensure that no one drops a line. Moments before a matinee, they take a trip down memory…
Seven years ago, Laura Bell Bundy was conquering New York's theatre scene (playing the best of Broadway's blonde-haired divas), but she hasn't been back since. To her, being …
After winning the Oscar for her performance as Effie White in the film adaptation of Dreamgirls, it was only a matter of time before Jennifer Hudson would grace the Great White Way. Well, sh…
Grammy Award winner Natalie Cole, the daughter of jazz legend Nat King Cole who was to make her Broadway performing debut in the summer of 2014 with the Jazz Age musical revue After Midnight…
The Tony Award-nominated musical revue Smokey Joe's Café, featuring the songs of Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, will return to New York City, according to an Equity castin…
Disaster! will strike in the New Year (and, by disaster, we mean the new Seth Rudetsky and Jack Plotnick musical). We asked the cast to share their New York City war stories. Find out why Ru…
Senator Charles E. Schumer commemorated the long sought-after federal change in the tax law that directly benefits Broadway earlier this week, and he said that the tax package (signed in…
Cynthia Erivo is here… to stay. She received raves for her performance as Celie in the London-born Broadway revival of The Color Purple and already has her eye on the future. …
Get out your sharpies and selfie sticks as the first-ever Broadway-themed convention takes the town next month! We catch up with BroadwayCon creators Anthony Rapp and Meliss…
Now that you've seen the film, we look back to last year — when the magical forest of "Into the Woods" materialized on screen Christmas Day. Read (or re-…
In the below video, the word "deaf" was autocorrected to "dead" when describing the new Broadway revival of Spring Awakening, so the cast imagined what it would be like t…