2019 Wrap-Up: Best London Performances of the Year
Newcomers and veterans were both given chances to shine on the London stage this year. Below, listed in no particular order, are five performances for which we will have fond memories of wel…
Newcomers and veterans were both given chances to shine on the London stage this year. Below, listed in no particular order, are five performances for which we will have fond memories of wel…
This year, one of our staffers saw almost 200 shows. How many did you see? The great thing about a new year is you can start fresh and make memories with new productions. And the Broadway.co…
Olivier-winning actress Elaine Paige is giving Broadway.com listeners a chance to hear her BBC Radio 2 show, Elaine Paige on Sunday, and this week is all about 2019! With the year coming …
In the corporate world, employees leaving a job are often asked to sit through an exit interview with HR about their time at the company. That concept doesn't exist for Broadway performers, …
Howdy, folks! Justin Robertson, a.k.a. Squigs, here! December 29 will mark the 10th anniversary of my very first Broadway.com illustration. Plus Tony night 2020 will mark the decennial of ou…
Tony winner Jerry Herman, the celebrated compose/lyricist who made his mark on Broadway with award-winning scores to an array of musical comedies, died on December 26 in Miami. Accordi…
Arthur Miller may have been ubiquitous on the London stage this year, but there was no shortage of homegrown British talent"from that fearless octogenarian Caryl Churchill at the Royal…
For current Chicago ensemble member Mary Claire King, musical theater wasn't always the goal. Her first introduction to dance was going to a class with her best friend at the age of four...w…
It's a new year and a new decade, which means Broadway is getting ready to make more compelling entertainment for the millions of people who flock to the Great White Way yearly. Unfortuna…
Charles Fuller's Pulitzer-winning drama A Soldier's Play makes its long-awaited Broadway debut at the American Airlines Theatre beginning on December 27. Tony winner Kenny Leon directs the p…
In addition to an endless amount of holiday parties, we've also spent our time at the end of 2019 obsessing over best-of-the year lists. The only thing more fun than reading them: making …
Jessica Phillips, who is playing Heidi Hansen in Dear Evan Hansen at the Music Box Theatre, performs the tearjerker "So Big/So Small."
Something's coming a little later than expected! According to Deadline, the eagerly anticipated new main-stem staging of West Side Story has changed its opening night due to leading man Isaa…
Set in the 1950s, Flying Over Sunset is a work of fiction inspired by the lives of three extraordinary people: Clare Booth Luce, Aldous Huxley and Cary Grant.
To say it's been a major year for Alex Brightman would be an understatement. In the past 12 months, Brightman opened in his sixth Broadway show as the titular ghoul in Beetlejuice, earned hi…
Beetlejuice star Alex Brightman stops by to chat about his big year and, surprise!, be named 2019 Broadway.com Star of the Year!Â
It's one thing to be in the presence of a Broadway veteran, it's another thing to witness the beginning of a performer's rise to stardom. This year was filled with actors who were both ne…
Bess Wohl's Broadway-debut play Grand Horizons begins previews at the Helen Hayes Theatre on December 23. Tony nominee Leigh Silverman directs the production of Second Stage, set to offic…
Olivier-winning actress Elaine Paige is giving Broadway.com listeners a chance to hear her BBC Radio 2 show, Elaine Paige on Sunday, and this week is all about, you guessed it, Christmas!…
In a year filled with so many remarkable performances, it's an unenviable task to single out only five as the best of 2019. Yet, the stage turns listed below are the ones we haven't been abl…
Dear Evan Hansen is celebrating another first. The stars of the Tony-winning Best Musical took to Tamron Hall on December 20 to sing out, marking the inaugural performance from a Broadway mu…
We are privileged to see the abundance of Broadway offerings every year, so choosing five favorites out of dozens can be daunting. After much consideration, vote tallying and hardly any bick…
With clever staging, high-energy performances and a superbly catchy score, Six is a history lesson you won't want to miss.
Samuel H. Levine, Kyle Soller and Andrew Burnap in The Inheritance (Photos: Matthew Murphy) Samuel H. Levine is making his Broadway debut in The Inheritance, Matthew Lopez's two-play inter…
Celia Rose Gooding in "Jagged Little Pill." (Photo: Matthew Murphy) Celia Rose Gooding isn't just Broadway's newest star, leading Jagged Little Pill as Frankie Healy, the rebellious teen i…