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When it comes to New York City legends, it doesn't get better than Leslie Uggams. The Emmy and Tony Award-winning singer and actress launched her career at the world-famous Apollo Theater an…
On Friday, September 16, Matthew Scott and Cory Lingner of An American in Paris joined NewYork.com at the Palace Theatre to host the latest installment of Talent Takeover. The hour-long e…
For many actors, landing a Broadway show is the end game. And then taking center stage as a leading man or woman? Icing on the theatrical cake. The following 10 men perform starring roles th…
You’re lookin’ swell, Dolly! Especially with a brand new casting announcement for the much-anticipated 2017 revival, starring Bette Midler and David Hyde Pierce. Announced…
After two equally impressive runs on Broadway, Something Rotten! and The Humans will bid Broadway adieu on January 1, 2017 and January 15, 2017, respectively. In a stateme…
The powerful musical Come From Away has found a Broadway home — the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre, the former Broadway house for the late musical, American Psycho. This new show begins …
Cirque du Soleil’s newest Broadway smash, Cirque du Soleil Paramour, is about love and a little heartbreak, but there is nothing sad about these fan photos. Show-goers have been …
Soon, her Broadway debut will be nothing but a memory — all alone in the moonlight. (We couldn’t resist.) Leona Lewis announced via Twitter on September 13 that she will soon …
Broadway legend Chita Rivera, Darren Criss (Glee), Megan Hilty (Smash), Orfeh (Legally Blonde), Tony Yazbeck (On the Town), Stephanie Mills (The Wiz), NFL wide receiver Dale Moss and recordi…
Groundhog Day will see its own shadow on Broadway. The musical based on the hit 1993 film comedy, which recently opened to rave reviews on London's West End, will open at the August Wilson T…
Tony Award winners. Emmy Award nominees. Drama Desk winners. Oh, and a former Glee heartthrob. Mix in a few hundred Broadway fans, and you have Elsie Fest. Named for a line in the song "C…
Emmy and Golden Globe winner Danny DeVito will make his Broadway debut in the Roundabout Theater Company's revival of Arthur Miller's The Price. He joins the previously announced John Turtur…
When James M. Nederlander passed away in July 2016 at age 94, we lost one of the titans who created Broadway as we know it today. In the 1960s, the Shuberts were the only major owners of mul…
Broadway podcasters, rejoice! The Ensemblist, known for its in-depth look at Broadway “from the inside out,” has announced the release of its second complete season — ̶…
In the words of Kristin Chenoweth‘s famed role of Glinda in Broadway’s Wicked, “It’s good to see me, isn’t it?” After a short period away from the …
Jersey Boys, the long-running hit jukebox musical employing the songbook of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, will walk like a man for the last time on January 15, 2017, when it plays its …
On Friday, September 2, Wicked‘s newest Fiyero — Michael Campayno — “danced through life” to NewYork.com HQ in order to host the latest installment of Talent Ta…
Last summer, Broadway alumnus and Glee heartthrob, Darren Criss, created a concert festival geared towards lovers of Broadway and the theater — he called it Elsie Fest. Fans f…
Someone hand this man a glass of pinot noir! Tituss Burgess not only has secured the film rights to produce a musical adaptation of the 1996 filmThe Preacher’s Wife but also has writte…
On September 6, the Roundabout Theatre Company announced the Broadway premiere of Scott McPherson’s dark comedy, Marvin’s Room, for June 8, 2017. The show opens that day for p…
I didn't really have that "a-ha" acting moment. It just kind of happened to me. I graduated from acting school, fully intending to get a Masters degree in something useful, but thought I wou…
For many composers, penning one hit musical is enough to satisfy the career aspirations of a lifetime. For some, like Lin-Manuel Miranda (Hamilton, In the Heights) and Robert Lopez (The Book…
Raisin, the Tony-winning 1973 musical version of Lorraine Hansberry's classic play, A Raisin in the Sun, will receive a rare NYC revival as part of the Astoria Performing Arts Center's 20…
Moulin Rouge! fans, rejoice! As reported by the Broadway Briefing, CEO of Global Creatures Carmen Pavlovic has confirmed that Golden Globe-winning director Alex Timbers (Bloody Bloo…
Are you blind when you’re born? Can you see in the dark? If you answered yes to any of the preceding questions, you may be a Jellicle cat. If not, have no fear. You may still see the n…
