Opening Night: Carousel, Starring Joshua Henry and Jessie Mueller, Opens on Broadway Tonight
Renée Fleming and Lindsay Mendez also star in Jack O'Brien's new production of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical.
Renée Fleming and Lindsay Mendez also star in Jack O'Brien's new production of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical.
In time for the opening of the latest revival, we look back at the 1994 feature about the production that made Audra McDonald a star.
The Rodgers and Hammerstein classic returns to Broadway in a Jack O’Brien-helmed production.
The production, starring Jessie Mueller, Joshua Henry, and Renée Fleming, opens April 12 at the Imperial Theatre.
The starry new revival of Rodgers & Hammerstein's Carousel celebrates opening night at the Imperial Theatre on April 12. Jack O'Brien directs and Justin Peck choreographs th…
Billy Bigelow says he does not beat his wife. "I wouldn't beat a little thing like that " I hit her," he explains to the Starkeeper, head man in heaven's waiting room. But I've gotten ahead …
Is this really the right time for a spate of male-authored, male-directed musicals about subservient women to come to Broadway?
This week's pick of New York performing arts starts by noting four major female star-studded openings: "Yerma," with Billie Piper; Tina Fey's "Mean Girls"; "My Fair Lady" with Diana Rigg; an…
The youngest-ever resident choreographer of the New York City Ballet returns to his musical theatre roots.
Bambi Linn, ninety-two, and Brittany Pollack, twenty-nine, discuss dancing the same role on Broadway, seventy-three years apart. Michael Schulman writes.
The original production opened April 19, 1945, at the Majestic Theatre.
In this exclusive excerpt from Something Wonderful: Rodgers and Hammerstein's Broadway Revolution, author Todd S. Purdum reveals the duo’s process of creating the classic.
Ms. de Mille's work on the 1945 production is considered an important development in musical theater, and it will be noted in Playbills starting next week.
Joshua Henry is getting ready to open yet another Broadway show, and even that isn't the biggest thing to happen to him this month. The Tony nominee just announced that he and his wife, Cath…
Great news from an adorable couple! Two-time Tony nominee Joshua Henry and his wife, Cathryn Stringer, have announced the addition of baby boy Samson Peter. Henry and Stringer were married o…
Jessie Mueller and Joshua Henry star in the Rodgers and Hammerstein classic that opens April 12 at the Imperial Theatre.
In this 1994 interview, Tony-winning director Nicholas Hytner talks about casting Carousel in a way that has trickled down to this 2018 production.
What makes a Broadway musical a classic? Most people would suggest that a musical's shelf life is a big part of what elevates it to the status of an enduring masterpiece. Does a musical have…
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Disney’s Frozen and Scott Rudin’s revival of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Carousel performed promisingly in an otherwise wet and dismal week. Frozen was a near sellout, grossi…
The top growing current Broadway musicals were Frozen 10.70, Spongebob 3.30, The Band's Visit 2.82, Once On this Island 2.66 and Hello, Dolly 1.46. The top growing current Broadway plays wer…
Joshua Henry is a treasure.
Carousel is headed back to Broadway and its cast leaves nothing to be desired get to know the cast below as they begin Broadway performances
Good morning BroadwayWorld Today's top stories CAROUSEL, starring Joshua Henry, Jessie Mueller, and more, begins previews on Broadway at the Imperial Theatre tonight
The Jack O’Brien-helmed production will open April 12 at the Imperial Theatre.