Top Stories You Missed on BWW This Weekend - 3/21-3/22/2015

The winners of the 26th Annual GLAAD Media Awards were presented last night at the Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles. (more...)

'The Untold Story of The Sound of Music,' a Diane Sawyer Special, aired as a special edition of 20/20 on WEDNESDAY, MARCH 18 (10-11pm, ET) on the ABC Television Network. BroadwayWorld brings you the WHOLE show here! (more...)

As scooped first by BroadwayWorld.com earlier this week here, the hit Broadway musical BEAUTIFUL is headed to the big screen. Sony pictures confirmed today that 'The film version of 'Beautiful' will be produced by Tom Hanks; Gary Goetzman, a producer whose movie credits include 'Mamma Mia!' in 2008; and Paul Blake, the lead producer of 'Beautiful' on Broadway. Douglas McGrath, who wrote the book for the stage production, will work on the screenplay.' (more...)

Today we shine a special spotlight on today's annual birthday twofer with a tribute to the men behind the music themselves, The Lord & The Master aka Andrew Lloyd Webber and Stephen Sondheim. (more...)

IF/THEN, which was named the 'Best Musical of the Year' by New York Magazine, will play its final Broadway performance Today, Sunday, March 22 at 3:00pm. Upon closing, the musical will have played 29 previews and 401 performances. Below, take a look back at the show's journey to Broadway! (more...)

The winners of the 26th Annual GLAAD Media Awards were presented last night at the Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles. (more...)

In the coming months, Broadway will welcome a fresh crop of productions- many of which will mark the Broadway debuts for a slew of talented actors. Whether they are fresh faces or established stars, these Broadway babies will soon take their very first bows on some of the grandest stages in the world. (more...)

La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts, Bruce Robert Harris and Jack W. Batman, and The Transfer Group present the Los Angeles premiere of the all-new, reimagined, environmental and completely immersive theater production of the legendary musical CARRIE THE MUSICAL. Performances started at Southern California's La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts (14900 La Mirada Blvd.) on Thursday, March 12, 2015 for a limited engagement through Sunday, April 5, 2015. Opening night was March 18, 2015. BroadwayWorld brings you inside press night at the show! (more...)

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Welcome to BWW's exclusive talk show, BACKSTAGE WITH Richard Ridge. Follow Richard as he visits the theater's best and brightest in their dressing rooms, on their stages and favorite hang outs to talk about their lives, careers and all of the things you don't know, but want to know. In the special interview below, Richard welcomes the four original stars of Aladdin (Adam Jacobs, Jonathan Freeman, James Monroe Iglehart, and Courtney Reed), who just extended their contracts in the Tony Award-winning new musical comedy through 2016. Watch as they discuss how they got into the business, which Disney movies inspired them as children, and so much more. Check out Part 2 of the interview below! (more...)

Billy Magnussen & Reserved For Rondee rock Lloyd Webber and Sondheim! (more...)

Sondheim is the winner of an Academy Award, eight Tony Awards, including the Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre, multiple Grammy Awards, a Pulitzer Prize and the Laurence Olivier Award. Described by Frank Rich of the New York Times as 'the greatest, and perhaps best-known artist working in musical theatre', his most famous scores include (as composer/lyricist) A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Company, Follies, A Little Night Music, Sweeney Todd, Sunday in the Park with George, Into the Woods, and Assassins. He also wrote the lyrics for West Side Story and Gypsy. Lloyd Webber has composed 13 musicals, a song cycle, a set of variations, two film scores, and a Latin Requiem Mass. He has also gained a number of honours, including a knighthood in 1992, followed by a peerage from the British Government for services to Music, seven Tony Awards, three Grammy Awards, an Academy Award, fourteen Ivor Novello Awards, seven Olivier Awards, a Golden Globe Award, and the Kennedy Center Honors in 2006. Several of his songs, notably 'The Music of the Night', 'I Don't Know How to Love Him', 'Don't Cry for Me, Argentina' and 'You Must Love Me', 'Any Dream Will Do' and 'Memory' have been widely recorded and were hits outside of their parent musicals. (more...)

BroadwayWorld collected as many of yesterday's evening Saturday Intermission Pics as we could to bring you Part 2 of our March 21 #SIP round-up! Check out Part 1 HERE. (more...)

Which INTO THE WOODS prince do you prefer? (more...)

This week we are excited to feature composer Eric Dietz and his new musical, ALL THE WALLS, inspired by the powerful true story of Aron Ralston's escape from Blue John Canyon, Utah in 2003. After a falling boulder pins Aron's arm to the canyon wall, the adventurer's limits are put to the ultimate test. He finds strength in the memories of his friends and family, giving him the courage he needs to survive. In the title song, Aron's mother asks a police officer for assistance in her rescue efforts. When the officer declines her plea, she begs him to see the situation from her perspective. Here is the amazing Jessica Phillips (Next to Normal) performing the song at our 54 Below concert this past January. (more...)

Matthew Morrison says goodbye to GLEE and hello to FINDING NEVERLAND! (more...)

Ruthie Henshall previews her upcoming FOLLIES turn! (more...)

Tony Award-winner Steve Kazee recently channeled his inner Britney Spears. Below, watch the ONCE star perform 'Hit Me Baby One More Time'! (more...)

Richard Blacksell, SINGIN' IN THE RAIN's technical director, recently guested on Radio New Zealand National to talk about how SINGIN' IN THE RAIN creates rain on stage. (more...)

Broadway's 40 theatres aren't the only places to catch performances from your favorite stars! Well after Broadway orchestra's begin their overtures, ensemble members take their dance breaks, and performers belt out their eleven- o'clock numbers, the party continues at various cabaret venues throughout New York City. Below, BroadwayWorld brings you some cabaret highlights for this week as picked by our theatre editors, including: Anika Larsen featuring Special Guests Jessie Mueller and Jarrod Spector; Tony Yazbeck: The Floor Above Me; 54 Sings Children of Eden; Out of the Blue: Oxford's All-Male A Capella Sensation; and Elon University: ...And the Story Goes on. (more...)