Alex Brightman News

On Monday July 26th at 6PM ET, Broadway Records will host a virtual listening party for I COULD USE A DRINK: THE SONGS OF DREW GASPARINI, in celebration of show's upcoming run in London this summer.

It's just under one week until the biggest night in high school musical theatre! The Jimmy Awards officially return as a virtual ceremony on Thursday, July 15, 2021.

Kevin Ray Johnson's coming-of-age drama which recently premiered at Rise Above Performing Arts Summer Professional Theatre in Sarasota, Florida, will be heading 5,000 miles west this August to make its Alaska premiere at The Pier One Theatre in Homer, Alaska.

On July 12-18, join Musical Theatre Mayhem for a one-week virtual workshop intensive! The special event will feature BroadwayWorld's very own Ben Cameron (Wicked, Broadway Sessions), Nikki Snelson (Legally Blonde, A Chorus Line), Jay Armstrong Johnson (Quantico, The Phantom of the Opera) Eric Stretch (Wicked, Aida), Alex Brightman (Beetlejuice), Tituss Burgess (The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt), Keala Seettle (The Greatest Showman and Tony winner Annaleigh Ashford.

Musicians On Call (MOC), a nonprofit organization that brings live and recorded music to the bedsides of patients in healthcare facilities, connected Molly with Tony-nominated star of Beetlejuice and School of Rock Alex Brightman for an unforgettable virtual visit as part of MOC's Broadway On Call series.

Learn more about all of the additional archival footage added to the event, including Ariana Grande (at age 15 making her Broadway debut) and Brynn Williams in 13; Angela Lansbury in Blithe Spirit, Philip Seymour Hoffman in Death of a Salesman, Brian Stokes Mitchell in Ragtime, Sutton Foster in Thoroughly Modern Millie, and more!

The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts announced today that Jason Robert Brown, Savion Glover, Priscilla López, Susan Stroman, Marisha Wallace, and Christopher Wheeldon have joined the growing list of Broadway stars participating in I'm Still Here: A Virtual Benefit for the Billy Rose Theatre Division, airing June 23, 2021 on Broadway On Demand at 8pm EST and 8pm PST. The fundraiser will help raise critical funds for the Library for the Performing Arts' beloved Theatre Division as it celebrates its 90th anniversary this year.

CampYATC Teacher Megan Hilty says, “The only thing I don’t like about YATC, is it wasn’t around when I was a teenager!” Having returned to YATC numerous times, working professionals like Hilty acting as Summer Camp Master Class teachers is just one of the things that sets this summer camp apart from many others. Hilty is just one of the amazing guest faculty teaching in the 20th Anniversary Season of The Young Actors’ Theatre Camp. The luckiest campers in the world will also get to learn from Alex Brightman (Beetlejuice), Kate Rockwell (Mean Girls), Laura Bell Bundy (Legally Blonde), Eden Espinosa (Wicked), Laurie Metcalf (The Conners) and many more!

Tony-nominees Alex Brightman and Rory O'Malley have signed on to a new NBC pilot from executive producer Demi Lovato.

I'm Still Here, a new virtual benefit for The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts' Billy Rose Theatre Division, will stream on Broadway On Demand on June 23. The evening is a celebration of the division's 90th Anniversary, and the 50th  Anniversary of its beloved Theatre on Film and Tape Archive and will honor Harold Prince and George C. Wolfe. 

Theatre favorites Fergie L. Philippe (Hamilton), L Morgan Lee (A Strange Loop, The Danish Girl), Drew Gasparini (The Karate Kid, It's Kind of A Funny Story) and Kimberly Marable (Hadestown) help welcome Shoshana Medney to BPN with SHO & Tell, which she coined on her live YouTube Series: The SHO Must Go On...line!

Check out the full list of who took home awards, as well as the recipients of the Spirit of Theatre Award!

The kickoff featured Broadway legend Judy Kuhn. A recent rally featured Ali Ewoldt of Phantom of the Opera fame. Laura Benanti, Phillipa Soo, Kara Lindsay, Gavin Creel, and Ann Harada have all turned out. No, it's not the red carpet at the Tony Awards - it's a Jeffrey Omura for City Council campaign event.

On August 17, 2021, Criterion will release the documentary film Original Cast Album: Company, which follows the original Broadway cast and creative team of the musical into the recording studio, on DVD and Blu-ray.

We're taking you behind the scenes at Beetlejuice in South Korea with restaging director Matt DiCarlo! In this second installment, Matt is wrapping up his quarantine in Seoul before heading to the rehearsal space and his home-away-from-home. Plus, he chats with everyone's favorite Girl Scout, Dana Steingold!

Today's top stories: Sondheim's Bunuel is no longer in development, first look at Lin-Manuel Miranda's VIVO, Patrick Dempsey reveals he will sing and dance in upcoming Enchanted sequel, and more!

Producer Mark Cortale has announced that eleven stars of the stage and screen will now join the full May through June line-up of The Seth Concert Series, the live weekly series based on Seth Rudetsky’s international Broadway series that began at The Art House in Provincetown ten years ago.

CampYATC is an award-winning overnight camp in the Santa Cruz mountains for campers who love the performing arts and film, on stage and off.

Hear about Joe Iconis' amazing career and listen to him play some silly games, give some truly terrific advice to all future generations of theatre workers, and more on the latest episode of Now We're Talking With Drew Gasparini.

Today's top stories: behind the scenes of Beetlejuice in South Korea with Matt DiCarlo, immersive Great Gatsby production comes to NYC this fall, and more!