Billy Rose News

George Takei, the original and beloved Mr. Sulu from 'Star Trek', film and television star, activist and social media icon, is to make his London stage debut in the UK premiere of the Broadway musical inspired by Takei's true childhood experiences, 'George Takei's Allegiance'.

Award-winning Broadway playwright Theresa Rebeck will write the book for the Broadway-aimed Working Girl. While she's had more plays produced on Broadway than any female playwright of our time, Working Girl would mark Rebeck's Broadway debut as a book writer for a musical.

Today, tickets for the Museum of Broadway go on sale! Find out how to get tickets, learn about the new museum and get a first look at the museum.

On Friday, May 20, 2022, one hour before the Drama League Awards, Board President Bonnie Comley, Kirk Iwanowski, Mary Jain, and the Board Hosted a VIP Reception at the Drama League Awards right next to the Ziegfeld Ballroom. While the Drama League Distinguished Performance nominees were lining up for the dais, a cocktail party was in full swing in the adjacent ballroom.

Judith Clurman, the twice Emmy-nominated conductor and music director of Essential Voices USA and award-winning label Acis announce the release of MAY YOU HEAL, a series of five choral works commissioned by Judith Clurman's Essential Voices USA during the time of COVID-19.

Prospect Theater Company announced today that its annual Spring Gala will feature performances and special appearances by Tony, Emmy, and Grammy Award winner André De Shields; Ali Ewoldt (The Phantom of the Opera); Drama Desk Award winner Gretchen Cryer; Drama League and Outer Critics Circle Award nominee Nick Corley and more.

MAC Award Nominee and Broadway World Cabaret Award Winner, Becca Kidwell shares her experiences as an introvert during lockdown and post-lockdown in her new show, “Together Inside,” on April 30th & May 22nd at 4pm to Don't Tell Mama.  Becca brings her struggles and joys to life with the assistance of music director, Matt Baker, and her director, Jeff Harnar. 

The Billy Rose Theatre Division at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts just announced a call for applications for the inaugural year of our Theatre and Technology Fellowship. This fellowship, supported by a generous gift from Marshall Weinberg, will support a scholar working on a project that examines technologies documented in our collection, or using innovative technologies to study theatre history. The recipient will be expected to be in residence at the library for at least four weeks, but these need not be contiguous.

The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center has announced that award-winning architect and scenic designer David Rockwell and the LAB at Rockwell Group, Rockwell Group’s experience design and technology studio, will design the Harvey Fierstein Theatre Lab.

I Was Better Last Night, the new memoir by cultural icon, gay rights activist, and four-time Tony Award®-winning actor and playwright Harvey Fierstein is available today on Alfred A. Knopf.

Tune into the acclaimed solo show Fabulous Fanny: The Songs and Stories of Fanny Brice, starring Kimberly Faye Greenberg (Danny & Sylvia, One Night With Fanny Brice), and take a nostalgic journey through Fanny Brice's life, including her three infamous relationships all from the comfort of your home.

Harlem Stage today announced that multidisciplinary artist Carl Hancock Rux has joined the organization in a newly created role as associate artistic director/curator-in-residence. The hire is a major component of Harlem Stage’s plan to strengthen and nurture leadership roles and employment opportunities for artists of color.

The Noël Coward Foundation and The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts have announced the inaugural Noël Coward Fellowship, created in honour of Noël Coward and marking the centenary of Coward's first visit to New York in 1921.

The Actors Fund announced today the election of two new members to its Board of Trustees: Billy Porter and Henry Tisch.  

Wolf died on Monday, July 12 at age 75 after a short illness. The service will also be live streamed for those unable to attend in person. Details on the live stream will be posted on The Rep's website prior to the event.

Zwilich's work will feature texts by Lauren K. Watel and will be performed by GRAMMY Award-winning Mezzo-Soprano Denyce Graves – one of Justice Ginsburg's favorite opera singers, who sang at her memorial - and pianist Jeffrey Biegel.

The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis (The Rep) will honor the life and legacy of longtime esteemed artistic director Steven Woolf in a special public memorial, Remembering Steven - Celebrating A Life in the Theatre, on Saturday, October 16, 2021, at 11 a.m. on The Mainstage at the Loretto-Hilton Center.

The Dallas Symphony Orchestra presents the world premiere of Remembering Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a new work by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Ellen Taaffe Zwilich honoring the late Supreme Court Justice on October 7, 2021, at the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center.

Company, Follies, Evita, The Phantom of the Opera, A Little Night Music, Sweeney Todd. These popular Broadway shows and iconic sets will be seen like never before in the new pop-up installation opening September 17, 2021 at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts in Lincoln Center, thanks to artist Henry Lee of Lego Broadway Sets. Brick By Brick, Putting It Together: The Broadway Set Miniatures of Henry Lee showcases Lee's intricate, miniature reimaginings of set designs built with LEGO® bricks. 

At the heart of the experience, guests will travel through a visual history of Broadway from its birth to the present day highlighting theater's pioneers, landmark moments of social change, and many of the most beloved plays and musicals of all time.