Mamma Mia!

BWW TV: A Year on the Road with MAMMA MIA! #1 Welcome to the Road!

Pack your bags and join MAMMA MIA! for “A Year on the Road,” a new video podcast series. Go backstage with the cast and crew, and see what it’s like on tour with ABBA’s global smash hit musical. (more...)

BWW Interviews: Caroline Sheen, As She Releases RAISE THE CURTAIN

As Caroline prepares to launch her Debut album Raise the Curtain and join the North American tour of Mary Poppins, BWW catches up with the busy lady. (more...)

Photo Coverage: A Broadway Baby Trail, Memories from New York City

"For a recent assignment for BroadwayWorld.com, New York's premier online resource for theatre-related news, I had to hop on a plane, and find my way to the Big Apple. This Broadway baby was New York-bound for work and leisure, for the very first time..." (more...)

STAGE TUBE: A Look Inside Wildhorn's WONDERLAND at the Alley

Wonderland, the new musical adventure by Frank Wildhorn (The Civil War and Jekyll & Hyde), with lyrics by Jack Murphy and a book by Phoebe Hwang, is currently playing at Houston's Ally Theatre through February 14. BroadwayWorld brings you a look inside the production, directed by Gregory Boyd (also the Ally's Artistic Director). (more...)

Full Cast Announced for AMERICAN IDIOT; Cast to Appear on Grammy Awards

Producers Tom Hulce and Ira Pittelman announced the complete Broadway cast of AMERICAN IDIOT today. The production will begin previews on Wednesday, March 24, 2010 and open on Broadway Tuesday, April 20, 2010 at the St. James Theatre (246 West 44 Street). (more...)

The New York Pops Announces 28th 2010 - 2011 Season; Features Brian Stokes Mitchell, Sondheim Celebration and More

On October 15, 2010, The New York Pops orchestra - famous for presenting popular music with a symphony orchestra of the highest quality - will launch its 28th season; a Carnegie Hall series celebrating the stylistic diversity of some of popular music's greatest icons. Music Director Steven Reineke leads the orchestra in this electrifying season, which includes chart-topping pop hits, a tribute to the greatest living lyricist and composer of American musical theater, holiday favorites, sizzling Latin flair, and an evening of songbook classics associated with a legendary American icon. Reineke has been heralded by The New York Times as "young and vigorous, with a playful attitude that has been a pops orchestral tradition since the heyday of Arthur Fiedler...a polished, welcoming host." (more...)

MAMMA MIA! Producer Judy Craymer Signs on for SPICE GIRLS Musical

Judy Craymer, producer of the global film and theatre smash hit, Mamma Mia!, has announced an agreement with Simon Fuller's new XIX company, The Spice Girls and Universal Music. Judy Craymer Productions is to create and produce a new musical, under the working title Viva Forever, based on the songs of another world-wide phenomenon, The Spice Girls. (more...)

Age Cannot Wither Her: 'MAMMA MIA!' Tour's Still Got It

The National Tour of 'MAMMA MIA!' is full of saucy Spandex'd fluff, achy back gags, and boob-grabbing, but what more could one ask for on a musical trip down memory lane? (more...)

Photo Coverage: Sutton Foster at The Broadway Workshop

The Broadway Workshop, Manhattan's fastestgrowing acting program for young artists teamed up with Tony Award winning Broadway star Sutton Foster this week for a special one day workshop fro students ages 9-14 in New York City. BroadwayWorld was there to capture the occasion. (more...)

Photo Flash: Cleveland Play House Presents AIN'T MISBEHAVIN'

The party starts on January 29 at The Cleveland Play House with Ain't Misbehavin', a Tony Award-winning celebration of the music of Thomas "Fats" Waller. (more...)

Photo Coverage: THE 12 Workshop at The China Club

On Sunday, January 10 at the China Club Pulitzer Prize winning playwright, Robert Schenkkan, and composer/lyricist Neil Berg presented an industry showcase of their new musical THE 12. Produced by Adam Friedson and Left Feild Productions, this musical showcase is a preview to its premiere production at the Broward Center this upcoming spring. The showcase, part of the Association of Performing Arts Presenters conference, was directed by Richard Seyd. (more...)

Photo Flash: Toby Anstis Stars As 'Teen Angel' In West End's GREASE

The smash-hit musical Grease has a new cast from 25 January 2010 including popular Heart presenter Toby Anstis. Making his West End debut, the radio star will gain a host of angels when he joins the cast as ‘Teen Angel' for a limited season from 25 January to 20 March 2010 at London's Piccadilly Theatre. (more...)

Photo Coverage: Broadway Green Alliance E-Waste Collection

'Tis the season of buying new and replacing old electronics, and to commemorate its one year anniversary, the Broadway Green Alliance hosted an industry-wide electronic waste (e-waste) collection for actors, stage crew, producers, general managers and theaters from across the Great White Way, sponsored by WeRecycle! on Wednesday, December 16. (more...)

Full Cast Announced For LOVE NEVER DIES Premiere

Niamh Perry and Liz Robertson join Ramin Karimloo, Sierra Boggess and Summer Strallen in the cast for the long-awaited show. (more...)

Potential Strike Update: Broadway House Staff Union Votes to 'Authorize a Strike'

Just in from Variety is news that the members of SEIU 32BJ have now voted to authorize a strike should the union's bargaining committee decide that one is necessary. While this doesn't mean that they will strike, it does bring the threat of a strike closer to reality. (more...)

Canadian Cast Announced for ROCK OF AGES Toronto; Begins April 20

The Canadian premiere of Broadway’s rockin’ goodtime musical ROCK OF AGES will feature some of the country’s hottest musical theatre talent when it begins performances at the Royal Alexandra Theatre on April 20, 2010. (more...)

2009 Holiday Specials from The Broadway Store!

Looking for the perfect holiday gift for the favorite theatre-lover in your life, Broadwayworld.com has you covered. The Broadway Store, a proud partner of BroadwayWorld.com, has compiled a list for us of their most popular items during this holiday shopping season. These items have been sold all across America, the UK and beyond, and we are happy to feature 15 great specials below for all Broadwayworld.com visitors. So get out your lists, check them twice, and try to remember who's been naughty or nice. Broadwayworld.com is coming to town! (more...)

BWW TV: Learn All About the Broadway Green Alliance

A Broadway Green Alliance E-Waste event, hosted byKerry Butler and Valerie Smaldone, will be held on Wednesday, December 16, in Duffy Square at noon. The Broadway Green Alliance, with the support of WeRecycle!, encourages the New York City theatre community to come deposit their Electronic Waste (broken cell phones, computers, printers, and dry batteries) in the center of Times Square for safe disposal and recycling. (more...)

Photo Coverage: BC/EFA's Gypsy of the Year 2009 Part 1

The 21st Annual GYPSY OF THE YEAR COMPETITION announced an all time record total of $4,630,695 had been raised by the 60 participating Broadway, Off-Broadway, and National Tour companies to benefit Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. This year's total breaks the previous record when $3,927,000 was raised for the 2007 GYPSY OF THE YEAR COMPETITION. (more...)

BWW TV: Special Video Preview of Wildhorn's WONDERLAND

Wonderland: Alice's New Musical Adventure will play David A. Straz, Jr. Center for the Performing Arts, formerly known as the TBPAC's Ferguson Hall Dec. 5, 2009 through Jan. 3, 2010, with preview performances scheduled Nov. 24 through Dec. 4. Following the Tampa run, Wonderland will play a limited engagement at the Alley Theatre in Houston, Texas, beginning Jan. 15, 2010. (more...)

STAGE TUBE: BONNIE & CLYDE at La Jolla Playhouse Interview with Scenic & Costume Designer Tobin Ost

This production features music by Frank Wildhorn (Jekyll & Hyde, The Scarlet Pimpernel), lyrics by Tony Award-winner Don Black (Sunset Boulevard, Song and Dance), book by Ivan Menchell(The Cemetery Club, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang), and direction by Jeff Calhoun (Deaf West's Big River and Pippin, Grease!). Bonnie & Clyde began its run on November 10 and will run through December 20, 2009 in The Playhouse's Mandell Weiss Theatre. (more...)