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Auli‘i Cravalho talks about joining QUEERING THE GALA: A BENEFIT FOR RING OF KEYS Photo Auli‘i Cravalho talks about joining QUEERING THE GALA: A BENEFIT FOR RING OF KEYS
by A.A. Cristi - January 23, 2024

Auli'i Cravalho joins 'Queering The Gala: A benefit for Ring Of Keys' alongside other artists to celebrate the sixth anniversary of Ring Of Keys, a national network of queer women, trans, and gender non-conforming professional artists in musical theatre. The event will take place on January 29th at ...
Baltimore's WYPR to Stream Edgar Allan Poe's THE MURDERS IN THE RUE MORGUE This Month Photo Baltimore's WYPR to Stream Edgar Allan Poe's THE MURDERS IN THE RUE MORGUE This Month
by Chloe Rabinowitz - January 12, 2024

Baltimore NPR Affiliate WYPR Streams Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” this month. Learn more details!...
Interview: Donna McKechnie Remembers Her Friend Chita Rivera and Looks Ahead to WICKE Photo Interview: Donna McKechnie Remembers Her Friend Chita Rivera and Looks Ahead to WICKED
by Chloe Rabinowitz - February 02, 2024

BroadwayWorld spoke with Donna McKechnie as she shares her memories and thoughts on working alongside the iconic Chita Rivera. Discover the magic behind their friendship and the impact Chita had on the theater community....
A THOUSAND PINES Set To Premiere On Independent Lens in April Photo A THOUSAND PINES Set To Premiere On Independent Lens in April
by Michael Major - March 04, 2024

“A Thousand Pines,” the intimate documentary following a season of Oaxacan tree planters traveling the United States, directed and produced by Noam Osband and Sebastián Díaz, explores the hidden world of guest workers regrowing America's forests and the challenges the workers and their families face...
TROLLS BAND TOGETHER Sets Digital, DVD & Blu-Ray Release Photo TROLLS BAND TOGETHER Sets Digital, DVD & Blu-Ray Release
by Michael Major - January 09, 2024

The dazzling new talent lending their voices to the franchise include Grammy nominee Camila Cabello (Cinderella), Eric André (Sing 2), Emmy Award winner Amy Schumer (Trainwreck), Grammy winner and Tony nominee Andrew Rannells (The Book of Mormon), Golden Globe nominee Troye Sivan (“The Idol”), Gramm...
Review: UNFORTUNATE: THE UNTOLD STORY OF URSULA THE SEA WITCH, Southwark Playhouse El Photo Review: UNFORTUNATE: THE UNTOLD STORY OF URSULA THE SEA WITCH, Southwark Playhouse Elephant
by Kat Mokrynski - December 15, 2023

Unfortunate: The Untold Story of Ursula the Sea Witch, written by Robyn Grant and Daniel Foxx with music by Tim Gilvin, tells the “true” story of Ursula, starting from her childhood and ending with what happens after The Little Mermaid (both 1989 and 2023)....
Review: CLUE at Ohio Theatre Photo Review: CLUE at Ohio Theatre
by Paul Batterson - April 10, 2024

The script is filled with pratfalls, sight gags, puns and “Dad jokes,” but what makes this play work is the backstory and the personality given to each character and each role contributes something to the plot....
WICKED Welcomes 12 Millionth Visitor to London's Apollo Victoria Theatre Photo WICKED Welcomes 12 Millionth Visitor to London's Apollo Victoria Theatre
by Chloe Rabinowitz - January 10, 2024

'WICKED' celebrated its 12 millionth visitor at London's Apollo Victoria Theatre. Get all the details!...
Review: METAMORPHOSIS, Lyric Hammersmith Photo Review: METAMORPHOSIS, Lyric Hammersmith
by Alexander Cohen - February 07, 2024

Frantic Assembly’s new version, penned by Lemn Sissay, may be poetically vivid and visually mesmerising, but it is terminally plagued by dramatic inertia. Without that key ingredient, the production melts into the looming shadows. An expressionistic mess. But a beautiful one to watch unravel....
Auli‘i Cravalho talks about joining QUEERING THE GALA: A BENEFIT FOR RING OF KEYS Photo Auli‘i Cravalho talks about joining QUEERING THE GALA: A BENEFIT FOR RING OF KEYS
by A.A. Cristi - January 23, 2024

Auli'i Cravalho joins 'Queering The Gala: A benefit for Ring Of Keys' alongside other artists to celebrate the sixth anniversary of Ring Of Keys, a national network of queer women, trans, and gender non-conforming professional artists in musical theatre. The event will take place on January 29th at ...
Guest Blog: Actor James Gaddas on the Importance of the Writer's Presence in ONE LAST Photo Guest Blog: Actor James Gaddas on the Importance of the Writer's Presence in ONE LAST PUSH
by Guest Author - February 15, 2024

When I was offered a role in One Last Push, at Salisbury Playhouse, a major selling point, was that it was written by Chris Chibnall. I know Chris’s work from TV – Dr Who, Broadchurch, Life on Mars and more, but until this point hadn’t realised, he was also a highly skilled playwright....
Review: SAME TEAM, Traverse Theatre Photo Review: SAME TEAM, Traverse Theatre
by Natalie O'Donoghue - December 17, 2023

Five women have come together with one goal, one dream. Coming from very different backgrounds in life they have to work together as a team if they want to do what no one from Scotland has ever done before. To win the Homeless World Cup, and bring the trophy home....
Review: PETER PAN National Tour Presented by Broadway In Chicago Photo Review: PETER PAN National Tour Presented by Broadway In Chicago
by Zac Thriffiley - March 29, 2024

This newest adaptation of PETER PAN unquestionably corrects injustices that never should have been committed in the first place. But by flying Peter so enthusiastically into 2024, the creative team has stripped him and his story of some of their magic, making the boy who wouldn't grow up more out of...
Review: RIDE THE CYCLONE at Theatre South Playhouse Photo Review: RIDE THE CYCLONE at Theatre South Playhouse
by Joseph Harrison - March 03, 2024

It is hard to tell when a piece of pop culture is going to have a cult following. Would Richard O’Brien have believed you back in 1973 when THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW premiered in London if you told him that his quirky, but outrageously fun, musical would still be creating midnight madness all around the...
TINA: THE TINA TURNER MUSICAL Dazzles Nashville Audiences With Tribute to 'The Queen Photo TINA: THE TINA TURNER MUSICAL Dazzles Nashville Audiences With Tribute to 'The Queen of Rock and Roll'
by Jeffrey Ellis - February 16, 2024

Now onstage at Tennessee Performing Arts Center’s Andrew Jackson Theatre, through Sunday, February 18, Tina: The Tina Turner Musical gives the full biographical jukebox musical treatment to one of Tennessee’s most talented exports and favorite daughters. ...
Philadelphia's First Holiday Haunted House To Debut In Manayunk At Lincoln Mill Photo Philadelphia's First Holiday Haunted House To Debut In Manayunk At Lincoln Mill
by Chloe Rabinowitz - November 28, 2023

Philadelphia's First Holiday Haunted House to Debut in Manayunk at Lincoln Mill. Get your tickets now for this one-night-only event on December 16th....
Interview: 'It Brings a Lot of Joy': Actors Charlie Russell, Greg Tannahill, Nancy Za Photo Interview: 'It Brings a Lot of Joy': Actors Charlie Russell, Greg Tannahill, Nancy Zamit on Returning to PETER PAN GOES WRONG
by Kat Mokrynski - December 14, 2023

BroadwayWorld sat down to chat with some of original Mischief Theatre group - Charlie Russell, Greg Tannahill and Nancy Zamit, who are all back in the show on the West End for the festive season....
Review: BROTHER SISTER CYBORG SPACE at Raven Theatre Photo Review: BROTHER SISTER CYBORG SPACE at Raven Theatre
by Zac Thriffiley - February 13, 2024

Paul Michael Thomson's newest dramedy BROTHER SISTER CYBORG SPACE, now receiving its world premiere at Raven Theatre, occasionally loses itself in a flood of introspection. But it's buoyed along by a cast of thoughtful and charismatic performers....
Review: TICK, TICK ...BOOM! at John F. Kennedy Center For The Performing Arts Photo Review: TICK, TICK ...BOOM! at John F. Kennedy Center For The Performing Arts
by Pamela Roberts - January 31, 2024

Tick, tick …BOOM! is a raw and moving semi-autobiographical musical by Rent's Jonathan Larson. The Kennedy Center revisits the work with a spiffy new Broadway Center Stage production directed by Neil Patrick Harris and brings together three of Broadway’s most exciting and award-winning talents: Bran...
Video: MGMT Share New Music Video 'Dancing In Babylon' Feat. Christine And The Queens Photo Video: MGMT Share New Music Video 'Dancing In Babylon' Feat. Christine And The Queens
by Michael Major - February 20, 2024

The “Dancing in Babylon” clip was directed by MGMT's longtime collaborator Ray Tintori, who previously helmed videos for the band's classics “Time To Pretend,” “Electric Feel” and “Kids.” It also boasts the talents of the iconic John Cameron Mitchell (Hedwig and the Angry Inch), British actor Julian...
Review: FRANK'S CLOSET, Union Theatre Photo Review: FRANK'S CLOSET, Union Theatre
by Kat Mokrynski - March 21, 2024

We all have someone that we look up to - for some, it’s a parent. For others, it’s a friend. But for Frank (Andy Moss), it’s divas - Marie Lloyd, Julie Andrews, Ethel Merman, Judy Garland, Agnetha Faltskog and Dusty Springfield, to be precise....
Review: Broadway's Jessica Vosk Honors the Songwriters of Laurel Canyon at OC's Seger Photo Review: Broadway's Jessica Vosk Honors the Songwriters of Laurel Canyon at OC's Segerstrom Center
by Michael Quintos - January 30, 2024

A spectacular one-night-only concert at OC's Segerstrom Center starring one of Broadway's most acclaimed stars, Jessica Vosk's 'California Dreamin'' is a rousing, informative tribute to the incredible singer/songwriters that populated the Laurel Canyon artists community in Los Angeles that included ...
Pitlochry Festival Theatre Will Open 2024 Season With Nan Shepherd: NAKED AND UNASHAM Photo Pitlochry Festival Theatre Will Open 2024 Season With Nan Shepherd: NAKED AND UNASHAMED
by Stephi Wild - March 12, 2024

Following the success of their podcast series, A Journey with Nan Shepherd, Firebrand Theatre Company and Pitlochry Festival Theatre will stage the world première of Nan Shepherd: Naked and Unashamed....
Bryan Cranston Reflects on Working With Bill Hayes on DAYS OF OUR LIVES Photo Bryan Cranston Reflects on Working With Bill Hayes on DAYS OF OUR LIVES
by Stephi Wild - January 16, 2024

Bryan Cranston recently reflected on his work with the late Bill Hayes in a comment on the actor's obituary on Deadline. Cranston worked with Hayes on Days Of Our Lives, what he describes as one of his first professional acting jobs....
Ginko Bugs Will Release Pop-Rock Single 'My Eyelash Girl' Photo Ginko Bugs Will Release Pop-Rock Single 'My Eyelash Girl'
by Stephi Wild - April 03, 2024

Pop-rock artist Ginko Bugs is back with his latest track, 'My Eyelash Girl,' set for release on April 12th....




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