Cast albums, theatre books, videos and upcoming releases from the world of Broadway.
Did you know that Frank Sinatra was nearly considered for the original production of Fiddler on the Roof? Or that Lin-Manuel Miranda called out an audience member on Twitter for texting during a performance of Hamilton? In SHOW AND TELL, Broadway aficionado-in-chief Ken Bloom takes readers on a…
In her latest Broadway album, legendary diva Barbra Streisand teams up with a plethora of Hollywood's brightest stars from Daisy Ridley to Chris Pine. The album is full of Broadway classics like 'Pure Imagination,' 'Losing My Mind,' and 'Climb Ev'ry Mountain.' The fact that Streisand impresses with…
Kristin Chenoweth's new album, 'The Art of Elegance,' is set for a digital release this Friday, September 23rd, followed by a physical release on September 30th, 2016, featuring a collection of American Songbook standards. BroadwayWorld has an exclusive listen to 'I'm A Fool to Want You' from the…
The Drama Book Shop will welcome author James Grissom for a discussion and signing of his acclaimed book, Follies Of God: Tennessee Williams and the Women of the Fog.
The Drama Book Shop will welcome Pulitzer Prize finalist Richard Greenberg (The Assembled Parties, Take Me Out, Three Days Of Rain) for a discussion and signing celebrating his new essay collection, Rules For Others To Live By, on Monday, October 3rd, 2016 at 5:00pm.
Continuing its series of intimate conversations with playwrights and performers, The Drama Book Shop will welcome Tony Award nominee Charles Busch on Friday, October 14th at 5:00pm.
The multiple GRAMMY-winning mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato is widely recognized as one of the world's great opera singers. The New Yorker has proclaimed her “perhaps the most potent female singer of her generation,” and The New York Times has described her as “the perfect 21st-century diva—an…
Artist Shashika Mooruth's debut is an album of electronic and acoustic forms, featuring instruments such as flutes, piano, guitar and a wide variety of non-western acoustic instruments like the bamboo flute, sarangi, bulbul tarang and batajon along with vocal arrangements.
Nat Zegree previously announced that Janine DiVita is joining him onstage for his album release concert at The Laurie Beechman Theatre.
Felix Anchor and his sisters-Jinx and Desdemona-have just turned 15, and their lives will never be the same. Separated at birth, the triplets are reunited under bizarre circumstances and discover a dark secret about their family's past, even as they get to know each other for the first time. Now…
Idina Menzel will release her highly anticipated new self-titled album this Friday, September 23rd. The Broadway icon goes in-depth on making the album and what she hopes fans get from it in a new trailer - check it out below!
Jay Armstrong Johnson Live at Feinstein's/54 Below was officially released last week, and Johnson celebrated the album's release last Sunday evening, September 18, at The West End Lounge (955 West End Avenue). Scroll down for photos from the concert!
Legally Blonde, which is based on the novel by Amanda Brown and the renowned Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer motion picture, opened this past Friday at the South Bend Civic Theatre to much buzz and anticipation. As I sat in the audience on Saturday night waiting for the musical to begin, all around me I was…
Nat Zegree has announced that Janine DiVita will be joining him onstage for his album release concert at The Laurie Beechman Theatre.
To celebrate the release of his new CD 'Irish Country Skyline', Andy Cooney and his band-Jimmy Kelly, Buddy Connolly Colm Graham with special guest Dee Reilly performed two sold out shows at The Irish Coffee Pub, East Islip, NY.
Dress Circle Publishing has announced that their upcoming release THE UNTOLD STORIES OF BROADWAY, VOLUME 3, the latest in a series by acclaimed historian and producer Jennifer Ashley Tepper - will donate a portion of their proceeds to The Broadway Green Alliance.
Broadway Records released the original cast album recording of the critically acclaimed musical comedy DISASTER! - digitally and in stores on Friday, September 9, 2016. Get a first listen to the track 'Sky High' from the album below!
Broadway Records celebrates the release of Jay Armstrong Johnson - Live at Feinstein's/54 Below digitally and in stores today, September 16, 2016.
Ghostlight Records releases the cast album of the new musical comedy RED EYE OF LOVE today, September 16, 2016.
Masterworks Broadway celebrates the release of the World Premiere Recording of Polkadots: The Cool Kids Musical available today, September 16, 2016.
On September 9, 2016, Harmonia Mundi will release 'Considering Matthew Shepard,' composed and conducted by Grammy-winner Craig Hella Johnson, Founder and Artistic Director of Conspirare, Austin's acclaimed world-class professional choir.
Ghostlight Records yesterday released the cast album of the new musical comedy RED EYE OF LOVE. The studio cast recording of the show - which is based on an original play by Arnold Weinstein, with music bySam Davis and book and lyrics by Arnold Weinstein and John Wulp - features the Tony…
Ghostlight Records has announced release of HIMSELF AND NORA - the 2016 Off-Broadway Cast Recording, Live from the Minetta Lane Theatre, NYC - a new musical with book, music, and lyrics by Jonathan Brielle.
In The Jonathan Channel's new special series 'For The Record:' Thomas Z. Shepard and Julian Fleisher explore the making of five seminal Broadway cast albums. Listeners will hear how these albums were made, and what it was like working with some of Broadway's biggest stars. Plus we'll answer the…
Based in New York City, George Tsypin's Opera Factory creates visions of towering gods, underwater kingdoms, skyscraping towers, and earth-bound angels. It was George Tsypin's Seaglass Carousel you saw at the Battery, his Chrysler Building in Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, his opening…
