Cast albums, theatre books, videos and upcoming releases from the world of Broadway.
Legendary stage and screen star Richard Burton recreates his celebrated stage performance in Sidney Lumet's oft-overlooked film adaptation of the Peter Shaffer play EQUUS in a new Blu-ray edition, out today, March 11.
Two hilarious and irreverent plays by Neil LaBute are now available for download or on CD. Last season, L.A. Theatre Works recorded both 'reasons to be pretty' and its sequel, 'Reasons to Be Happy,' live-in-performance with LaBute directing.
Following the debut performance of Moment by Moment at New York's 54 Below in 2013, the Broadway-studded cast of Alexander Sage Oyen's song cycle are heading into the studio later this month to produce an original cast recording. Moment by Moment, which also received its international debut in…
A new album of original music featuring some of the biggest names of Broadway and London's West End will be released on March 17 to raise money for BBC Children in Need.
It's been almost a decade since the Pittsburgh-born Billy Porter released a solo album, and since then much has changed for the award-winning artist, who grew up singing in the Pentecostal church. Perhaps best known for his Tony Award-winning role as 'Lola' in the hit Broadway musical Kinky Boots…
The New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) will present an evening with acclaimed actor, playwright and a 1994 NYFA Fellow in Playwrighting Lisa Kron. Kron will sign discuss and read from her play In the Wake (published by Theatre Communications Group) on Monday, March 24th at 7:00 at Barnes and…
Two-time Tony Award-winner Andrea Martin revealed to the press that she is working on finishing her memoir. Her memoir is titled 'Andrea Martin's Lady Parts' and will be published by Harper Collins in September. With regards to her upcoming deadline, March 17, Martin laughingly declared, 'I'm…
Ghostlight Records will release the Original Cast Recording of the new Broadway hit Beautiful - The Carole King Musical this spring and has just released the official artwork. Check it out below!
Due to open on Friday at the Charing Cross Theatre, Ushers: The Front of House Musical is also being released by SimG Records on Monday so a busy week for this new British musical! The show was one of the finalists in last year's 'Search for a Composer' competition by West End Producer and…
Audacious, surprising, fresh. Parallel Productions are delighted to be able to bring you the launch of their brand new album, West End Switched Off.
Sh-K-Boom Records will present the new album from Tony Award-nominee Sherie Rene Scott, All Will Be Well - The Piece of Meat Studio Sessions, as a digital exclusive on March 25. The stirring pop record combines contemporary rock, jazz and folk elements with revealing interpretations of songs by…
Broadway Records will release Jarrod Spector's 'A Little Help From My Friends: Live At 54 BELOW' digitally and on CD on March 25th, 2014. The CD is available for pre-order at http://amzn.com/B00IP9ZAG2. The CD will be available in advance to those attending Jarrod's upcoming 54 BELOW concerts on…
Barb Jungr has been called the UK's finest interpreter of song, especially the songs of singer/songwriting icons Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen. Jungr has also taken the New York cabaret scene by storm the last few years, having performed her celebrated Dylan tribute show, Man In the Long Black Coat…
It's been almost a decade since the Pittsburgh-born Billy Porter released a solo album, and since then much has changed for the award-winning artist, who grew up singing in the Pentecostal church. Perhaps best known for his Tony Award-winning role as 'Lola' in the hit Broadway musical Kinky Boots…
In his groundbreaking book, Dramatic Circumstances: On Acting Singing, and Living Inside the Stories We Tell (April 2, Applause Books, $24.99), noted director and educator William Wesbrooks provides an exciting and eminently practical approach for singers and actors who want to think about their…
Stage Door Records are pleased to announce the Original London Cast Recording of Alan Price and Trevor Peacock's musical 'Andy Capp' will be released on CD March 31st, 2014.
Barnes & Noble at 86th and Lexington in New York City will welcome the cast and creators of FUN HOME, The Public Theater production based on Alison Bechdel's graphic novel, for a musical performance and CD signing on Thursday March 13, 2014 at 6 p.m.
There is no conceivable way that anyone had any idea how Albee's WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? would change the face of the theatre. It opened on October 13, 1962, and it went on to win both the 1963 Tony Award and New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best Play. Now, for the digital age…
Special guests Dot-Marie Jones (GLEE) and Tony winner Julie Newmar (Batman) will join Oxford University Press, as they announce the release of the book NOTHING LIKE A DAME: CONVERSATIONS WITH THE GREAT WOMEN OF MUSICAL THEATER by Eddie Shapiro at 6 p.m. on March 26 at the Barnes & Noble at The…
The splashy and showy musical adaptation of BIG FISH opened to mixed reviews on Broadway and let its final curtain fall sooner than many expected. The show was poised to be hit; however, with just one listen to Broadway Records' Original Cast Recording of BIG FISH and the faults that brought this…
Today, the shortlist is announced for the Sheridan Morley Prize for Theatre Biography, now in its sixth year -- the contenders are...
Brian Hampton's award-winning play, "The Jungle Fun Room," which was a FringeNYC favorite and received a special engagement production Off-Broadway at New World Stages is now available for purchase and licensing through Original Works Publishing and available both in paperback and Kindle editions…
Earlier this week Broadway Records released the concept cast recording of Ron Yatter's musical SAMSON & DELILAH. Featuring American Idol alums and current stars of the latest National Tour of Andrew Lloyd Webber's JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT Ace Young and Diana DeGarmo in the…
The cast recording for MURDER FOR TWO is just as eccentric, fun, and unique as one would expect. The most interesting part about this story and its score is that two actors voice the 13 characters in the story. Brett Ryback takes on the role as Marcus, acting alongside Jeff Blumenkrantz who plays…
It seems that jukebox musicals made to appeal to my parents' generation are a dime a dozen these days. However, there is something truly special about Randy Johnson's A NIGHT WITH JANIS JOPLIN. His intimate theatrical portrait of the Queen of Rock from Port Arthur, Texas spent three sold-out years…
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