Ben Platt News

Rise and shine, BroadwayWorld! It is December 28, 2023 and it's time to catch up on all of the theatrical happenings you may have missed in the last 24 hours.

The 46th Annual Kennedy Center Honors are coming up and we are celebrating the special occasion with some of our favorite videos of past Broadway performances. Check out the full list!

Don't miss the 46th Annual Kennedy Center Honors, which will air tonight, Wednesday, December 27, at 8:00PM on CBS, and streaming on Paramount+. Learn more about the event, find out who is performing, and how to tune in, here!

Rise and shine, BroadwayWorld! It is December 27, 2023 and it's time to catch up on all of the theatrical happenings you may have missed in the last 24 hours.

Watch a preview for the 46th Kennedy Center Honors, featuring a new look at the performances from Lin-Manuel Miranda, Ariana DeBose, Tituss Burgess, Dove Cameron, and more. The broadcast will also feature performances from Marc Shaiman, Cynthia Erivo, Ben Platt, Christine Baranski, Chloe Bailey, and more.

iTheatrics and the Junior Theater Group has revealed the full line up of performers, adjudicators, playwrights, songwriters and educators who will take part in the 2024 Junior Theater Festival Atlanta.

Ars Nova will honor Tony & Golden Globe winner Alex Timbers at Nova Ball, Ars Nova’s annual benefit-turned-party of the season.

Performers for the upcoming Kennedy Center Honors will include Ariana DeBose, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Marc Shaiman, Dove Cameron, Tituss Burgess, Christine Baranski, Ben Platt, Cynthia Erivo, Chloe Bailey, Whoopi Goldberg, Rita Moreno and more. Check out more about the lineup!

Nimene Wureh will join the cast of Kate Douglas’ THE APIARY, directed by Kate Whoriskey at Second Stage Theater.

Second Stage Theater will present a one-night-only reading of the new musical EIGHTY-SIXED, which will kick off the NEXT STAGE FESTIVAL on January 16, 2024 at Second Stage’s Tony Kiser Theater.

Discover the original soundtrack to Searchlight Pictures' Theater Camp, featuring performances by Ben Platt, Molly Gordon, Noah Galvin, and more. Available now on vinyl. Find out more about the making of the music on The Today Show. Theater Camp is also nominated for three Independent Spirit Awards.

This performance was truly one of the best that I have ever seen and it was a heartwarming experience for everyone in the theater.

Ya está disponible en Disney + la película musical THEATER CAMP, protagonizada por Ben Platt y Molly Gordon y dirigida por la propia Molly Gordon y Nick Lieberman.

Cynthia Erivo, star of the stage and screen, invites you to ring in the New Year with a concert special coming to PBS. The upcoming Wicked star will be joined by friends Ben Platt and Joaquina Kalukango as they bring their powerful voices and favorite songs to the Kennedy Center. The special will include Broadway, Motown, R&B, Folk, and Soul.

Judith Light is joining Billy Crystal in the cast of his upcoming Apple TV+ series, Before. Adam Bernstein will be directing the pilot episode from Paramount TV Studios. Written by Sarah Thorp, Before is a psychological thriller about a child psychiatrist, Eli (Crystal), who recently lost his wife, Lynn (Light).

Second Stage Theater’s production of Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ APPROPRIATE, directed by Lila Neugebauer, has extended three weeks. Learn how to purchase tickets!

The 46th Kennedy Center Honorees Billy Crystal, Renée Fleming, Barry Gibb, Queen Latifah, and Dionne Warwick were celebrated in Washington, D.C., at the Honors Gala on December 3, 2023 in the Kennedy Center Opera House.

On November 16-18, 2023, Segerstrom Center for the Arts's Samueli Theater welcomed back FORBIDDEN BROADWAY, the hit Broadway-skewering parody show that pokes fun at the Great White Way. Aimed as a 'greatest hits' iteration, the show was a (mostly) funny 2-Act program, but a lot of its material proved surprisingly outdated and out-of-touch.

This time, the reader question was: With Merrily We Roll Along back on Broadway as a hit, how many musicals are flops in their original Broadway production and then return as smashes?

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU) held their 21st Annual “Sing Out For Freedom” benefit concert. See photos!