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Kimberly Akimbo has won the 2023 Tony Award for Best Musical.

Drama Book Shop will host a signing event for the published script of KIMBERLY AKIMBO on Tuesday, May 30 at 7:30pm. Tony Award nominees Jeanine Tesori and David Lindsay-Abaire will kick off the event with a Q&A moderated by a Drama Book staff member and will sign scripts for event attendees.

The Kimberly Akimbo Original Broadway Cast Recording is available on CD Friday, May 19. Learn more about how to purchase the album here!

Beginning tonight, KIMBERLY AKIMBO, in partnership with the New York City Public Schools Theater Program, will host three New York City public high school show choirs as they make their Broadway debuts on stage at the Booth Theater.

Recipient of eight Tony Award nominations including BEST MUSICAL, the critically-acclaimed new musical KIMBERLY AKIMBO will launch the Great Adventure Grants, a unique initiative that will fund three local high school musical theater productions next year, helping defray licensing, production, and other costs associated with each school's upcoming musical.

Lea Michele has tested positive for Covid, and will be out of Funny Girl this week.

Get a first look inside rehearsals for The Wizard of Oz, performing at American Conservatory Theater !

Funny Girl is set to close on September 3, and Lea Michele is already planning her Broadway return! 

The Almost Famous – Original Broadway Cast Recording is now available! Listen to the full album here!

KIMBERLY AKIMBO will launch a National Tour at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts in September 2024. Learn more about Kimberly Akimbo!

Lea Michele revealed that she hopes that a filmed version of the Funny Girl revival may be in our future! Michele, who joined the cast in August of last year, was asked by E! if a movie is in the works while attending Variety's Power of Women event.

Kimberly Akimbo: Original Broadway Cast Recording will be released on CD on Friday, May 19. The CD is available for pre-order starting today, Friday, April 7. The CD booklet features complete lyrics, color photography and liner notes by Washington Post theater writer Peter Marks.

Lea Michele will be out of today's matinee performance of Funny Girl on Saturday, March 25. Julie Benko will be on as Fanny. 

Lea Michele will return to performances of Funny Girl on Broadway this weekend.

Lea Michele will be out of both performances of Funny Girl on Wednesday, March 22. Julie Benko will be on as Fanny. 

Paolo Montalban and Anne L. Nathan will assume the roles of Florenz Ziegfeld and Mrs. Strakosh in Funny Girl on Broadway. We have all the details!

We’re off to see the Wizard…! Today, American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.) announced the full cast and creative team for The Wizard of Oz, directed and choreographed by Tony Award nominee Sam Pinkleton.

The Original Broadway Cast Recording of Almost Famous will be released April 21, 2023. Learn how to preorder and presave the album here! The new track “1973” has also been released today, performed by Casey Likes, Emily Schultheis, Anika Larsen, and the company.

Producers Sonia Friedman, Scott Landis and David Babani announced today that Emmy Award nominee Lea Michele, Tony and Olivier Award nominee Ramin Karimloo, 2022 Tony & Drama Desk Award nominee and Chita Rivera Award winner Jared Grimes and four-time Tony Award nominee Tovah Feldshuh have extended their critically acclaimed, record-breaking run in Broadway’s FUNNY GIRL through Sunday, September 3, 2023, when FUNNY GIRL will play its final performance at the August Wilson Theatre (245 West 52nd Street).

Kimberly Akimbo: Original Broadway Cast Recording is available today in digital and streaming formats on Tuesday, February 14. Listen to the full album here!