Doug Besterman News

Berkshire Theatre Group has revealed the cast for its upcoming production of Mel Brooks’ Young Frankenstein. See who is starring and learn how to purchase tickets.

PS Classics has released Parting Gift: The Songs of Gerald Ginsburg on streaming and digital formats. Listen now!

Recently I wrote a Broadway World feature dealing with a partial restoration of Robert Ginzler’s original orchestrations for Bye, Bye, Birdie at the Kennedy Center by conductor John Bell with additional work by Joshua Clayton. When the piece was shared on social media, it started a bigger conversation about proper credit for the original orchestrator. Robert Ginzler was somehow never acknowledged in the Kennedy Center program.

Goodspeed Musicals has revealed the cast for Ask for the Moon, an outrageous comedy about greed, revenge and...murder. See who is starring and learn how to purchase tickets.

BroadwayWorld has your first listen to an all new track from the upcoming album, Parting Gift: The Songs of Gerald Ginsburg. 'Little Boy Blue' is performed by Colin Donnell, and based on a poem by Eugene Field.

PS CLASSICS will release Parting Gift: The Songs of Gerald Ginsburg, featuring stars from Broadway and opera with a 17-piece orchestra. Learn when you can download the album!

Get a first look at all-new photos and videos of the World Premiere of DEATH BECOMES HER at Broadway In Chicago’s Cadillac Palace Theatre, now on stage for a limited five-week engagement.

The new musical comedy DEATH BECOMES HER is set to begin Broadway preview performances Wednesday, October 23, 2024, and officially opening on Thursday, November 21, 2024 at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre. We have all of the detals!

Get a first look at the World Premiere of DEATH BECOMES HER at Broadway In Chicago’s Cadillac Palace Theatre, now on stage for a limited five-week engagement.

Megan Hilty and Jennifer Simard stopped by the studios at WGN9 to talk all about the World Premiere of DEATH BECOMES HER at Broadway In Chicago’s Cadillac Palace Theatre. Watch the full video here!

Performances for the World Premiere of DEATH BECOMES HER began last night, April 30, 2024, at Broadway In Chicago’s Cadillac Palace Theatre. An all new video has been posted to the show's Instagram of the cast taking their first bows! Check out the video here!

Performances for the World Premiere of DEATH BECOMES HER begin tomorrow, April 30, 2024. Learn more and see how to purchase tickets.

Learn more about some of the Broadway productions that you may not have realized began their journey at La Jolla Playhouse! 

Written as the Covid-19 pandemic unfolded, Breathe follows five pairs of characters grappling with the virus’s impact on their lives, families, relationships, society, and health. Ranging from lighthearted to heartbreaking, unbelievable and all-too-real, these vignettes tackle everything from parenting in Covid, to Black Lives Matter protests, to saying goodbye to a spouse via Zoom.

Past Tony winners Anika Noni Rose and Matthew Broderick announced the 2011 Tony Awards nominees live from the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts in New York City.

Get a first loo at photos and video of Boop! The Betty Boop Musical.

Under the talented and guiding hand of music director and conductor Steven Reineke, this exceptional orchestra gives Broadway songs a majesty and heft that most Broadway orchestra pits cannot provide.

The Big One-Oh! TYA joins an MTI catalogue that contains two other versions of the show including the 60-minute Broadway Junior® musical as well as an Online Edition.

Missoula Community Theatre presents Mel Brooks' Young Frankenstein, a musical parody of horror films. Get ready for non-stop laughs from October 19-29 at the MCT Center for the Performing Arts.

A live theatrical adaptation of “Jim Henson’s Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas” is making its Chicago debut this holiday season, November 14-December 31, 2023. Learn how to purchase tickets!