Forrest Theatre News

The Kimmel Center Cultural Campus is thrilled to announce its 2019/20 season, including the imaginative Family Discovery Series, storied Broadway season, star-studded Jazz selection, captivating & educational National Geographic Live Explorer nights, and inviting free community events. Packages and select single tickets are on sale now. All Cultural Campus programming enables the Center to move forward in its mission to engage the Philadelphia region's diverse communities with art through performance and education.

Full casting has been announced for the upcoming North American Tour of Nickelodeon's THE SPONGEBOB MUSICAL.

Producer Jeffrey Seller, the Kimmel Center Cultural Campus, and the Shubert Organization have announced the digital lottery for HAMILTON tickets will begin in conjunction with the show's first performance (Tuesday, August 27, 2019) in Philadelphia at the Forrest Theatre. Forty (40) tickets will be sold for every performance for $10 each. The digital lottery will open at 11:00 AM ET on Sunday, August 25 for tickets to the Tuesday, August 27 performance. Subsequent digital lotteries will begin two days prior to each performance.

The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts and The Schubert Organization will present the highly anticipated 12-week engagement of HAMILTON at the Forrest Theatre in Philadelphia, August 27-November 17, 2019. Additional tickets have been released for the Broadway musical.

Shubert Ticketing has just launched Telecharge ASSURED- a new platform designed to facilitate fair access to individual ticket-buyers when seats go on sale to the general public. The successful launch on July 9th, 2019 serviced a record number of customers purchasing tickets for the highly anticipated 12-week engagement of 'HAMILTON' at the Forrest Theatre in Philadelphia (August 27 - November 17).

Producer Jeffrey Seller, the Kimmel Center, and The Shubert Organization announced today that tickets for HAMILTON will be available online through Telecharge at 9:00 AM ET on Tuesday, July 9. Telecharge Verification allows pre-registered fans to unlock access to tickets without competing against scalpers and bots.

The full list of cities has been announced for the upcoming North American Tour of Nickelodeon's THE SPONGEBOB MUSICAL. This explosively imaginative production will launch at PROCTORS in Schenectady, NY this September before bringing Bikini Bottom and its beloved residents to previously announced engagements in Boston, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Toronto and more. The cast will be announced at a later date.

Dear Evan Hansen announces that Stephen Christopher Anthony will assume the title role of Evan Hansen beginning September 17, 2019, for the second year of the Tony Award-winning musical's North American tour.

What makes a Broadway theatre? Technically any venue with 500 seats or more, located along Broadway in New York City's Theatre District is a Broadway theatre, and the art that is produced in these special places is widely considered the highest form of theatrical entertainment in the world. Today, forty-one theatres are technically Broadway houses, each with their own rich history. Below, we're giving you the scoop on the life of every one of them!

The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts and The Shubert Organization announced today the 2019/20 Broadway Philadelphia season, featuring a brilliant lineup of Tony Award -winning productions and the latest Broadway blockbusters.

BroadwayWorld has learned that SpongeBob the Musical has announced a non-equity casting call for the upcoming tour of the Broadway musical.

The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts is pleased to announce a return engagement of the RENT 20th Anniversary Tour, the Pulitzer Prize and Tony award winning musical coming October 18 - 20 to the Merriam Theater on the Kimmel Center's Cultural Campus as part of Broadway Philadelphia's new 2019 - 20 season.

One of the biggest hits in theatrical history, CATS will come to Shea's Buffalo Theatre from February 5 to 10, 2019 as part of a multi-season North American tour. Presale tickets will be on sale from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 7 by using the password MEMORY. Tickets will go on sale to the general public on Thursday, Nov. 8, 2018.

Tonight, November 2, 2018, Broadway's THE BOOK OF MORMON will play its 3,183rd performance, at which point it will become the longest running production in the history of the Eugene O'Neill Theatre. The previous record holder was the original production of Tobacco Road, which spent most of its 3,182-performance run at the Forrest Theatre (now the O'Neill).

Today, in celebration of National Cat Day, producers announced casting for the North American tour of the first ever Broadway revival of CATS. The multi-year tour will launch at Providence Performing Arts Center on January 22, 2019 and play 24 cities in its first season.

It could be a new 'Tradition'..... For the first time in over 30 years, the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical Fiddler On The Roof is coming to Philadelphia! The national touring production will open on Tuesday, October 23 at the Academy of Music. 

The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts and The Shubert Organization are pleased to announce the 2018/19 Broadway Philadelphia season, featuring an outstanding lineup of highly-anticipated Broadway shows, including the Philadelphia premiere of Hamilton. The monumental upcoming season boasts a prodigious collection of award-winning productions which have garnered a collective 47 Tony® Awards and 25 Drama Desk Awards - the highest number of shows holding awards to ever grace one Broadway Philadelphia season!

WAITRESS, the Tony nominated musical will be premiering at the Forrest Theatre on Tuesday, February 13, 2018 for a limited engagement and is looking for two young girls to perform the role of Lulu for the duration of the engagement.

See the newly announced lineup of events for this February at the Kimmel Center! Listings below!

Kimmel Center has an exciting lineup slated for this December - scroll down for details!