Jefferson Mays News

BroadwayWorld is excited to continue our exclusive photo coverage of the recording sessions for this year's album with the cast of The Lion King, who sing 'O Holy Night.' Check out photos of cast members Bonita J. Hamilton and Rema Webb below!

BroadwayWorld is excited to continue our exclusive photo coverage of the recording sessions for this year's album with the cast of Cinderella who sing 'Christmas Cinderella.' Check out photos of cast members Judy Kaye, Sherri Shepard and more below!

BroadwayWorld is excited to continue our exclusive photo coverage of the recording sessions for this year's album with the cast of Cabaret!, who sing 'Stille Nacht & Mi Zeh Hidlik.' Check out photos of cast members Caleb Damschroder, Evan Siegel, Jessica Pariseau, David W. Gilleo, Kaleigh Cronin, Dylan Paul, Jane Pfitsch and more below!

On Monday, December 8th at 5pm and 7pm, WNYC and WQXR will host the fifth annual presentation of A CHRISTMAS CAROL: A Radio Drama, written by Arthur Yorinks and inspired by the Charles Dickens classic, performed by station hosts and special guests.

The completely reimagined revival of Side Show opened last night, November 17, at the St. James Theatre (246 West 44th Street). BroadwayWorld was there for the special night and you can catch photos from the eopening night red carpet below!

Today marks the one-year anniversary of the Tony Award-winning Best Musical, A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder, bringing the grand total number of the times Jefferson Mays, who plays all eight doomed members of the D'Ysquith family, has died on stage in the hit musical comedy to a staggering and historic 3,336 (and counting).

BroadwayWorld is excited to continue our exclusive photo coverage of the recording sessions for this year's album with the cast of Wicked, who sing 'In the Bleak Midwinter.' Check out photos of cast members Gregg Kirsopp, Jerad Bortz, Carla Stickler, Alicia Albright, Emily Ferranti and more below!

BroadwayWorld is excited to continue our exclusive photo coverage of the recording sessions for this year's album with the cast of Once, who sing 'Here We Come A-Wassailing.' Check out photos of cast members Andy Taylor, Ryan Vona, Shannon O'Boyle, Don Noble and Katrina Lenk and more below!

On the next episode of NBC's LAW & ORDER: SVU titled 'Spousal Privilege,' Detective Tutuola (Ice-T) comes across leaked security footage of a violent domestic dispute in a parking garage

Whether you've been living under a rock for the past week or you're just in the mood for a recap, BroadwayWorld's 'This Week in Pictures' is here to satisfy your end-of-the-week fix! Take a look below to catch up on the latest happenings from the Great White Way to The West End (and everywhere in between) with coverage of press events, rehearsals, opening nights and more. Highlights this week include the Gypsy Robe Ceremony for THE LAST SHIP, Emma Stone in Cabaret, the opening nights of THE OLDEST BOY and THE BAND WAGON, and more!

As BroadwayWorld previously reported, Carole Shelley and Catherine Walker just took over the roles of 'Miss Shingle' and 'Phoebe D'Ysquith' in A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder, which won the 2014 Tony Award for Best Musical. BroadwayWorld was there for the duo's first bows and you can check out photos from inside the special curtain call below!

Theatre enthusiasts in the Greater Bangor region will have the opportunity once again to see the best of Broadway on Broadway through Penobscot Theatre Company's Weekend in New York City, March 27-29, 2015. 'We've put together a package this year that includes some white-hot tickets,' said Producing Artistic Director Bari Newport, 'and I can't wait to enjoy these shows with our group!' Participants will have great seats to two productions sure to delight:

The 2014 Broadway's Carols for a Cure, Volume 16 is on sale now! This 2-disc, annual CD of original and traditional holiday music features stars and casts from the current Broadway line-up, and benefits Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS (BC/EFA), one of the nation's leading industry-based, nonprofit AIDS fundraising and grant-making organizations.

Tony Award winner Jefferson Mays, star of the 2014 Tony Award-winning Best Musical A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder, is the latest featured artist in The Creative Faces Project: an evolving portrait and interview collective of artists inspiring the New York stage. His photos and interview, posted today, October 23rd, can be viewed on The Creative Faces Project website (www.thecreativefacesproject.com) and below!

Obie Award winner Tracee Chimo, who can currently be seen in Second Stage Theatre's production of Lips Together, Teeth Apart by Terrence McNally, is the latest featured artist in The Creative Faces Project: an evolving portrait and interview collective of artists inspiring the New York Stage. Ms. Chimo is also set to play multiple roles in Wendy Wasserstein's The Heidi Chronicles in its upcoming Broadway run. Ms. Chimo's photos and interview, posted Thursday, October 16th, can be viewed on The Creative Faces Project website: www.thecreativefacesproject.com .

16-time Grammy Award-winner Sting will be featured on the annual holiday music CD, Broadway's Carols for a Cure, Vol. 16. Singing with the cast of 'The Last Ship,' ­­­­and playing acoustic guitar accompanied by a full band, Sting has created an original version of 'Soul Cake.'

Earlier this year, the NOH8 campaign returned to Broadway's Minskoff Theatre for a second photo shoot, featuring some of everyone's favorite Broadway stars. Dozens of Broadway's best joined the photo shoot to help the campaign, including many of this year's Tony Award winners and nominees.

Tony Award nominee Jessica Hecht is the latest featured artist in The Creative Faces Project -- an evolving portrait and interview collective of artists inspiring the New York stage. Her photos, posted Thursday, October 9th, can be viewed below!

The National Music Theater Institute (NMTI) students have just returned to campus from two weeks training in New York City; scroll down for photos from the visit! NMTI is the newest credit-earning, semester-long intensive from the National Theater Institute at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center. Utilizing the O'Neill's 50-year experience in training young theater artists and history of developing new musicals (including Nine, Avenue Q, In The Heights, [title of show], and Violet), NMTI offers broad-based training in all areas of musical theater: acting, singing, directing, writing, dance, composition, and choreography. In addition to the semester's rigorous curriculum-classes 14 hours a day, 7 days a week with emphasis on collaboration and the creation of original work- two weeks of the semester are spent learning in the epicenter of American music theater.

Obie Award winner Steven Boyer, best known for originating the roll Jason/Tyrone in the Off Broadway hit Hand To God is the latest featured artist in The Creative Faces Project: an evolving portrait and interview collective of artists inspiring the New York stage. His photos and interview, posted today, October 2nd, can be viewed here and on The Creative Faces Project website: www.thecreativefacesproject.com.