Joan Marcus News

With just one week to go until Wednesday, October 3rd, Mean Girls has announced a more partnerships with businesses from New York to London ahead of 'Mean Girls Day' festivities.

The Actors Fund announces today that in partnership with The Jacob Burns Film Center's series Life on Stage, tickets are now on sale for a special screening of the five-time Tony Award nominated musical Falsettos, captured Live From Lincoln Center during its 2016 revival.

The first national tour of WAITRESS at the Eccles Theater brings all the best ingredients for the Broadway experience with impeccable performances in a world-class production.

'All that privilege and he can't figure out how to do anything?,' ponders one of the world's greatest actors as she attempts to delve into the psyche of one of the world's greatest theatrical characters.

Playwrights Horizons is currently hosting the premiere production of Craig Lucas' I Was Most Alive with You. Let's see what the critics had to say.

The press script provided to critics reviewing Craig Lucas' somber and overstuffed drama, I WAS MOST ALIVE WITH YOU, specifies that the play 'was created to be performed by Deaf and hearing actors for Deaf and hearing audiences' and that all productions 'must provide full access for hearing and Deaf audiences at all performances.'

Get a first look below at Christiani Pitts, following screen legends Fay Wray, Jessica Lange and Naomi Watts into King Kong's hand, plus hear what she has to say about role!

Today, Peppermint speaks to BroadwayWorld about making her Broadway debut and explains why performing on a Broadway stage 'feels like home.'

Don't be surprised to immediately sense a bit of familiarity in the dynamic between the two main characters as director Austin Pendleton's very fine La Femme Theatre production of the lesser-known Tennessee Williams drama A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur commences.

Jersey Boys is written by Marshall Brickman & Rick Elice, with music by Bob Gaudio, lyrics by Bob Crewe, directed by two-time Tony Award-winner Des McAnuff and choreographed by Sergio Trujillo. The production includes Music Supervision, Vocal/Dance Arrangements & Incidental Music by Ron Melrose and Orchestrations by Steve Orich.

MCC Theater announces a special fun late-night party performance of the acclaimed New York Premiere production of Collective Rage: A Play in 5 Betties, written by Jen Silverman, and directed by Mike Donahue .

Just last week, Ryan McCartan assumed the role of Fiyero in Wicked, making his Broadway debut! McCartan joins a cast which currently includes Jessica Vosk as Elphaba, Amanda Jane Cooper as Glinda, Isabel Keating as Madame Morrible, Kevin Chamberlin as The Wizard, Jye Frasca as Boq, Kristen Martin as Nessarose, and Martin Moran as Dr. Dillamond. 

As WICKED continues to entertain audiences all over the world, it has proven that WICKED has true staying power. It's full of entertainment from start to finish and everywhere in between. WICKED is beloved and enjoyed by all ages and many who are happy to see it again and again. It will be in San Antonio, Texas at the Majestic Theatre from September 26 - October 14, 2018. BWW SA recently caught up with San Antonio native Andy Richardson who has recently joined the cast of WICKED and is very excited to make his debut on the stage of the Majestic Theatre; a theater he enjoyed as a child and a theater that helped spark his dream to perform someday.

He's not a loser, he proved that nightly with his epic song and dance number. Wesley Taylor shared a video on Twitter saying 'Every night i had to wait for Gavin Lee's applause to die before entering from the pit for the next scene.'

For the better part of the present decade, playwright/director Richard Nelson has been going seriously Chekhovian, first with a quartet of plays set during the Obama years in the Rhinebeck, New York home of a family named Apple and then with a trio of visits during the 2016 presidential campaign with the nearby Gabriel family.

Your knees won't buckle when you enter Belk Theater to see LOVE NEVER DIES, Anthony Lloyd Webber's long-awaited sequel to The Phantom of the Opera. There's no gleaming chandelier looming ominously over ticketholders in the front rows, nor will you see any nooks or gargoyles spanning the stage proscenium. Until the curtain rose, about the only aspect of the new Lloyd Webber melodrama that reminded me of its predecessor on opening night was the size of the crowd who had come to see it. A near sellout - not too shabby for a musical that has never played on Broadway.

Casting has been announced for the triumphant return to Washington, D.C. of the Tony® and Grammy® Award-winning Broadway smash hit BEAUTIFUL - The Carole King Musical, about the early life and career of the legendary and groundbreaking singer/songwriter. BEAUTIFUL is onstage at the National Theatre for a 5-week run during the holiday season from November 27 thru December 30, 2018.

Celebrity Attractions is pleased to announce that Tulsa's most popular musical, WICKED, will return to the Tulsa Performing Arts Center stage for two weeks of performancesSeptember 10-23. On Wednesday, September 19 at 7:30 p.m., treat the kids to a night of fun and theatre at KIDS' NIGHT ON BROADWAY. Save 50% on tickets when you buy now in person at the Tulsa PAC Ticket Office or online at MyTicketOffice.com with code: KNOB.

The Nap is now in previews ahead of a Thursday, September 27th opening night at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre (261 West 47th Street). BroadwayWorld brings you a first look at the production below!

Theatrical licensor Music Theatre International (MTI) has secured worldwide licensing rights to the Tony and Grammy award-winning hit Broadway show, Beautiful: The Carole King Musical.