Jonathan Groff News

The Public Theater (Artistic Director, Oskar Eustis; Executive Director, Patrick Willingham) announced today that Tony Award nominee Jonathan Groff will join the cast of HAMILTON as 'King George' on Tuesday, March 3. Groff, who performed in The Public's recent revival of Hair as well as The Bacchae and The Singing Forest, is replacing Brian d'Arcy James, who will be starring in Something Rotten on Broadway this spring. The world premiere musical HAMILTON, inspired by the book 'Alexander Hamilton' by Ron Chernow, with book, music, and lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda and directed by Thomas Kail, has been extended three times at The Public due to sold-out demand and will close as scheduled on Sunday, May 3 prior to a Broadway transfer to the Richard Rodgers Theatre beginning July 13 and opening August 6.

Scott Alan's recent EP titled 'Anything Worth Holding on To,' including songs written and performed by Alan himself, is now available on Amazon and iTunes. A lyric video was just released for 'I'm In Pain' (featuring Shoshana Bean) and you can check it out below!

A source has now confirmed to Eonline that Groff, who was last seen in the show's third season as coach of rival GLEE club Vocal Adrenaline, will indeed return for the series finale.

Good morning, BroadwayWorld! Because we know all our readers eat, sleep and breathe Broadway, what could be better than waking up to it? Today's big news: A rare revival of JOHN & JEN opens off-Broadway and more!

Ana Gasteyer is best known for her incomparable work on "Saturday Night Live." During her six year stint, she created some of the most famous SNL characters including middle school music teacher Bobbie Moughan-Culp, NPR radio host Margaret Jo, Lilith Fair poetess Cinder Calhoun, as well as spot-on impressions of Martha Stewart, Celine Dion and Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Sutton Foster won the Tony Award for her leading roles in 'Anything Goes' and 'Thoroughly Modern Millie' and starred in the ABC Family TV series 'Bunheads.' Most recently she starred on Broadway in a acclaimed revival of the musical 'Violet' for New York's Roundabout Theatre and will return to TV as the star of the new series 'Younger' by 'Sex and the City' creator Darren Star, premiering on March 31st on TV Land.

On the next episode of HBO's LOOKING titled 'Looking for Gordon Freeman,' Patrick throws a Halloween party, but his revelry is thrown off by past and possible future loves.

Patrick (Jonathan Groff) talks Agustin (Frankie J. Alvarez) into throwing a Halloween party in hopes of being the 'fun gay' and instead has an epic meltdown that surely will have all of San Francisco talking.

Is Jessie St. James coming back to McKinley High?

Below, check an all-new, mini-musical parody on the hit song from Disney's FROZEN - 'Love is an Open Door' - titled 'Love is an Open Store'!

Stage and screen star Josh Gad is still blown away by the success of Frozen, the film for which he voiced one of Disney's newest favorites, Olaf. Gad told Metro: 'Frozen. People stop me on the street for an animated character, where they don't even see my face, on a daily basis.' He continued: 'It's two years later and it's still as popular. All of us - Idina [Menzel], Kristen [Bell], Jonathan [Groff], myself - we all pinch ourselves every day that we were a part of it.'

Patrick (Jonathan Groff) is hellbent on salvaging a friendship with his ex-boyfriend Ritchie (Raul Castillo) and Agustin (Frankie J. Alvarez) checks in on an ailing Eddie (Daniel Franzese) on this week's ep 'Looking for Truth.' Hang around, we'll bring everything into focus.

On Monday, March 16, 2015, the League of Professional Theatre Women (LPTW), a not-for-profit organization committed to promoting visibility and increasing opportunities for women in the professional theatre, is pleased to recognize the talents of five outstanding women: Mary-Mitchell Campbell, Kathleen Chalfant, Sandra A. Daley-Sharif, Rachel Dickstein, and Donyale Werle.

As BroadwayWorld reported last night, Disney's FROZEN is aiming to hit the stage by 2017. According to a report by the Daily Mail, the movie musical's Oscar-winning songwriting team Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez met with the film's writer and co-director Jennifer Lee, head of Disney Theatricals Thomas Schumacher, and Broadway and West End director Alex Timbers to discuss their options. Lee is writing the book with guidance from the Lopezes, who have also written 'a couple' of new songs for the show.

FROZEN is aiming to hit the stage by 2017. According to a report by the Daily Mail, the movie musical's Oscar-winning songwriting team Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez met with the film's writer and co-director Jennifer Lee, head of Disney Theatricals Thomas Schumacher, and Broadway and West End director Alex Timbers to discuss their options.

Lancaster's music scene has been greatly enriched by the stirrings of cabaret that have begun over the past few years. The end of January was notable, however, for two days of outstanding cabaret in a row on the 30th and 31st, first with Lancaster-based performer Reji Woods at the Ware Center, and then with Lancaster-bred performer Jonathan Groff giving a fundraiser at Ephrata Performing Arts Center.

Scott Alan made his concert debut at 54 Below just last week on, January 19th with a slew of Broadway all-star talent, including 2014 Tony winners Jessie Mueller and James Monroe Iglehart, Tony nominees Joshua Henry andChad Kimball, as well as Lilla Crawford, Erin Davie, Mykal Kilgore, Natalie Weiss, Christine Dwyer, Julian Cihi, Danny Calvert, Elizabeth Stanley, Abby Mueller, Christiane Noll, Jessica Phillips, Lisa Brescia, Ashley Brown, Eden Espinosa, Marcus Paul James, Julia Murney, Marissa Rosen, Christina Cataldo and Galyana Castillo joined Alan. Below, check out Erin Davie's performance of 'High' at the concert!

Patrick (Jonathan Groff) begins to question his affair with Kevin (Russell Tovey), Agustin (Frankie J. Alvarez) and Dom (Murray Bartlett) discovers Kickstarter on this week's ep, 'Looking Down the Road.' Let's catch you up

Hosted by Sirius XM Radio Star Seth Rudetsky whom the New York Times dubbed 'The Mayor of Broadway,' this unique series arrives this winter at The Nourse Theater with two concerts scheduled for Megan Hilty tonight, February 7th and Cheyenne Jackson on March 14th.