While Broadway remains shut down, BroadwayWorld is keeping up with your favorite stars and giving you a peek at what they have been up to! Check out yesterday's highlights from some of your favorites, including Andrew Lloyd Webber, Hugh Jackman, Phillipa Soo, Jenn Colella, and more!
Hugh Jackman called in to SiriusXMa??s The Jess Cagle Show to talk about his Emmy nominated performance in HBOa??s Bad Education, to give an update on The Music Man, the Broadway revival that was postponed due to COVID-19, and more.
Today, nominations for the 72nd annual Emmy Awards were unveiled. Leslie Jones announced the nominations, with help from Laverne Cox, Josh Gad and Tatiana Maslany The Emmy Awards will air September 20 on ABC.
Billy Porter, Tituss Burgess, Mark Ruffalo, Brandon Victor Dixon, John Leguizamo and more are joining up with local activists and politicians in calling on the New York City Council and Mayor Bill de Blasio to reallocate police funding and demilitarize police departments to help bring an end to police brutality.
Richard Ridge recently chatted with stage and screen favorite Josh Gad. He talked about Central Park, The Book of Mormon, his Broadway debut in Spelling Bee, and more!
Ryan Murphy posted a heartfelt tribute to the late Larry Kramer on Instagram yesterday, following the news of his passing. In his post, he revealed that he had recently bought the stage rights to The Normal Heart and The Destiny of Me, and plans to run them on Broadway in rep.
To honor the life and work of this pioneering artist and activist, flashback to Larry Kramer's appearance on the chat show, Theater Talk, as his play The Normal Heart made its long overdue Broadway debut.
We want to hear from you! We're starting #BwayWorldPrompts, where each day we'll be asking our readers on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram questions to spark some theater conversation.
The theaters may be closed, but the show goes on at L.A. Theatre Works. The world's leading producer of audio theater, LATW offers audiences around the globe free access to state-of-the-art recordings of both contemporary and classic plays, each performed by leading actors of stage and screen.
I Don't Need an Acting Class, a new weekly podcast hosted by Academy and Emmy Award winner and celebrated acting teacher Milton Justice, will be released this month, beginning on March 10th, 2020. Based on his forthcoming book of the same name, the podcast seeks to demystify the craft of acting while answering the question, 'Why take an acting class?'
BroadwayWorld is saddened to report that James Lipton, executive producer, writer, and host of the Bravo cable television series Inside the Actors Studio, has died at age 93.
In partnership with the North Carolina Conservation Network, Clean Cape Fear, the Center for Environmental Health, and Mark Ruffalo, Participant's Dark Waters campaign officially kicked off a?oeWhy We Fight,a?? a two-day tour across North Carolina to showcase the stories of communities harmed by exposure to forever chemicals, and to engage with state lawmakers who have the ability to enact real change.