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Reviews of Frankenstein(esque), Paz, Featherhead, Our Little Secret, All of Our Parents are Asian, and Constellation Prize at the Toronto Fringe Festival

The Phantom of the Opera is officially back and Broadway is Broadway again! As a part of the celebration, composer Andrew Lloyd Webber and producer Cameron Mackintosh took the stage for a special speech, and afterwards Webber took to the streets for a special DJ set in front of The Majestic. BroadwayWorld was there for the big night!

Casa Mañana introduces new Online Academy to its education program, connecting industry professionals directly with aspiring theatre students. Students can take classes from Broadway veterans in subjects like vocal techniques, building your audition book, choreography, acting for film or how to best use social media. Private voice lessons are also available. Classes available for ages 3 a?" 19.

On Friday, January 31, Broadway stars and musicians of the Princeton Symphony Orchestra performed a concert reading of The Big Time, a new musical comedy from Douglas Carter Beane, author of Broadway's Sister Act, Cinderella, and Xanadu.

Fantasies unwound last night at the Majestic Theatre, where the longest-running show in Broadway history, Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera, celebrated its 30th Anniversary.

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's Alan Aronshtam sat down for an interview with THE WIZARD OF OZ's Wicked Witch, Jacquelyn Piro Donovan!

In her current cabaret show at 54 Below, Marin Mazzie, who has starred in Passion, Ragtime, Kiss Me Kate, Man of La Mancha, Spamalot and Next to Normal, pays homage to her childhood and teenage years in Rockford, Illinois, to the songs her parents loved, and to some of the 1960s and 1970s hits that fed Mazzie's passion to be a singer. ("These songs were the foundation for what was to come.") And man, was she sexy doing it.

Fans of ABC's 'Private Practice' have been missing co-star Audra McDonald, who plays Naomi Bennett, for weeks.

JULY AT THE METROPOLITAN ROOM. Come join us every Friday and Saturday from 11PM-2AM for our nightly piano lounge. No cover, no minimum!

Tony Winner Audra McDonald has released a statement in regards to The New York Daily News' incorrect report regarding her personal life.

Keith Lockhart and the Boston Pops open 124th season festivities with the consummate cabaret and concert star Barbara Cook and her trio

The Carlyle Hotel is pleased to present Barbara Cook in a limited six-week engagement in 'Love Is Good For Anything That Ails You' from March 4 through April 12.

The legendary Broadway, concert and cabaret star thrilled hundreds of proper Bostonians Saturday night in her 'No One Is Alone' concert at Symphony Hall

This delightful duo left an indelible impression on the guests at Verizon Hall, and Philly can't stop 'talking about them, and talking about them.'

'The only thing I've ever wanted to do in my entire life is to be on Broadway' ~ Audra McDonald upon winning her fourth Tony Award and Broadway is all the better for it!

Four-time Tony Award-winner Audra McDonald's fourth solo CD will be released by Nonesuck Records on September 26th

Musical settings by Michael John LaChiusa, Stephen Flaherty, Kirsten Childs and Jeff Blumenkrantz will be performed by Darius de Haas at the Works & Process celebration of poet Paul Muldoon on October 2nd and 3rd

The Golden Age of Broadway may be dead and gone, but its melodies linger in Barbara Cook's ageless voice.