Second Stage News

Honor Roll! is now accepting submissions for the Third Annual Marjorie Bicknell Honor Roll! Honors, celebrating theater professionals who support the inclusion of women playwrights over 40 in the industry.

This time, the reader question was: Which Broadway theaters are the largest and which are the smallest and our expert, Jennifer Ashley Tepper has done a deep dive on the sizes of Broadway theatres both past and present!

Rise and shine, BroadwayWorld! It is June 28, 2024 and it's time to catch up on all of the theatrical happenings you may have missed in the last 24 hours.

The Board of Trustees of Second Stage Theater have announced that Evan Cabnet, currently Artistic Director of Lincoln Center Theater’s LCT3, will be Second Stage Theater’s new Artistic Director.

 The Muny has announced its full cast, design and production teams for Disney's The Little Mermaid, the third show in the theatre's 106th season, which runs July 8-16 on the James S. McDonnell Stage in Forest Park.

Leslye Headland's Cult of Love is headed to Broadway later this year as part of Second Stage Theater's upcoming fall season. Additionally, Donald Margulies’ Lunar Eclipse will open off-Broadway this fall.

Tony Award winner Frank Wood and Kelley Curran will star in THE MEETING: THE INTERPRETER, a new play by Catherine Gropper, directed by Brian Mertes. Learn how to purchase tickets.

Ogunquit Playhouse, in association with Crossroads Live, announced today that three-time Tony Award winner Kathleen Marshall will direct the World Premiere of the new musical, My Best Friend's Wedding, with a book by Ron Bass and Jonathan Harvey, based on the hit TriStar Pictures' film with a screenplay by Ron Bass and featuring the songs of Burt Bacharach and Hal David.

Produced by Klutzy Dragon and Paper Starship Studios, Expatriated is a poignant new play written and performed by Dominique Roberts and Candace Leung that explores contrasting experiences of migration, centered around the stories of an LA lawyer who finds herself in the vibrant city of Hong Kong, while on the other side of the world a Hong Kong lawyer faces the crushing reality of starting a new life in Los Angeles. I decided to speak with them about the decision to create the play, how it reflects their own experiences, their experience presenting it before and at the Hollywood Fringe Festival, and what plans they have for its future.

54 BELOW, Broadway's Supper Club, will present Charlie Roman and the Glad Rags Orchestra Celebrate the 1920s and 1930s on July 16 at 9:30pm.

The Old Globe will hold its annual gala on Saturday, September 21, 2024, under the stars on the Globe’s Copley Plaza and on the Donald and Darlene Shiley Stage in the Old Globe Theatre, part of the Conrad Prebys Theatre Center. Learn how to purchase tickets!

Rattlestick Theater will host playwrights Alex Lin and kanishk pandey as its 2024-25 Van Lier New Voices Fellows. This program provides substantial support to two emerging playwrights of color annually, including a $35,000 living stipend, a $5,000 artistic fund, mentorship with a chosen playwright, workshops and readings of new work, as well as participation in Rattlestick's larger artistic network.

Alexander Perez's new two hander The Bad in Each Other is slated to have its New York City Premiere at The Tank in midtown Manhattan this summer.

The National Gallery of Australia has announced a shortlist of five finalists for the National Sculpture Garden Design Competition. 

This time, the reader question was: There are several new Broadway productions coming this summer. What is the history of shows opening between June and August?

Award-winning playwright Itamar Moses has premiered his new film IDEA on YouTube.

Earlier tonight at the 77th Annual Tony Awards, David Zinn took home a Tony Award for 'Best Scenic Design of a Play' for his outstanding work on Stereophonic. Watch what happened afterwards in this video!

The 77th Annual Tony Awards have officially begun! As winners take the stage this evening, stay tuned to BroadwayWorld as we bring you full text of all of the acceptance speeches; from the emotional to the humorous, and everything in between.

Still hurting over the end of the Broadway season? BroadwayWorld has just learned that that singer, songwriter and actor Nick Jonas and Tony Award winner Adrienne Warren will return to Broadway to star as 'Jamie' and 'Cathy' in the first ever Broadway production of Tony Award winner Jason Robert Brown's beloved THE LAST FIVE YEARS. We have all of the details!

Broadway says goodbye to two limited-run productions. Mother Play takes its final bow at the Hayes Theatre following 26 previews and 58 regular performances; and Uncle Vanya will conclude its run at the Vivian Beaumont Theatre following 22 previews and 62 regular performances.