Susan Hilferty News

Shoshana Bean and Megan Hilty--who respectively played Elphaba and Glinda on Broadway--will once again take on those roles for three stops in the current Wicked tour

Marking 60 years of excellence on Broadway, The Tony Awards were being broadcast live from Radio City Music Hall on CBS, Sunday, June 11th, and we've got the winners here! The History Boys led the pack with 6 wins, followed by The Drowsy Chaperone with 5, Jersey Boys with 4 and The Pajama Game, Sweeney Todd, and Awake and Sing with 2.

Today, May 30th, Kate Reinders will start performances as Glinda in Broadway's Wicked

Lestat, the musical based on Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles, will hang up its cape on May 28.

The cast of 'Lestat' in the studio recording their cast album, May 22. The album is set to release in July, with Hugh Panaro, Carolee Carmello, Allison Fischer, Jim Stanek, and Drew Sarich.

The cast of Lestat will go into the recording studios of Mercury Records on May 22nd to record a cast album, which will be released in July

Nominees for the 2006 Tony Awards got together to meet the press on Thursday, May 18th and BroadwayWorld.com was there to capture them all!

Duncan Sheik and Steven Sater's Spring Awakening, the first musical to be presented by the Atlantic Theater Company, will begin previews on May 19th, a day later than was originally announced

The American Musical Voices Project's presentation of composer grants and Leadership Awards took place on Monday, May 15, at a cocktail reception at New World Stages; Michael John LaChiusa, Ricky Ian Gordon and Audra McDonald were among those honored

Announced this morning and reported on live at BroadwayWorld.com, we've got all the nominees for the 2006 Tony Awards, which will be broadcast on CBS on Sunday, June 11th.

Complete casting has been announced for the West End production of Wicked.

Wicked scored three Touring Broadway Awards, presented by the League of American Theatres and Producers on May 8th

Kate Reinders, who originated the role of Glinda in the Chicago production of Wicked, will join the Broadway company of the smash-hit musical at the Gershwin Theatre, beginning Tuesday, May 30; she replaces Megan Hilty as the popular witch

To write that Allison Fischer stops the show in the middle of Lestat's second act might falsely give the impression that the authors had actually provided a show up until that point

Carole Shelley will step in for Rondi Reed in the Chicago production of Wicked from April 25th through June 25th

IDINA MENZEL, star of the original Broadway production of WICKED, will recreate her award-winning role in London in September for a limited season.

WHO: Baltimore's CenterStage WHAT: August Wilson's Radio Golf WHEN: Now through April 30 HOW MUCH: $10 - $65

If ever a Broadway show worked on so many levels, Wicked has found the brain, the heart and the courage to do so. Sure, it's a bit much, but it gives the people what they want; to be entertained.

Auditions for an 'adapted musical production of Wicked' to play Universal Studios in Osaka, Japan will be held in Hollywood on March 20th

Carole Shelley, the original Broadway Madame Morrible, will step into the Chicago production of Wicked from April 25th through June 25th while Rondi Reed performs in another play