'Weird Al' Yankovic News

Rise and shine, BroadwayWorld! It is July 23, 2024 and it's time to catch up on all of the theatrical happenings you may have missed in the last 24 hours.

Something a little weird might be hitting Broadway stages at some point in the future. Or, more specifically, someone who's a little weird. In an interview about his newly released single, best-selling artist 'Weird Al' Yankovic told Rolling Stone that a Broadway musical is of potential interest.

The longstanding favourite is all very slick but, 37 years on, the production is showing its age

Find out who won at the GRAMMYs. Notable winners include Taylor Swift, Miley Cyrus, SZA, Fred Again.., Shucked songwriter Brandy Clark, Miley Cyrus, Taylor Swift, The Beatles, Kylie Minogue, Billie Eilish for the Barbie soundtrack, and more.

Puddles Pity Party, the seven-foot sad clown with a golden voice, returns to Soho Theatre this spring for one week only.

Tony Award nominees Josh Gad and Andrew Rannells are back onstage at the James Earl Jones Theatre for their eagerly anticipated return to Broadway in Gutenberg! The Musical! written by Tony and Emmy Award nominees Scott Brown and Anthony King, directed by Tony Award winner Alex Timbers.

Taylor Swift, Olivia Rodrigo, and more were also nominated for GRAMMYS. Check out the full list of nominations now! Sweeney Todd, Parade, and more were nominated in the Best Musical Theatre Album category.

Broadway's most complicated leading man is a fascinating match for one of the most iconic film musical roles of all time.

They aren’t actually that in Whitney White’s concert cum critique “Macbeth in Stride” at the Shakespeare Theatre Company. But they do backup singing, some choreographed dance moves (by Raja Feather Kelly), reply and advise the lead and never quite leave the stage, itself dressed up like a spangly nightclub revue (set by Daniel Soule, lighting by Jeanette Oi-Suk Yew). In all, it seems perfect for that girl group from Detroit.

What did our critic think of LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA + FRIENDS: AN EVENING OF CONVERSATION AND SONG at Tilles Center?

Puddles Pity Party is coming to The District on Tuesday, November 7. Tickets start at $30.50 plus applicable fees and go on sale Friday, August 4, at 10 a.m.

Help Make a Difference! New Jersey’s Jesse Walker, host of the online celebrity show “The Jesse Walker Show,” in support of Project ALS, is coming to town with The Jesse Walker Show Comes to Broadway, a musical evening celebrating Broadway’s best.

Britton Spitler as Brock Leah Spears (Project Manager – ADM) and dance pro Amanda Barraza (Independent Dance Instructor) received a nearly perfect score of 29, taking first place at the Cincinnati Arts Association's fifteenth annual Dancing for the Stars on Saturday, April 22, 2023 at the Music Hall Ballroom.

The Tank's 20th Anniversary Gala will honor 20 years of Tank artists, with artists from every era of The Tank. See who is taking part and learn how to purchase tickets!

Other nominees include Halftime, Love, Lizzo, Selena Gomez: My Mind & Me, and Sheryl. The MTV Movie and TV Awards will be hosted by Drew Barrymore and airing live on Sunday, May 7 at 8 PM ET/PT from the Barker Hanger in Santa Monica, California. America Pie was released in 1971 and spent four weeks at No. 1 in 1972.

The Home for Wayward Girls and Fallen Women is in trouble and they need a miracle! And when you need a miracle you naturally turn to a God… A Rock God! So, the residents have pinned their hopes on the divine intervention of the one and only Weird Al Yankovic! Can this modern American musical genius/deity help the girls out of their troubles and their clothes? Find out on January 12th at The Slipper Room!

“Weird Al” Yankovic will bring The Unfortunate Return of the Ridiculously Self-Indulgent, Ill-Advised Vanity Tour to Australia for five performances in March, 2023. 

Robert Peterpaul, in association with the Broadway Podcast Network, is thrilled to welcome iconic drag queen Nina West (RuPaul's Drag Race) to the hit podcast The Art of Kindness with Robert Peterpaul. West discusses her incredible new book The You Kind of Kind, working with Dolly Parton, starring in the Weird Al Yankovic movie, and much more. The interview is now available here!

Drag superstar Nina West is taking the world by storm. Her new children's book, THE YOU KIND OF KIND is out now! BroadwayWorld spoke with Nina West about the book, feeling the power of your own magic and kindness, and much more. Read the interview here!

An evening with 'Weird Al' on stage is always a blend of concert, comedy, and community. The Unfortunate Return of the Ridiculously Self-Indulgent, Ill-Advised Vanity Tour feels like an opportunity to give back — letting Al show us everything else he can do while indulging our own inner geeks at the same time. When you think about it, being into something really specific and relatively unpopular is really what nerdom is all about, which makes a parody-free “Weird Al” show surprisingly the “Weird Al”-iest show of all.