Hard Times - 2010 - Off-Broadway Articles Page 2

Two-time Academy Award nominee Bryan Buckley, producing team Academy Award winner Taika Waititi, international recording artist Rita Ora, Tony Award nominee Matthew Weaver and Hungry Man Productions just announced the development of FYRE FEST THE MUSICAL. We have all of the details!

After 18 years, Seth Bisen-Hersh has produced, emceed and accompanied his 900th weekly showcase at renowned midtown cabaret venue Don't Tell Mama. To celebrate, he will be presenting two concerts of his original songs.

Broadway World chats to John McGuiness, the musical director for the production, who has been involved in around 30 musicals in various roles. Learn more here!

The 7th season of RuPaul’s Drag Race UK will return this fall on WOW Presents Plus, with twelve drag queens in the running to snatch the crown and become The UK’s Next Drag Race Superstar. Meet the new queens now!

Next month, 54 BELOW will present some of the brightest stars from Broadway, cabaret, jazz, and beyond, including Beth Leavel, Casey Likes, Joe Iconis and more. See the full month of programming here! 

This week, a look at a pair of new initiatives with different purposes: the first being Conrad Ricamora's 'The Right to Be There' scholarship, a vital step toward supporting Asian American male actors. We also look at the Times Square Casino’s offer of job fairs for theatre professionals, an effort aiming to offer new employment avenues within the industry. Beyond these, leadership transitions continue regionally, with David Muse announcing his departure from Studio Theatre and Adam Weinert joining Hudson Hall. We also look at a report from the UK on freelancer pay problems and the consequences of recent congressional funding cuts hitting organizations across the US.

BroadwayWorld is saddened to learn of the passing of Broadway actor Michael James Leslie. Learn more about Michael James Leslie's life and career on BroadwayWorld.

With 25 years of acting experience under his belt, Reed Sigmund is trading in his acting cap for the director’s chair as he mounts Zephyr Theater Company’s innovative production of Robin Hood. Scheduled to take Aamodt’s Apple Orchard by storm July 25-August 3.

This past season contained a higher than usual amount of Broadway shows involving death; in fact, Operation Mincemeat and Dead Outlaw both specifically revolved around transporting a corpse! And Death Becomes Her leans into the hilarity as two women become gorgeous living corpses before our very eyes, thanks to a touch of magic. But plays and musicals about death and its attendant macabre topics have been a part of the theatre landscape for many decades...

Iain Mackay has devised a successful programme which shows the strength and breadth of the school, its current student body and the legacy that underpins the institution as we know it.

Anthony J. Wilkinson's “My Big Gay Italian Casino Adventure” will formally open off-off-Broadway at Sound Waves Theater at Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Atlantic City on Saturday, October 11, 2025.

Somewhere in a massive warehouse in Deptford, a collection is being made of every digital artifact since the birth of the internet in 1983. Every blog, every tweet, every DM. This archive called Storehouse is, unsurprisingly, reaching bursting point. A proposed solution called The Great Aggregregation has instead turned into “an epic fail”. We, the audience, are being asked to help resolve this critical situation.

Three-time Tony Award nominee Kevin Chamberlin will return to New York with a reprise of his hit show “Finding the Joy” for one show only this month. Learn more here!

Nothing will get a mama more emotional than watching a child being wronged, and y’all, I was deep in my feels at THE PROM at Actors Theatre of Little Rock, which is running now through June 21. Directed by Caelon Colbert, this vibrant musical, with music by Matthew Sklar, lyrics by Chad Beguelin, and a book by Bob Martin and Beguelin, is based on an original concept by Jack Viertel.

American Repertory Theater has announced its 2025/26 season, highlighted by two major world premiere musicals adapted from beloved films—Black Swan and Wonder—featuring a slate of Broadway talent both on and offstage.

Second Stage Theater has just announced five productions for the Company’s upcoming 47th Season, which will include productions of Marjorie Prime, Becky Shaw, Meet the Cartozians, Meat Suit, and. he Receptionist. We have all of the details here!

9 to 5: The Musical is a stage adaptation of the 1980 film of the same name, featuring music and lyrics by Dolly Parton. This outlandish musical comedy features a book by Patricia Resnick, and is based on the screenplay by Resnick and Colin Higgins.

The new musical Goddess can currently be seen in its New York premiere production at the Public Theater on Lafayette Street. Directed by the Public’s associate artistic director and resident director Saheem Ali, who is currently Tony Award-nominated for directing Buena Vista Social Club, Goddess is playing at the Public’s largest space by capacity, the Newman Theatre.

Beautifully performed, but somewhat vanilla, Richard Bean's adaptation lacks a necessary bite

Broadway's Lea Michele recently joined the hit podcast Therapuss, hosted by Jake Shane, to discuss her multifaceted career, including her new tour, Glee, and her return to Broadway in Funny Girl. Check out the full conversation here.

Theatre World Awards Board of Directors has just announced the Honorees for Theatre World Award for an Outstanding Debut Performance in a Broadway or Off-Broadway Production. We have the full list of honorees!

Based on the 2005 British film of the same name, the musical features music and lyrics by Cyndi Lauper, and a book by Harvey Fierstein. Mostly inspired by true events, the musical tells the story of Charlie Price, a man who is down on his luck and has just inherited a failing shoe factory from his father. To help save the business, Charlie meets and eventually befriends Lola, a local Cabaret performer and Drag Queen. The two form an unlikely bond and produce a line of high-heeled boots for a certain “niche market.” Through the business venture and unlikely partnership, the two discover they are not so different after all.

A hootin’, hollerin’, good time as a heroic Germanic saga goes Texan.

As the wildly popular Beetlejuice National Tour makes its way to Birmingham, BroadwayWorld caught up with local talent Lexie Dorsett Sharp, who plays swing and covers multiple fan-favorite roles. A Mountain Brook native and graduate of the prestigious University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (CCM), Lexie shares what it's like to return home with a show that's winning over audiences across the country.

May at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts will feature the New York premiere of Backbone, and more. See the full lineup here and learn how to attend upcoming events!