I Do! I Do! Revival

Baltimore band Love Riot announced NOTHING IS ETCHED IN STONE, their first new album in 26 years, marking a long-awaited return for the group.

'The Notebook,' the hit Broadway musical based on Nicholas Sparks’ 1996 bestseller, featuring music and lyrics by American singer-songwriter Ingrid Michaelson and a book by American playwright and screenwriter Bekah Brunstetter, is making its first international premiere at the Samsung Performing Arts Theater this September.

BroadwayWorld spoke to McCamus about playing two characters who represent humanity’s fears of stasis and obsolescence, but who themselves live in the present tense.

Theatrical Press Agent, award-wining Author (Jameson Currier), Independent Publisher devoted to gay literature and later an Artist, died of a sudden heart attack at his home in in Chatham Center, New York.

tick, tick... BOOM! arrives in São Paulo for a limited engagement at Teatro Viradalata following a successful run in Rio de Janeiro. Produced by Play It! Produções, the Brazilian staging stars Matheus Boa, Camille Dutra, and Diego Montez under the direction of Luiza Lewicki, Julia Varga, and Marcela Pires, with musical direction by Caio Loureiro. Jonathan Larson's autobiographical musical follows an aspiring composer approaching his 30th birthday as he struggles to balance artistic ambition, personal relationships, and the realities of adulthood. Since its acclaimed Off-Broadway debut, the show has become a contemporary musical theater favorite and inspired the Oscar-nominated 2021 film directed by Lin-Manuel Miranda and starring Andrew Garfield. The São Paulo production features an intimate staging and a live four-piece band performing Larson's iconic score.

Over the years, Broadway has seen a number of family acts sharing the stage. It’s extra special when family members team up to write a Broadway show together. The Great White Way has seen many instances of this historically, in a variety of different situations. 

Lincoln Center Theater will revive The Sound of Music in 2027, marking the second ever revival of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II's beloved musical. Director Lear deBessonet returns to the  Beaumont with the first Broadway revival of The Sound of Music in nearly 30 years,  starring Tony Award nominee Jasmine Amy Rogers and choreographed by  Christopher Gattelli. This will be the first Rogers & Hammerstein Broadway revival since Oklahoma! in 2019.

The new season on Broadway (2026-2027) at the Vivian Beaumont Theater brings  the first-ever Broadway revival of Aaron Sorkin’s seminal work, A Few Good  Men, starring Bradley Whitford and Tom Blyth, with direction by Tony Award  winner Michael Arden. In the spring, Artistic Director Lear deBessonet returns to the  Beaumont with the first Broadway revival of The Sound of Music in nearly 30 years,  starring Tony Award nominee Jasmine Amy Rogers and choreographed by  Christopher Gattelli. 

Michael Greif exclusively tells BroadwayWorld that he hopes to do the musical 'Rent' — which he directed when it came to Broadway 30 years ago — ‘justice.’

Kathryn Haggis performs her solo show LIFEGUARD: The Only Job AI Can't Do at the Toronto Fringe Festival, directed by Tracey Erin Smith and dramaturged by playwright Judith Thompson.

From the very first note of the “Prologue” the cast captures the audience’s attention with their gorgeous vocals. There are so many relatable moments in this production, all of which are brilliantly performed.

What did our critic think of THE SPITFIRE GRILL IS A HEARTWARMING CHARMER at The Armonk Players?The caliber of Off-Broadway, where she saw this show when it opened a quarter-century ago, has nothing on The Armonk Players when the formidable Ms. Haas occupies the director’s chair.

It's the end of an era on Broadway. As BroadwayWorld reported last month, the curtain has officially come down on Boneau/Bryan-Brown, the iconic Broadway press office founded by ATPAM-members Chris Boneau and Adrian Bryan-Brown, after more than three decades representing theatre on Broadway, Off-Broadway and around the world.

The performances, the vocals, the intimacy of the space, all of it hit me in the best way. It felt honest and alive, and I walked out really glad I saw it. Celebrate Pride Month with RENT, a production that honors LGBTQ+ lives and the power of standing together.

Director David Valdez guides a wonderful production of this famous but flawed musical.

Much has been written about the proliferation of pop singer-songwriters writing new musicals for Broadway and off-Broadway. Less covered is the trend of pop singers performing on Broadway, which has made for a number of memorable appearances in current and recent seasons. 

Next month, 54 BELOW, Broadway’s Supper Club & Private Event Destination, presents some of the brightest stars from Broadway, cabaret, jazz, and beyond, including Grammy and Emmy winner Will Roland, Tony winner Norm Lewis and more. 

Even These Things, written by Rory Mullarkey, recently had its world premiere at the Royal Exchange Theatre. The play takes a look at three different years - 1846, 1996 and 2026 - and explores both Manchester and Ireland, with the final performance taking place on the 30th anniversary of the devastating IRA bomb in the heart of Manchester.

THE NOTEBOOK The Musical was a charming chamber piece when I first read Bekah Brunstetter's adaptation of Nicholas Sparks' breakout bestseller. But the touring version is now playing to bigger houses than either its original Chicago premiere or its New York engagement. With Broadway-extravaganza pretensions. Call me back when a local company decides to mount this musical at an appropriate scale.

The stage production does make a lot of strides that strengthens the endurance and popularity of this love story. It repeats iconic moments from the popular 2004 film, but isn’t aping the original screenplay in any way. A new libretto offers a fresh take that borrows the basic structure of the novel and memorable film moments, whilst breathing in new voices and new scenes that add different layers to these familiar characters.

Friendship is nearly always a side element in musicals. From the comic sidekick of the leading character to the backup pals who provide background vocals, friends are part of the fabric of many shows—but rarely are they the main event. 

It’s been 30 years since Jonathan Larson’s rock opera Rent opened at the Nederlander Theatre on April 29, 1996, and arguably changed the theatrical landscape of Broadway.

Samuel Beckett’s acclaimed masterpiece Endgame (Fim de Partida) opens April 30 at Teatro Paulo Autran, inside Sesc Pinheiros, in a new production directed by Rodrigo Portella. Starring Marco Nanini, Guilherme Weber, Helena Ignez, and Ary França, the tragicomic classic revisits Beckett’s haunting post-apocalyptic world, where Hamm, a blind and paralyzed old man, and his servant Clov remain trapped in a tense relationship of dependence, cruelty, and endless waiting. Written in the aftermath of World War II, the play remains one of the most powerful works of the Theater of the Absurd, exploring power, isolation, and the search for meaning in a collapsing world.

We learn that the suburban fantasy is not sustainable, primarily because such a fantasy can only ever be a dream. The reality of suburban living, as told by Kimberly Akimbo, shows there is much more nuance to everyday life than the nuclear family with a white picket fence and a wholesome dinner at eight. If everyone got what they wanted, after all, they wouldn’t want for more.

We had the opportunity to interview Music Director Robert W. Butts about his career, The Baroque Orchestra of New Jersey, and the upcoming performance at The Growing Stage.