In My Life - 2005 - Broadway Articles Page 5

Jerry Adler, the versatile performer best known for his role as Hesh Rabkin on The Sopranos, has passed away at the age of 96. His longtime friend Frank J. Reilly shared the news on social media.

In celebration of its 20th anniversary, American Lyric Theater is proud to announce Celebrating 20 Years of American Lyric Theater, a gala performance on October 23, 2025.

Actors Theatre of Indiana will kick off its 21st season with Beehive: The 60’s Musical, opening Friday, September 5 and running through September 21 at the Studio Theater on the campus of the Allied Solutions Center for the Performing Arts in Carmel.

NYC has so many incredible events, but here are a few top picks to consider this week including free outdoor summer shows and stars of Broadway and film/TV doing solo shows.

The Sankofa Collective has always done ambitious projects, including THE BODYGUARD, THE THREE MUSKETEERS, and a collaboration with the Garden Theatre, resulting in an amazing production of THE COLOR PURPLE.

After over a decade away, Mamma Mia! is back on Broadway where it belongs! The show begins previews later this week at the Winter Garden Theatre, and while we await the Dynamos' first return performance, it's the perfect time to recap the music that inspired the show and how it keeps the story going.  ​

West End star Tosh Wanogho-Maud will be taking over the role of Lola in the brand-new Made at Curve production of the Olivier, Tony and Grammy Award-winning musical KINKY BOOTS.

Tony Award winners Sutton Foster (“Anything Goes,” “Thoroughly Modern Millie”) and Kelli O’Hara (“The King and I”) – each acclaimed as a Broadway performer and song-and-dance artist of the first order – are also known for solo concert appearances.

GRAMMY award-winning singer-songwriters Mike Reid and Joe Henry have confirmed their new collaborative album, Life & Time, set for release September 5. Check out a new single now.

Adapted from Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler’s award-winning picture book, Tall Stories’ much loved ‘The Gruffalo’s Child’ has been busy preparing for her next adventure in the West End with an all-new cast.

Sadler's Wells has announced the appointment of Aakash Odedra as a Sadler's Wells Associate Artist. Odedra is an internationally renowned dancer and choreographer.

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...

The Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University will present Fred Wilson: Reflections, a major exhibition showcasing several bodies of work by acclaimed artist Fred Wilson. Learn more!

“For Ren dance is his language.  It’s a form of self-expression – the only way he knows how to express himself and communicate.  When this is taken from him, he doesn’t understand why something so beautiful and alive as dance is not allowed.  He is fighting for self-expression and his very identity.” Actor, dancer, choreographer Tyler Hanes is describing the motivation of FOOTLOOSE’s protagonist Ren McCormack. Hanes, who has a storied resume that includes ten Broadway shows and countless regional credits, has returned to Maine State Music Theatre (which he calls “coming home”) to choreograph their new production of the 1998 musical, FOOTLOOSE, collaborating with director E. Faye Butler. 

Following a record-breaking UK, Ireland and European tour, ROYO, Runaway Entertainment and Curve have announced Johannes Radebe will make his West End debut, reprising the role of Lola in Kinky Boots.

Here, I share some of my favorite (and least favorite things) about living and going to school in New York City while preparing for my current commuter era.

My Morning Jacket will celebrate the 20th anniversary of their acclaimed 2005 fourth studio album, Z, with several very special shows that will see them performing the landmark collection in its entirety.

The Gilded Age is back for Season 3, and with it, a new and returning crop of Broadway talent. The New York-based costume drama is known for its vast array of theater actors, utilizing a total of 163 across its three seasons. Take a look here to see which of your favorite stars appear in the new season!

Just In Time’s origin story as well as overall conceit has much in common with one of Broadway’s very first jukebox musicals, which was ahead of its time. In 1985, Leader of the Pack, telling the story of pop singer-songwriter Ellie Greenwich, opened at the Ambassador on Broadway. Learn all about pop music bio-musicals here!

SMOKE Jazz Club has revealed its concert schedule for August 2025. SMOKE will present two album release shows this month. See the full lineup and learn how to attend.

Jason Mraz Comes to Wiener Stadthalle in September. Jason Mraz is a two-time GRAMMY Award winning singer/songwriter and Songwriters Hall of Fame Honoree.

Second Stage Theatre’s 43rd Street off-Broadway house, right near 8th Avenue, recently changed hands and is now the home of Studio Seaview . Seaview’s first production in the space is Angry Alan, starring John Krasinski. They have renovated and updated the space since Second Stage switched off-Broadway locations to now present shows at the Signature.

Playwright Herb Brown faces an uphill battle in his play, You're My Boy when trying to give audiences at the Abbey Theater of Dublin (5600 Post Road in Dublin, Ohio) a “better understanding” of Richard Milhouse Nixon.

At The Dallas Opera's (TDO) Final Board and Trustees meeting of the 2024/2025 Season Thursday, Kern Wildenthal General Director and CEO Ian Derrer announced the company's annual award recipients.

George Duran is a chef and entertainer. Author of Take This Dish and Twist it, known for his Food Network show Ham on the Street and most recently host of TLC’s Ultimate Cake Off.