From Laura Benanti's #SunshineSongs Challenge to our Living Room Concerts, we've been featuring a lot of performers on our site during the Broadway shutdown. Let's give it up for the heroes of backstage!
Participate in our fan art challenge! Each week during the Broadway shutdown, draw something to fit the theme, tag it #BwayWorldFanArt, and we might repost it! First theme: favorite costume!
From the mind of our theater critic Michael Dale, we present: Wave at Me, Kate, Inside Story, Nobody Goes, and more. Which #SocialDistancingMusicals can you come up with?
Trying to find the light in dark times, Laura Benanti is asking her high school-aged followers to send videos on Instagram of them singing songs from their cancelled shows.
Instagram, Instagram, Instagram! Today BroadwayWorld is pleased to announce we've created an Instagram Story filter centered around the hit musical Beetlejuice! Head over to our Instagram to try out the filter for yourself and find out which of the show's characters you are! Will it be the ghost with the most himself? Follow BroadwayWorld on Instagram here, and head over to the filters tab to try it out for yourself!
Divorced, beheaded, live on Instagram! Today BroadwayWorld is pleased to announce we've created an Instagram Story filter centered around the upcoming Broadway musical Six! Head over to our Instagram to try out the filter for yourself and find out which of the show's queens you are! Will it be Anne Boleyn? Katherine Howard? Anna of Cleves? Follow BroadwayWorld on Instagram here, and head over to the filters tab to try it out for yourself!
We're not a regular theatre site, we're a cool theatre site! Today BroadwayWorld is pleased to announce we've created an Instagram Story filter! Head over to our Instagram to try out the filter for yourself and find out which Broadway show you are! Will it be Hamilton? Mean Girls? Moulin Rouge?
We're not a regular theatre site, we're a cool theatre site! Today BroadwayWorld is pleased to announce we're joining TikTok! Follow us on TikTok for a ton of fun content, red carpet exclusives, behind the scenes videos and takeovers and more!
This Sunday, Tony Award winner Kelli O'Hara and the cast of Roundabout Theatre Company's Kiss Me, Kate take their final bow at Studio 54. To celebrate the show's run that's been too darn hot, we're throwing it back to Kelli O'Hara's opening night in the 2008 Broadway revival of Rodgers & Hammerstein's South Pacific alongside Paulo Szot, Danny Burstein, and more. Get a blast from the past by checking out the video!
We're heading somewhere that's green today, June 26th, because Andrew Keenan-Bolger is taking over BroadwayWorld's Instagram Story for opening night of the Cape Playhouse's Little Shop of Horrors! Be sure to tune in throughout the day to get a behind-the-scenes look at this production of the classic show! You're not gonna want to miss this trip to Skid Row!
Today we're celebrating the birthday of two-time Tony nominee Sarah Stiles! In honor of the occasion, we're throwing it back her opening night in the Tony-nominated play Hand to God alongside her co-stars Steven Boyer, Geneva Carr, Marc Kudisch, Michael Oberholtzer, and of course Tyrone the Puppet. Check out all the footage below!
Luck be a lady! Sharrod Williams is taking over BroadwayWorld's Instagram Story at the MUNY's production of Guys and Dolls tomorrow, June 16th! Be sure to tune in throughout the day to get a peek behind-the-scenes of the closing night of the MUNY's first show of the season! We know you'll love it, a bushel and a peck, so you're not gonna want to miss it!
Grease is definitely going to be the word because Jackie Burns, from Pittsburgh CLO's production of Grease, is taking over BroadwayWorld's Instagram Story tomorrow, June 15th! Be sure to tune in throughout the day to get a peek behind-the-scenes of a two-show day of the classic show. This takeover is bound to be the one that we want, so you're not gonna want to miss it!
Everything's coming up roses this week because the original production of the legendary musical GYPSY is celebrating the sixtieth anniversary of its opening night! To celebrate, we're looking back at the opening night of Broadway's most recent revival in 2008 starring Patti LuPone in the iconic role of Mama Rose. Check out the video to see our chat with LuPone, Laura Benanti, Boyd Gaines, and more!
It's time to head to the El Flamingo because Ben Fankhauser is taking over BroadwayWorld's Instagram Story tomorrow, May 26th, at Hartford Stage's production of The Flamingo Kid! Be sure to tune in all throughout the day to get a look behind the scenes of a two-show day of this brand new musical!
We asked, and you answered! As BroadwayWorld previously reported, the classic musical comedy A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum just celebrated the anniversary of its opening night on Broadway! To celebrate, we asked BroadwayWorld readers to name the stars that they would love to see take on the iconic role of Pseudolus. Check out some of your most popular answers below!
It's time to journey on because Nicole Vanessa Ortiz from the Serenbe Playhouse's production of Ragtime is taking over BroadwayWorld's Instagram Story tomorrow, May 10th! Be sure to tune in throughout the day to get a behind-the-scenes look at this reimagined production of the classic Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty musical. You're not gonna want to miss the rhythm and rhyme of this Ragtime Instagram takeover!
It's definitely not just another day because this week, the Tony Award-winning musical Next to Normal celebrates the tenth anniversary of opening at Broadway's Booth Theatre! In honor of the occasion, we're looking back at the show's Off-Broadway opening at Second Stage Theater with Alice Ripley, Brian D'Arcy James, Aaron Tveit, Jenn Damiano, and more! Check out all the footage below to see why Next to Normal is perfect for you!