It's been almost a decade since the Pittsburgh-born Billy Porter released a solo album, and since then much has changed for the award-winning artist, who grew up singing in the Pentecostal church. Perhaps best known for his Tony Award-winning role as 'Lola' in the hit Broadway musical Kinky Boots, P...
Screen Actors Guild Foundation and Broadway World have partnered for an filmed Conversations Q&A series to recognize and celebrate the vibrant theatre community in New York City and the union actors who aspire to have a career on the stage and screen. The most recent conversation featured stage lege...
Jayma Mays stopped by last night's CHELSEA LATELY and revealed that this season may be her last on the FOX musical dramedy GLEE....
On last night's episode of FOX's GLEE, as the fate of the Glee club becomes a reality, April (guest star Kristin Chenoweth) and Holly (guest star Gwyneth Paltrow) plot a plan to save New Directions....
Today in 1997, Annie opened at the Martin Beck Theatre (now the Al Hirschfeld Theatre), where it ran for 239 performances. Annie is a Broadway musical based upon the popular Harold Gray comic strip Little Orphan Annie, with music by Charles Strouse, lyrics by Martin Charnin, and the book by Thomas M...
Star of stage and screen, Peter Scolari, most recently seen on Broadway in Bronx Bombers, will vie for the final spot in the finale of CHOPPED's Tournament of Stars, airing this Sunday on Food Network....
Below, check out a promo for GLEE's 'New New York', set to air on FOX on April 1, 2014! In the episode, a few months after the end of the Glee club, New Directions alumni are adjusting to their new lives in the Big Apple: Blaine and Sam have moved in with Kurt, while Artie experiences difficulties n...
The cast and creative team of the hit Off-Broadway musical Murder for Two have teamed up with some of New York's brightest up and coming composers and BroadwayWorld.com every Monday night for their spring concert series, Murderous Musical Mondays. Composer Ryan Scott Oliver launched the series last ...
BroadwayWorld's Richard Ridge was on hand for opening night, and he chatted with Tyne Daly, Bobby Steggert, Frederick Weller and the rest of the company at the after party. Below, Weller chats about sharing the stage with Daly, McNally reveals what inspired the play, Kaller shares why she's proud of...
The New York City Center Encores! production of Frank Loesser's The Most Happy Fella, running for seven performances, April 2 - 6, 2014, is set to star Laura Benanti, Shuler Hensley, Cheyenne Jackson, Heidi Blickenstaff, Brian Cali, Bradley Dean, Zachary James, Jay Armstrong Johnson, Jessica Molaske...
Twentieth Century Fox's RIO 2, featuring Broadway diva Kristin Chenoweth and a flock of top actors and musical talents, will hit theaters on April 11. Click below for a first listen to Chenoweth's character -- the poison dart frog 'Gabi' -- singing her love song called 'Poisonous Love' to criminal m...
Los Angeles's exciting live, music performance space Rockwell: Table & Stage just welcomed Broadway & TV's Telly Leung (Broadway's GODSPELL, GLEE, RENT, WICKED) performing an electrifying evening of songs and personal anecdotes. Special guest performers at the one-night only show included Broadway &...
In Mothers and Sons, a mother who pays a surprise visit to the New York apartment of her late son's ex-partner, who is now married to another man and has a young son. Challenged to face how society has changed around her - without her - she is finally able to see the rich life her son might have led...
The Mothers and Sons red carpet was hoppin' last night, as some of Broadway's biggest stars gathered to welcome Tyne Daly and the rest of the company back to Broadway. Below, BroadwayWorld's Richard Ridge chats with the evening's biggest guests, including: Chita Rivera, Nathan Lane, Donna Murphy, Fr...
In the videos below, the writers of MURDER FOR TWO share some of the songs they totally wrote from Broadway's newest arrivals- Les Miserables and Mothers and Sons. Check out the hilarious videos below!...
Bryan Cranston stopped by last night's THE COLBERT REPORT on Comedy Central to talk about his new Broadway play 'All the Way.'...
Michael C. Hall stopped by this morning's TODAY and shared that he is happy to leave the death-centered plots of his TV drama 'Dexter' behind him and focus on his new role in the Broadway production of 'The Realistic Joneses.'...
On tonight's episode of FOX's GLEE, as the fate of the glee club becomes a reality, April and Holly plot a plan to save New Directions. Get a first listen to all the performances!...
Neil Patrick Harris and Billy Eichner take to the streets to find out how New Yorkers feel about the end of How I Met Your Mother in this week's Lightning Round from BILLY ON THE STREET....
Today in 1976, the first Broadway revival of My Fair Lady opened at the St. James Theatre, where it ran for 377 performances. My Fair Lady is a musical based upon George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion and with book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe. The story concerns Eliza Doolit...
BroadwayWorld broke the news last week that The Phantom of the Opera, now in its 26th year on Broadway, will welcome former 'LITTLE MERMAID' co-stars Norm Lewis and Sierra Boggess to the cast on Monday, May 12, at the Majestic Theater. Both of the show's new stars were at the opening night for Les M...
11F are proud to present WOMEN OF TWILIGHT by Sylvia Rayman. In this blisteringly effective 'all-women' play, a group of unmarried mothers are ruthlessly exploited by their baby-farming landlady. Women of Twilight was a theatrical sensation in the 1950s and also became a film. Now, after some 60 yea...
Tony winner Laura Benanti is soon set to return to the stage in the The New York City Center Encores! production of Frank Loesser's The Most Happy Fella- running for seven performances, April 2 - 6, 2014. The production will star Benanti, alongside Shuler Hensley, Cheyenne Jackson, Heidi Blickenstaf...
Les Miserables is at last back on Broadway, where it belongs. Just last night, the new revival of Alain Boublil & Claude-Michel Schönberg's Tony Award-winning musical Les Miserables opened at the Imperial Theatre. BroadwayWorld's Richard Ridge was on hand after the curtain went down, and he got to ...
As BroadwayWorld previously reported, Ghostlight Records will release the original Broadway cast recording of The Bridges of Madison County, the new romantic musical by the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winning team of Marsha Norman ('night Mother, The Color Purple) and Jason Robert Brown (The Last ...
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