March 19, 2018
Broadway Sessions recently celebrated the music of award winning composing team Thomson and Desmon. Jeffrey Thomson and Jeremy Desmon are responsible for musicals One Hit Wonder, The Oliver Experiment, Pump Up the Volume and the highly anticipated Nancy Drew. Wonderful writers tend to have some wond...
March 19, 2018
The top growing current Broadway musicals were Escape to Margaritaville (22.01%), My Fair Lady (15.02%), Carousel (4.96%), Mean Girls (2.62%) and Frozen (2.55%). The top growing current Broadway plays were Three Tall Women (15.63%), Angels in America (8.42%), Farinelli and the King...
March 19, 2018
Ono this episode, The Band's Visit's actors Tony Shalhoub, Katrina Lenk and John Cariani discuss working on the powerful musical hit with co-hosts Jesse Green and Elisabeth Vincentelli of The New York Times and series producer Susan Haskins....
March 19, 2018
Lin-Manuel Miranda has teamed up with Ben Platt for the newest song in his #Hamildrop series, Found/Tonight. The song, which features vocals by both men, features bits of 'The Story of Tonight' from Hamilton and 'You Will Be Found' from Dear Evan Hansen. Listen below!...
March 18, 2018
A man dressed as Elsa from "Frozen" ran out of a bar Tuesday night to help a Boston police wagon stuck in snow....
March 17, 2018
Last night, the star-studded cast of Disney's new adventure flick, A Wrinkle in Time, stopped by The Late Late Show with James Corden. Under Corden's strict direction the A-listers hit the stage for a low-budget adaptation of their big-budget film. See Oprah, Reese Witherspoon and more take to the s...
March 16, 2018
He can jam, but can Harry jig? Find out when he tries to Riverdance this week to celebrate St. Patty's Day on HARRY!...
March 19, 2018
The Tour of DIRTY DANCING is now playing at the Zurich Theater 11! Based on the hit 1987 film of the same name starring Jennifer Grey, DIRTY DANCING has been viewed onstage by more than 8 million people. DIRTY DANCING opened in Zurich on March 6th and will run through March 18th. Can't make the Tour...
March 16, 2018
Today, we want to wish a happy and profitable birthday to Hello Dolly's current Horace Vandergelder, Victor Garber!...
March 16, 2018
Want a full 360 degree view of Broadway's Circle in the Square Theatre stage? NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt can provide! Watch below as Alex Newell leads the company of Once on This Island in 'Mama Will Provide'....
March 16, 2018
Pocket Universe, producer of last summer's acclaimed Julius Caesar set in an all-girls high school, has announced a new production of Francis Beaumont & John Fletcher's THE MAID'S TRAGEDY, set in present-day Hollywood. Watch a video trailer below!...
March 16, 2018
In the video below Kelli O'Hara sings Despina's Act I aria in the final dress rehearsal for Cosii Fan Tutte at The Met....
March 16, 2018
Artists for World Peace, a nonprofit organization, recently hosted its 7th annual Broadway event at The Cutting Room. The show was produced by Broadway's own Sharone Sayegh and Wendy Black-Nasta, the founder of AFWP. Among the performers were stars of the Broadway hit THE BAND'S VISIT. Watch be...
March 16, 2018
Tony Award-nominee - Ramin Karimloo - releases new track 'From Now On,' his version of the powerful song from the Oscar-nominated film The Greatest Showman. Written by Oscar, Grammy, and Tony Award-winning songwriting duo, Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, 'From Now On' is available now for streaming and ...
March 17, 2018
The Broadway Center Stage production of In the Heights is coming soon to The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Winner of four 2008 Tony Awards® including Best Musical and Best Score, In the Heights, Lin-Manuel Miranda's debut Broadway musical with a book by Pulitzer Prize winner Qu...
March 16, 2018
The show opened just last night, March 15, at the Marquis Theatre, and BroadwayWorld is taking you inside the big night! Pour yourself a drink, sit back, relax, and escape to the opening night of Escape to Margaritaville!...
March 16, 2018
On last night's Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Buffett talked about his Margaritaville 'active living communities' for retirees, vertical tailgating for his Broadway musical, Escape to Margaritaville, and breaking liquor sales records at the theater. He also led the audience in a sing alo...
March 16, 2018
CHARLIE CHAPLIN comes to Athens' Acropol Theatre, playing now through March 27th! A play that utilizes multi-media elements, this work tells the story of its title subject, CHARLIE CHAPLIN. This production is Translated by Anton Galeu and Directed by Peter Zulia....
March 15, 2018
Ben Platt took to Twitter today to share an audition tape of himself singing 'Maria' from West Side Story. A film remake by Steven Spielberg is currently in the works but no word on if that's the project Platt was auditioning for or his involvement, if any....
March 15, 2018
On this day in 1956, Broadway audiences fell in love with Julie Andrews and Rex Harrison as they opened in My Fair Lady at the Mark Hellinger Theater....
March 15, 2018
As BroadwayWorld reported last month, Katharine McPhee is making her Broadway debut in Waitress. She'll join the company at the diner beginning April 10th. Below, watch as McPhee performs 'What Baking Can Do' in a clip from Entertainment Tonight!...
March 15, 2018
Frozen is currently in previews at the St. James Theatre, but already fans continue to get a taste of the new songs added to the musical by composers Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez. Below, check out a song that Kristen describes as her favorite of the show's new tunes, 'True Love,' perform...
March 15, 2018
Imagine a place where the sun is hot, the water's warm, and the drinks are as cold as they are plentiful. Welcome to Margaritaville, the island paradise where city folk get away from it all, and the locals get into the kind of trouble you can almost always sweet talk your way out of. Take a nice lon...
March 15, 2018
SKB Records just released the third month of the groundbreaking new music and video series Lena Hall Obsessed from the Tony Award winner and Grammy nominee. Obsessed: Elton John - exploring the work of the Oscar, Tony and Grammy winning royalty of rock - is available at www.LenaHallObsessed.com...
March 15, 2018
Just last night, Seth Meyers brought Jesus Christ Superstar to life in 'Popsicle Schticks'. The parody starts off with a quick nod to the iconic song 'Superstar,' then moves on to 'What's The Buzz?'. However, the lyrics sound a little more like this: 'What's the schtick? Tell me, what's a popsicle...
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