Next up for the National Tour of The King and I, which won a Tony Award for Best Revival in 2015, is Houston's Hobby Center, where it will play March 14-19. Laura Michelle Kelly (Anna Leonowens) and Jose Llana (King of Siam) lead the production, with Joan Almedilla as Lady Thiang, Brian River...
Wicked has officially welcomed its new West End cast, including the return of Willemijn Verkaik to the role of Elphaba. Alongside her remain Suzie Mathers as Glinda, Oliver Savile as Fiyero and Mark Curry as The Wizard. ...
On this day in 1999, Richard Chamberlain and Laura Benanti joined the cast of the Broadway revival of The Sound of Music as the new Captain Von Trapp and Maria Rainer, succeeding Michael Siberry and Rebecca Luker in the roles. The two continued in the roles through the production's closing on June 2...
Brotherhood: The Hip Hopera is a non-stop, high energy, one man show using original music and physical theatre to tell the parodied story of two brothers living the Hip Hop Life. Taking the audience from the 1970s all the way into the future, this fast-forwarding/rewinding live-hip-hop show is writ...
In Reykjavík's close-knit artistic community, the contemporary music scene is indistinguishable from the rock, pop, and electronic music scenes. A hallmark of our season is the Reykjavík Festival, curated by Esa-Pekka Salonen and Daníel Bjarnason, which will highlight the creativity thriving i...
On last night's WATCH WHAT HAPPENS LIVE, actress and singer Jennifer Lopez shared some details about starring in the future NBC musical BYE BYE BIRDIE! and teases that Nick Jonas' name 'has come up' in early casting discussions....
Mark Ruffalo stopped by this morning's GOOD MORNING AMERICA to discuss his return to Broadway for the first time in ten years in THE PRICE....
Below, BWW has an exclusive clip from the Disney Channel original movie TANGLED: BEFORE EVER AFTER, featuring the all-new song 'Life After Happily Ever After', written by Academy Award-winning Disney legend Alan Menken and lyricist Glenn Slater....
On Sunday, March 9, 2008, In The Heights officially opened on Broadway at the Richard Rodgers Theater. With music and lyrics by Pulitzer Prize winner, Lin-Manuel Miranda, a book by Quiara Alegra Hudes, and conceived by Miranda, In The Heights was directed and choreographed by Tony Award winn...
The Public Theater presents the world premiere of Ethan Lipton's The Outer Space, directed by Leigh Silverman. THE OUTER SPACE has been extended one week through Sunday, April 9, with an official press opening tonight, March 8 in Joe's Pub at The Public. The Outer Space features music composed...
The Music City Irish Fest presents, direct from a sold-out run in New York, the BroadwayWorld.com Winner Best New Play of 2016: THE FINAL DAYS OF WOLFE TONE. Ciaran Sheehan (star of Phantom of the Opera and Les Miserables) leads a cast of Broadway veterans in a brilliant new play that chronicl...
Veteran Company member Hope Boykin has been inspired by the sermons and speeches of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. to create this large ensemble work that melds creative storytelling, new music by Ali Jackson (from Jazz at Lincoln Center), and historic and original writings recorded by Tony Awar...
In 1945, a daring new play brought a brilliant young writer to national attention, and, in his own words, 'changed [his] life irrevocably' when it first premiered on Broadway. The play was The Glass Menagerie and the playwright was Tennessee Williams. More than seventy years later, Williams's play...
TheaterWorks will continue its 31st Season with NEXT TO NORMAL, running March 23 through April 30, 2017. The cast features Tony nominated Christiane Noll (Diana) and Australia's David Harris (Dan) in the Pulitzer Prize winning drama with music by Tom Kitt and book & lyrics by Brian Yorkey. Christ...
On last night's LATE SHOW, acclaimed stage actor Kevin Kline talked about starring in Noel Coward's PRESENT LAUGHTER on Broadway and taught Stephen how to take a proper Broadway bow....
Below, watch the first 5 minutes of the Disney Channel Original Movie, TANGLED BEFORE EVER AFTER in which Rapunzel (voiced by Mandy Moore) and Eugene (voiced by Zachary Levi) set out on the biggest adventure they will ever face…on their way to happily ever after!...
stufffOn this day in 2015, Academy Award winner Helen Mirren returned to Broadway with a stunning portrayal of Queen Elizabeth II in Peter Morgan's The Audience, directed by two-time Tony Award winner Stephen Daldry. The production nabbed two Tony Awards, one for Mirren in the Leading Actres...
Yale Repertory Theatre will continue its 50th Anniversary Season with a new production of ASSASSINS (March 17-April 8), starring Stanley Bahorek (Giuseppe Zangara), Stephen DeRosa (Charles Guiteau), Lucas Dixon (John Hinckley), Austin Durant (Proprietor), Dylan Frederick (Balladeer), P.J. G...
The company met the press earlier today and BroadwayWorld was on hand to chat with the company and bring you a sneak peek from the Rainbow Room!...
Executioner Number One is a black comedy set in a modern-day England where, following the Guildford and Birmingham bombings of the mid Seventies, the public were given a chance to vote on the reintroduction of the death penalty....
On last night's JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE, guest Emma Watson revealed that she got hit with real snowballs while shooting a scene from Disney's BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, and viewers get a first look at the actress singing 'Something There,' from the live action film. ...
Emma Watson, Emma Thompson, Audra McDonald and Luke Evans sat down with GMA's Juju Chang this morning to discuss Disney's upcoming live action BEAUTY AND THE BEAST....
Cate Blanchett stopped by THE LATE SHOW Friday night to discuss making her Broadway debut in THE PRESENT....
Josh Gad, who portrays LeFou in Disney's new live-action BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, responds to the recent controversy surrounding the revelation that his character has a crush on the film's handsome and egotistical villain Gaston....
See a first look at six-time Tony winner Audra McDonald in Disney's brand-new remake of Disney's Beauty and the Beast. Portraying Madame de Garderobe, an opera diva who has been transformed into a magical wardrobe, McDonald gets to show off her personal styling chops in addition to a killer h...
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