Happy Birthday, Kerry Butler! Butler received a 2008 Tony Award nomination for Best Actress in a Musical for playing Kira/Clio in Xanadu. Other Broadway credits include Blood Brothers, Les Miserables, Audrey in Little Shop of Horrors, (Outer Critics Circle Award nomination), Penny Pingleton in Hairs...
Happy Birthday, John Gallagher, Jr.! Gallagher originated the role of Moritz Stiefel in Spring Awakening on Broadway after performing the role Off-Broadway and in workshops at Lincoln Center. Gallagher won the 2007 Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical for his performance....
Happy Birthday, Danny Burstein! On Broadway, Burstein's appearances have included A Little Hotel on the Side (1992), Yakov in The Seagull (1992-93), in Saint Joan and Three Men on a Horse (both in 1993), Paul in Company (1995), 1st Officer William Murdoch in Titanic (1997-99), Aldolpho in The Drowsy...
Legendary singer Elton John took time out of his Liverpool Echo Arena concert on Tuesday, June 14th, to pay tribute to the victims of the Orlando shooting, which took the lives of 49 people and left 53 injured....
The first song of VEREINIGTE BÜHNEN WIEN's new musical SCHIKANEDER by Stephen Schwartz and Christian Struppeck is now online and BWW has your first listen below!...
The 2016 Bobby G Awards, which celebrate outstanding achievement in Colorado high-school theatre, were held May 26 at the Buell Theatre. Each of the five nominated Outstanding Musicals performed songs or medleys before the crowd of 1,700. Below are excerpts from each of those performances. The feat...
In the wake of this weekend's shooting in Orlando, Jason Robert Brown has released an evocative performance video of the recently penned 'A Song About Your Gun.' You can watch it below....
An all-star roster of theater artists gathered today to record the new benefit single 'What the World Needs Now is Love' for victims of the Orlando Shooting. Broadway Records President Van Dean, Seth Rudetsky and James Wesley announced the single and the charitable initiative 'Broadway for Orlando' ...
'SO YA WANNA BE A BROADWAY STAR?' is an awesomely awkward comedic satire that follows Micki Manuel Minnelli ( Jamison Daniels), an overnight YouTube Celebrity searching for Broadway stardom wherever he can find it. A German documentary team follows him around on his daily journey with his fan-girl/m...
While the Tony Awards dedicated Sunday night's broadcast to the victim's of the Orlando shooting, others have been sending support and voicing concern and outrage over the horrible incident. At today's performance of #Ham4Ham, which drew record-breaking crowds, Lin-Manuel Miranda welcomed Andrea Bu...
Liza Minnelli returned to the stage last week, Thursday, June 9 alongside her friend Michael Feinstein at The Library at the Public in New York City. She sang four songs including Cabaret, Maybe This Time and New York, New York. Check out a video of her appearance below!...
Watch as Tony nominee Michael Shannon takes the stage with 'Here Comes Your Man' by 80's rock band, the Pixies! on Thursday night's LIP SYNC BATTLE....
Dominic Cooper stars in Stephen Jeffreys' sexually charged masterpiece THE LIBERTINE this autumn. Directed by Olivier and Tony Award-winning Terry Johnson, the play will have a limited run from 31 August to 17 September at Bath Theatre Royal as part of the theatre's 2016 summer season, prior to ...
Tony Award winner Leslie Odom Jr. stopped by last night's WATCH WHAT HAPPENS LIVE on Bravo and explained how he feels about the steep ticket prices for HAMILTON....
The Muny is currently presenting its season opener, The Wizard of Oz, now through June 22. The Wizard of Oz is directed by John Tartaglia, choreographed by Ralph Perkins, and music directed by Valerie Gebert. Check out highlights from the show below!...
Aladdin will have its official opening night at the Prince Edward Theatre tonight, June 15. Disney's new West End musical began preview performances on Friday 27 May and tickets for the spectacular production are now on sale for performances up to and including 11 February 2017. For further detai...
On last night's MAYA AND MARTY on NBC, Maya Rudolph joined SCHOOL OF ROCK's Luca Padovan, A BRONX TALE's Joshua Colley and KINKY BOOTS' Douglas Baldeo in a tribute to the 11-time Tony winning musical HAMILTON!...
On last night's LATE SHOW, Daniel Radcliffe stopped by to talk about his new play PRIVACY at New York's Public Theater....
On yesterday's LIVE, Kelly Ripa's co-host Jerry O'Connell and guest Jeff Goldblum chatted about working together on the Broadway play SEMINAR....
Leslie Odom Jr joins 'CBS This Morning' for his first TV interview since winning his Tony. Watch the appearance below!...
Today in 2011, Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark opened at the Foxwoods Theatre, where it ran for 1066 performances. Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark is a rock musical with music and lyrics by U2's Bono and The Edge and a book by Julie Taymor, Glen Berger, and Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa. The musical is based o...
On last night's LATE SHOW, host Stephen Colbert celebrated the highlights from the 70th Annual TONY AWARDS and praised HAMILTON's Lin-Manuel Miranda for his moving acceptance speech....
Fresh off hosting the 70th Tony Awards the night before, James Corden recapped his experience in New York and his fond feelings towards the Broadway community....
Bill Hanney's award-winning North Shore Music Theatre (NSMT) presents a new production of FUNNY GIRL, starring Broadway's Shoshana Bean in the lead role of Fanny Brice. FUNNY GIRL opened Tuesday, June 7 and plays through Sunday, June 19, 2016. BroadwayWorld brings you a first look at the cast in...
While the Tony Awards dedicated last night's broadcast to the victim's of the Orlando shooting, others have been sending support in different ways. Below, watch as the NYC Gay Men's Chorus performs 'Light' from Next to Normal in loving tribute....
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