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Isabel Keating & Michael Moran
Isabel Keating & Martin Moran debut in Wicked on Broadway
Broadway's hit musical Wicked welcomes new principal cast members Tony Award nominee Isabel Keating as Madame Morrible and Obie Award winner Martin Moran as Doctor Dillamond at the Gershwin Theatre ... Read more
Rachel York & Peppermint
The Go-Go's Head Over Heels musical will play Broadway's Hudson Theatre
They've got the beat! Producers of the new musical comedy Head Over Heels have now announced casting for the upcoming Broadway premiere, which is now confirmed to officially open at Broadway's Hudson... Read more
Ben Platt in Dear Evan Hansen
GRAMMYS
Dear Evan Hansen wins at the 2018 Grammy Awards
#YouWillBeFound and awarded a Grammy in the category of "Best Musical Theater Album"! Congratulations to the 2017 Tony Award-winning musical Dear Evan Hansen, which fought off stiff competition from... Read more
Beth Leavel & Brooks Ashmanskas in The Prom
Beth Leavel, Brooks Ashmanskas and more will star in The Prom on Broadway
Producers have announced principal casting who will be attending The Prom on Broadway - a new musical comedy, directed and choreographed by Tony Award winner Casey Nicholaw, which will officially... Read more
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Spring 2018 Broadway Preview - The Musicals
With the Broadway premieres of The Band's Visit and SpongeBob SquarePants and the Broadway revival of Once on This Island all proving to be both critical and commercial hits since the fall, the 2017-... Read more
Denzel Washington
Frank Wood, Tammy Blanchard, Colm Meaney, Bill Irwin & more to join Denzel Washington in The Iceman Cometh
Casting is now complete for the forthcoming Broadway revival of Eugene O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh, starring Tony and two-time Academy Award winner Denzel Washington as Hickey, which begins previews... Read more
Sara Bareilles in Waitress
Sara Bareilles extends her return engagement in Waitress on Broadway
This is certainly no "Bad idea"! Waitress' composer/lyricist - and Tony & six-time Grammy Award nominee - Sara Bareilles has decided to extend her return engagement in the Broadway production by... Read more
Tootsie
Tootsie is heading to Broadway in Spring 2019
Tootsie is officially Broadway-bound, folks! After much speculation, Scott Sanders Productions has now confirmed that Tootsie will land on Broadway in spring 2019 at a yet-to-be-named venue. The... Read more
Tarell Alvin McCraney
Manhattan Theatre Club to produce Tarell Alvin McCraney's Choir Boy on Broadway and more
Manhattan Theatre Club has confirmed three productions for its forthcoming 2018-2019 season, including a U.S. premiere and a Broadway premiere at the company's Broadway home of the Samuel J. Friedman... Read more
Peter Jöback as The Phantom of the Opera
The Phantom of the Opera celebrates 30 years on the Great White Way
Broadway's longest-running show of all time, The Phantom of the Opera marks 30 years on the Great White Way with a special 30th Anniversary Gala performance at the Majestic Theatre tonight. A... Read more
Bernadette Peters
BREAK A LEG
Bernadette Peters, Victor Garber and more debut in Hello, Dolly! on Broadway
Back where she belongs! The Tony Award-winning revival of Hello, Dolly! welcomes Broadway favorite and two-time Tony Award winner Bernadette Peters to the title role of Dolly Levi Gallagher at... Read more
Isabel Keating as Madame Morrible and Martin Moran as Doctor Dillamond
Wicked will welcome Isabel Keating and Martin Moran to the Broadway cast
Broadway's hit musical Wicked is set to welcome new principal cast members to the production at the Gershwin Theatre from January 30, 2018. Tony Award nominee Isabel Keating will assume the role of... Read more
Nyle DiMarco
Nyle DiMarco joins Hal Luftig as producer on Children of a Lesser God
Producer Hal Luftig has announced that deaf activist, model and actor Nyle DiMarco has joined the creative team of the upcoming Broadway revival of Mark Medoff's 1980 Tony Award-winning "Best Play" ... Read more
Peter Jöback
Peter Jöback returns to The Phantom of the Opera ahead of 30th Anniversary
The 30th Anniversary cast of The Phantom of the Opera welcomes Platinum-selling Swedish recording artist Peter Jöback back to the company at the Majestic Theatre tonight. Mr. Jöback reprises the... Read more
Michael Luwoye in Hamilton
Michael Luwoye is Alexander Hamilton on Broadway
History has its eyes on Michael Luwoye... The Hamilton alum returns to the smash hit musical tonight and assumes the title role full-time in the Broadway production. Mr. Luwoye has previously played... Read more
Sara Bareilles in Waitress
BREAK A LEG
Sara Bareilles returns to her musical Waitress opposite Jason Mraz
You Matter To Us, Sara Bareilles! The Broadway production of Waitress welcome backs the show's composer/lyricist Tony and six-time Grammy Award nominee Sara Bareilles for a limited six-week return... Read more
Pat Monahan of Train
Train's Pat Monahan will make his Broadway debut in Rocktopia
Producers of the upcoming Broadway engagement of Rocktopia have confirmed that Pat Monahan, a three-time Grammy Award winner and frontman of multi-platinum-selling band Train, will officially make... Read more
Kandi Burruss
BREAK A LEG
Kandi Burruss makes her Broadway debut in Chicago
Broadway has a new Countess of the Clink! Kandi Burruss, star of Bravo's "The Real Housewives of Atlanta," Grammy Award-winning singer/songwriter, and member of the 1990s girl group of Xscape,... Read more
Molly Griggs
Molly Griggs will star as Minnie Fay in Hello, Dolly! on Broadway
It has been confirmed that Molly Griggs is set to assume the role of Minnie Fay in the hit Tony Award-winning revival of Hello, Dolly!, when performances recommence with the new cast from January 20... Read more
Mark Evans in The Play That Goes Wrong
Fan Appreciation Night at The Play That Goes Wrong
The Olivier Award-winning hit comedy The Play That Goes Wrong, currently the longest-running play on the Great White Way, is holding a special "Fan Appreciation Night" at the Lyceum Theatre tonight,... Read more
Beth Malone
Beth Malone and more complete the cast of Angels in America on Broadway
Complete casting has now been confirmed for the upcoming Broadway revival of Tony Kushner's epic drama Angels in America, which will play a strictly limited 18-week engagement at Broadway's Neil... Read more
Jason Mraz
Jason Mraz extends his limited engagement in Waitress
"I'm Yours" for a little bit longer! Producers of Broadway's hit musical Waitress have now confirmed that two-time Grammy Award winner Jason Mraz has extended his limited Broadway debut engagement in... Read more
Scissor Sisters' Jake Shears
Scissor Sisters' Jake Shears makes his Broadway debut in Kinky Boots
Scissor Sisters' frontman Jake Shears is the next star to step up and showcase the "Soul of a Man" as he makes his Broadway debut as Charlie Price in the Tony Award-winning musical Kinky Boots at the... Read more
Tamyra Gray & Norm Lewis
Norm Lewis & Tamyra Gray debut in Broadway's Once on This Island
Tony Award nominee Norm Lewis and "American Idol" star Tamyra Gray join the first-ever Broadway revival of Once on This Island, directed by Tony Award nominee Michael Arden, at the Circle in the... Read more
Jessica Keenan Wynn as Cynthia Weil
Jessica Keenan Wynn returns to Beautiful - The Carole King Musical on Broadway
Beautiful - The Carole King Musical alum Jessica Keenan Wynn returns to the Broadway production tonight, assuming the role of Cynthia Weil from Kara Lindsay, who played her final performance in the... Read more
Bernadette Peters
January 2018 Highlights on Broadway and Beyond
Happy New Year to all of our esteemed readers! It's another case of "ring out the old, bring in the new..." as we look forward to a year jam-packed with theatrical treats and especially a springtime... Read more