Broadway News & Features

See these New York theatre shows for Pride month

Happy Pride! Across the world, people celebrate Pride month throughout the month of June, honoring the history of the LGBTQ+ community and celebrating its continued survival. With states nationwide introducing anti-LGBTQ laws, this year's Pride Month is an especially important time to support LGBTQ stories and, in the theatre in particular, celebrate the work of queer artists. The contributions of LGBTQ+ writers, directors, performers, choreographers, and so much more appear in so many shows on...

How the ‘& Juliet’ creative team fine-tuned the Broadway design

This season, several shows premiered on the West End before coming to Broadway, including & Juliet, the jukebox musical featuring hit songs from powerhouse music producer/songwriter Max Martin’s catalog. . & Juliet, featuring a book by David West Read, flips the script on Shakespeare’s tragedy Romeo & Juliet and reimagines the classic tale for a modern audience. In this feminist version, Juliet drops the dagger and chooses to live. The eponymous heroine ventures from fair Verona to Paris with...

American Airlines Theatre to be renamed for Todd Haimes

The American Airlines Theatre will be renamed for Todd Haimes, the late former artistic director and CEO of Roundabout Theatre Company. Haimes joined Roundabout in 1983, and he led the charge to restore and rename the venue, originally called the Selwyn Theatre, in the 1990s. The American Airlines theatre is now the flagship venue of Roundabout, which operates two other Broadway houses — Studio 54 and the Stephen Sondheim Theatre — and the Off-Broadway Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for...

The 2023 Tony Awards by the numbers

It’s the summer of 76! Not Summer, 1976 — that’s the Tony-nominated David Auburn play — but the 76th annual Tony Awards on June 11. Tony host Ariana DeBose may not march on stage with 76 trombones in tow (The Music Man was last season, after all), but it does seem fitting that the 76th Tony Awards are taking place in the same season as Roundabout’s gender-flipped 1776 revival and Manhattan Theatre Club’s world premiere of Summer, 1976. Seventy-six isn’t the only notable number attached to this...

First-time Tony nominees in ‘Some Like It Hot’ celebrate the milestone

The new musical Some Like It Hot has garnered 13 Tony Award nominations — the most this season — for its swinging score, hilarious book, and brilliant cast. The nods include Best New Musical and four first-time nominations for co-writer Amber Ruffin and cast members J. Harrison Ghee, NaTasha Yvette Williams, and Kevin Del Aguila. Inspired by the 1959 Marilyn Monroe-led film of the same name, the musical features a book by Matthew López and Ruffin, and a score by Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman....

Tyne Daly, Liev Schreiber to star in first 'Doubt' Broadway revival

This is good news, no doubt about it! Roundabout Theatre Company will present the first Broadway revival of Doubt: A Parable in February 2024, starring Tony and Emmy Award winner Tyne Daly and Tony and SAG Award winner Liev Schreiber. Daly is a Tony Award winner for Gypsy and a nominee for Mothers and Sons and Rabbit Hole. She makes her Roundabout debut with Doubt. Schreiber has performed in Betrayal and Moonlight with Roundabout, and he received a Tony for Glengarry Glen Ross. In John Patrick...

'Prayer for the French Republic' to premiere on Broadway

Joshua Harmon's Prayer for the French Republic will premiere on Broadway this winter with Manhattan Theatre Club, two years after the company produced its Off-Broadway premiere. Performances begin at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre on December 19 ahead of an opening night on January 9, 2024. In Prayer for the French Republic, a Jewish couple in Paris awaits news of their missing relatives in 1944. Seventy years later, their descendants, also in Paris, wonder about their own safety in this epic...

Julie Benko joins 'Harmony' Broadway cast

Julie Benko will join the cast of Harmony on Broadway, the new Barry Manilow and Bruce Sussman musical coming to the Barrymore Theatre this fall. Performances begin October 18 ahead of a November 13 opening. Benko is known for her breakout role as the alternate Fanny Brice in the current Broadway revival of Funny Girl, playing the role once a week in place of Lea Michele. Her performance earned her the 2023 Theatre World Dorothy Loudon Award for Excellence in the Theatre. Benko will play Ruth in...

How to plan the perfect Tony Awards party

You didn't get the invite to the United Palace for the 2023 Tony Awards, but that doesn't mean you can't party like Broadway royalty. It's Tony season, so it's time to gather your bosom buddies and raise a glass of bubbly to the biggest night on Broadway. Cheer on your favorites as you watch the June 11 ceremony at 8 p.m. on CBS while enjoying themed snacks and drinks. And the award for Best Party Host goes to... you! Learn more about the 2023 Tony nominees and how to watch the 2023 Tony Awards....

2023 Drama Desk Award winners announced

The Drama Desk has announced the winners of the 67th annual Drama Desk Awards, recognizing excellence in Broadway, off-Broadway, and off-offBroadway productions during the 2022-23 season. The Drama Desk Awards ceremony, co-hosted by Mandy Patinkin and Kathryn Grody, will take place on June 6 at Sardi’s Restaurant in New York City. This year, all performance categories are gender-free and award two winners. A group of journalists, editors, and publishers covering theatre vote on the nominations...