Broadway News & Features

freestyle love supreme begins performances on Broadway

Conceived by Lin-Manuel Miranda, Thomas Kail and Anthony Veneziale, freestyle love supreme begins previews at the Booth Theatre tonight, ahead of an official opening on October 2 and a 16-week limited engagement through January 5, 2020.Synopsis: "Six talented performers providing non-stop action throughout this fast-paced evening, spinning cues from the audience into humorous bits, instantaneous songs and riffs, and fully realized musical numbers. The electrifying vocals of the performers - from...

A New York Theatre Guide to... Derren Brown: Secret!

Something Wicked This Way Comes! BAFTA and two-time Olivier Award winner Derren Brown has been a household name in the UK for almost two decades. Since his television debut with "Mind Control" in 2000, the Croydon native has forged an extraordinary career thanks to his eerily extraordinary talent as a mentalist and illusionist across the pond. With regular stints on the West End stage and in theatres across the UK and Ireland to his résumé, even garnering two Olivier Awards for "Best...

The Height of the Storm, starring Jonathan Pryce & Eileen Atkins, begins performances on Broadway

The storm has arrived! Manhattan Theatre Club's American premiere of Tony Award nominee Florian Zeller's The Height of the Storm, translated by Academy & Tony Award winner Christopher Hampton and directed by Tony Award nominee Jonathan Kent, begins previews at Broadway's Samuel J. Friedman Theatre tonight. The limited engagement will celebrate its official opening on September 24 and close on November 17, 2019.Synopsis: "For 50 years the lives of André and Madeleine have been filled with the...

Reneé Rapp succeeds Taylor Louderman in Mean Girls on Broadway

Time for a new "Apex Predator"! 2018 Jimmy Award winner Reneé Rapp takes over as Regina George in the hit Broadway musical Mean Girls at the August Wilson Theatre tonight. Original company member and Tony Award nominee Taylor Louderman played her final performance in the role on September 8, and Ms. Rapp previously made her Broadway debut as Regina from June 7 to June 26, during Ms. Louderman's brief leave of absence.Mean Girls scribe Tina Fey <a...

Broadway Fall 2019 Preview - Musicals & Entertainment

Following on from last week's Broadway preview of all the new plays and revivals heading to the Great White Way this fall, it's now time for the musicals and entertainment shows to take centre stage. Traditionally, the majority of high profile Broadway musicals tend to open in the spring, as close to the cut-off date for Tony Awards eligibility as possible, but there are still a handful of exciting new productions gearing up to astound New York audiences this fall.In case you've been living...

The Great Society, starring Brian Cox, begins performances on Broadway

LBJ on the Great White Way... again! The Broadway premiere of The Great Society begins previews at the Vivian Beaumont Theater tonight, ahead of an official opening on October 1 and a limited engagement through November 30, 2019.Written by Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winner Robert Schenkkan as Part II of the LBJ Plays, following the success of his Tony Award-winning "Best Play" All the Way, which starred Bryan Cranston in a 2014 Tony Award-winning performance, The Great Society is directed by...

A New York Theatre Guide to... Betrayal!

Having played a sold-out run at London's Harold Pinter Theatre in spring of this year, becoming the hot ticket of the town and the crown jewel of London's acclaimed "Pinter at the Pinter" season, Olivier Award-winning director Jamie Lloyd's hit revival of Betrayal has now crossed the pond to offer New York audiences a slice of the action. Previews began at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre on August 14, 2019, ahead of tonight's official opening. What's it all about?Inspired by his own seven-year...

A New York Theatre Guide to... Sea Wall/A Life!

Over at the Hudson Theatre, audiences have been flocking to a unique and intimate performance of poignant storytelling under the banner of Sea Wall/A Life. Following its sold-out Off-Broadway run at the Public Theater earlier this year, this seemingly destined pairing of Olivier and Tony Award-winning playwright Simon Stephens' Sea Wall and Olivier Award-nominee Nick Payne's A Life made the move uptown and began performances at the Hudson on July 26, 2019, ahead of an official opening on August...

September 2019 Highlights on Broadway and Beyond

As the temperatures begin to dip in the coming months, things are really starting to heat up on the Great White Way. No less than ten new Broadway productions begin performances in New York City this September in what promises to be quite an eclectic fall on Broadway. Andrew Polec & Christina Bennington in Bat Out of Hell, Tom Sturridge in Sea Wall and Jake Gyllenhaal in A Life (Photos by Little Fang Photo / Richard Hubert Smith)But before we get to all these exciting new additions, as...

Broadway Fall 2019 Preview - The Plays

As the Broadway season shifts up a gear and we head gleefully into the autumn, the emphasis seems to be on new plays in the coming months. Of course, there will also be a delightful sprinkling of musicals and genre-defying entertainment shows (check back in with us next week) alongside a couple of revivals, but what's really got us excited is seeing brand new works and recent transfers given the green light to find wider audiences on the Great White Way.The 2019-2020 Broadway season already...