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Broadway News & Features

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  • Summer is coming, and that means it's time for summer vacation! If you're planning to travel to New York this summer, your trip wouldn't be complete without a show — Broadway is a top NYC landmark to check off your list. It gets pretty hot in the city at summer's peak, so why not cool off inside a theatre or two — and get a great ticket deal to do so?Summer is a slower season for Broadway show openings as compared to the fall and especially the spring, since most of the major theatre awards,...

  • Outer Critics Circle

    On May 16, the Outer Critics Circle announced the winners of its 72nd annual awards in recognition of the 2022-23 Broadway and Off-Broadway season. The Outer Critics Circle, comprised of critics and writers for out-of-town newspapers and publications, will present the awards at a ceremony on May 25. For the first time in the organization’s history, this year’s awards removed gender specifications and included Off-Broadway performers. Top winners include Some Like It Hot with five nominations and...

  • Tony Awards

    This article was last updated with the latest information on May 15, 2023. The 2023 Tony Awards will be broadcast on CBS and Paramount+ as planned. This updated decision follows reports from May 12 that the awards might not be broadcast amid an ongoing strike by the Writer's Guild of America. The WGA strike began on May 2. The union represents film and TV writers, not Broadway playwrights, but those TV writers include the people who write material for hosts and presenters to read on televised...

  • Extra, extra! Emmy Award-winning Succession star Jeremy Strong will return to Broadway in a revival of Henrik Ibsen's An Enemy of the People this winter. The play will begin performances in winter 2024 for a 16-week run at a venue to be announced. Strong returns to Broadway for the first time since 2008, when he made his debut in A Man For All Seasons. Since then, Strong has become known for starring as Kendall Roy in the HBO drama Succession, winning an Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in...

  • Tony Awards

    Ahead of the 2023 Tony Awards on June 11, New York Theatre Guide introduces a new interview series titled Road to the Tonys. Actors, directors, writers, choreographers, and more share their journeys with the shows that ultimately earned them Tony nominations — journeys that included longtime connections to their show, unorthodox paths to Broadway, and gigs that almost didn't happen. Click the links below to read each artist's full interview. You can also discover the full list of 2023 Tony...

  • Aren't we lucky? The new musical Once Upon a One More Time will offer Broadway lottery tickets throughout its Broadway run at the Marquis Theatre. Performances begin May 13 ahead of a June 22 opening. The digital lottery will offer a limited number of $47 tickets for each performance. The lottery is open for entries between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. the day before each performance. Winners are notified within minutes after the lottery closes, and they will have 60 minutes to claim and pay for their...

  • New York, New York, the nine-time Tony-nominated Broadway musical by John Kander and Fred Ebb, draws loosely from the same-named 1977 Martin Scorsese movie starring Liza Minnelli and Robert De Niro. As in the film, the stage story by David Thompson and Sharon Washington takes place in 1946 in NYC. The war is over! Time for dreams as big as the city. Like the group of aspiring performers in director-choreographer Susan Stroman’s production, the songs are diverse, both in how they impact the mood...

  • Midnight has struck for Bad Cinderella. The musical has announced its closing, playing its final performance at the Imperial Theatre on June 4. At the time of closing, the show will have played 115 total performances. Bad Cinderella, which premiered in London in 2021 under the title Cinderella before moving to Broadway, is a revamp of the classic fairytale. The title maid is the loudmouthed, snarky outcast in a town obsessed with beauty and perfection. She eventually undergoes a makeover to win...

  • Jordan Litz is dancing through life! Litz will join the Broadway company of Wicked in the role of Fiyero, beginning performances on May 16. Litz arrives to the Gershwin Theatre directly from the Wicked national tour, where he played Fiyero for more than a year and a half. He will succeed James D. Gish in the role. Litz joins Alyssa Fox (Elphaba), McKenzie Kurtz (Glinda), John Dossett (the Wizard), Tony Award-winner Michele Pawk (Madame Morrible), William Youmans (Doctor Dillamond), Kimber Elayne...

  • For the second year, the review aggregator Show-Score and ticketing site TodayTix will partner to host Predict the Tonys, a game and contest to allow users to predict the winners of the 2023 Tony Awards for the chance to win a gift card to see Broadway shows. From May 9 until 5 p.m. on June 9, users can visit Show-Score's website to fill out a digital ballot, where they will vote for which show or person will win each competitive category. Participants will be entered in a drawing to win a...