200 stories by "Michael Appler"
There are 16 Tony Awards and 49 Broadway shows between Stephen Sondheim and Andrew Lloyd Webber, two of the most influential composers in the history of musical theater. On March 22, L…
The national tour of Once On This Island has ended its scheduled run early, Tony-nominated director Michael Arden announced on Instagram on March 21. While many national tours have cancel…
Hamilton and In the Heights alum Javier Muñoz has joined the ongoing effort to provide overwhelmed hospitals and medical workers with valuable resources during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Julia Miles, founder of off-Broadway's seminal Women's Project who championed the cause of female playwrights and theater artists, died on March 18. According to a statement from WP Th…
Ruthie Ann Miles, the Tony-winning actress whose life was met with unimaginable tragedy in 2018, announced heartwarming news on March 21. Miles and her husband, Jonathan Blumenstein, are …
The Broadway League and The Coalition of Broadway Unions and Guilds (COBUG) have reached an emergency relief agreement to pay Broadway employees and provide them with health insurance while …
Like another Tony-winning composer stuck at home, Andrew Lloyd Webber has been drawn to the side of his piano. The seven-time Tony winner took to Twitter recently to entertain fans,…
Not to worry;Â Sutton Foster is healthy and happy. While the spread of COVID-19 has temporarily shuttered Broadway, the two-time Tony winner, set to return to the stage in a star-studded r…
Like all of us, Lin-Manuel Miranda, the Tony-, Grammy- and Emmy-winning creator of Hamilton, is stuck at home. Last night, Miranda appeared on a special episode of The Tonight Show,…
Broadway.com illustrator Tug Rice has been thinking up what our favorite Broadway characters are doing while theaters are closed and they're at home social distancing. First up, how are W…
Marc Kudisch, the perennial stage actor who's appeared in 15 Broadway shows and earned three Tony nominations, thinks he's an unlikely Broadway star. "I didn't sing when I got to New York…
Some new arrivals to North Shore High School just took a bow on Broadway. Sabrina Carpenter, Chad Burris, Olivia Kaufmann and Laura Leigh Turner all joined the cast of the Tony-n…
72 Miles to Go, playwright Hilary Bettis' examination of a Mexican-American family under the duress of deportation, opened on March 10. The cast"led by Maria Elena Ramirez as Anita,…
Chad Burris is up for a challenge. In September, he helped develop the first production of Cameron Crowe's Almost Famous musical at San Diego's Old Globe, originating the role of Vic Nune…
In time with the show's first preview at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre, Mrs. Doubtfire has released the first photos of star Rob McClure as the titular character. Wearing the nanny's…
The Minutes, two-time Tony winner Tracy Letts' new dramedy that uses a mundane town hall meeting to explore the state of American politics, is currently in previews at the Cort Theatre. I…
Jerry O'Connell is having a lot of fun on Broadway. "I can get a table at Bar Centrale these days!" the prolific television and film actor of Stand By Me fame laughed in a #LiveAtFive int…
Tony-winning lyricist Don Black will receive the Olivier Awards' 2020 Special Award, which recognizes individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the theater. Black will …
Joe Pantoliano has made a career out of playing the crooked, the criminal and the corrupt. He played a pimp in Risky Business (1983), a murderous criminal in Goonies (1985), a selfish traito…
This week, Abby Mueller took a break from filming her vlog, Yas, Queen!, and handed the camera off to fellow Six cast members Andrea Macasaet, Samantha Pauly and Brittney M…
Come From Away, the 2017 Tony nominee for Best Musical about a Canadian town that's inundated with dozens of grounded planes on 9/11, celebrated three years on Broadway on March 4. The ca…
While writing 72 Miles to Go, Hilary Bettis found herself at the Mexican-American border. She traveled to Arizona so she could research locations, setting the play in the same city …
Conor McPherson, the three-time Tony-nominated writer and director whose musical Girl From the North Country opens on Broadway March 5, sat in his Dublin house with dozens of Bob Dylan al…
Contrary to its title, C.A. Johnson's new off-Broadway play All the Natalie Portmans is not a play about Natalie Portman, assured Montego Glover. "Probably half the time people think N…
David Byrne, the two-time Grammy-winning recording artist whose theatrical concert America Utopia was a breakout hit on Broadway last fall, performed on Saturday Night Live February 29. B…