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Wicked is celebrating its 20th year on Broadway this October, with October 30 recently being declared National Wicked Day. Ahead of the upcoming landmark anniversary, the cast of…
We now know who will be leading the Broadway premiere of The Notebook this upcoming spring. Portraying the lead roles of Allie and Noah across their lifetimes are Jordan Tyson as Young…
The Who's TOMMY is making its way back to Broadway! It was announced today that the critically acclaimed production of The Who's TOMMY that premiered at Chicago's Goodman Theatre earlier thi…
Limited time remains to catch this Stranger Things favorite in the Broadway revival of Sweeney Todd. Gaten Matarazzo announced today that he will play his final performance as Tobias i…
Recently, the Tony Award-winning revival of Stephen Sondheim's and George Furth's Company embarked on its North American tour, soon beginning a two-week engagement at Chicago's Cadillac Pala…
It's a question that prospective leading ladies have been asking themselves for two decades now: Are you an Elphaba or a Glinda? The two witches " neither wicked, but both accessibly imperfe…
Wicked opened on Broadway on Halloween Eve 2003, just a few years into my tenure as music and theater critic at USA Today. I arrived at a press preview filled with hopeful anticipation, havi…
Wicked is celebrating its 20th year on Broadway this October, with October 30 recently being declared National Wicked Day. Ahead of the upcoming anniversary, watch current Broadway …
There are some new Broadway queens heading to the Lena Horne Theatre. Previously seen on the critically acclaimed "Aragon" National Tour, the new Broadway cast of SIX will star Khaila Wil…
We now know who will be leading the revival of Cabaret on Broadway! Reprising his Olivier Award-winning performance, Eddie Redmayne will star as The Emcee, with Gayle Rankin joining th…
David Byrne is one of the minds behind Broadway's Here Lies Love and in this new video, he showcases the many different ways audiences can experience the Broadway musical in the completely t…
Known for his commanding voice and most recently for his Tony Award-nominated turn as Hades in Hadestown, Patrick Page is back on stage this fall, bringing his solo piece All The Devils A…
There's a new girl in town in Cob County! The hit musical comedy Shucked recently welcomed actress Isabelle McCalla, who took over the role of Maizy, the show's leading lady with a heart of …
Second Stage Theater announced today that Emmy, Golden Globe, and SAG Award nominee Elle Fanning (The Great) will make her Broadway debut in its upcoming production of Branden Jacobs-Jenkins…
It was announced today Josh Groban and Annaleigh Ashford will play their final performance in the Broadway revival of Sweeney Todd on January 14, 2024. The production also announced that it …
In honor of Disney's 100th Anniversary, Disney on Broadway shows of past and present came together for a special performance on Good Morning America. From old favorites like Newsies…
Wicked is celebrating its 20th year on Broadway this October, with October 30 recently being declared National Wicked Day. Ahead of the upcoming landmark anniversary, take a look at ne…
Following a sold-out, extended run at The Public Theater, Shaina Taub's new musical Suffs will come to Broadway this spring with former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Nobel Pe…
Following sold-out and critically acclaimed runs in London's West End and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, the Olivier Award-nominated play My Son's A Queer (But What Can You Do?) starring wri…
It was back in the late 1990s that pop icon Barry Manilow and lyricist and librettist Bruce Sussman first began work on a musical tracing the rise and fall of the Comedian Harmonists, a Germ…
Which of the Pickwick triplets did it? Now that the finale's out, we finally know who the murderer is, and we just might be able to stop singing the patter song heard throughout season three…
Jaja's African Hair Braiding, the new Broadway play written by Jocelyn Bioh (School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play) and directed by Whitney White (Our Dear Dead Drug Lord), off…
For Tony Award winner Leslie Odom Jr., Rent is not only the musical he made his Broadway debut in, but it's his artistic compass. "On some level, I'm just trying to be a part of Rent again a…
"It's so relevant. It's so needed. It's so now." When the Tony-winning director Kenny Leon describes his latest Broadway project, he sounds like he's talking about a brand-new play. But audi…
It was announced today that Reeve Carney, the original Broadway Orpheus in Hadestown, will play his final performance in the Tony Award-winning musical on Sunday, November 19, 2023, at the W…