Rise and shine, BroadwayWorld! It is July 15, 2025 and it's time to catch up on all of the theatrical happenings you may have missed in the last 24 hours: Good morning, BroadwayWorld! It's time to start your day with all the...
Brenda Pressley begins her Broadway run in Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning play Purpose on July 15. She takes over the role of matriarch Claudine Jasper, replacing the...
Springboard to Design, the free theatrical design program empowering high school students from underrepresented communities, has concluded its 2025 session. The program took place July 7–11 at the newly opened Harvey Fierstein...
Brenda Pressley will take her first bow as Claudine Jasper in the Tony Award-winning Broadway production of PURPOSE tomorrow, Tuesday, July 15. Pressley will appear in the role through the conclusion of the production’s run on...
Tony Award nominee LaTanya Richardson Jackson took her final bow in Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ PURPOSE on Sunday, July 13 at the Helen Hayes Theater. Watch video of the emotional moment as LaTanya takes her final bow for an acclaimed...
Last night's episode of The Gilded Age marked the halfway point for Season 3 of the series, and now, HBO Max has shared a brand-new trailer, previewing what's to come in the final four episodes of the season. In the video,...
Additional cast members have been revealed for the Hollywood Bowl’s production of Jesus Christ Superstar on August 1, 2 and 3, 2025. Joining Cynthia Erivo as Jesus and Adam Lambert as Judas are Josh Gad (Olaf in Frozen, Elder...
Following his 2024 performance in The Wiz, Wayne Brady is making his highly anticipated return to Broadway as the showman Harold Zidler in Moulin Rouge! The Musical. Ahead of his limited run in the show, which begins July 22, the Brady...
A one-night-only concert of The Drowsy Chaperone will be taking place at the Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage at Carnegie Hall on Monday, October 20th at 8:00pm ET featuring a star-studded all-trans and non-binary cast. The performance...
Rachel Zegler's alternate, Bella Brown, makes her debut as ‘Eva Perón’ in Jamie Lloyd’s new production of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Evita at The London Palladium tonight! Brown, who is...
Ready to see your next Broadway show? Of course you are! Let BroadwayWorld and Ticketmaster be your guide to which plays and musicals are the most buzz-worthy this week, starting July 14, 2025. Check out five Broadway shows we recommend...
Last Friday, Little Shop of Horrors alum Milo Manheim, Meg Donnelly, and the cast of Zombies 4: Dawn of the Vampires hit the stage on Good Morning America for a mash-up performance of "Someday" and "The Place to Be."...
Aisha Jackson is proud to break barriers on Broadway yet again with her nuanced portrayal of Daisy Fay Buchanan in The Great Gatsby , the musical adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s canonical Jazz Age novel, now running at the...
The producers of Heathers the Musical have issued a statement condemning bootlegs taken by audience members. In a new social media post, the musical – which recently return to its original Off-Broadway home at New World Stages...
On Sunday, July 13, BOOP! The Musical played its final performance on Broadway after 25 previews and 112 regular performances. Watch a video of the musical's final bow on Broadway, including the final reprise of "Why Look Around...
Sadie Sink played her 104th and final performance on Broadway as ‘Shelby Holcomb’ in John Proctor is the Villain yesterday, Sunday, July 13. Check out photos of her final curtain call below! Performances for Kimberly...
Shakespeare Theatre Company has revealed a sneak peek at casting for the 25/26 Season with several Broadway talents and local favorites leading the list in its first three shows: Merry Wives, The Wild Duck, and Guys and Dolls. Starting...
The new American play Immediate Family, written by Hamilton’s Paul Oakley Stovall and directed by Phylicia Rashad, will be performed as part of Blumenthal’s 2024–2025 PNC Broadway Lights series in Charlotte, North...
At the 2025 U.S. Nationals Exhibition Gala on January 26, 2025, Bronze Medalist ice skaters Caroline Green and Michael Parsons performed to a song from the musical Sunset Boulevard. They took to the ice for the song 'With One...
Richard Kind was recently profiled by CBS Sunday Morning. You may not know his name, but there's a good chance you've seen Richard Kind – on TV, in films or on Broadway. In the interview, CBS News chief medical...
At the curtain call of the July 12 matinee performance of A Beautiful Noise: The Neil Diamond Musical at the Hollywood Pantages Theatre in Los Angeles, patrons were met with a surprise when Neil Diamond, in front of a sold-out audience...
Jutst yesterday, the best of Broadway came together in Shubert Alley for the 27th annual Broadway Barks. Hosted by co-founder Bernadette Peters and Beth Leavel, the special event featured a ‘meet and greet' of all the adoptable...
On Friday, July 11, music superstar Lorde visited with the cast of John Proctor is the Villain on Broadway! Her song, "Greenlight", his featured predominantly in the show. See the photos here! Playwright Kimberly Belfower...
Olivier-winning actress Elaine Paige is giving Broadway.com listeners a chance to hear her BBC Radio 2 show Elaine Paige on Sunday . This week, Paige has a hot-to-trot selection of barn-raising summery show tunes. Plus, all the...
Katerina McCrimmon, making her debut at the Muny as Eva Perón, sings "Rainbow High" from Evita. The show opens July 18 and runs through July 24. See the video here! Joining principals Katerina McCrimmon (Eva), Paulo...
Love is an open door! Watch a new clip of "Love Is An Open Door" from The Muny's production of Frozen. The video features Patti Murin reprising her Broadway performance as Anna and Bobby Conte as Hans. The new production of...
As BroadwayWorld reported earlier this week, John Tartaglia saved the day at the Muny, where he stepped into the role of Oaken in their currently running production of Disney’s Frozen. He replaced the injured Mark Saunders...
The new national tour of BEAUTY AND THE BEAST is gorgeous and full of Disney stage magic. Disney Theatrical Group has pulled out all the stops for the first tour of this musical in 25 years. I wore out my VHS tape of BEAUTY AND THE BEAST...
Here's a quick roundup of stories you might have missed. Live Wicked Musical TV Special, Featuring Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande, Will Air in the Fall Ahead of the November 21 release of Wicked: For Good in...
The Great Gatsby 's Jordan Baker dwells among the new money of West Egg, a world of blinding parties and dark secrets. But it's all "Champagne Problems" for original cast member Samantha Pauly , who's popping...
Jamie Lloyd’s simultaneously stripped down and amped up production of Sunset Boulevard , playing its final Broadway performance on July 20, walked away from this year’s Tony Awards with the coveted prize for Best Revival of a...
Krystal Hernandez is SIX 's Anna of Cleves, the unflaggingly self-possessed fourth wife in Broadway's histo-remix. By the way she gets down at the Lena Horne Theatre with the abandon of Cardi B (her queen-spo), you'd...
The Tony Awards Administration Committee has announced the Nominating Committee for the 2025-26 Broadway season, comprising 64 actors, directors, writers, designers and other members of the Broadway community. The Nominating Committee...
Floyd Collins will release its original Broadway cast recording digitally on August 8, with a physical CD due September 5. The album was previously scheduled to be released both physically and digitally on July 11. Floyd...
Age: 23 Hometown: Rochester, NY Current Role: Isa Antonetti plays Young Omara, a singer learning to harness the power of her voice in 1950s Havana, in Marco Ramirez’s Tony-nominated new musical Buena Vista Social Club , directed by...
Of all the art forms, theater may be the best at making the distant past feel immediate. In the right storytelling hands, even long-dead characters and stories can come vividly to life. Perhaps that’s why the stuff of history books...
Here's a quick roundup of stories you might have missed. Dilaria , Starring Ella Stiller, Extends Off-Broadway The world-premiere production of Julia Randall’s darkly comic new play Dilaria , starring Ella Stiller in the title...
Jean Smart is back on Broadway for the first time in 25 years in Call Me Izzy , Jamie Wax’s solo play about a woman in rural Louisiana whose life has been shaped by poverty and violence. Izzy writes poetry in private, never...
When it's summer in the city, there's no better way to beat the heat than with a Broadway show. See what's treading the boards in the latest episode of The Broadway Show with Tamsen Fadal . Tony nominee and...
Maybe Happy Ending is the reigning Tony-winning Best Musical—an accolade that seemed all but assured going into the June 8 ceremony. But a year ago, when Helen J Shen had just booked her Broadway debut as retired Helperbot Claire...
Sometimes, if an actor is lucky, the role she is playing reflects the kind of person she aspires to be off stage. Lencia Kebede , the first full-time Black Elphaba in the Broadway company of Wicked , puts it more poetically, declaring in...
Tony Award winner James Monroe Iglehart will join the Broadway cast of & Juliet at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre this August, playing a limited 13-week engagement as Lance from August 5 through November 2. The show's...
Montego Glover 's turn as Gypsy 's Rose isn't over yet. Following her weeklong run earlier this month during Audra McDonald 's vacation, Glover will continue to perform the role at the Majestic Theatre for Sunday matinee...
Adi Roy and Agrabah’s wiliest street rat go way back. Before joining the Broadway production of Aladdin in the title role in June 2024, he spent two years playing the part on the North American tour. Long before that, he was...
Richard Greenberg, the celebrated playwright best known for his 2003 Tony-winning play Take Me Out, has died. The cause of death has not been confirmed. He was 67. Theater director Robert Falls, who has been collaborating...
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The 2025 Drama Desk Award winners were revealed last night, with Maybe Happy Ending taking home a total of six awards, including Outstanding Musical; Boop! The Musical three awards; Gypsy, Just in Time and Pirates! The Penzance Musical...
Happy Tonys!!!! Hosting a party on Sunday, June 8, or planning to watch on your own and celebrate the fun with everyone online? Here's everything you need to make your Tonys night a success.
The Outer Critics Circle Awards winners have been announced, with Maybe Happy Ending sweeping with four awards, including that for Outstanding New Broadway Musical. Other honored musicals included Boop! The Musical, Cats: "The Jellicle...