Grant Gustin in "Water for Elephants"; Maryann Plunkett and Dorian Harewood in "The Notebook"; Brody Grant in "The Outsiders" (Photos: Matthew Murphy; Julieta Cervantes; Matthew Murphy) The Tony Awards Administration Committee met on April 18 to determine the eligibility status of eight Broadway productions. This was their third meeting of the 2023-24 season. The productions [...]

Andrew Rannells and Josh Gad in "Gutenberg! The Musical!"(Photo: Matthew Murphy) The Original Broadway Cast Album of Gutenberg! The Musical!, as teased just following the end of its Broadway run in January, will be released digitally on May 3 with a physical CD release planned for May 17. From Center Stage Records and Yellow Sound Label, the [...]

Donna Murphy, Norbert Leo Butz, Jennifer Holliday(Photos by Henry Leutwyler; by Emilio Madrid; c/o Boneau/Bryan-Brown) A huge, all-star cast will perform the Stephen Sondheim-James Goldman musical Follies for one night only at Carnegie Hall. The concert, part of Transport Group’s Anne L. Bernstein Concert Series, will take place on June 20. Transport Group Artistic Director [...]

Jocelyn Bioh(Photo c/o Print Shop PR) The playwright Jocelyn Bioh, whose Jaja’s African Hair Braiding opened on Broadway in 2023, is to be honored by the Dramatists Guild at their annual ceremony on May 6 at Sony Hall. Bioh is the recipient of the Hull-Warriner Award, presented annually to an author in recognition of a [...]

Tom Pecinka, Reg Brill, Sarah Pidgeon in "Stereophonic"(Photo: Julieta Cervantes) Broadway’s Stereophonic, the David Adjmi play about a band toiling away to record an album in the 1970s, will release a cast album. The album will feature original songs—including the standout track “Masquerade”—by Academy Award nominee and Grammy Award winner Will Butler from Arcade Fire. [...]

On April 24, the fleet-footed, heart-filled theatrical event Illinoise opens at the St. James Theatre. With direction and choreography by Justin Peck and a story by Peck and Jackie Sibblies Drury, the show is a dance-driven theatricalization of the concept album Illinois, released by the indie-folk singer-songwriter Sufjan Stevens in 2005. The show stars vocalist Shara [...]

Nick Fradiani(Photo: Luis Ferrá) Nick Fradiani, American Idol's season 14 champion, is making his Broadway debut at the Broadhurst Theatre as the title star of A Beautiful Noise, The Neil Diamond Musical. The show says goodbye to Broadway on June 30, so before Fradiani packs up his guitar, we invited him to stop by the Broadway.com studio for [...]

In 2011, Water for Elephants star Sara Gettelfinger landed maybe the biggest break in a theater career filled with numerous highlights: a genuine leading lady turn as Morticia Addams in the first national tour of The Addams Family. True, the role wasn’t on Broadway, but her entire career had been a hard-won climb to the top [...]

The DeLorean from Broadway's "Back to the Future" It’s Eric Stewart’s job to carefully attend to every need of one of the most dazzling and exciting stars on the New York stage. But more about the DeLorean in a moment. As the head of props for Back to the Future on Broadway, Stewart also looks [...]

Jeremy Jordan in "The Great Gatsby" at Paper Mill Playhouse(Photo: Evan Zimmerman for Murphy Made) Believe it or not, the last character Jeremy Jordan originated in a Broadway musical was his breakout role as intrepid paper boy Jack Kelly in Disney’s Newsies back in 2012. He’s been back to Broadway since then—in 2018 as a [...]