Michelle Williams, Jennifer Simard, Megan Hilty and Christopher Sieber(Photos by Sergio Villarini for Broadway.com) Death Becomes Her, the new musical with a book by Marco Pennette, a score by Julia Mattison and Noel Carey, and direction and choreography by Christopher Gattelli, opened on Broadway at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre on November 21. Megan Hilty and Jennifer Simard [...]

Stark Sands, Adrian Blake Enscoe, John Gallagher Jr. and Wayne Duvall(Photos by Sergio Villarini for Broadway.com) Swept Away, the harrowing new musical about a shipwreck that leaves four members of a whaling crew adrift in a lifeboat, celebrated its Broadway opening on November 19. John Gallagher Jr., Stark Sands, Adrian Blake Enscoe and Wayne Duvall star as the central quartet, [...]

Broadway.com's Emmy-nominated docuseries Character Study is back, and with the actress who kicked it off 14 years ago. Sutton Foster has pulled back the curtain on her Broadway transformations twice before—for her 2011 role as Reno Sweeney in Anything Goes and her 2014 turn as the title character in Violet. It's only fitting that she would usher in the return of Character Study with [...]

Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo in "Wicked"(Photo: Universal Pictures) From Glinda’s airy, blue bubble dress to Elphaba’s earthy, black frock and jaunty hat to match, the costumes associated with Wicked— crafted for the stage by Susan Hilferty—have become sacred iconography on Broadway (just look at the passionate online discourse about Fiyero’s white jodhpurs). Fans are [...]

The Broadway revival of Gypsy, starring Audra McDonald as Momma Rose, begins performances at the renovated Majestic Theatre on November 21 ahead of an official opening night on December 19. “It's overwhelming, and it's nothing I ever dreamed of having happened in my life,” McDonald told Broadway.com Editor-in-Chief Paul Wontorek on The Broadway Show. But, [...]

Paul Wontorek and Alaska Thunder*ck(Photo by Sergio Villarini for Broadway.com) In creating Drag: The Musical, drag icon Alaska Thunderf*ck wanted to create a show that embraced the gloriously seedy reality of drag—not the clean, sanitized version of the art form that exists largely to cater to straight people. “It’s not just feathers and fabulousness,” she explained [...]

John Lithgow in the Royal Court production of "Giant"(Photo: Manuel Harlan) Tony and Golden Globe Award winner John Lithgow will reprise his performance as Roald Dahl in Mark Rosenblatt's Giant, transferring to the West End after a run at London's Royal Court Theatre. The production, directed by Nicholas Hytner, will have a limited 14-week run at the Harold Pinter [...]

Jeremy Jordan(Photo by Emilio Madrid for Broadway.com) Jeremy Jordan, star of Broadway's The Great Gatsby, will take on the title role in the Broadway premiere of Floyd Collins this spring. Featuring music and lyrics by Tony Award winner Adam Guettel (The Light in the Piazza, Days of Wine and Roses) and a book and direction by Tina Landau, [...]

Michael Park, De’Adre Aziza, Zachary Noah Piser(Photos c/o Grapevine) The complete cast is set for Redwood, the new musical starring Idina Menzel. The show begins performances on January 4, 2025 at the Nederlander Theatre ahead of a February 13 opening night. Menzel will be joined by Tony Award nominee De’Adre Aziza (Passing Strange), Michael Park [...]

Marla Mindelle and the cast of "The Big Gay Jamboree"(Photo: Matthew Murphy) The Big Gay Jamboree, a new musical comedy created by and starring Titanique mastermind Marla Mindelle, will play its final performance at the Orpheum Theatre on December 15. The musical opened off-Broadway on September 30 and will have played 15 previews and 88 regular performances at [...]