The cast of "Stereophonic"(Photo: Julieta Cervantes) The Tony Awards Administration Committee met on April 26 to confirm the eligibility status of 12 Broadway productions for the 2023-2024 season. This was the fourth and final time the Tony Awards Administration Committee met to decide the eligibility for the 77th Annual Tony Awards. The productions discussed were: [...]
What was your favorite new musical? Who gave your favorite breakthrough performance? Who was your favorite onstage pair? It's time for you to pick the nominees of the 2024 Broadway.com Audience Choice Awards. The Broadway.com Audience Choice Awards are the only major theatrical awards where the nominating jury and voting committee is made up entirely [...]
The previously announced summer arrival of Forbidden Broadway on Broadway: Merrily We Stole a Song has been indefinitly postponed. Directed by creator Gerard Alessandrini, performances were scheduled to begin at the Hayes Theater on July 25 ahead of an August 5 opening, with plans to run through November 1. Producers Ryan Bogner, Victoria Lang and Tracey McFarland [...]
Paul Alexander Nolan and the company of "Water for Elephants"(Photo: Matthew Murphy) The Original Broadway Cast Recording for Broadway’s Water for Elephants, with a score by the musical collective PigPen Theatre Co., will be released by Ghostlight Records on May 17. Two new singles, “Wild” and “Silver Stars,” are already available. A physical CD is being [...]
Isabelle McCalla has been flying high at the Imperial Theatre where she stars—and trapezes—as Marlena in the new Broadway musical Water for Elephants. Now, she's giving audiences an inside look at Broadway's most death-defying production, filled with circus tricks, love triangles and backstage bromances. McCalla returns with episode seven of Step Right Up after a weeklong hiatus from [...]
Christopher Ryan Grant, Van Hughes, Patti Murin(Photos by Paul Archuleta/FilmMagic; c/o O&M; c/o Disney) Christopher Ryan Grant, Van Hughes and Patti Murin will lead La Jolla Playhouse's world premiere of the new musical The Ballad of Johnny and June, about the country music stars Johnny Cash and June Carter. Tony winner Des McAnuff will direct [...]
The Broadway cast of "The Great Gatsby"( Photo: Matthew Murphy and Evan Zimmerman) In his novel The Great Gatsby, amid intoxicating prose about glowing lights, copious drinks and too-eager laughter, F. Scott Fitzgerald demonstrates a discerning eye for clothes and what they can reveal about their wearer. Enigmatic party host Jay Gatsby—shockingly—wears a pink suit, [...]
Deborah Cox and Nichelle Lewis in "The Wiz"(Photo: Jeremy Daniel) The Wiz, now running at the Marquis Theatre, will release a 2024 Broadway Cast Recording on July 12 through Immersive/Interscope Records. The Broadway revival, directed by Schele Williams, opened April 17 following a 13-city North American tour. An all-Black retelling of L. Frank Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard [...]
In 2015, the British Medical Journal published a study on a phenomenon that the researchers observed among highly ranked Russian political figures and officials, including President Vladimir Putin: a distinctive gait characterized by a reduced swinging of the right arm. The researchers attributed the movement to K.G.B. weapons training, which enables the trainee to swiftly [...]
Renée Elise Goldsberry, Jesse Tyler Ferguson(Photos by Emilio Madrid) Tony Award winners Renée Elise Goldsberry and Jesse Tyler Ferguson will announce the nominations for the 77th Annual Tony Awards. The announcement will air live from Sofitel New York on the Tony Awards' official YouTube page on April 30 beginning at 9:00 AM ET, with announcements for select categories broadcast [...]
