"Floyd Collins" stars Jeremy Jordan, Lizzy McAlpine, Marc Kudisch, Jessica Molaskey and Jason Gotay(Photo: Tricia Baron) Floyd Collins, the tragic, true story musicalized by Tony Award winner Adam Guettel (music and lyrics) and Tina Landau (book and additional lyrics), plays its first Broadway performance at the Vivian Beaumont Theater on March 28. Directed by Landau, the [...]
Jennifer Lopez(Photo by Sergio Villarini for Broadway.com) Here's a quick roundup of stories you might have missed. Kiss of the Spider Woman, Starring Jennifer Lopez, to Hit Theaters in the FallThe previously announced film adaptation of Kander and Ebb’s Kiss of the Spider Woman, starring Jennifer Lopez and directed by Bill Condon, will have a fall wide theatrical [...]
Ella Beatty, Hugh Jackman, Liev Schreiber(Photos: Gregory Pace; c/o DKC/O&M; Celeste Sloman) Ella Beatty and Hugh Jackman will star in the New York premiere of Hannah Moscovitch’s Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes, performed off-Broadway in repertory with Jen Silverman’s new adaptation of August Strindberg’s Creditors starring Liev Schreiber, Maggie Siff and Justice Smith. Sexual [...]
As Women’s History Month comes to a close, The Broadway Show is spotlighting six incredible producers currently ushering in some of the hottest tickets this season: Buena Vista Social Club; Dead Outlaw; Good Night, And Good Luck; Gypsy; John Proctor is the Villain; Purpose; Redwood and Stranger Things: The First Shadow, just to name a few. These powerhouse women—LaChanze, Sonia Friedman, Mara [...]
The Shubert Organization has a new president. Jeff T. Daniel, previously the chief strategy officer with Shubert, has been appointed President, effectively immediately. He will report to Shubert Chairman and CEO Robert E. Wankel in the role. “Jeff’s background, both at Shubert and prior to joining our company, make him extremely well suited for this [...]
Kenny Leon's Broadway revival of Othello, starring Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal as Othello and Iago, opened at the Barrymore Theatre on March 23, with the show's stars and creative team, as well as special guests, gracing the red carpet pre-show. Before the show, Washington had words of praise for the playwright (who was not in attendance on the night). "Shakespeare [...]
Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal take their opening-night bows in "Othello"(Photo by Sergio Villarini for Broadway.com) This week, The Broadway Show with Tamsen Fadal is hitting a slew of opening-night red carpets and capping off Women's History Month in style. Find out what's on tap in the latest episode. Othello celebrates its Broadway opening with stars Denzel Washington [...]
Ilana Glazer in "Good Night, and Good Luck" on Broadway; Shirley and Joe Wershba circa 2005(Photos: Emilio Madrid; Scott Rudd/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images) Good Night, and Good Luck, George Clooney and Grant Heslov's stage adaptation of their 2005 film, recreates anchor Edward R. Murrow's CBS newsroom during Senator Joseph McCarthy's reign of terror in [...]
John Krasinski(Photo c/o Polk & Co.) John Krasinski will perform the one-man dark comedy Angry Alan, written by Penelope Skinner and co-created by Don Mackay. It will be the inaugural production at Studio Seaview—the midtown Manhattan venue that was formerly Second Stage's Tony Kiser Theater. The show will have a strictly limited 10-week off-Broadway engagement [...]
Claire-Marie Hall, Zoë Roberts, David Cumming and Natasha Hodgson in "Operation Mincemeat"(Photo: Julieta Cervantes) Operation Mincemeat, with its pocket-sized ensemble, opened their scrappy British musical at the John Golden Theatre on March 20 on the heels of an Olivier Award-winning run in London's West End. Based on the real-life MI5 deception operation that turned the tide [...]
