Marvin Laird and Joel Paley at the 2015 opening-night party for the revival of "Ruthless!"(Photo: Walter McBride/Getty Images) Joel Paley, best known as the book writer, lyricist and director of the hit off-Broadway musical Ruthless!, died on January 11 in Milford, Connecticut. According to the New York Times, his sister Barbara Paley Cohen confirmed his death, [...]
Mark Rylance and Claire van Kampen(Photo by Emilio Madrid for Broadway.com) Claire van Kampen, a musical director and Tony-nominated playwright who frequently worked with her husband Mark Rylance, died on January 18 in Kassel, Germany. Her daughter, Juliet Rylance, said on social media that the cause was cancer. Van Kampen was 71. Claire van Kampen [...]
Lea Salonga and Arielle Jacobs(Photos: Raymund Isaac; Harold Julian) Lea Salonga and Arielle Jacobs are set to star in the Stephen Sondheim-James Lapine musical Into the Woods in the Philippines. Salonga will play the Witch and Jacobs will play Cinderella in the production at the Samsung Performing Arts Theatre in Makati in August. Salonga’s Broadway credits [...]
Jules Feiffer(Photo: Martha Swope/Billy Rose Theatre Division/NYPL) Jules Feiffer, the Pulitzer-winning political cartoonist, writer and Tony-nominated Broadway playwright, died on January 17. He died of congestive heart failure at his home in Richfield Springs, N.Y., his wife, JZ Holden, confirmed. He was 95. Jules Ralph Feiffer was born on January 26, 1929, in the Bronx. At [...]
Stefan has been bullied, beaten down and bruised (definitely emotionally, maybe physically) and he's not going to take it anymore! That's not true—Madeline Ashton's enabling assistant would never fly from his gilded cage. But Death Becomes Her fans can now get a close-up look for themselves in To Die For, a backstage vlog hosted by seven-time Broadway veteran Josh Lamon. [...]
Erika Henningsen(Photo c/o Polk & Co.) Erika Henningsen, best known for her breakout role as the original Cady Heron in Mean Girls on Broadway, will play 1950s ingénue (and Bobby Darin's first wife) Sandra Dee in the Bobby Darin musical Just in Time. She completes the cast, starring Tony winner Jonathan Groff as Darin. The show begins performances at Circle [...]
The upcoming Broadway adaptation of TV’s Smash has revealed its artwork. Positioning itself as the ultimate backstage musical, the lively image from photographer Jason Bell and the team at the ad agency SpotCo features a jam-packed opening-night red carpet in front of the Imperial Theatre, the show’s home. In the mix are all of the [...]
Trent Saunders, Andrew Durand and Eddie Cooper in "Dead Outlaw" off-Broadway(Photo: Matthew Murphy) The cast and creative team of Dead Outlaw, the folk musical about an ill-fated gunslinger, is set for Broadway. The show, which features music and lyrics by Tony winner David Yazbek and Erik Della Penna, a book by Tony winner Itamar Moses and [...]
Joey Fatone and & Juliet's veteran De Bois Band: Daniel J. Maldonado, Austin Scott, Paulo Szot, Philippe Arroyo and Justin David Sullivan (Photo: Michaelah Reynolds) Joey Fatone, a Broadway veteran and member of the chart-topping '90s boy band *NSYNC, begins performances in Broadway's & Juliet at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre on January 21. He takes on the [...]
Ryan McCartan(Photo: Ben Gabbe/Getty Images) Ryan McCartan begins his star turn as Jay Gatsby in The Great Gatsby at the Broadway Theatre on January 21. He replaces the musical's original title star Jeremy Jordan, who played his final performance January 19. McCartan made his Broadway debut in 2018 as Fiyero in Wicked and took over as Hans in the Broadway [...]
