EXCLUSIVE: Blue Man Group, the lapis lazuli-shaded performance troupe who drummed its way into Off Broadway history, will make its long-in-coming Broadway debut this holiday season. Blue Man Group’s A New Holiday Surprise, described as an “all-new festive spectacular,” will begin performances at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre on November 12, with an official opening night set […]
Deadline•Greg Evans3h ago
Broadway enjoyed a crisp upturn last week as autumn peeked around the corner, with a few shows benefiting from popular new cast members and one production seeing a final-week boost from last-chancers. In the former category were Oh, Mary!, a sell-out with newly arrived Bowen Yang in the lead, for a big gross of $1,517,710, […]
Deadline•Greg Evans20h ago
The case is closed on Chanel Nicole Marrow's latest appearance. After all, Ice-T and Coco Austin's 10-year-old daughter hit the catwalk for the Rookie Kids Runway on Broadway fashion show during...
E! Online•Brahmjot Kaur21h ago
Idina Menzel, Adam Pascal, Anthony Rapp, Daphne-Rubin Vega, and others will perform a livestream from Broadway’s Richard Rodgers Theatre
Rolling Stone•Althea Legaspi22h ago
Idina Menzel, Adam Pascal, Anthony Rapp, Daphne Rubin-Vega and other cast members of Jonathan Larson’s Rent will take part in a one-night-only 30th anniversary benefit concert to be livestreamed from Broadway’s Richard Rodgers Theatre next month. The October 26 Rent, the 30th Anniversary Concert in which the musical will be performed in full with benefits […]
Deadline•Greg Evans22 Sept
Rachel Zegler will be joined in Broadway’s Evita by her London co-stars Diego Rodriguez and James Olivas when the musical revival arrives in New York in February. The casting was announced today by producers Jamie Lloyd and Michael Harrison. Evita begins previews at Broadway’s Winter Garden Theatre on Saturday, February 27, 2027, ahead of an […]
Deadline•Greg Evans22 Sept
Diego Rodriguez and James Olivas will star alongside Rachel Zegler in “Evita,” which opens on Broadway next spring. Rodriguez and Olivas are reprising their roles as Che and Juan Perón, respectively, from last summer’s acclaimed West End production. As previously announced, Zegler is reprising her Olivier Award-winning role as Argentinian first lady Eva Perón. Director […]
Variety•Rebecca Rubin22 Sept
Her catchy videos have racked up billions of views, but Rachel Accurso’s statements on everything from Gaza to LGBTQ rights have caused a stir. She talks about screen time, song fatigue and speculation she might enter politics The YouTube star Ms Rachel, toddler whisperer extraordinaire, spots me before I clock her, and even from a distance and without her trademark pink T-shirt and denim dungarees, she is instantly recognisable by her wave, which is accompanied by an enthusiastic bounce. I half expect her to say, “Hi, friends”, as she does at the start of many of her videos. Instead she bounds over, wearing a classic off-duty mum uniform – Sesame Street sweatshirt, grey leggings, baseball cap that reads “Mama” – and removes her oversized sunglasses. She’s very sorry, she says, rubbing her eyes, that she is so tired – but her manner remains unfailingly, characteristically peppy. It is only seven years since Rachel Accurso, who used to be a preschool music teacher, uploaded her first video to YouTube, a counting song for preschoolers called Bubble, Bubble Pop! . She and her husband, Aron Accurso, who worked as a music director on Broadway, made the video because their one-year-old son had a speech delay and there seemed to be a dearth of quality videos online that could help toddlers learn to speak. Continue reading...
The Guardian•Sophie McBain20 Sept
Lea Michele, who gained her first major fame as a cast member of Broadway’s Spring Awakening, paid tribute to the musical’s late composer Duncan Sheik today, remembering their first meeting and her thoughts upon his passing yesterday. “I met Duncan when I was 14 years old,” Michele wrote in an Instagram Story post this afternoon. […]
Deadline•Greg Evans18 Sept
Duncan Sheik, the "Barely Breathing" singer and "Spring Awakening" composer, has died at 56. His Broadway music became an obsession for a generation of online fans.
The musician, who went from 90s altpop hits to Tony-winning Broadway success, died of organ failure Duncan Sheik, the singer-songwriter behind the 90s alt-pop touchstone Barely Breathing and the composer of the Tony -winning musical Spring Awakening, died on Thursday at a Manhattan hospital. He was 56. His death, from organ failure, was confirmed to the New York Times by his mother Suzanne Sheik. Continue reading...
The Guardian•Adrian Horton18 Sept
Duncan Sheik, the singer-songwriter whose song “Barely Breathing” was a era-defining hit in the 1990s and who composed the Tony-winning Broadway hit Spring Awakening, died Thursday, September 17, at a hospital in Manhattan of cardiac arrest. He was 56. His death was announced to The New York Times today by his mother, Suzanne Sheik. The […]
Deadline•Greg Evans18 Sept
The musician was best known for his 1996 single “Barely Breathing” and his Tony-winning work on Broadway’s Spring Awakening
EXCLUSIVE: The Book of Mormon original cast members Nikki M. James and Rory O’Malley will return to the Broadway production at the Eugene O’Neill Theatre for a strictly limited 12-week engagement. From October 27, 2026, through January 17, 2027, James will step back into her Tony Award-winning role as Nabulungi, and O’Malley will return in […]
Deadline•Greg Evans18 Sept
Happy Thursday! Can you guess which actress started bustin' out of her dress at a Hollywood movie premiere?!? This babe helped take down a couple of Ghostfaces for the new generation of "Scream" movies ... and recently you saw her on the Broadway…
TMZ•TMZ Staff17 SeptThe Oct. 19 event, which will benefit four charities, sold out months ago.
Duncan Sheik, the singer and composer whose new musical Memoirs of Amorous Gentlemen is set to begin performances Off Broadway later this month and whose 2006 Broadway musical Spring Awakening is being revived for a major Off Broadway production in November, has been hospitalized and is in “critical but stable condition” for undisclosed reasons. The […]
Deadline•Greg Evans17 Sept
Rachel Kaly’s one-woman show “Hospital Hour” is coming to New York. The comedy will begin a six-week off-Broadway run on Oct. 16 at the Culture Club in Chelsea, with comedy heavies Chris Fleming on board as director and Bob Odenkirk as executive producer. Tickets are on sale now for “Hospital Hour” here, with all first-week […]
Variety•Ethan Shanfeld16 Sept
The one-time WME partner credited with importing some of reality's biggest formats, including 'Big Brother' and 'The Biggest Loser,' has projects brewing for film and Broadway — he's also seeking an agent of his own.
The Hollywood Reporter•Lacey Rose16 Sept
Triple-Tony winner Patti LuPone is returning to the New York stage to portray iconic fashion editor Diana Vreeland in the one-woman Off Broadway play Full Gallop. The production, directed by Gordon Greenberg (Rope, Broadway’s The Heart of Rock and Roll), will begin a strictly limited 12-week engagement at NY City Center Stage II on Friday, […]
Deadline•Greg Evans16 Sept