Theater
Adam Lambert, Auli’i Cravalho to Take Over Lead Roles in ‘Cabaret’ on Broadway
Adam Lambert and Auli’i Cravalho will take over the lead roles in Cabaret this fall from Eddie Redmayne and Gayle Rankin. The two will begin performances, as the Emcee and Sally Bowles, respectively, at the August Wilson Theatre starting Sept. 16 for a run through March 30, 2025. This will mark the Broadway debuts for […]
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Broadway Box Office: ‘Oh, Mary!’ Breaks Record, Extends Run
Cole Escola’s comedy Oh, Mary! broke the box office record at the Lyceum Theatre last week, grossing $1.05 million and besting the record held by 2022 best musical winner A Strange Loop. Last week was the first full week of regular performances for the play, in which Escola portrays Mary Todd Lincoln as a wannabe […]
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Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS Executive Director Tom Viola to Retire After 36 Years
Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS executive director Tom Viola is retiring from the philanthropic nonprofit organization after 36 years. Viola will retire at the end of 2024 and will be succeeded by Danny Whitman, current director of development at the nonprofit, starting Jan. 1, 2025. Viola will remain a consultant for the organization through 2025. Broadway Cares/Equity […]
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Broadway Box Office: ‘The Outsiders’ Keeps Climbing Post-Tony Awards
The Outsiders box office continued to climb in the aftermath of Tony Awards, with the musical bringing in $1.4 million for the week ended July 14. This is the fourth week in a row that the musical, which won the Tony for best musical on June 16, has broken the house record at the Bernard […]
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‘Oh, Mary!’ Theater Review: Comedy Genius Cole Escola Serves Revisionist American History as Riotous Queer Silliness
Escola portrays first lady Mary Todd Lincoln as an alcoholic wannabe cabaret star, with Conrad Ricamora as her long-suffering husband and James Scully as her acting coach.
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J.K. Rowling Play ‘TERF’: How Controversial is the Buzzed-About Production?
It’s one of the most talked-about plays in years — and it hasn’t even had its first rehearsal. That’s because TERF, a new one-act production set to premiere Aug. 2 at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, dares to take on one of the most powerful — and controversial — women on the planet. That would be […]
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Broadway Box Office: ‘Merrily We Roll Along’ Ends Run On New High
Merrily We Roll Along closed out its Broadway run with a new high of $2.77 million, which the production says is the highest grossing week ever for any Stephen Sondheim musical on Broadway. The revival, starring Daniel Radcliffe, Jonathan Groff and Lindsay Mendez, ended its run July 7, after opening at the Hudson Theatre in […]
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Broadway Box Office: ‘Appropriate’ Ends Run On High
Broadway grosses came down from their Tony Awards highs last week, though Merrily We Roll Along and Appropriate kept powering through the ends of their runs. Appropriate, starring newly minted Tony winner Sarah Paulson, closed out its Broadway run by hitting a new high of $1.2 million to a capacity of 99 percent. The play, […]
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Ian McKellen Withdraws From U.K. Tour of Play After Falling Off Theater Stage
Ian McKellen will not appear on the U.K. tour of his Shakespearean theater production after he fell off the stage during a performance in London. The 85-year-old Lord of the Rings actor was starring as John Falstaff in a production of Henry IV, Parts One and Two, which began a 12-week run as part of a […]
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Evan Cabnet Named Artistic Director of Second Stage Theater
Evan Cabnet will take over as artistic director of Second Stage Theater, one of Broadway’s major nonprofit theater companies. Cabnet, currently artistic director of Lincoln Center Theater’s LCT3, will join the organization in September 2024 and will launch his first season of programming in fall 2025. He takes over from Carole Rothman, founder of Second […]
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Betty Boop Musical Set for Broadway This Spring
A musical about Betty Boop is the latest to join Broadway’s 2024-2025 season. Helmed by director and choreographer Jerry Mitchell, BOOP! The Betty Boop Musical will open on Broadway in April 2025. The show is slated to open at a Shubert Theatre, but the exact theater and dates have not yet been announced. In addition […]
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Christian Borle Takes Over Role in ‘Tammy Faye’ on Broadway After Andrew Rannells’ Exit
Christian Borle will star in the Tammy Faye musical on Broadway, replacing the previously announced Andrew Rannells. Borle, a two-time Tony Award winner for playing Shakespeare in Something Rotten and Black Stache in Peter and the Starcatcher, will take over the role of Jim Bakker, fellow televangelist and husband to Tammy Faye, who will be […]
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