Broadway Newsroom

Dreaming of a night out on Broadway? Enter to win two tickets to The Great Gatsby on Broadway! live on stage. Enter today! The party's roaring on Broadway! Starring Jeremy Jordan (Newsies) as Jay Gatsby and Eva Noblezada (Hadestown) as Daisy Buchanan, THE GREAT GATSBY is a great, big Broadway extravaganza that explodes with life and energy.

HADESTOWN’S Amber Gray is joining the cast of the new musical The Royal Pyrate in the role of Mary Hallet, the fabled ‘Witch of Wellfleet,’ a figure of American myth for over 300 years. Learn more about where to catch the show here!

Sky Lakota-Lynch stopped by Good Morning America on Monday to discuss his recent Tony nomination for his performance as Johnny Cade in the new hit musical The Outsiders. He went on to highlight the personal connection he had to the material prior to being involved with the project. Watch the full interview!

As HBO gears up for the much anticipated second season of House of the Dragon, stars Emma D'Arcy and Olivia Cooke are back to interview each other ahead of the premiere. The answer to one of the questions is particularly relevant to the Tony Awards, which air on the same night.

In this video, watch as Tony nominee Juliana Canfield chats about what this nomination means to her, what makes this project so special, and so much more.

BACK TO THE FUTURE has found some new cast members in Evan Alexander Smith and David Josefsberg. We have all of the details!

& Juliet has recouped its production costs on Broadway as of April 14, 2024, becoming the first new musical of the 2022-23 Broadway season to announce its recoupment.

Rise and shine, BroadwayWorld! It is June 11, 2024 and it's time to catch up on all of the theatrical happenings you may have missed in the last 24 hours.

Show business legend Dick Van Dyke recently took home his 6th Emmy Award for his appearance on Peacock's The Days of Our Lives. At 98 years old, the legendary song and dance man is showing no signs of slowing down. After his win, Dick caught up with Entertainment Tonight and said he still hopes to earn an EGOT someday. Watch the video!

Julie Chen Moonves rocked out on Broadway, catching the new musical THE HEART OF ROCK AND ROLL at the James Earl Jones Theatre. See photos from her visit!

Regional theatre company Seattle Rep has announced a series of layoffs and cutbacks which will impact several departments over the course of the next several months.

Ninth Planet Audio's new podcast 'Does This Murder Make Me Look Gay?!' premieres June 17, featuring Michael Urie, Frankie Grande, and more.

Winners of the Write Out Loud contest, created by Taylor Louderman and Benjamin Rauhala, have been announced. The competition celebrates emerging musical theater talent.

Public Theater crewmembers have voted to join The International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE), becoming the fifth off-Broadway group to unionize since IATSE launched its organizing efforts earlier this year. Learn more!

Tonight's the night! The best of Broadway and off-Broadway come together for the 68th Annual Drama Desk Awards, which are being held at The Skirball Center for the Performing Arts. BroadwayWorld will be bringing you live updates of the winners throughout the night.

Deadline has reported that Benj Pasek and Justin Paul will be writing new songs for the upcoming animated film Oh, the Places You’ll Go!  based on the Dr. Seuss classic. Pasek and Paul are the Tony Award-winning songwriters behind such shows as Dear Evan Hansen, Dogfight, and A Christmas Story. The film already has theatrical roots in director Jon M. Chu, who is helming the forthcoming Wicked films.

The cast of the Tony Award-nominated production of The Who’s TOMMY will perform on the 2024 Tony Awards broadcast. Introducing the number will be Tony and Grammy Award-winner and rock legend Pete Townshend of The Who. Learn how to watch the Tonys!

In this video, watch as Tony nominee Will Brill chats more about his epic journey in Stereophonic, recounts his days at Carnegie Mellon University, and so much more!

In this edition, we hear from producer Rachel Sussman, who contributed the below essay about her four-time Tony-nominated Best Musical, Suffs.

In a new interview as part of Deadline's Sound and Screen Television, Tony-award-winning songwriters Benj Pasek and Justin Paul praised Steve Martin's performance singing 'Which of the Pickwick Triplets Did It' from Season 3 of Only Murders in the Building. The song, written in collaboration with Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman, was helmed for the in-universe musical Death Rattle Dazzle starring Martin's character, Charles-Haden Savage.

The Grammy Award-nominated SIX: LIVE ON OPENING NIGHT, the first Original Broadway Cast Recording ever recorded live on opening night, has officially been streamed over 100 million times.

See photos of Stephanie Mills, Yola and Maia Reficco onstage at Hadestown for the first time. Learn how to purchase tickets to the show.

Broadway fans in New York and across the country are in luck this spring: They can see six-time Tony Award winner Audra McDonald featured in Great Performances’ “Broadway’s Best” lineup on New York City's own PBS station, THIRTEEN.

Get a first look at photos of The Welkin starring Sandra Oh and more at Atlantic Theater Company!

Comedy legend Eric Idle has announced dates for his brand new, one-man show, 'Always Look on the Bright Side of Life, Live!', starting with a West Coast tour this September. Written and performed entirely by Eric, audiences will be treated to never-before-seen sketches, original songs, jokes, the humorous wisdom that comes with being a living legend, and exactly one fart joke.