Tootsie, the new musical based on the acclaimed 1982 comedy classic, is heading to the Great White Way this spring. The story follows talented but difficult actor Michael Dorsey, played by Tony nominee Santino Fontana, who struggles to find work until an audacious, desperate stunt lands him the role of a lifetime. Counting down the days until you you get ...

Nominations are here for the Hollywood Foreign Press Association's 2019 Golden Globe Awards. A talented group of theater alums are among the list of creatives set to be recognized at the ceremony on January 6, 2019, airing live on NBC.

Nominees of note to stage fans include Tony winner Billy Porter (Kinky Boots) with his first Globe nomination for the newly ...

Literally, Patti Murin is Broadway royalty. She is playing the princess Anna in Disney's Frozen. Prior to that, she appeared on Broadway in Lysistrata Jones, Xanadu as well as the tour of Wicked. She won praise and the heart of now-husband Colin Donnell in the Shakespeare in the Park production of Love's Labour's Lost. The acting couple have adorable pups Petey ...

This is the year Kanye West kept getting himself in trouble with his phone, but at the Broadway opening of The Cher Show on December 3, it wasn't a rogue tweet about politics that put him in hot water. During Monday night's performance, which West and wife Kim Kardashian attended alongside of some of Hollywood's brightest stars, actor (and Broadway ...

Harvey Fierstein's Torch Song will end its run at the Helen Hayes Theatre on January 6, 2019 instead of playing out its announced limited engagement through February 24, 2019. Michael Urie will reprise his performance as Arnold Beckoff on the tour, which will launch in the fall of 2019 at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles. The Broadway production, directed by Moises Kaufman ...

Hugh Jackman is taking his act on the road, and we couldn't be more excited. On the heels of the announcement of his upcoming concert tour, the Tony winner showed off his talent for TV audiences on NBC's Today with a pair of showstopping performances. Jackman sang Benj Pasek and Justin Paul's "The Greatest Show" from The Greatest Showman and a ...

Get a sneak peek at Stephanie J. Block, Teal Wicks and more in The Cher Show!

The Prom danced its way onto Broadway on November 15 and has been wowing audiences ever since, including the cast of Netflix's Queer Eye. Antoni Porowski (Celebrity Autobiography), Jonathan Van Ness, Bobby Berk, Karamo Brown and Tan France appeared on The View on November 28 and discussed their thoughts on the celebrated new musical. When the men were asked their ...

Tony-winning stage-and-screen star Hugh Jackman is hitting the road! The showman is planning an international tour titled The Man. The Music. The Show. Jackman fans can look forward to him singing tunes from Les Miserables, The Boy from Oz, Oklahoma! and The Greatest Showman on the tour, which will kick off on May 13, 2019 in Hamburg Germany.

He appeared on ...

Dim all the lights. The new Broadway bio-show Summer: The Donna Summer Musical has set a final performance date of December 30 at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre. Directed by Des McAnuff, the jukebox tuner began previews on March 28 and officially opened on April 23. By closing, Summer: The Donna Summer Musical will have played 27 previews and 289 regular performances.

Summer ...

On the heels of a celebrated West End opening, the new musical Hadestown by singer-songwriter Anaïs Mitchell has set a 2019 Broadway premiere at the Walter Kerr Theatre. The previously announced main-stem run will begin previews on March 22 with an opening night set for April 17. Tony nominee Rachel Chavkin (The Great Comet) is the musical's co-conceiver and director ...

Today, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is known as the record-breaking, Tony Award-winning sequel to J.K. Rowling's iconic Harry Potter book series. But the future wasn't always so clear for a stage version of the author's popular brainchild about a boy who discovers he is a wizard. Rowling recently sat down with the play's Tony-winning adaptor Jack Thorne ...

Audiences at the Vivian Beaumont Theater have been treated to a talented new pair of stars over the past couple months. Tony winner Rosemary Harris joined the celebrated production of Lerner & Loewe's My Fair Lady as Mrs. Higgins on September 11, with Tony winner Laura Benanti taking over the central role of Eliza Doolittle on October 23. Lincoln Center ...

Aaron Sorkin's new stage adaptation of Harper Lee's classic novel To Kill a Mockingbird is playing to sold-out crowds nightly at the Shubert Theatre on Broadway. Sorkin collaborated with director Bartlett Sher on the new production, which is headlined by Jeff Daniels in the iconic central role of Atticus Finch. The trio of talented creatives, along with actress LaTanya Richardson ...

Andy Blankenbuehler, the three-time Tony winner who choreographed the 2016 Broadway revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Cats, has signed on to lend his talent to the upcoming film adaptation, according to Deadline. Blankenbuehler replaces the previously announced Wayne McGregor, who has exited the project due to scheduling conflicts.

In addition to his work on Broadway's Cats, Blankenbuehler earned Tony Awards ...

The Lion King is returning to the big screen next year with the premiere of director Jon Favreau’s inventive new take on the classic 1994 film, which launched Broadway's long-running hit stage musical. Disney has just released the first teaser trailer for the remake, featuring a powerful voiceover from the original film's Mufasa, two-time Tony winner James Earl Jones, who is ...

Singer-songwriter Jason Derulo is the latest star added to the upcoming film adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Cats, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Derulo will take on the role of curious cat Rum Tum Tugger in the highly anticipated screen version of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Broadway hit, scheduled to be released on December 20, 2019.

Derulo's solo recording career kicked ...

For Lin-Manuel Miranda's second-to-last #Hamildrop, the Hamilton mastermind has teamed up with a legend of the American musical theater: John Kander, iconic composer of Chicago and Cabaret. The original #Hamildrop song, titled "Cheering for Me Now," with music by Kander and lyrics by Miranda, is about New York's ratification of the constitution and features Miranda as Alexander Hamilton for ...

Moulin Rouge! The Musical is officially headed to Broadway. The stage adaptation of Baz Luhrmann's 2001 motion picture will make its home at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre beginning on June 28, 2019 with an opening night set for July 25. The Great White Way run follows an acclaimed pre-Broadway premiere at Boston's Colonial Theatre.

Stars from the out-of-town engagement will ...

We're just a month away from the cinema release of the exciting sequel Mary Poppins Returns. In anticipation of the new film, Walt Disney Studios has just released a fresh trailer featuring Emily Blunt and Meryl Streep, with Hamilton mastermind Lin-Manuel Miranda as Jack the lamplighter lending vocals to the new song "Trip a Little Light Fantastic" by Hairspray songwriters ...

Watch Brooks Ashmanskas, Beth Leavel and the cast of The Prom on Broadway with these show clips.

The Tony-winning, record-breaking hit musical revival of Chicago has announced a national casting call, in partnership with Broadway.com, to find the next Roxie Hart to headline the Broadway production. Chicago celebrates its 22nd anniversary this week.

The Search for Roxie!, launching in January 2019, will invite contestants to submit their audition tapes online to enter the casting call. Auditions ...

Casting is complete for the upcoming third national touring production of the mega-hit musical Hamilton. The tour will begin with a previously announced Puerto Rico engagement starring the show's creator and original star Lin-Manuel Miranda in the title role. That stop will run from January 8-27, 2019 at Teatro UPR, the theater at the University of Puerto Rico’s main campus in ...

Andrew Barth Feldman, a 16-year-old high-school junior who triumphed at the 2018 Jimmy Awards, will make his Broadway debut in the title role of Dear Evan Hansen on January 30, 2019. Feldman will succeed current star Taylor Trensch, who will play his final performance on January 27, 2019.

"As a real-life high school student, I relate to the character of Evan ...

Over two decades on the stage, Kelli O’Hara has built a formidable career, and is one of the leading musical stars of her generation. And after six (!) nominations, the legit powerhouse finally landed a Tony Award in 2015 for playing Anna in The King and I, a performance she just reprised in London’s West End. For her first time back ...