Blame it on the rain? Broadway box office dropped by 11% last week as New York suffered a decidedly soggy Nor’easter weekend. All but three of the 26 productions on the boards saw a drop in grosses from the previous week, with the total tally coming in at $24,093,388 (compared with $27,070,361…

A “heartbroken” Wayne Brady has withdrawn from the upcoming Off Broadway production of Ms. Blakk For President due to a vocal polyp and the need for vocal rest as ordered by his doctor, producers said today. His role of Terence Alan Smith/Joan Jett Blakk will now be assumed by Tony Award…

Cobra Kai and Blue Beetle star Xolo Maridueña will make his Broadway debut when he joins Buena Vista Social Club for seven weeks beginning Tuesday, November 17. Maridueña will assume the role of Juan De Marcos through Sunday, January 3, 2027, at Broadway’s Schoenfeld Theatre. "I'm…

EXCLUSIVE: Beat Street, the Broadway-bound musical based on the groundbreaking 1984 film, has assembled its principal creative team, with The Wiz‘s Schele Williams, Hell’s Kitchen‘s Kristoffer Diaz and music supervisor Jason Michael Webb joining the previously announced Nas on the project. Nas…

The battle lines are drawn early and definitively in Jocelyn Bioh’s School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play. The cruelties come fast and cut deep in this Ghana school lunch room where all the unspoken rules of adolescent pick-or-be-picked-upon are as strict as they are in high schools the world…

Whatever Lola wants, Broadway provides! A Damn Yankees revival is set for the Great White Way in Spring 2027, with Neil Patrick Harris as the devilish Mr. Applegate. On Sunday, the Tony-winning actor arrived at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx to announce the revival in a press conference, along with…

This season’s Tony Awards Nominating Committee will include, among others, Kimberly Akimbo actor Victoria Clark, playwrights Migdalia Cruz and James Ijames, performer Lorna Luft and former Washington Post theater critic Peter Marks, among others. In all, 65 people drawn from all aspects of the…

With their box office spiking, Bowen Yang and Reece Weaver have extended their Broadway runs in, respectively, Oh, Mary! and Chicago. Ticket sales have been very strong for both shows with the new, TV-famous cast members leading the way. Yang will extend his run as Mary Todd Lincoln in…

Rachel Dratch will portray Patty (the non-Peppermint one) and Jeff Hiller will be the piano-playing Schroeder in the upcoming City Center Encores! production of You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown. Dratch and Hiller join the previously announced Danielle Brooks (Lucy), Ayo Edebiri (Snoopy), Jin Ha…

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…

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…

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…