Tony nominee Quincy Tyler Bernstine and Michael Chernus (of Severance) will star in Well, I’ll Let You Go at The Space at Irondale. The play will run from July 29 to Aug. 29, 2025.
Chiara Aurelia will step into the role of Shelby Holcomb in John Proctor is the Villain starting July 15. She is taking over for Tony Award nominee Sadie Sink, who will depart from the production on July 13.
The Wicked Witch of the East has been found in Vegas! On June 10, the Sphere fell on top of her, leaving her ruby slippers and 50-foot-long legs exposed, complementing a display on the venue’s Exosphere featuring the scene where Dorothy’s farmhouse falls out of a twister and onto the witch.
New York City Center's annual gala presentation will feature a production of Bat Boy: The Musical directed by two-time Tony Award winner Alex Timbers. It will run from Oct. 29 to Nov. 9, 2025. The 2026 Encores! Series will include High Spirits, The Wild Party, and La Cage Aux Folles starring Billy Porter.
The winners have been announced for the 2025 Tony Awards here at the 78th Annual Celebration of the Best of Broadway at Radio City hosted by Cynthia Erivo. See the full list of winners here.
Francis Jue has won the 2025 Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play for his role in Yellow Face. Jue beat out fellow nominees Glenn Davis for Purpose, Gabriel Ebert for John Proctor is the Villain, Bob Odenkirk for Glengarry Glen Ross, and Conrad Ricamora for Oh, Mary!.
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins is on a roll! Purpose has won the 2025 Tony Award for Best Play! Jacobs-Jenkins' play beat out fellow nominees English, Oh, Mary!, The Hills of California, and John Proctor is the Villain.
Definitely a happy ending! Darren Criss has won the 2025 Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical for his role in Maybe Happy Ending. Criss beat out fellow nominees Andrew Durand for Dead Outlaw, Tom Francis for Sunset Blvd., Jonathan Groff for Just in Time, James Monroe Iglehart for A Wonderful World, and Jeremy Jordan for Floyd Collins.
She’s come home at last to win a Tony! Sunset Blvd. has won the 2025 Tony Award for Best Reivial of a musical. It beats out fellow nominees Gypsy, Pirates! The Penzance Musical, and Floyd Collins. Starring Nicole Scherzinger and Tom Francis, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s classic musical has been wowing audiences here in New York since opening last fall.
She’s the greatest star of all! Nicole Scherzinger has won the 2025 Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical for her role as Norma Desmond in Sunset Blvd. Scherzinger beat out fellow nominees Audra McDonald for Gypsy, Megan Hilty for Death Becomes Her, Jasmine Amy Rogers for BOOP!. and Jennifer Simard for Death Becomes Her.
Natalie Venetia Belcon has won the 2025 Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical for her role in Buena Vista Social Club. Belcon beat out fellow nominees Julia Knitel for Dead Outlaw, Gracie Lawrence for Just in Time, Justina Machado for Real Women Have Curves: The Musical, and Joy Woods for Gypsy.
Sarah Snook has won the 2025 Tony Award for Best Leading Actress in a Play for her performance in The Picture of Dorian Gray. Snook beat out fellow nominees Laura Donnelly for The Hills of California, Mia Farrow for The Roommate, LaTanya Richardson Jackson for Purpose, and Sadie Sink for John Proctor is the Villain.
This is one for the history books! Sam Pinkleton has won the 2025 Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play. Pinkleton beat out fellow nominees Knud Adams for English, Sam Mendes for The Hills of California, Danya Taymor for John Proctor is the Villain, and Kip Williams for The Picture of Dorian Gray.
Eureka Day by Jonathan Spector has won the 2025 Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play. It beat out fellow nominees Romeo + Juliet, Thornton Wilder's Our Town, and Yellow Face by David Henry Hwang.
They’ve made Mary Todd Lincoln proud! Cole Escola has won the 2025 Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for their role in Oh, Mary! Escola beat out fellow nominees George Clooney for Good Night, and Good Luck, Jon Michael Hill for Purpose, Daniel Dae Kim for Yellow Face, Harry Lennix for Purpose, and Louis McCartney for Stranger Things: The First Shadow.
Kara Young has won the 2025 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for her performance in Purpose. Young beat out fellow nominees Tala Ashe for English, Jessica Hecht for Eureka Day, Marjan Neshat for English, and Fina Strazza for John Proctor is the Villain.
Jak Malone has won the 2025 Tony Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical for Operation Mincemeat: A New Musical. Malone beat out fellow nominees Brooks Ashmanskas for Smash, Jeb Brown for Dead Outlaw, Taylor Trensch for Floyd Collins, and Danny Burstein for Gypsy.
Patricia Delgado and Justin Peck have won the 2025 Tony Award for Best Choreography for their work on Buena Vista Social Club. The pair beat out fellow nominees Joshua Bergasse for Smash, Jerry Mitchell for BOOP! The Musical, Camille A. Brown for Gypsy, and Christopher Gatteli for Death Becomes Her.
They’ve made Hwaboon proud! Will Aronson and Hue Park have won the 2025 Tony Award for Best Original Score for their work on Maybe Happy Ending. The pair beat out fellow nominees Julia Mattison and Noel Carey for Death Becomes Her, David Yazbek and Erik Della Penna for Dead Outlaw, David Cumming, Felix Hagan, Natasha Hodgson, and Zoë Roberts for Operation Mincemeat, and Joy Huerta and Benjamin Velez for Real Women Have Curves: The Musical.
Why [not] love? Michael Arden has won the 2025 Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical for his work on Maybe Happy Ending. Arden beat out fellow nominees Saheem Ali for Buena Vista Social Club, David Cromer for Dead Outlaw, Christopher Gatelli for Death Becomes Her, and Jamie Lloyd for Sunset Boulevard.
Well, we’d sure call that a happy ending. Maybe Happy Ending has won the 2025 Tony Award for Best Musical. Maybe Happy Ending beat out fellow nominees Buena Vista Social Club, Dead Outlaw, Death Becomes Her, and Operation Mincemeat: A New Musical. It was among the most-nominated shows of the season, raking in 10 Tony Award nominations.
It’s a happy Tony beginning for Will Aroson and Hue Park, who have won the 2025 Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical for their work on Maybe Happy Ending. The pair beat out fellow nominees Marco Ramirez for Buena Vista Social Club; Marco Pennette for Death Becomes Her; Itamar Moses for Dead Outlaw; and David Cumming, Felix Hagan, Natasha Hodgson, and Zoë Roberts for Operation Mincemeat.
It's almost time for the curtain to fall. Smash will play its final performance on Broadway on Sunday, June 22, 2025 at the Imperial Theatre. At the time of closing, Smash will have played 32 previews and 84 regular performances.
Kara Young and Kerry Washington will take the stage in a series of monologues written by Whoopi Goldberg as part of Lincoln Center Theater’s 2025-2026 season. The season marks the first full for new artistic director Lear deBessonet, who directed this season’s Once Upon a Mattress and the hit Into the Woods revival at New York City Center.
It was an incredible night celebrating the best of the New York theatre season at NYU Skirball at the 2025 Drama Desk Awards. Maybe Happy Ending won big with six awards including Outstanding Musical. Boop!, Stranger Things: The First Shadow, and The Picture of Dorian Gray each went home with three awards. Debra Messing and Tituss Burgess hosted the ceremony which celebrates the best of the 2024/2025 theatre season here in New York.
Beetlejuice will make its return to the Broadway stage at the Palace Theatre for a limited 13-week engagement from Oct. 8, 2025 to Jan. 3, 2026. The First National Tour of the popular musical will reach its final resting place on the great white way. Tickets go on sale Tuesday June 3 at 10 a.m.
The Bear’s Ebon Moss-Bachrach and Jon Bernthal will star in the new Broadway play Dog Day Afternoon in Spring 2026.
The champagne is chilled and the ballots are ready. The nominees for the 2025 Tony Awards are being announced today, May 1 starting at 8:30 AM, and Theatrely is ready to bring you the latest as it rolls in.Eligible for the 2024-2025 Broadway season are 42 productions, with 14 new musicals, 14 new plays, seven musical revivals, and seven play revivals, all hoping to hear their name called this morning. The nominations are being revealed by Sarah Paulson and Wendell Pierce, live from the Sofitel Hotel in Midtown Manhattan.
A limited number of mezzanine tickets are available for purchase for the 78th Annual Tony Awards via digital lottery. Winners will be able to purchase the seats for $495 each.
You gotta catch a potential audience’s attention in any way possible these days. From massive social campaigns to wild in-person activations, folks are trying everything. But one performance is trying a different route. Not telling you anything about it! For the past few weeks, some mysterious Instagram account has popped up with the username @_____comingsoon______ and has been posting mysterious photos including balloons and an upside down wheelbarrow. The account follows only two individuals: actor and playwright Bubba Weiler and Theatrely31 alum Jack Serio. Serio recently helmed Ken Urban’s intimate Danger and Opportunity at the East Village Basement which won two special Drama Desk Awards in the past few weeks.
Second Stage Theater's 2025 season will include two Pulitzer Prize finalist plays on Broadway at the Hayes Theater.
Friday morning, East 9th Street between University Place and Broadway was renamed in honor of Terrence McNally: renowned playwright, Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement winner, LGBTQ+ trailblazer, and longtime resident of the block.
First-time Tony Award nominee Darren Criss and Tony Award winner Renée Elise Goldsberry will host The Tony Awards: Act One this year: a live pre-show streaming free on Pluto TV. The show will stream June 8 from 6:40 p.m. to 8 p.m. EST.
Tony Award nominee Montego Glover will step into the role of Rose in Gypsy from June 30 to July 6, 2025.
Musical Theatre Factory is launching its MTFxR Garage, a six-day collaboration that combines musical theatre and extended reality (XR).
Tony and Emmy Award winner Neil Patrick Harris will return to Broadway this fall alongside Emmy winner Bobby Cannavale, and Tony and Emmy winner James Corden in the first ever Broadway revival of Art by Yasmina Reza.
Gianna Harris, who is finishing up her run in Hell’s Kitchen, will star as the title role in & Juliet starting June 10. Alongside her, viral TikTok vocal coach Cherly Porter will make her Broadway debut as Angélique starting Aug. 7 for a limited 13-week engagement.
Broadway veteran and Tony nominee Kerry Butler, known for her roles in Mean Girls, Hairspray, Beetlejuice the Musical, and Xanadu, will take the stage as Ms. Fleming/Veronica’s Mom in this summer’s upcoming production of Heathers the Musical.
He’ll “make her a star!” Tony Award nominee Jordan Donica will step into the role of Max Von Mayerling in Sunset Boulevard on Tuesday June 10. David Thaxton, who transferred to Broadway with the production after receiving an Olivier Nomination for his performance as Max, will play his final performance on Sunday June 8.
The 2024-2025 Broadway season has become the highest grossing season in recorded Broadway history, with $1.89 billion in grosses, according to The Broadway League.
Elizabeth Gillies has extended her sold-out run as Audrey in the Off-Broadway production of Little Shop of Horrors — and will reunite with her former 13: The Musical co-star Graham Phillips when he joins the production as Seymour.
Aaron Tveit, Lea Michele, and Nicholas Christopher will star in the first-ever Broadway revival of Chess — they will play Freddie Trumper, Florence Vassey and Anatoly Sergievsky, respectively. The production will open in Fall 2025.
The upcoming Broadway revival of Ragtime at Lincoln Center has announced additional casting. Alongside previously announced Joshua Hemry, Caissie Levy, and Brandon Uranowitz will be Colin Donnel, Nichelle Lewis, Ben Levi Ross, Shaina Taub, John Clay III, and Rodd Cyrus.
No Guarantees Productions has secured long-term lease of the Astor Place Theatre. It plans to transform the historic space into a cultural hub that amplifies artists and shows outside of the traditional Broadway model.
New York City Public School middle school students from Brooklyn, the Bronx, Manhattan and Queens performed numbers from their full school productions of Broadway musicals at the 20th annual Shubert Foundation & Music Theatre International Broadway Junior Student Finale on Thursday.
Ride the Cyclone, written by Jacob Richmond and Brooke Maxwell, will have its first UK production at the Southwark Playhouse Elephant from Nov. 14, 2025 to Jan. 10, 2026. The production will be directed and choreographed by Lizzi Gee
Tom Hanks is headed Off-Broadway this fall in the world premier of his original play This World of Tomorrow.
André Holland, who starred in the 2016 Best Picture winning film Moonlight, will take the stage in The Brothers Size at The Shed this summer.
Nicole Scherzinger took home the prestigious Distinguished Performance Award for her work on the 2025 revival of Sunset Boulevard at the 2025 Drama League Awards Friday afternoon. The Distinguished Performance Award can only be won once during an actor’s career.
Julio Torres, an Emmy-nominated former Saturday Night Live writer, will make his Off-Broadway debut in Color Theories this September.
The scrunchies have been claimed for this summer’s off-broadway Heathers the Musical. Broadway stars McKenzie Kurtz, Olivia Hardy, and Elizabeth Teeter will take the stage as Heathers Chandler, Duke, and MacNamara, respectively.
Producers Mike Lavoie and Carlee Briglia recently announced that they are bringing Josh Sharp’s ta-da! Off-Broadway this summer directed by 2025 Tony Award nominee Sam Pinkleton. The new show will begin previews July 7, 2025 at the Greenwich House Theater, with an official opening night set for July 21. The limited engagement runs through August 23, 2025.
Get your flashcards ready! Most Unwanted Productions is set to present the New York premiere of the interactive parlor game, Out of Order, written and performed by Carl Holder at the East Village Basement June 27-July 23, 2025. Theatrely31 alum Skylar Fox (Trisha Paytas’ Big Broadway Dream) who developed the piece with Holder will also direct.
Just in time for Pride Month, New York is about to be hit with a ton of… glitter. Earlier this week Rodeo, Sheep Soup, Tilted, and P3 Productions announced they will present the Edinburgh and London hit House Of Life, a travelling cult collective performed by glitter-clad Ben Welch and Lawrence Cole, with one singular goal: happiness for all, at any cost. The 65-minute, cabaret theater show is one part sermon, one part rebirth, three parts party--a space to let it all out. Inspired by the places where people come together to heal through music, joy and noise, the audience is taken on an eight-step musical journey to complete enlightenment.
We are about to be Gliding up to Lincoln Center. Today, it was announced that incoming artistic director Lear deBessonet’s inaugural season will open with a new production of Ragtime starring Joshua Henry, Caissie Levy, and Brandon Uranowitz, following their acclaimed run at New York City Center last year. The revival will begin previews on Friday, September 26, with an official opening night set for Thursday, October 16 at the Vivian Beaumont Theater. The limited 14-week engagement runs through January 4, 2026.
Another day, another list of nominations! Earlier this afternoon, nominations were announced for the 69th Annual Drama Desk Awards that celebrates the best of Broadway, Off-Broadway, and Off-Off Broadway during the 24/25 New York Season. This year, the awards will be hosted by Debra Messing and Tituss Burgess on Sunday, June 1st at 6:15pm at NYU Skirball. Stay tuned to Theatrely for all the latest information on winners.
It's Awards Season! Today the Outer Critics Circle (OCC), the official organization of writers on New York theatre for out-of-town, national, and digital news publications, has announced the nominees for the 2025 Outer Critics Circle Awards, honoring the 2024-2025 Broadway and Off-Broadway season. Leading the pack with the most honors of the season is the Broadway musical Death Becomes Her, with twelve nominations, followed by Maybe Happy Ending with nine nominations. Stranger Things: The First Shadow leads in the play categories with a total of seven nominations, followed by The Hills of California with six. See the full list below:
Today, The Huntington Theatre announced their upcoming 2025/2026 season including favorites from Broadway and world premieres including the sixth installment of Boston’s city-wide Ufot Family Cycle. The Huntington’s 2025/26 season includes: Tony Award winner Jez Butterworth’s The Hills of California, the haunting, international hit drama which asks, when home calls us back, how can we face everything we left behind; the poignant and hilarious toast of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Sardines (a comedy about death) written and performed by Chris Grace of TV’s Superstore, which wonders how we keep dancing even when the music stops; the groundbreaking and emotionally rich Tony Award-winning musical Fun Home, with music by Jeanine Tesori and book and lyrics by Lisa Kron, based on Alison Bechdel’s beloved graphic novel about how we learn to see our parents with grown-up eyes; Joshua Harmon’s heartfelt and funny We Had a World; an electrifying reimagining of the ancient myth of Oedipus with modern urgency to discover whether any of us can escape our fate in Oedipus El Rey by Luis Alfaro; and Eureka Day by Jonathan Spector, a biting, on-the-pulse, Broadway satire exploring all the ways we disagree with laugh-out-loud results.
Harvey! Today, The Tony Awards Administration Committee announced today that legendary actor and writer, and four-time Tony Award winner, Harvey Fierstein will receive the 2025 Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre.
It's the best season… awards! Today, Sarah Hyland (currently starring in The Great Gatsby) and Orville Peck (currently starring in Cabaret) announced the nominations for the 91st Annual Drama League Awards from the Lincoln Center’s New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. The Awards will be held at the Ziegfeld Ballroom on Friday, May 16, 2025 at 12:00pm here in New York City.
If you have ever wanted to see how the sausage gets made and be in the room where it happens, now is your chance. Directed by Jon Halperin, Netflix is giving viewers a special peak behind the curtain to see how the creative team raced against the clock to open Stranger Things: The First Shadow on the West End back in 2023. I caught a screening of the film last night at the Paris Theater here in Midtown and it's an astonishing and incredibly candid look into the making of a major theatrical production unlike anything I have seen before. A truly fly-on-the-wall look following producer Sonia Friedman, writer Kate Trefry, directors Stephen Daldry and Justin Martin, and the entire cast and crew from early workshops, auditions, tech, all the way through to opening night.
One of America’s most beloved films is coming to New York…kinda. Today, producers announced that Ginger Twinsies, a hilarious send-up of the beloved 1998 film The Parent Trap, will play a limited engagement at the downtown Orpheum Theatre beginning July 10, 2025. Directed and written by Kevin Zak, an official opening is set for July 10 for a 16-week run through October 26.
He’s coming home! Leslie Odom, Jr. will return to the Richard Rodgers Theatre to reprise his Tony-winning role as Aaron Burr in Hamilton; this comes nine years after he took his final bow in July 2016. Odom begins performances Tuesday, September 9, 2025 for a limited engagement through Sunday, November 23, 2025.
Today it was announced that Sam Tutty and Christiani Pitts will star in the West End hit Two Strangers (Carry A Cake Across New York) when it makes it North American premiere at the American Repertory Theater at Hard University in Cambridge.
It’s time to celebrate the best of Boston theatre. Today, the Boston Theatre Critics Association (BTCA) have announced the nominations for the 42nd Annual Elliot Norton Awards. The ceremony is set to make place on Monday, June 2 at 7pm at the Huntington Theatre.
Today it was announced that Diego Andres Rodriguez who is currently starring as Artie in Sunset Blvd on Broadway will star as Che in Evita this summer at the London Palladium. Directed by Jamie Lloyd, this new production will star Rachel Zegler as Eva Perón. First preview is set for June 14, with an official opening night on July 1. It runs through September 6.
Today it was announced that Audible and Together, the new theatrical partnership led by Sonia Friedman and Huge Jackman, have a new collaboration including two fully-produced plays, readings, panels, workshops, and more this spring. Headlined by two plays directed by Ian Rickson and presented in repertory – the New York premiere of Hannah Moscovitch’s Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes, with Ella Beatty and Hugh Jackman (April 28 – June 18), and Jen Silverman’s new adaptation of August Strindberg’s Creditors, with Liev Schreiber, Maggie Siff, and Justice Smith (May 10 – June 18) – the collaboration rounds out Audible Theater’s sixth off-Broadway season at the Minetta Lane Theatre, where the company has produced numerous live shows since 2018, and marks the debut stage productions for Friedman and Jackman’s recently announced company, TOGETHER. Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes and Creditors will also be recorded and released on Audible at a later date, extending their reach to millions of listeners around the world.
For their inaugural production at Studio Seaview, Seaview has announced that John Krasinski will return to the New York stage in Penelope Skinner’s dark comedy Angry Alan, directed by Sam Gold. The limited 10-week engagement will begin May 23, 2025 with an official opening night set for Wednesday June 11.
From Trisha Paytas to Céline Dion! Today it was announced that Broadway star Amber Ardolino will board the ship of dreams over at Titanique at the Daryl Roth Theatre in Union Square. Ardolino will begin as Dion on March 21, 2025; the current star Dee Roscioli will play her final performance on March 16.
Today it was announced that six-time Emmy winner Jean Smart will return to Broadway in the world premiere of Call Me Izzy. A 12-week limited engagement at Studio 54 will be May 24 and run through August 17, 2025. An official opening night is set for June 12.
Today it was announced that James Graham’s Punch will play the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre as part of Manhattan Theatre Club’s 2025-2026 season. Directed by Adam Penford, the production will play this fall on Broadway.
Today it was announced that The Queen of Versailles will play the St. James Theatre this fall, with performances beginning Wednesday, October 8, ahead of an official opening night on Monday, November 10. Following its out-of-town tryout at Boston’s Emerson Colonial Theatre this past summer, Versailles will reunite Kristin Chenoweth and songwriter Stephen Schwartz on Broadway for the first time since Wicked. Chenoweth will star as Jackie Siegel and F. Murray Abraham will star as David Siegel. Additional casting will be announced at a later date.
Today, Roundabout Theatre Company announced their plans for the 2025-2026 Broadway and Off-Broadway season. While the Todd Haimes undergoes a renovation, this fall Robert Icke’s Oedipus will head to Studio 54. In the spring, Sam Pinkleton will direct Richard O’Brien’s The Rocky Horror Show at Studio 54. In addition, Scott Ellis will direct Kelli O’Hara and Rose Byrne in Noël Coward’s Fallen Angels at the Haimes next spring.
PBS, in partnership with No Guarantees and Nouveau Productions has announced the lineup of their one-night only special event, Broadway’s Leading Ladies on March 10, 2025 at the Town Hall in New York City. The lineup so far includes LaChanze, Kate Baldwin, Jennifer Holliday, Judy Kuhn, Lindsay Mendez, Jessie Mueller, and Jennifer Simard. Additional all-star casting will be announced soon.
Heathers The Musical will make its triumphant return back to New York City this summer. Kevin Murphy and Laurence O’Keefe’s cult musical will play a limited engagement at New World Stages, Stage 1 beginning June 22, 2025 until September 28, 2025. The production is directed by Andy Fickman who recently directed the hit UK production of the musical.
Today the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League announced that Tony, Emmy, and Grammy Award-winner Cynthia Erivo will host the 78th Annual Tony Awards, which will honor the incredibly artists of the 2024-2025 Broadway season. The ceremony will be broadcasted live to both coasts on Sunday, June 8, 2025 on CBS as well as Paramount+ beginning at 8pm ET. The Tony Awards returns to Radio City Music Hall this year after a few years away from the venue.
Today it was announced that the music and life story of beloved country music icon and legend Loretta Lynn will be depicted in a new stage musical, Coal Miner’s Daughter featuring Tony Award-winner Sutton Foster. The production is in development under the direction of Tony Award-winner Sam Gold. Music Production is by Tony Award-winner Jeanine Tesori. Gold and Tesori last worked together on the Tony Award-winning musical Fun Home.
Director (and Theatrely31 alum) Jack Serio has found his company for Ken Urban’s Danger and Opportunity. The new play is set to premiere at the East Village Basement beginning March 27 and run through April 17, 2025. An official opening night is set for Thursday, April 3.
We are truly counting down the days until Jason Robert Brown’s The Last Five Years finally makes its way to Broadway, and thankfully we don’t have too much longer to go. Today, producers Seaview, ATG Productions, and The Season have released the original music video for “Goodbye Until Tomorrow/I Could Never Rescue You” from The Last Five Years starring Nick Jonas and Adrienne Warren.
Suddenly Milo! This morning it was announced that Elizabeth Gilles and Milo Manheim are set to join the Off-Broadway production of Little Shop of Horrors next month. Gillies who has previously been on Broadway in 13 and most well known for her turn on Victorious stars as Audrey opposite Milo Manheim, most well known for Disney’s Zombies franchise. The duo plus Broadway vet Jeremy Kushnier will join the company Tuesday, February 25, 2025 at the Westside Theatre.
TUDUM! With Stranger Things: The First Shadow now officially in rehearsals here in New York as they prepare for their first preview on Friday, March 28, Sonia Friedman Productions and Netflix have completed their company. The new play will officially open Tuesday, April 22 at the Marquis Theatre.
Producers announced that Rashidra Scott will join the company of Sunset Blvd. as the standby for the role of Norma Desmond at the St. James Theatre starting Monday, January 20. Fresh off an unforgettable performance as Norma yesterday, Caroline Bowman who was the standby since opening will depart the production on Sunday, January 19 as she heads to originate the role of Karen in Smash on Broadway.
Producers of BOOP! The Musical announced the full cast who will originate the new musical when it starts previews on March 11, 2025 before an official opening night on April 5 at the Broadhurst. The principal cast of BOOP!, who received critical acclaim in the Chicago pre-Broadway run last year, is headed by Jasmine Amy Rogers as Betty Boop and Tony Award-winner Faith Prince as Valentina, Ainsley Melham as Dwayne, Erich Bergen as Raymond, Stephen DeRosa as Grampy,Anastacia McCleskey as Carol, Angelica Hale as Trisha, Phillip Huber (Pudgy the Dog), and Aubie Merrylees as Oscar.
It appears the current Atlantic Theater productions of Grief Camp and I’m Assuming You Know David Greenspan are postponed due to the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) calling for a strike against the Atlantic Theater Company.
It seems The Jonathan Larson Project has found its cast. The new musical celebrates the dozens of unheard songs, unfinished and unproduced musicals, and pop songs found in files and boxes when Larson died suddenly at the age of 35 in 1996. The company is set to include Adam Chanler-Berat, Taylor Iman Jones, Lauren Marcus, Andy Mientus, and Jason Tam.
Do you happen to look like our favorite resident of Munchinkinland and have nothing going on this weekend? Well you just might be in luck. Popular TikToker Molly Brown (@TSwiftFan420) will be hosting a Boq look-alike competition this Saturday, December 7th, at noon in Washington Square Park here in the heart of Manhattan. If you aren’t chronically online like the staff here at Theatrely, let me fill you in. As the Wicked movie continue to dominate the box office, social media, and our minds, Molly has been getting quite a bit of attention for creating BoqTok, as she calls it. Over the course of several viral videos on TikTok, the comedian who has amassed more than 160,000 followers has lovingly been hating on Boq, portrayed in the film by Ethan Slater.
Seems more people are joining the Upside Down! Today, further casting was announced for the upcoming Broadway production of Stranger Things: The First Shadow which brings performances at the Marquis Theatre on Friday, March 28, 2025 before an official opening night on Tuesday, April 22, 2025. Joining the previously announced Louis McCartney as Henry Creel, the company will include Rosie Benton (Patriots) as Virginia Creel, Alex Breaux (“Stranger Things” Season 5) as Dr. Brenner, Nicky Eldridge (Broadway Debut) as Bob Newby, Andrew Hovelson (Lucky Guy) as Principal Newby, Alison Jaye (“Shameless”) as Joyce Maldonado, Emmy Award nominee T.R. Knight (“Grey’s Anatomy”) as Victor Creel, Emmy Award nominee Gabrielle Nevaeh (Nickelodeon’s “That Girl Lay Lay”) as Patty Newby and Burke Swanson (Back to the Future: The Musical) as James Hopper, Jr.
The cast is shaping up for who will be joining Tony Award winner Jonathan Groff as Bobby Darin in Just In Time on Broadway this March. He will be joined by Joe Barbara, Tony Award winner Michele Pawk, Lance Roberts, Caesar Samayoa, Christine Cornish, Julia Grondin, Valeria Yamin, John Treacy Egan, Tari Kelly, Matt Magnusson, Khori Michelle Petinaud, and Larkin Reilly.
Theatrely31 alum Jack Serio will direct Danger and Opportunity, a new play by Ken Urban this March. The new production will premiere at the East Village Basement, located at 321 East 9th Street in Manhattan.
Today it was announced that Emmy-nominated actor Betty Gilpin will take over the role of Mary Todd Lincoln beginning Tuesday, January 21, 2025 for a limited 8-week engagement through Sunday, March, 2025. Tickets are now officially on sale through Saturday, June 28, 2025.
The Broadway premiere of Back To The Future is closing up shop. The show will play its final performance at the Winter Garden Theatre on Sunday, January 5, 2025. At the time of closing, Back To The Future will have played 35 previews and 597 performances over its 18 month run.
Netflix and Sonia Friedman Productions announced that Louis McCartney will reprise his award-winning performance as Henry Creel when Stranger Things: The First Shadow comes to Broadway this spring. This will mark McCartney’s Broadway Debut. He will play his final performance in the West End production on Sunday, November 10, 2024.
Today it was announced that pop music superstar Joey Fatone will return to Broadway for the first time in 20 years in the company of & Juliet as ‘Lance’ beginning January 21, 2025. A founding member of NSYNC, Fatone made his Broadway debut in Rent in 2002 and went on to star in Little Shop of Horrors in 2004. He will play a limited 9-week engagement in & Juliet through March 16, 2024. He takes over the role from Paulo Szot.
Today, principal casting was announced for Boop! The Musical which will being previews at the Broadhurst Theatre on March 11, 2025 before an official opening night on April 5, 2025. The company, who received critical acclaim in the Chicago pre-Broadway run last year, is headed by Jasmine Amy Rogers as Betty Boop and Tony Award-winner Faith Prince as Valentina, Ainsley Melham as Dwayne, Erich Bergen as Raymond, Stephen DeRosa as Grampy, Anastacia McCleskey as Carol, Angelica Hale as Trisha, Phillip Huber (Pudgy the Dog), and Aubie Merrylees as Oscar.
Theatrely31 alum Kimberly Belflower will make her Broadway debut when her play John Proctor is the Villain premieres at the Booth Theatre directed by Danya Taymor. Sadie Sink, Broadway alum and star of Stranger Things will lead the cast of the new play which begins performances Thursday, March 20, 2025 at the Booth Theatre with an official opening night set for Monday, April 14.
The world of Silicon Valley is headed straight to Washing D.C. in Matthew Libby’s new suspenseful drama Data. Directed by Margot Bordelon, the play will premiere October 31, 2024 before an official opening night on November 7, 2024. Data will play a limited engamgnet at Arena Stage’s Arlene and Robert Kogod Cradle theatre through December 15, 2024. The star-studded cast includes Karan Brar in his theatrical debut as Maneesh, Stephen Cefalu, Jr. as Jonah, Isabel Van Natta as Riley, and Rob Yang as Wang Tao (Alex).
More Succession stars are headed to the stage! Following a sold out, critically acclaimed run in the West End, Sarah Snook will make her Broadway debut playing 26 characters in the new production of The Picture of Dorian Gray. The stage adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s only novel is adapted and directed by Kip Williams, the Artistic Director of Sydney Theatre Company, where the production originated. The Picture of Dorian Gray will open at a Shubert theatre in March for a strictly limited engagement.
The circus is coming to an end. The Broadway premiere of Water for Elephants will be packing up its tent this December. The musical will play its final performance at the Imperial Theatre on Sunday, December 8, 2024. At time of closing, Water for Elephants will have played 25 previews and 301 regular performances.
Today it was announced that Riverdance 30 - The New Generation is headed back to Radio City Music Hall as part of the new anniversary production of the international Irish dance phenomenon for five performances only from Friday, March 28 through Sunday, March 30, 2025. This will be the first time the dance troupe is back at the famed Music Hall since 2020.
Jason Robert Brown and Taylor Mac’s Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil will head to Broadway in 2025. The new musical is based off John Berendt’s 1994 non-fiction book of the same name. It had a critically acclaimed run at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago earlier this summer.
