Going from 10 years ago when people didn't understand who trans people were to now where people have a lot of misconceptions and they think they know who trans people are but they still don't-I'm really invested in trying to show a more approachable and real and hopefully relatable side of that,
Paytas will be appearing in Beetlejuicefrom November 4 to November 23. Paytas is playing Maxine Dean, one of the party guests in the big, spooky dinner party. Maxine is the wife of Maxie Dean, Charles Deetz's boss who is trying to turn the neighborhood into a gated community. The actor playing Maxine usually also plays Juno, Beetlejuice's mother. While Paytas is embodying Maxine, Sharone Sayegh will continue to play Juno in Act II.
It's hard to think of a more iconic exchange in the history of theater than the balcony scene of Romeo and Juliet. Those legendary lines. That stolen kiss. It's been performed countless times the world over. And it was for that reason that Andrew Moerdyk, Kimie Nishikawa, and Santiago Orjuela-Laverde, founders of the Brooklyn-based scenic design studio dots, hoped to reinvent it, when tapped by director Sam Gold for the Circle in the Square Theatre's recent Broadway adaptation. Together, the creative team conceived a bed of flowers-revealed by the opening of a circular panel-and, suspended above it, a mattress.
Entitled Sculpting Our Love of Theatre, the 7:30 PM benefit performance will feature Tony winner Bonnie Milligan ( Kimberly Akimbo), Amber Iman ( Lempicka), Conrad Ricamora ( Oh, Mary!), Alyse Alan Louis ( Disaster!), and Jelani Alladin ( Frozen).
The production has revealed their digital rush policy and lottery: a limited of $48 lottery tickets will be available for each performance, with the lottery opening at 12 AM ET one day before each performance. Winners will be drawn at 10 AM ET and 3 PM ET one day prior to the performance. Ticket buyers are limited to two tickets per entry and one entry per person per day, and the number of tickets awarded by the lottery are subject to availability.
Having opened on Broadway in 2019, part of the reason it's taken a while to cross the pond is that a big theatre is needed to contain it and there aren't many of those free over here. Fellow US smash MJ the Musical previously nipped in to claim the Prince Edward Theatre, but the Michael Jackson jukebox joint will be offski in the new year.
Although the official end date had previously been set for Oct. 19, to coincide with the end of Billy Porter's run as the Emcee, his recent illness forced producers to move the closing up to Sept. 21. Last week, it was announced that the $24 million Broadway revival of Cabaret, which transformed the August Wilson Theatre into an immersive nightclub at enormous cost, will close earlier than expected after months of disappointing grosses and apparently at a total loss.
For the 2024-2025 Broadway season, AMDA College of the Performing Arts has once again distinguished itself, retaining the No. 4 spot among institutions with the highest number of alumni performing on Broadway. Covering the season from April 29, 2024 through April 27, 2025, the recognition highlights AMDA's enduring influence on Broadway and its continued success in preparing graduates for careers on the world's most competitive stages.
James Lorenzo Walker Jr., an entertainment lawyer and investor based in Georgia, on Sept. 4 sued the principal producers of Broadway's Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club for allegedly failing to pay out profits or provide accounting for funds. The suit, focusing on the beleaguered Broadway show, was filed just as the principal producers announced it will close Sept. 21, four weeks ahead of schedule after a 17-month run.
James Corden, Neil Patrick Harris and bobby Cannavale in Art on Broadway this fall. Photo by Matthew Murphy/provided This fall brings a packed and eclectic Broadway lineup: Bill and Ted (i.e. Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter) taking on Samuel Beckett, a cult rock opera about a chess match during the Cold War starring Lea Michele, a new musical about America's gaudiest mansion with Kristin Chenoweth, a modernized Oedipus Rex, and a magic show with the Muppets. Art: Yasmina Reza's Tony-winning comedy about three friends falling out over a questionably expensive white painting is back for its first Broadway revival.
Ava Gallo, dressed in a white skirt and a black top, on Tuesday got a kind of Broadway break in the Theater District. The 18-year-old from Staten Island, who had appeared in her high school production of Mamma Mia, belted out Thank you for the Music at Ellen's Stardust Diner on Broadway. She had been named one of five winners or Junior Stardusters in the restaurant's first such competition, performing on Tuesday in front of the restaurant's audience.
"I feel like my life is a musical," says an ebullient Wallace today on a rare day off, calling from New York. She's back on Broadway, starring alongside her friend Billy Porter in, for the first time since playing an egg in Something Rotten! in 2015. "I mean, when I tell people I grew up on a hog farm, that's like the beginning of a musical, right?" Another explosive laugh.
The partnership between Harlem Shake and HELL'S KITCHEN celebrates the vibrancy of New York, highlighting Alicia Keys' roots in Hell's Kitchen and Harlem Shake's dedication to its neighborhood.
Warfield made it to Broadway in October 1968 when she was cast as Clara in The Great White Hope, receiving Theatre World and Clarence Derwent prizes for her powerful performance.
The acclaimed Broadway revival of Gypsy, starring six-time Tony Award winner Audra McDonald and directed by George C. Wolfe, will end its run at the Majestic Theatre on Aug. 17, after 28 previews and 269 regular performances.
Markus acknowledges the extensive work involved in embodying Michael Jackson's essence on stage, particularly through collaboration with original tour choreographers who worked closely with Jackson.
In a move certain to stir conversation across the theater industry, Rudin will officially return to Broadway this fall with Little Bear Ridge Road, a new play by Samuel D. Hunter.
