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1 week ago | 
playbill.com | Molly Higgins |Jeffrey Vizcaino
The revival of Gilbert and Sullivan's The Pirates of Penzance, retitled Pirates! The Penzance Musical, began previews on Broadway April 4 with a jazz-infused flair. Playing the Todd Haimes Theatre, the production will officially open April 24 and continue performances through July 27. Meet the company in the video above.
Scott Ellis directs and Warren Carlyle choreographs.
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1 week ago | 
playbill.com | Diep Tran |Jeffrey Vizcaino
Tommy Dorfman has been having a busy season. She started out the year playing the dual roles of the Nurse and Tybalt in the Broadway revival of Romeo + Juliet. She then got a call from her agent to audition for a new play called Becoming Eve. “'I think this could be perfect for you, it’s a Jewish trans lead,'" she recalls her agent saying.
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2 weeks ago | 
playbill.com | Diep Tran |Jeffrey Vizcaino
Three-time Tony recipient Bernadette Peters may be the quintessential Stephen Sondheim muse, but there was a time where she had never even seen a Sondheim show (if you can believe it). Then one day in 1976, she was in London and she went to the revue show Side by Side by Sondheim. "I could get the music out of my head for days and days and days, I was humming and singing this fabulous music.
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2 weeks ago | 
flipboard.com | Diep Tran |Jeffrey Vizcaino
Now William Finn, Tony Winner for ‘Falsettos,’ Is Dead at 73 An acclaimed musical theater writer, he won for both his score and his book and later had a huge hit with “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.” William Finn, a witty, cerebral and psychologically perceptive musical theater writer who won two Tony Awards for “Falsettos” and had an enduringly … 15 hours ago Boop! Me I never thought I’d scream so loud for a cartoon character to disrobe onstage, but that is exactly the noise...
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4 weeks ago | 
playbill.com | Diep Tran |Jeffrey Vizcaino
The tagline for Love Life may seem strange at first: It's a show about a family over 200 years who never ages. But to get one thing out of the way: "We are not vampires," says Kate Baldwin, who leads the musical at New York City Center alongside Brian Stokes Mitchell.
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1 month ago | 
playbill.com | Diep Tran |Jeffrey Vizcaino
For Orville Peck, playing the Emcee in Cabaret has been his dream role since he was 14. So now that he's about to do it on Broadway, he's taking it very seriously.
"I really wanted to make a point of coming into this production as an actor as well, and to give this show the integrity and the respect that it deserves…I would never have wanted to make it about me, the Orville Peck Show," he tells Playbill.
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1 month ago | 
playbill.com | Molly Higgins |Jeffrey Vizcaino
Broadway photographer Jenny Anderson's new book, The In-Between: Intimate and Candid Moments of Broadway Stars, will be released April 15. Watch Anderson flip through the book and recount the story behind some of her photos—including Glenn Close preparing to take the stage in Sunset Boulevard, Ben Platt and Micaela Diamond backstage on Parade's closing night, and more—in the video above.
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1 month ago | 
playbill.com | Jeffrey Vizcaino
In 2019, a small musical with just five people opened up in an 80-seat theatre in London, created by a group of young actors calling themselves SpitLip. That musical was Operation Mincemeat and it musicalized an obscure piece of World War II history. That initial run quickly sold out. So then the musical transferred to the West End, where it also kept selling out and extending, and won some Olivier Awards (including Best New Musical).
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1 month ago | 
playbill.com | Molly Higgins |Jeffrey Vizcaino
Six-time Emmy nominee Tituss Burgess will don Mary Todd Lincoln's bratty wig for a limited engagement in Broadway's Oh, Mary! beginning March 18, and he says this is "kind of a once in a lifetime kind of role."
Written by and originally starring Escola, Oh, Mary! centers on famous First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln in the weeks leading up to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
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1 month ago | 
flipboard.com | Molly Higgins |Jeffrey Vizcaino
3 days agoIn the early days of YouTube, Jeffery Self and Cole Escola produced some of the most memorable bits on the queer internet. Known as the VGL (Very Good Looking) Gay Boys, the duo parlayed their online antics into a TV show, LOGO’s Jeffery & Cole Casserole. For many, the comedic couple shined as an …
