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fromPitchfork
1 day ago

King Princess to Star in Aimee Mann's Girl, Interrupted Musical

A musical adaptation of Girl, Interrupted featuring Aimee Mann's songs will debut later this year, starring King Princess as Lisa.
#broadway
fromwww.amny.com
2 weeks ago
NYC music

amBroadway | Maya Rudolph joins Oh, Mary!', Book of Mormon' celebrates 15 years and more | amNewYork

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fromTime Out New York
3 weeks ago

Maya Rudolph will make her Broadway debut in 'Oh, Mary!'

Maya Rudolph will make her Broadway debut as Mary Todd Lincoln in the comedy 'Oh, Mary!' for an eight-week run from April 28 to June 20 at the Lyceum Theatre.
Music
fromBuzzFeed Community
1 month ago

Order An All-B Meal And We'll Guess Your Favorite Broadway Musical

Create an all-B meal from brunch through dessert, using theater-kid touches to reveal a favorite Broadway musical.
Writing
fromVulture
4 days ago

Soon You Can Marry Mariska Hargitay on Broadway

Mariska Hargitay will take over the role from Daniel Radcliffe in the Broadway revival of Every Brilliant Thing, emphasizing themes of healing and hope.
NYC music
fromVulture
1 week ago

Last Dance for the Groffies

Fans of Jonathan Groff, known as Groffies, go to great lengths, including spending significant money and traveling, to see his performances.
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fromwww.amny.com
2 weeks ago

amBroadway | Maya Rudolph joins Oh, Mary!', Book of Mormon' celebrates 15 years and more | amNewYork

Maya Rudolph will make her Broadway debut in Oh, Mary! starting April 28, joining a rotating lineup of performers in the Cole Escola comedy about Mary Todd Lincoln.
NYC music
fromTime Out New York
3 weeks ago

Maya Rudolph will make her Broadway debut in 'Oh, Mary!'

Maya Rudolph will make her Broadway debut as Mary Todd Lincoln in the comedy 'Oh, Mary!' for an eight-week run from April 28 to June 20 at the Lyceum Theatre.
NYC LGBT
fromwww.nytimes.com
6 days ago

How a Dexter' Star Is Singing Her Way Through Spanish Harlem

Luna Lauren Velez maintains her Puerto Rican roots while thriving in Hollywood, known for her roles in 'New York Undercover' and 'Dexter'.
London music
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 week ago

The Guardian view on new musicals: sex, drugs and song n' dance | Editorial

Trainspotting the Musical adapts Irvine Welsh's novel, showcasing the evolution of stories from books to stage with contemporary themes.
Skiing
fromBustle
1 week ago

Olympic Gymnast Laurie Hernandez Is Now Performing On Broadway

Laurie Hernandez transitions from Olympic gymnast to Broadway performer, embracing new opportunities and challenges in her career.
NYC music
fromQueerty
5 days ago

Constantine Rousouli dishes on taking Titanique to Broadway, Celine Dion's gayest song & his Titanic hot take - Queerty

Titanique, a Celine Dion-themed musical parody of Titanic, is set to open on Broadway after a successful run since its LA debut in 2017.
Writing
fromOregon ArtsWatch * Arts & Culture News
6 days ago

Actress with Portland roots understands 'empathy' while playing Fantine in 'Les Miserables' * Oregon ArtsWatch

Lindsay Heather Pearce reflects on her emotional experience performing as Fantine in Les Misérables, highlighting the song's profound impact on her over time.
Film
fromVulture
2 weeks ago

The Best Sandra Huller Karaoke Scene Isn't in Project Hail Mary

Sandra Hüller's character Eva Stratt sings a poignant karaoke song in Project Hail Mary, blending humor and emotion amidst a serious narrative.
fromSPIN
2 weeks ago

Whitney Johnson, Lia Kohl, and Macie Stewart Go Beyond the Chamber - SPIN

All but one of the song titles on Body Sound, the debut album from experimental string trio Whitney Johnson, Lia Kohl, and Macie Stewart, line up nicely-a few words, usually two, usually nouns, separated by a vertical line. The straight line in the middle means different things in different disciplines. In computing, it's called a 'pipe' and serves as a conduit. In poetry, it denotes a pause or break. In music, it marks the beginning and end of measures.
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Portland
fromOregon ArtsWatch * Arts & Culture News
2 weeks ago

DramaWatch: On a lighter note, musicals and comedies blossom on Oregon stages * Oregon ArtsWatch

Spring theater season offers diverse productions including comedies, musicals, and new works across multiple venues and festivals in the Pacific Northwest.
#theater
NYC LGBT
fromwww.london-unattached.com
2 weeks ago

America the Beautiful Chapter 1, King's Head Theatre

Neil LaBute's Chapter 1 of America the Beautiful presents three disturbing one-act plays exploring human depravity, self-hatred, murder, and manipulation through unnamed characters representing flawed human behavior.
Film
fromVulture
2 weeks ago

'I Think Oklahoma! Is Corny and Embarrassing, Actually'

Robert Kaplow, a former high-school teacher and NPR comedy writer, earned his first Oscar nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay for Blue Moon, a witty historical drama about composer Lorenz Hart's final night of relevance.
fromMetro Silicon Valley | Silicon Valley's Leading Weekly
3 weeks ago

Nadine Sierra at Stanford | Metro Silicon Valley | Silicon Valley's Leading Weekly

The youngest person to win the prestigious Marilyn Horne Foundation Vocal Competition, Sierra made her operatic debut at age 16 as the Sandman in Hansel and Gretel. Today Sierra is best known for her roles in Verdi's Rigoletto (as Gilda) and as the lead in Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor.
Berlin music
fromTime Out New York
1 week ago

A 'Glee' star is joining an Off Broadway dance show and we can't think of a better fit

"It has been a bucket-list dream of mine to perform on a New York stage, and I couldn't think of a better way to do that than becoming a part of the 11 to Midnight family," Morris said in a statement.
NYC music
Arts
fromKentucky Kernel
3 weeks ago

UK Opera Theatre tells immigrant stories with world premiere of 'A Nation of Others'

University of Kentucky Opera Theatre premiered 'A Nation of Others,' an opera depicting immigrant experiences on Ellis Island in 1921, created by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Paul Moravec and librettist Mark Campbell.
fromOregon ArtsWatch * Arts & Culture News
4 weeks ago

Lend your voice to something meaningful: March choral previews, part two * Oregon ArtsWatch

PLC announces the retirement of its Artistic Director, Mary McCarty, following 11 years of inspired leadership and artistic excellence.
Portland
Berlin music
fromwww.theguardian.com
4 weeks ago

Lise Davidsen and James Baillieu: Live at the Met album review electrifying renditions make the momentous intimate

Lise Davidsen delivers nearly an hour of outstanding singing at the Metropolitan Opera, showcasing her fresh, gleaming soprano across Strauss, Schubert, Sibelius, and Wagner repertoire with pianist James Baillieu.
Portland food
fromOregon ArtsWatch * Arts & Culture News
1 month ago

The stone of winter rolled away: March choral previews, part one * Oregon ArtsWatch

Alexander Lingas concludes 35 years as Music Director of Cappella Romana, transitioning to Music Director Emeritus to focus on scholarship and theological education while the choir searches for his successor.
LA real estate
fromLos Angeles Times
29 years ago

A House Full of Stage Presence

The Center Theatre Group's 30th anniversary reception was held at the Wassermans' prestigious Beverly Hills home, showcasing its renowned art collection and expansive grounds to impressed guests.
East Bay (California)
fromwww.bostonherald.com
1 month ago

Sondra Lee, a veteran Broadway dancer with roles in Peter Pan' and Hello Dolly!' dies at 97

Sondra Lee, a Broadway dancer and actor discovered by Jerome Robbins who originated Tiger Lily in Peter Pan and Minnie Fay in Hello, Dolly!, died at 97 of natural causes.
Music
fromLondon Unattached
1 month ago

Opera Locos - Sadler's Wells Review

The Opera Locos makes classical opera accessible to general audiences by blending famous operatic arias with rock and pop hits using comedy, physical theatre, and steampunk aesthetics.
Film
fromTODAY.com
1 month ago

9-Year-Old Sees First Broadway Show. 3 Months Later, He's Starring In It

A 9-year-old boy from Houston became a Broadway performer after a viral TikTok video of him singing led to multiple acting opportunities, including touring with MJ the Musical.
NYC music
fromwww.amny.com
3 weeks ago

Broadway's spring season brings star power, revivals and screen-to-stage adaptations

Broadway's spring season features numerous revivals of classic plays and musicals alongside new productions, with prominent star casting driving audience interest across multiple theaters.
LGBT
fromQueerty
1 month ago

"It's unfortunate that I wasn't able to do the role": Onya Nurve finally spills the tea on her abrupt exit from Kinky Boots - Queerty

Onya Nurve left the North American Kinky Boots tour due to artistic misalignment after learning Lola but was replaced before opening.
London music
fromLondon Unattached
1 month ago

Iolanthe, Charles Court Opera, Wilton's Music Hall, Review

Charles Court Opera's minimal staging at Wilton's Music Hall underscores Iolanthe's Victorian satire, blending whimsical fairy-tale with sharp critique of privilege and public institutions.
Television
fromVulture
1 month ago

Almost Every Mormon Wives Star Saw Whitney Leavitt's Broadway Debut

Whitney Leavitt debuted on Broadway as Roxie Hart in Chicago to largely positive reaction and visible MomTok support amid some recycled online criticism.
fromwww.mercurynews.com
2 months ago

Today in History: January 7, first African American sings with the Metropolitan Opera

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Today is Wednesday, Jan. 7, the seventh day of 2026. There are 358 days left in the year. Today in history: On Jan. 7,1955, Marian Anderson became the first African American to sing with the Metropolitan Opera in New York, in Verdi's Un Ballo in Maschera. Also on this date: In 1610, astronomer Galileo Galilei observed three of Jupiter's moons for the first time and a fourth days later. In 1979,
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fromABC7 Los Angeles
1 month ago

Sheryl Lee Ralph and The DIVA Foundation present: 'DIVAS Simply Singing!' | Watch the full special

DIVAS Simply Singing! celebrates its 35th anniversary with a one-hour benefit concert raising awareness and funds for HIV/AIDS prevention and other life-threatening health conditions.
Public health
fromABC7 New York
2 months ago

The Museum of Broadway hosts event to raise awareness for bone marrow donations

Broadway community organized bone marrow drives to find matches for blood cancer patients, honoring Shannon Tavarez and addressing low African American donor registration.
New York City
fromTime Out New York
2 months ago

Broadway Week is back with unbeatable 2-for-1 ticket deals

Broadway Week winter 2026 offers half-price two-for-one tickets January 20–February 12; twofer sales start 10am ET on January 7 with limited seating and upgrade options.
UX design
fromMedium
2 months ago

From playwright to stage manager

Self-generating AI interfaces require structured constraints like A2UI to prevent chaotic, unusable experiences and shift designers from deterministic blueprints to probabilistic protocols.
fromJezebel
1 month ago

Patti LuPone Insists We Protect the Kennedy Center from 'the Buffoon'

I think all of you are people that appreciate the arts and culture. This is now about the Kennedy Center. It's time for us, it's time for us, it's time for us to rise up and speak,
US politics
Arts
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

Keala Settle on life after the Greatest Showman: I ran from fear I drank, took pills, all of it'

Keala Settle portrays Mary Lincoln, confronting media vilification and pursuing personal reinvention while drawing on experiences of celebrity and grief to claim her identity.
#ariana-grande
Film
fromVulture
2 months ago

The Oscars Completely Shut Out Wicked: For Good

Wicked: For Good received zero Academy Award nominations, including Ariana Grande being snubbed for Best Supporting Actress and no Best Original Song nominations.
fromVulture
1 month ago

Oscar Snubees Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande Won a Grammy for Wicked

Less than two weeks after Wicked: For Good got entirely shut out from the Oscars, Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande won a Grammy ... for a song from the first Wicked movie. During the Grammy Awards Premiere Ceremony prior to the televised awards show, Erivo and Grande won a Grammy for Best Pop Duo/Group Performance for "Defying Gravity," which is from the first Wicked film.
Music
Arts
fromwww.mercurynews.com
2 months ago

Review: Production of classic musical in Berkeley is just about perfect

A staging of Sunday in the Park with George vividly captures Seurat's pointillist process, artistic obsession, and Sondheim and Lapine's collaborative genius.
Music
fromwww.npr.org
2 months ago

Denyce Graves sings her swan song on Met stage

Denyce Graves retires at 61 after an international opera career, concluding with a final Metropolitan Opera performance as Maria in Porgy and Bess.
Arts
fromOregon ArtsWatch * Arts & Culture News
2 months ago

DramaWatch: Busy theaters will have audiences racing to catch all the shows on offer in the next few weeks * Oregon ArtsWatch

Multiple Portland-area theaters open diverse new productions and a community-focused play festival in late January, creating concentrated, short-lived creative experiences across many venues.
fromOregon ArtsWatch * Arts & Culture News
1 month ago

Telling our stories: Oregon choirs singing in the New Year * Oregon ArtsWatch

In three January weekends you all showed up for a one-composer concert presented by A Notion, A Scream; a preview of In Medio's ACDA performance ahead in March; Resonance Ensemble on stage with Sweet Honey in the Rock®; Oregon Chorale's journey to The Planets with the Beaverton Symphony; and Evenstar Ensemble taking us all back to the days of Duchies.
Music
Arts
from48 hills
1 month ago

Drama Masks: Why is SF Ballet still performing at the Kennedy Center? - 48 hills

Local performing arts groups balance safety, political symbolism, and financial pressures while facing controversies over programming, AI productions, and institutional leadership.
Music
fromwww.mercurynews.com
2 months ago

Review: Hershey Felder delivers a brilliant story about Hershey Felder

Hershey Felder's piano symbolizes personal freedom, family history, curiosity, and his embodiment of composers through performance and storytelling.
fromwww.amny.com
2 months ago

Broadway: Jeremy Jordan to succeed Jonathan Groff in Just in Time,' Tony Awards back to Radio City, and more amNewYork

Beginning April 21, Jeremy Jordan will step into the role of Bobby Darin in Just in Time, the immersive nightclub musical that quietly became one of last season's surprise hits at Circle in the Square Theatre. Jordan succeeds Jonathan Groff, who plays Darin through March 29, in a production that has turned Circle in the Square into a swinging supper clubcomplete with floor seating, banquettes, and a live band that puts audiences inches from the action.
Music
Arts
fromOregon ArtsWatch * Arts & Culture News
2 months ago

Stage craft: Malia Tippets shines in 'In Clay' * Oregon ArtsWatch

A solo musical portrays French ceramist Marie-Berthe Cazin's 1930s life through jazz-infused songs, live pottery-making, and a captivating central performance by Malia Tippets.
fromwww.berkeleyside.org
1 month ago

Berkeley High's Kehlani Parrish performs in AGT finals

I hope everybody's inspired to join together as a community of artists and speak out against what's going on, and I'mma leave this and say Fuck ICE,
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fromwww.amny.com
1 month ago

amBroadway | Moulin Rouge!' to end Broadway run and more | amNewYork

After seven years, thousands of rhinestones, and one very resilient windmill, Moulin Rouge! The Musical will close on Broadway on Sunday, July 26, 2026. The Tony Awardwinning musical will end its run at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre after 2,265 regular performances and 24 previews. Based on the 2001 film of the same name, the stage adaptation opened on July 25, 2019just months before the COVID-19 shutdown in March 2020resumed performances in the fall of 2021, and went on to win 10 Tony Awards,
Music
fromFast Company
2 months ago

You can finally see the Met Opera outside NYC: These movie theaters are showing 'Kavalier and Clay' this weekend

Although this work is considered a modern opera, the action in The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay takes place during World War II. Two Jewish cousins work together to create an anti-fascist superhero, the "Escapist." They hope the comic book adventures they write inspire others to fight against Nazism. The three distinct settings where the plot unfolds allow the audience to experience New York City, Prague, and a comic book reality.
Music
fromHarvard Gazette
2 months ago

What do Whoopi Goldberg, Tony Kushner, and Yo-Yo Ma have in common? - Harvard Gazette

Actor BD Wong, who originated Song Liling on Broadway in 1988, visited Harvard for two days in 2020 as part of the Office for the Arts' Learning from Performers program. Wong did a master class with students, spoke to an English class, and attended an "M. Butterfly" rehearsal. He ended up helping Cheng workshop the first love scene between the two main characters.
Arts
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fromArtforum
2 months ago

Blame Game

Molière's comedies are being revived in contemporary theater to critique cultural elites and prompt self-reflection within arts philanthropy and performance.
Music
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

Drama at the opera as Royal Opera chief steps in for sick tenor

A Royal Opera House music chief substituted from the wings after Roberto Alagna fell ill during Turandot, omitting Nessun Dorma and offering ticket credit.
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