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For the very first time, two-time Tony Award winner Chita Rivera brings her concert, CHITA RIVERA: MY BROADWAY, to The New Jersey Performing Arts Center in the intimate setting of The Chase Room and will perform songs from her legendary Broadway career. She will perform two shows only at 7:00 PM and 9:30 PM. All tickets are $50 (general admission) and can be ordered by calling 1-888-GO-NJPAC or at www.njpac.org. NJPAC is located at 1 Center Street in Newark, N.J. (more...)

Get ready for March Madness as Broadway’s Morgan James hosts a concert with her rock n’ soul band at Rockwood Music Hall Stage 2 (196 Allen Street) on Monday, March 19 at 9pm. There is a $5 cover charge. Joining her is Broadway’s Tituss Burgess (The Little Mermaid/Guys and Dolls/Jersey Boys) and Marva Hicks (Caroline, or Change/The Lion King). (more...)

Get ready for March Madness as Broadway’s Morgan James hosts a concert with her rock n’ soul band at Rockwood Music Hall Stage 2 (196 Allen Street) on Monday, March 19 at 9pm. There is a $5 cover charge. Joining her is Broadway’s Tituss Burgess (The Little Mermaid/Guys and Dolls/Jersey Boys) and Marva Hicks (Caroline, or Change/The Lion King). (more...)

BILLY ELLIOT played its final performance on Broadway on Sunday, January 8, 2012 after three wonderful years. The show's final performance was unique in that the current cast of Billys (and Michaels) alternated scenes in the show. The audience was filled with fans, family members, alumni of the cast and other special guests and BroadwayWorld was there to capture the final emotional curtain call. (more...)

Morgan James, presented by Jazz at Lincoln Center, will be performing live with her band at the 12th Annual Winter’s Eve at Lincoln Square on Monday, November 28 at 7:30pm at the Time Warner Center on the second floor. (more...)

Morgan James, presented by Jazz at Lincoln Center, will be performing live with her band at the 12th Annual Winter’s Eve at Lincoln Square on Monday, November 28 at 7:30pm at the Time Warner Center on the second floor. (more...)

It's always such a wonderful treat to witness a living legend speak candidly and honestly about their experiences, looking back fondly at a multi-decade career that few could even dare replicate. Orange County residents now have such an opportunity with none other than two-time Tony Award winning diva extraordinaire CHITA RIVERA, in a charming one-woman cabaret show titled "Chita Rivera: My Broadway," now playing at the Segerstrom Center for the Arts' Samueli Theater in Costa Mesa through Sunday, November 13. Still spry, spunky, and jazz-kickin' at 78 years old, this pioneering Broadway superstar presents a bawdy, yet no-frills cabaret show that is not only chock-full of her memorable hits but is also peppered with lots of dishy details of her life in the theater. (more...)

This year's New York Musical Theatre Festival will host the New York premiere of The Big Bank, a timely musical about a bank that loves to foreclose, written by Daniel and Jacob Seligmann, directed by David Glenn Armstrong. (more...)

This year's New York Musical Theatre Festival will host the New York premiere of The Big Bank, a timely musical about a bank that loves to foreclose, written by Daniel and Jacob Seligmann, directed by David Glenn Armstrong. (more...)

The 10-time Tony Award-winning Billy Elliot the Musical celebrated 1,000 performances on Broadway on Friday, April 8th, 7:30pm at the Imperial Theatre. BroadwayWorld was on hand for the moment and brings you photo coverage below. (more...)

"At This Performance," the ongoing salute to Broadway and Off-Broadway standbys and understudies is set to continue March 20-21. (more...)

On Monday, March 7, Segerstrom Center for the Arts (formerly the Orange County Performing Arts Center) announced its brand new Cabaret Series for the 2011 – 2012 Season, a year which also coincides with the Center's 25th Anniversary. The Center's Cabaret Season which will feature Audra McDonald, Stephen Sondheim, Chita Rivera, Paulo Szot, Steve Tyrell, and Andrea Martin with Seth Rudetsky. (more...)

Musicals Tonight! continues its ongoing salute to Broadway and Off-Broadway Standbys and Understudies with its next editions of At This Performance…™ to be held on Sunday, February 13th and Monday, February 14th at the McGinn/Cazale Theatre, 2162 Broadway, (above the Promenade Theatre- Broadway at 76th Street), 3rd Floor at 8 PM. (more...)

Musicals Tonight! continues its ongoing salute to Broadway and Off-Broadway Standbys and Understudies with its next editions of At This Performance…™ to be held on Sunday, February 13th and Monday, February 14th at the McGinn/Cazale Theatre, 2162 Broadway, (above the Promenade Theatre- Broadway at 76th Street), 3rd Floor at 8 PM. (more...)

BILLY ELLIOT visited the NYSE on January 20th, and cast members, Alex Ko and Joseph Harrington, rang The Closing Bell. (more...)

An accomplished comedienne, an emotionally powerful actress, and a gifted vocalist worthy of large marquees, Foster allowed all three to be fully experienced live in her exquisite showcase An Evening with Sutton Foster, a song collection of her Broadway hits, personal favorites, and selections from her debut solo album Wish. As part of the Orange County Performing Arts Center's Cabaret Series--playing at the Samueli Theater until Sunday, January 9--Foster essentially offers up a master class in entertaining by providing her audience with a healthy dose of musical evidence as to why she has spent most of the past decade as Broadway's go-to darling. Whether delivering witty or touching lyrics, slipping out charmingly hilarious quips, or belting the bejeesus out of one of her signature tunes, Foster does not disappoint in her 1 hour-and-20-minute set. (more...)

Arguably one of Broadway's most beloved, sought-after talents, Tony Award winner Sutton Foster is returning to Southern California this week to make her Orange County Performing Arts Center debut for a series of intimate concerts. Performing at the Samueli Theater from January 6 through January 9, Foster's intimate set will feature many of her hits from her stellar Broadway career as well as a few personal favorites and selections from her debut solo album Wish, available on Ghostlight Records. She will soon star in the Kathleen Marshall-helmed Broadway revival of ANYTHING GOES this spring. (more...)

Musicals Tonight! continues its ongoing salute to Broadway and Off-Broadway Standbys and Understudies with its next editions of At This Performance…™ to be held on Sunday, October 17th and Monday, October 18th at the McGinn/Cazale Theatre, 2162 Broadway, (above the Promenade Theatre- Broadway at 76th Street), 3rd Floor at 8 PM. (more...)

Musicals Tonight! continues its ongoing salute to Broadway and Off-Broadway Standbys and Understudies with its next editions of At This Performance…™ to be held on Sunday, October 17th and Monday, October 18th at the McGinn/Cazale Theatre, 2162 Broadway, (above the Promenade Theatre- Broadway at 76th Street), 3rd Floor at 8 PM. (more...)

Musicals Tonight! continues its ongoing salute to Broadway and Off-Broadway Standbys and Understudies with its next editions of At This Performance…™ to be held on Sunday, October 17th and Monday, October 18th at the McGinn/Cazale Theatre, 2162 Broadway, (above the Promenade Theatre- Broadway at 76th Street), 3rd Floor at 8 PM. (more...)