Broadway Video Coverage

BWW TV Special: 2012 Tony Nominees - Jordan Roth on the Hysterical and Provocative CLYBOURNE PARK!

BroadwayWorld's Richard Ridge was thrilled to sit down and speak with nearly all of this year's Tony Award nominees at the official Tony Brunch on May 2, 2012, and we will be bringing you special coverage on all of them throughout the awards season. Today we bring you producer Jordan Roth, nominee for Clybourne Park. (more...)

BWW TV Special: 2012 Tony Nominees - Jon Robin Baitz on Being Invited to the Tonys Party!

BroadwayWorld's Richard Ridge was thrilled to sit down and speak with nearly all of this year's Tony Award nominees at the official Tony Brunch on May 2, 2012, and we will be bringing you special coverage on all of them throughout the awards season. Today we bring you Jon Robin Baitz, nominee for Best Play for writing Other Desert Cities. (more...)

BWW TV Special: 2012 Tony Nominees - George Tsypin on His Comic Inspiration for SPIDER-MAN!

BroadwayWorld's Richard Ridge was thrilled to sit down and speak with nearly all of this year's Tony Award nominees at the official Tony Brunch on May 2, 2012, and we will be bringing you special coverage on all of them throughout the awards season. Today we bring you George Tsypin, nominee for Best Scenic Design for Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark. (more...)

BWW TV: Broadway Salutes the Troops at Fleet Week- Part 3; GODSPELL, MEMPHIS, and More!

Check out performances from the casts of MEMPHIS, GODSPELL, and ROCK OF AGES below! (more...)

STAGE TUBE: Philip Seymour Hoffman Talks DEATH OF A SALESMAN

Philip Seymour Hoffman, one of the nation's top acting talents known for playing extremely varied roles in film and on stage, including Truman Capote, which earned him an Oscar, and Father Brendan Flynn in Doubt, which earned him an Oscar nomination, speaks with Mo Rocca about his Tony Award-nominated performance as Willy Loman in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman on Broadway. (more...)

STAGE TUBE: Cast of BRING IT ON Tour Talks Being On the Road

In celebration of Bring It On: The Musical getting its marquee this week, Spencer Howard of TripKnowledgy: The Science of Suitcase Living, interviewed cast members of the Bring It On tour about their favorite parts of being on the road. Hear what Taylor Louderman, Elle McLemore, Ryann Redmond, Michael Mindlin, and Neil Haskell have to say in the video below! (more...)

BWW TV: Broadway Salutes the Troops at Fleet Week- Part 2; PORGY & BESS, ANYTHING GOES, and More!

The Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum, along with the City of New York and the United States Navy, this week celebrated the 25th annual Fleet Week, to be held through May 28, 2012. Fleet Week is America’s premier tribute and “thank you” to the men and women who serve in the armed forces, and BroadwayWorld was there this afternoon for a special tribute to the troops from Broadway. Check out performances from the casts of ANYTHING GOES, PRISCILLA QUEEN OF THE DESERT, and PORGY AND BESS below! (more...)

STAGE TUBE: Portland Actor Isaac Lamb's 'Lip-Dub' Marriage Proposal Goes Viral

On Wednesday, May 23, Portland actor Isaac Lamb got together 60 friends to propose to his girlfriend, Amy Frankel, through "live lip-dub" to the song "Marry You." Watch the video below! (more...)

STAGE TUBE: Preview THE WINDOW's Site-Specific 4 ALICE, Now thru 5/29

The Romanian Cultural Institute in New York is proud to present this month the second installment of THE WINDOW, a site specific performance conceived as a Romanian-American collaboration with acclaimed US-based artists. The production plays from May 23 to 29. See The Window come alive again every 20 minutes between 8-10 pm. Admission is free. (more...)

STAGE TUBE: Jared Zirilli Chats with Casting Agent Michael Cassara on 'BROADWAY BOO'S'

Jared Zirilli (recent star of Off-Broadway's Fat Camp, original Broadway cast member of Lysistrata Jones, Wicked, Twilight the Musical) brings you episode 23 of the Jared Zirilli Blog and his second interview installment of "Jared's Broadway Boo's!" with NYC casting agent Michael Cassara! (more...)

STAGE TUBE: Ellen Helps Jim Parsons Prepare for Broadway's HARVEY!

Ellen helps Jim Parsons prepare for Jim Parsons, who is starring in the Broadway production of Harvey, recently appeared on Ellen, where the host decided to help him out by preparing him for the onslaught of Broadway distractions, complete with air horns, wind machines, feathers, or whatever else he might encounter on the Great White Way. Watch the video below! (more...)

STAGE TUBE: On This Day 5/26- Al Jolson

Happy Birthday Al Jolson! Between 1911 and 1928, Jolson had nine sell-out Winter Garden shows in a row, more than 80 hit records, and 16 national and international tours. Although he's best remembered today as the star in the first (full length) talking movie, The Jazz Singer in 1927, he later starred in a series of successful musical films throughout the 1930s. After a period of inactivity, his stardom returned with the 1946 Oscar-winning biographical film, The Jolson Story. His Broadway credits include: Hold on to Your Hats, The Wonder Bar, Big Boy, Artists and Models, Bombo, and many more. (more...)

BWW TV: Broadway Salutes the Troops at Fleet Week- Part 1; GHOST, SISTER ACT, and More!

The Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum, along with the City of New York and the United States Navy, this week celebrates the 25th annual Fleet Week, to be held through May 28, 2012. Fleet Week is America’s premier tribute and “thank you” to the men and women who serve in the armed forces, and BroadwayWorld was there this afternoon for a special tribute to the troops from Broadway. Check out performances from the casts of GHOST, CHICAGO, and SISTER ACT below! (more...)

STAGE TUBE: Jane Lynch Gives Smith College Commencement Speech

Jane Lynch, the Emmy and Golden Globe-winning actress of film, television and theater, spoke at Smith College’s 134th commencement ceremony on Sunday, May 20. "You are about to receive a piece of paper that proves to the world you are now fit to join the ranks of an elite and tremendously powerful group of game-changing women," she told the students. "Smith women have transformed cuisine, spearheaded social movements, created great literature and, in the case of my friend Piper, class of ’92, even gone to prison! But damnit — when a Smithie goes to prison — she writes a clever and compelling book about it!" Watch a video of Lynch at the podium below, and for the full text of the speech, click here! (more...)

STAGE TUBE: Danny Burstein and Becky Elizabeth Stout Perform 'BLUES' in FOLLIES!

James Goldman and Stephen Sondheim’s Follies, which has been nominated for eight Tony Awards, opened on May 9 at the Center Theatre Group/Ahmanson Theatre. Performances of the exclusive Los Angeles engagement of the Kennedy Center’s critically acclaimed Broadway production of Follies continue through June 9, 2012. Today BroadwayWorld brings you Danny Burstein and Becky Elizabeth Stout's rendition of "The God-Why-Don't-You-Love-Me Blues." Watch the video below! (more...)

STAGE TUBE: Cole Porter UNPUBLISHED CABARET- Highlights!

Producer John Forslund presented OFF THE BOOKS: A Cole Porter UNPUBLISHED CABARET evening at The Duplex Piano Bar & Cabaret, New York on May 16, with additional performance coming up on May 26.Check out highlights from the concert below! (more...)

STAGE TUBE: Sneak Peek of Donna Murphy in MADE IN JERSEY

CBS has released a trailer for its new upcoming drama series MADE IN JERSEY starring Janet Montgomery and Kyle MacLauchlan. Get a sneak peek at the new series, which features Broadway favorite Donna Murphy, below! (more...)

BWW TV: Inside Opening Night of Roundabout's COMMON PURSUIT!

Last night, May 24, Roundabout Theatre Company opened Simon Gray’s The Common Pursuit, directed by Moisés Kaufman at the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre / Laura Pels Theatre. The Common Pursuit features Kristen Bush as “Marigold,” Kieran Campion as “Peter,” Josh Cooke as “Stuart,” Jacob Fishel as “Martin,” Tim McGeever as “Humphry,” Lucas Near-Verbrugghe as “Nick.” The production will play a limited engagement through July 29, 2012. BroadwayWorld was on hand for the opening and brings you interviews with the cast and creative team below! (more...)

STAGE TUBE: Preview HOAXOCAUST!, Coming to Theater for the New City, 5/29

Hoaxocaust! is a shocking, irreverent examination of how “victims” are defined, how “truth” gets disseminated, and why, for all of us, politics are so stubbornly personal. Join monologist Barry Levey as he asks daring questions about anti-Semitism and the reinterpretation of history. Is there such a thing as a contemporary Jewish identity independent of “The Holocaust”? Should there be? What if the Holocaust had never happened? Hoaxocaust! will run from May 29th to June 17th at the Theater for the New City, New York City. Watch a preview of the show below! (more...)

BWW TV: Inside the 2012 Outer Critics Circle Ceremony!

Outer Critics Circle, the organization of writers and commentators for media covering New York theatre announced just yesterday its award winners for the 2011-12 season in 24 categories, and BroadwayWorld's own Richard Ridge was there for the festivities. Check out interviews with the 2012 honorees below! (more...)

STAGE TUBE: Whoopi Goldberg Stars in Fallon's DOWNTOWN ABBEY Parody

"Late Night with Jimmy Fallon" presented the next installment of the 'Downtown Abbey' parody, DOWNTON SIXBEY. Whoopi Goldberg is featured in this latest epiode which pokes fun at the popular BBC series. (more...)

STAGE TUBE: Adam Lambert Visits WATCH WHAT HAPPENS LIVE

Adam Lambert stopped by the Bravo clubhouse to visit with WATCH WHAT HAPPENS LIVE host Andy Cohen last night. During a game of 'Plead the Fifth', Lambert was forced to confess that he was not a fan of fellow IDOL alum Clay Aiken. (more...)

STAGE TUBE: Sneak Peek - Dierks Bentley UNPLUGGED on CMT, Airing 5/29

The superstar recently stopped by CMT's Nashville studio to film a new episode of UNPLUGGED, debuting exclusively on CMT.com on Tuesday, May 29 at 2:00 p.m. ET. (more...)

BWW TV: Sneak Peek at York Theatre's CLOSER THAN EVER - Performance Preview with Christiane Noll, Jenn Colella & More!

The cast and creative team of the first New York revival of the acclaimed Off-Broadway classic musical, Closer Than Ever, including multi Tony, Academy, and Grammy Award-winners Richard Maltby, Jr. and David Shire, 2012 Kleban Award-winner musical director, Andrew Gerle, and Broadway veterans Jenn Colella, George Dvorsky, Tony nominee Christiane Noll, and Sal Viviano, met the press today. (more...)

STAGE TUBE: On This Day 5/25- Leslie Uggams

Happy Birthday Leslie Uggams! Uggams starred in Hallelujah, Baby!, which premiered on Broadway in 1967, and won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a musical. She appeared on Broadway in the revue Blues in the Night in 1982 and in the musical revue of the works of Jerry Herman, Jerry's Girls in 1985. Later Broadway roles include Muzzy in Thoroughly Modern Millie (2003 - 2004) and Ethel Thayer in On Golden Pond at the Kennedy Center in 2004 and on Broadway at the Cort Theatre in 2005. In 2001 she appeared in the August Wilson play King Hedley II, receiving a nomination for a Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play. (more...)