Top Stories You Missed on BWW This Weekend - 11/2-11/3/2013

Broadway star and SMASH actress Megan Hilty announced via Twitter at midnight that she and actor/singer boyfriend Brian Gallagher tied the knot in Las Vegas on November 2?. (more...)

Let's see what the critics had to say... (more...)

With the Broadway Fall season in full swing, and a constant need for replacements, there is a solid group of performers making their Broadway debuts this Fall. Meet all of Broadway's newest stars below! (more...)

Producers Scott Sanders and Wynton Marsalis present After Midnight, directed and choreographed by Warren Carlyle and featuring the big-band sounds of nine-time Grammy Award-winner Wynton Marsalis' Jazz at Lincoln Center All-Stars, After Midnight began previews on Friday, October 18, 2013 at Broadway's Brooks Atkinson Theatre (256 W 47th St) with an official opening night set for today, November 3, 2013. Get a first look at highlights from the show in the video! (more...)

BroadwayWorld collected as many of yesterday's evening Saturday Intermission Pics as we could to bring you Part 2 of our November 2nd SIP round-up. Yesterday's SIPs include shots from ANNIE, SPIDER-MAN, PRISCILLA, QUEEN OF THE DESERT, EVITA, MAMMA MIA!, LES MISERABLES at Zach Theatre in Austin, and regional productions of HELLO, DOLLY!, FRANKENSTEIN, HAIRSPRAY, OKLAHOMA, EMMA, KISS ME, KATE, CABARET, ROCKY HORROR, CLUE and more! (more...)

Last night on November 2, Fantasia and the men of Broadway's After Midnight reminded everyone that it was time to 'Fall Back After Midnight' at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre. BroadwayWorld was there and brings you full coverage below! (more...)

Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus' global smash hit musical MAMMA MIA! resumed performances at its new home at The Broadhurst Theatre (235 West 44th Street) yesterday, Saturday, November 2nd, 2013 at the 2pm matinee. Check out photos of the new marquee below! (more...)

Today, we're featuring Lucy Lawless, circa 1997. She rose to TV fame as Xena on Xena: Warrior Princess and Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, and also starred as Betty Rizzo in the 1994 Broadway revival of Grease. The actress has also appeared on TV in The X-Files, Tarzan, Battlestar Galactica, three Spartacus mini-series, and most recently NBC's Parks and Recreation. (more...)

It's time for the newest episode of BWW's exclusive TV series - CHEWING THE SCENERY WITH Randy Rainbow! In this edition, Randy tributes Wicked for the show's 10th anniversary. Check out the speciAl Green episode below! (more...)

Today in 1960, Camelot opened at the Majestic Theatre, where it ran for 873 performances. Camelot is a musical by Alan Jay Lerner (book and lyrics) and Frederick Loewe (music). It is based on the King Arthur legend as adapted from the T. H. White tetralogy novel The Once and Future King. The original 1960 production, directed by Moss Hart and orchestrated by Robert Russell Bennett and Philip J. Lang, won four Tony Awards and spawned several revivals, foreign productions and a 1967 film version. (more...)

Actress Laila Robins has seen Broadway, the big screen and the small screen. But lately she has poured her soul onto the off-Broadway stage and into her character 'Marian Apple Platt', a role she originated in 2010 as part of The Apple Family Plays: Scenes from Life in the Country. BroadwayWorld recently spoke with Robins about the challenges and joys of revisiting 'Marian' afresh and being part of the fictional, liberal Apple family of Rhinebeck, New York, whose actors have become like a family of their own. (more...)

A Christmas Story, The Musical will arrive at The Theater at Madison Square Garden on December 11, where it is set to run through December 29, 2013. The cast and creative team just met the press and BroadwayWorld's Richard Ridge was there to chat with the whole gang. Check out what they had to say and watch a special performance preview below! (more...)

The new song and dance review features an all-star jazz orchestra and a dazzling company saluting the music and styles of Duke Ellington and The Harlem Renaissance. (more...)

Let's see what the critics had to say... (more...)

Great performers relive their terrible performances to benefit The Performing Arts Project. Tonight, November 3rd at Joe's Pub, Steve Pasquale (The Bridges of Madison County, 'Do No Harm', 'Rescue Me') hosts an evening of fabulous performers sharing video of their most embarrassing moments onstage and then redeeming themselves by recreating that moment live on stage. (more...)

The Public Theater announced that Tony Award winner Denis O'Hare has joined the next Public Forum Drama Club, Only We Who Guard the Mystery Shall Be Unhappy by Tony Kushner, tonight, November 3 at 7:00 p.m. at Joe's Pub, continuing the fourth season of PUBLIC FORUM. (more...)

Here are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on November 3 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events! (more...)

The Chicago Humanities Festival (CHF) announced casting today for two theatrical productions in November: White Rabbit, Red Rabbit, the Iranian absurdist play about isolation co-presented with the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), running today, Nov. 3-9, 2013, and Birds Do It, Bees Do It..., the annual cabaret performance Nov. 5, 2013, created by Rob Lindley and Doug Peck. (more...)

The world premiere of 'The Black Suits,' which began previews October 27 at the Center Theatre Group/Kirk Douglas Theatre in Culver City. Opening night is tonight, November 3 and performances run through November 24, 2013. The cast features Jimmy Brewer, Harrison Chad, Veronica Dunne, Coby Getzug, Annie Golden and Will Roland. BroadwayWorld has a sneak peek at the cast and creative team in rehearsal below! (more...)

Edward Albee, three-time Pulitzer Prize and two-time Tony Award-winning playwright, will be recognized with the 2013 Chicago Tribune Literary Prize for lifetime achievement. The prize will be awarded tonight, November 3 as part of a day of literary events co-presented by the Chicago Tribune's Printers Row program and the 24th annual Chicago Humanities Festival. (more...)