Top Stories You Missed on BWW This Weekend - 12/27-12/28/2014

The theatre community lost one of our own on Christmas Day. Actor David Ryall, best recognized in America as Elphias Doge in Harry Potter, has died at age 79, according to reports. (more...)

According to the Hollywood Reporter, INTO THE WOODS will come in at $46.1 plus million for the 4 day weekend. This puts it in third for the weekend box office, behind THE HOBBIT at $54.5 million and UNBROKEN at $47.3 million. (more...)

2015 is almost here, and that means that a slew of new shows are on their way to the Great White Way. Before the 2015 Awards season gets started, no less than nineteen new productions will take tike their first Broadway bows. Catch up on what's in store for the season ahead below! (more...)

Every Broadway season seems to feature more and more Hollywood stars, and yet another screen actor has expressed an interest in appearing in a hit Broadway musical- but not on the Great White Way. (more...)

INTO THE WOODS is in theaters and the social media onslaught continues! (more...)

BroadwayWorld is excited to continue our exclusive photo coverage of the recording sessions for this year's album with the cast of The Phantom of the Opera, who sing 'Bring a Torch, Jeanette Isabella.' Check out photos of cast members Bill Kazden, Laird Mackintosh, Nathan Patrick Morgan, Arlo Hill, Rose Mary Taylor and more below! (more...)

On Monday, December 29, Theater People podcast welcomes beloved Broadway belter, Lindsay Mendez. Mendez, who is well known for having taken on the role of Elphaba in the Broadway mega-hit WICKED for the show's 10th anniversary, made her Broadway debut as Jan in the 2007 Kathleen Marshall helmed GREASE. She was seen on Broadway in the 2010 Roundabout Theater production of EVERYDAY RAPTURE, as well as the 2011 Broadway revival of GODSPELL before being hand picked by famed director Joe Mantello to star in the off-Broadway Pasek and Paul musical DOGFIGHT at Second Stage. She also memorably appeared alongside Lin-Manuel Miranda in Miranda's short musical 21 CHUMP STREET which was commissioned by the NPR show 'This American Life' and performed at BAM. (more...)

INTO THE WOODS has arrived at last! Disney's big screen adaptation of the classic musical hit theaters on December 25th with a solid $1.1 million performance in midnight showings alone. Below, BroadwayWorld's Richard Ridge brings you an exclusive interview with INTO THE WOODS stars Tracey Ullman and Christine Baranski, who open up about living in Stephen Sondheim's 'WOODS,' filming on location and more! Click to watch! (more...)

HONEYMOON IN VEGAS star Tony Danza sat down with CBS Sunday Morning earlier today to discuss his return to the Great White Way and more. Check out the video! (more...)

BroadwayWorld collected as many of yesterday's evening Saturday Intermission Pics as we could to bring you Part 2 of our December 27th #SIP round-up! Check out Part 1 HERE. (more...)

Here are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on December 28 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events! (more...)

The producers of the critically acclaimed new Broadway production of Bernard Pomerance's Tony Award-winning classic The Elephant Man, starring two-time Academy Award nominee Bradley Cooper, Academy Award nominee and Emmy Award winner Patricia Clarkson and Alessandro Nivola, have announced that the show officially recouped its $3.1 million capitalization costs after 6.5 weeks of performances (following the week ending December 21). (more...)

For 60 continuous hours, from 7pm on Thursday January 1 to 7am on Sunday January 4, New York's Metropolitan Room is staging what it is billing as "The Longest Variety Show Ever." Featuring approximately 160 performers and 15 emcees, the entertainment will span music, burlesque, comedy, drag, theatre/opera, magic and puppetry. (more...)

Stephen Ruddy presens GRAVID WATER, Jan. 26 at UCB Theatre, NY. (more...)