Top Stories You Missed on BWW This Weekend - 8/13-8/14/2016

The artistic community is mourning the recent loss of star of stage and screen, the beloved Fyvush Finked.The artistic community is mourning the death of star or stage and screen, the beloved Fyvush Finkel, who passed away this morning at 93 years of age.  (more...)

As the world continues to face dark times, members of the theatre community are choosing to respond to tragedy with art that spreads hope for the future. According to Matthew Curiano, when the cast of the Ogunquit Playhouse's production of The Hunchback of Notre Dame began rehearsing for the show, they 'found truly just how poignant, powerful, and undeniably relevant the story [they] were telling was.' As a result, several of the cast members joined together to film a video using the words of the song 'Someday,' sung by the characters Esmerelda and Phoebus in the second act of Hunchback, as a prayer for the future, and to honor the victims of the Orlando massacre at Pulse Nightclub, the police shooting in Dallas, and to Alton Sterling and Philander Castile, who were both killed by police. (more...)

So how will this version of the show stand out from those that have come before? watch as director Leigh Silverman explains! (more...)

Ben Brantley may have urged everyone to mortgage their homes if that was what it took to secure a ticket to Hamilton, but Senator Charles Schumer is doing his part to make that unnecessary. According to Newsday, Schumer has introduced legislation that would impose fines on anyone using computer technology to purchase tickets-to Hamilton, and other live events-in bulk, in order to turn around and resell them on the secondary market for upwards of ten or twenty times the original price. (more...)

The current Broadway revival of Les Miserables, which opened in March 2014 and is scheduled to play through September 4th, celebrates its 1,000th performance today. The current revival has played more than twice as long as the 2006 revival, which closed after just 483 performances. The original 1987 production 6,680 performances and is the fifth-longest running production in Broadway history. (more...)

The Internet knows that Lin-Manuel Miranda loves his tennis, but perhaps no match was more exciting for the Broadway powerhouse than the historic women's singles final that took place on Day 8 of the Summer 2016 Olympics. Competing against Germany's Angelique Kerber in an intense three-set match, Monica Puig pulled out a win for Puerto Rico and made history, taking home the first gold medal for the island since Puerto Rico began competing in the Olympics in 1948. (more...)

This September, Henry will star alongside Donald Glover in the original FX series ATLANTA. He will portray Alfred Miles, Atlanta's hot of the moment rapper who is forced to navigate fame while remaining loyal to family, friends and himself. (more...)

This week's final installment included a performance by the Broadway cast of Cagney, including: Jeremy Benton, Robert Creighton, Danette Holden,Freddie Kimmel, Joel Newsome, Matt Perri, Bruce Sabath, Josh Walden, and Ellen Zolezzi. watch as they perform highlights from the show! (more...)

We are continuing the series with Tai (9), Isabella (11), and Charles (8), who just stopped by the Al Hirschfeld Theatre to check out Kinky Boots. Curious of what they thought about the show? Find out below! (more...)

Here are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on August 14 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events! (more...)

Bruce Yeko is one of the most fascinating men in show business. If it wasn't for Bruce we wouldn't have the original cast recordings of such musicals as THE BAKER'S WIFE, IN TROUSERS, PRETTYBELLE, and countless other musicals that no commercial record company would have produced. Selling off his massive baseball card collection, Bruce used those funds to  produce over 300 cast recordings, earning him a place in the Guinness Book of World Records. (more...)

Today in 1997, the first Broadway revival of 1776 opened at Criterion Center Stage Right, where it ran for 333 performances. 1776 is a musical with music and lyrics by Sherman Edwards and a book by Peter Stone. The story is based on the events surrounding the signing of the Declaration of Independence. It focuses on, and partly fictionalizes, the efforts of John Adams to persuade his colleagues to vote for American independence and to sign the document. The production was nominated for five Tony Awards and won three, including the Tony Award for Best Musical. The musical was made into a film of the same name in 1972. (more...)

Moderated by the New York Times' (NYT) chief classical music critic Anthony Tommasini, three-time Academy Award winner Meryl Streep, who plays the titular role of the tone-deaf operatic soprano Florence Foster Jenkins in the movie of the same name, recently talked about the connection between acting and music; her desire to work on an original theater piece on the Broadway stage, among other things, in 'TimesTalks.' (more...)