Photo Coverage: Jordan Harrison and Zayd Dohrn Receive Horton Foote AwardsOctober 25, 2016Just last night, Jordan Harrison (Marjorie Prime) and Zayd Dohrn (The Profane) were presented with the 2016 Horton Foote Prize for Outstanding New American Play and Promising New American Play, respectively. BroadwayWorld was there for the big night and you can check out photos below!
Photo Coverage: Keen Company's TICK, TICK... BOOM! Celebrates Opening Night!October 21, 2016Keen Company's new production of Jonathan Larson's Tick, Tick... BOOM!, just opened last night at the Acorn Theatre at Theatre Row (410 West 42nd Street, between 9th and 10th Avenues) . The show will continue through November 20th only. BroadwayWorld brings you photos from the special night below!
Photo Coverage: On the Red Carpet for Opening Night of HEISENBERG on BroadwayOctober 14, 2016The Broadway engagement of Manhattan Theatre Club's acclaimed world premiere of Heisenberg, the new play by Tony Award and two-time Olivier Award winner Simon Stephens, directed by Drama Desk Award winner Mark Brokaw, starring original cast members Denis Arndt and Tony and Emmy Award winner Mary-Louise Parker opened just last night at MTC's Samuel J. Friedman Theatre (261 West 47th Street), where it will play through Sunday, December 11.BroadwayWorld was on hand for opening night and you can check out photos from the star-studded red carpet below!
Photo Coverage: Mary-Louise Parker, Denis Arndt & Company Celebrate Opening Night of HEISENBERG!October 14, 2016The Broadway engagement of Manhattan Theatre Club's acclaimed world premiere of Heisenberg, the new play by Tony Award and two-time Olivier Award winner Simon Stephens, directed by Drama Desk Award winner Mark Brokaw, starring original cast members Denis Arndt and Tony and Emmy Award winner Mary-Louise Parker opened just last night at MTC's Samuel J. Friedman Theatre (261 West 47th Street), where it will play through Sunday, December 11.BroadwayWorld was on hand for opening night and you can check out photos from the curtain call and after party below!
Photo Coverage: Meet the Company of Playwrights Horizons' RANCHO VIEJOOctober 11, 2016Playwrights Horizons will soon presnt Rancho Viejo, the world premiere of a new play by Dan LeFranc (The Big Meal at Playwrights, Sixty Miles to Silver Lake, In the Labyrinth) and directed by three-time Obie Award winner Daniel Aukin (Placebo, This at Playwrights; Fool For Love; Bad Jews; 4000 Miles; [sic]). Commissioned by Playwrights Horizons, Rancho Viejo will be the third production of the theater company's 2016/2017 Season.
Photo Coverage: Broadway Unites to Sniff Out Cancer at Joe's Pub!October 11, 2016Stars from Broadway's Hamilton, Wicked, Rent, The Book of Mormon, Chicago, Allegiance, Godspell, Sweet Charity, A Chorus Line, and some surprise celebrity special guests united last night for the first annual all-star benefit concert BROADWAY SNIFFS OUT CANCER. The show was presented at Joe's Pub at The Public Theater to raise money to train our canine friends to save lives, as well as honoring of the loved ones we've lost to cancer.
Photo Coverage: Original Company of MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG Reunites for Lonny Price's New DocumentaryOctober 10, 2016Best Worst Thing That Ever Could Have Happened is the must-see chronicle of Stephen Sondheim and Harold Prince's much ballyhooed reverse chronology musical Merrily We Roll Along which closed after just 16 performances in 1981 but gradually assumed legend status. This alternately heartbreaking and euphoric film focuses on the original cast members, then and now, and the special place this experience holds in their memories.
The film just had its world premiere at the 54th New York Film Festival yesterday, October 9 at Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall (1941 Broadway). BroadwayWorld was there for the special night and you can check out photos from the red carpet below!
Photo Coverage: Simon McBurney Takes Opening Night Bows in THE ENCOUNTER on Broadway!September 30, 2016Direct from London and an international tour, Complicite's acclaimed production of The Encounter, conceived, directed and performed by Simon McBurney, opened just last night at Broadway's John Golden Theatre (252 West 45th Street). The production began performances on September 20 and will play a limited engagement through January 8, 2017.
Photo Coverage: On the Opening Night Red Carpet for THE ENCOUNTERSeptember 30, 2016Direct from London and an international tour, Complicite's acclaimed production of The Encounter, conceived, directed and performed by Simon McBurney, opened just last night at Broadway's John Golden Theatre (252 West 45th Street). The production began performances on September 20 and will play a limited engagement through January 8, 2017.
Photo Coverage: DISASTER CD SigningSeptember 15, 2016On Wednesday, September 14, original Broadway cast members Roger Bart, Kerry Butler, Rachel York and Jennifer Simard joined show creator and event host Seth Rudetsky for a special live performance and CD signing at Barnes & Noble - Upper East Side. Performances included 'Do You Wanna Make Love?' (Roger Bart, Kerry Butler), 'I Am Woman' (Kerry Butler), 'Mockingbird' (Rachel York, Seth Rudetsky), 'I Will Survive' (Rachel York), 'Never Can Say Goodbye' (Jennifer Simard) and a special performance of the Broadway for Orlando charitable single, 'What the World Needs Now is Love.'
Photo Coverage: Meet the Unlikely Lovers of FALSETTOS on Broadway!September 14, 2016The new Broadway production of William Finn and James Lapine's Tony Award-winning musical Falsettos, featuring Stephanie J. Block, Christian Borle, Andrew Rannells, Anthony Rosenthal, Tracie Thoms, Brandon Uranowitz, and Betsy Wolfe, begins previews Thursday, September 29 and opens Thursday, October 27.
Photo Coverage: Broadway's About to Get Steamy... Meet the Company of LES LIAISONS DANGEREUSESSeptember 13, 2016Les Liaisons Dangereuses begins Broadway performances on Saturday, October 8, 2016 and will open on Sunday, October 30, 2016 at the Booth Theatre (222 W 45th St). This is a 15-week only engagement throughSunday, January 22, 2017. As previously announced, Janet McTeer will play 'La Marquise de Merteuil,' Liev Schreiber will play 'Le Vicomte de Valmont,' Birgitte Hjort Sorensen will play 'Madame de Tourvel' and Mary Beth Peil will play 'Madame de Rosemonde.'
The company just met the press and you can check out photos from the big day below!
Photo Coverage: Cynthia Erivo & Joshua Henry Take Bows in THE LAST FIVE YEARS!September 13, 2016Last night, Tony Award-Winner Cynthia Erivo (The Color Purple) and Tony Award nominee Joshua Henry (Shuffle Along, Violet) just starred in a special one-night-only benefit concert version of Jason Robert Brown's seminal musical, The Last Five Years, with the composer himself leading the orchestra.
BroadwayWorld was there for the special night and you can check out photos below!
Photo Coverage: SPAMILTON Raises a Glass to Opening Night!September 9, 2016The musical, which promises an evening that celebrates, roasts and eviscerates the Broadway blockbuster, just celebrated an official opening night yesterday, September 8, 2016 at the Triad (158 West 72nd Street). BroadwayWorld brings you photos from the big night below!
Photo Coverage: OH, HELLO's Nick Kroll & John Mulaney Meet the Press... in Character!September 8, 2016Oh, Hello on BROADWAY, marks the Broadway premiere of two of the two hottest voices in comedy today, Nick Kroll (Comedy Central's 'Kroll Show') and John Mulaney (Netflix's 'The Comeback Kid'), starring as their wildly popular alter egos Gil Faizon and George St. Geegland. Directed by Alex Timbers, the 15-week strictly limited engagement begins previews Friday evening, September 23, opens Monday, October 10, and will run through Sunday, January 8, 2017.