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Nicole Rosky

Nicole is the Editor-in-Chief of BroadwayWorld, where she began her journey as an intern in 2010. As BroadwayWorld's Senior Managing Editor, a role she took on in 2012, she covered over a decade's-worth of theatre and live entertainment in New York City and around the world. Throughout her time with BroadwayWorld, Nicole has worked extensively with the photo and video team, producing (and sometimes editing) a great deal of the site's original programming, including Backstage with Richard Ridge, Dance Captain Dance Attack, Next on Stage, Kid Critics, and Teen Critics, just to name a few. Originally from outside of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, she is a proud graduate of Penn State University's College of Communications. Nicole currently resides in Brooklyn, New York, where she gets to enjoy far more great theatre than she ever dreamed. Her first great role was "Billy Flynn" in her fourth grade musical theatre class. Oh, how far she has come!




LEARN MORE ABOUT Nicole Rosky

First Show:

Gyspy, starring the great Bernadette Peters

Favorite Show:

There are so many! Just a few include Ragtime, Merrily We Roll Along, Next to Normal, The Bridges of Madison County, Jesus Christ Superstar, Newsies, and The Secret Garden.

Favorite Stories:

  • Tony Nominee Reactions - I have had the pleasure of covering every Tony Awards season since 2011 and one of my favorite parts is hearing from the nominees just moments after they find out that they ARE nominees.
  • Theatre Queens - When I'm not at a Broadway show, you'll find me at home, catching up on the latest episodes of RuPaul's Drag Race. I've had a blast chatting with many of the queens who call theatre their first love.
  • Broadway Jukebox - I love a good playlist and I find myself making them OFTEN. I've curated over 100 musical theatre playlists for BroadwayWorld (my personal favorite is "Female Anthems of Broadway"). Give them a listen and follow BroadwayWorld on Spotify to find out what I come up with next!
  • Broadway By Design - I created this series after realizing how little information is shared about the theatrical design process and it has become one of my favorite ongoing features.
  • Next On Stage - Working on this project and having the opportunity to spotlight so many talented young people from around the country has been one of the most rewarding experiences of my career.


STAGE TUBE: BROADWAY BARES Turns 25! Go Behind the Scenes of the 2015 Photo Shoot!
STAGE TUBE: BROADWAY BARES Turns 25! Go Behind the Scenes of the 2015 Photo Shoot!
April 6, 2015

Broadway Bares, the unrivaled evening of sexy striptease that benefits Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, is turning 25 and will welcome back to the director's chair Jerry Mitchell, Bares' creator and executive producer. The 2015 edition will fill NYC's Hammerstein Ballroom on Sunday, June 21.

STAGE TUBE: Lea Salonga Sings from MULAN, LES MISERABLES & More at PA Master Class
STAGE TUBE: Lea Salonga Sings from MULAN, LES MISERABLES & More at PA Master Class
April 6, 2015

Broadway favorite Lea Salonga, who will soon return to Broadway opposite George Takei in Allegiance, just visited Bucks County Pennsylvania's Council Rock High School South to teach a master class with the choral department. Check out highlights from the special event below!

STAGE TUBE: Watch Annaleigh Ashford Channel Her Inner Tin Man at MISCAST!
STAGE TUBE: Watch Annaleigh Ashford Channel Her Inner Tin Man at MISCAST!
April 6, 2015

MCC presented their annual gala last week, featuring Broadway's hottest stars performing songs from roles in which they would never be cast. Below, watch as Annaleigh Ashford stops the show, performing 'Slide Some Oil to Me' from THE WIZ!

TV Exclusive: Watch the World Premiere of 'Bring Him Home' from Josh Groban's STAGES!
TV Exclusive: Watch the World Premiere of 'Bring Him Home' from Josh Groban's STAGES!
April 7, 2015

Multi-platinum recording artist Josh Groban will release a new album, entitled Stages, on April 28th, 2015, via Reprise Records. The album is a collection of some of the greatest musical theater songs of all time, which Groban describes as 'gorgeously arranged songs that have stood the test of time,' and which he was drawn to because of their combination of 'incredible melody with an incredible story.' With just weeks until the album's release, BroadwayWorld is excited to bring you the world premiere of Groban's music video for 'Bring Him Home' from Les Miserables!

STAGE TUBE: Go Behind the Scenes of Amanda Seyfried & Thomas Sadoski's Photo Shoot for THE WAY WE GET BY!
STAGE TUBE: Go Behind the Scenes of Amanda Seyfried & Thomas Sadoski's Photo Shoot for THE WAY WE GET BY!
April 6, 2015

Second Stage Theatre will soon feature Amanda Seyfried (Les Miserables, Dear John, Mamma Mia!, upcoming Ted 2 and Pan) and Thomas Sadoski (The Newsroom, Wild, upcoming in NBC's The Slap) in the upcoming world premiere production of NEIL LaBUTE's drama, The Way We Get By. Directed by Tony nominee LEIGH SILVERMAN, the production will begin previews on April 28, 2015 and officially open on May 20, 2015 at Second Stage Theatre, 305 West 43rd Street. Below, go behind the scenes of the duo's recent photo shoot for the show!

STAGE TUBE: On This Day for 4/6/15- THE CRUCIBLE
STAGE TUBE: On This Day for 4/6/15- THE CRUCIBLE
April 6, 2015

Today in 1964, The Crucible opened at the Belasco Theatre, where it ran for 16 performances. The Crucible is a 1952 play by the American playwright Arthur Miller. It is a dramatization of the Salem witch trials that took place in the Province of Massachusetts Bay during 1692 and 1693. It was first performed at the Martin Beck Theater on Broadway on January 22, 1953. The production won the 1953 'Best Play' Tony Award. It is a central work in the canon of American drama.

TV: Meet the Cast of MCC's PERMISSION- Justin Bartha, Elizabeth Reaser & More!
TV: Meet the Cast of MCC's PERMISSION- Justin Bartha, Elizabeth Reaser & More!
April 4, 2015

MCC THEATER has announced the cast for the world premiere of Robert Askins' Permission: stage and screen star Justin Bartha, of Broadway's Lend Me A Tenor, Off-Broadway's All New People and the blockbuster film The Hangover; Twilight and 'Grey's Anatomy' Emmy-nominated star Elizabeth Reaser, returning to MCC following her critically acclaimed performance in this fall's The Money Shot; and theater regulars Nicole Lowrance, Talene Monahon, andLucas Near-Verbrugghe. Permission is set for April 29 - June 7, 2015 at the Lucille Lortel Theatre, with an official opening night on Tuesday, May 20th. For more information, please visit www.mcctheater.org. The company just met the press and BroadwayWorld was there for the big event. Check out interviews with company below!

TV: Watch Highlights of Chilina Kennedy in Broadway's BEAUTIFUL!
TV: Watch Highlights of Chilina Kennedy in Broadway's BEAUTIFUL!
April 3, 2015

Broadway welcomed back Chilina Kennedy earlier this month, succeeding Tony winner Jessie Mueller as legendary songstress Carole King in BEAUTIFUL. Below, BroadwayWorld brings you a first look at Kennedy in action below!

TV: THE 39 STEPS Is Back in New York- Meet the New Cast!
TV: THE 39 STEPS Is Back in New York- Meet the New Cast!
April 5, 2015

The two-time Tony Award winning hilarious hit comedy 39 Steps is currently in previews with an opening night set for Monday, April 13th at the Union Square Theatre (100 East 17th Street). The cast of 39 Steps will feature original Broadway cast member Arnie Burton as Clown #2, as well as Billy Carter as Clown #1, Broadway vet Robert Petkoff as the dashing hero Richard Hannay, and Brittany Vicars as Pamela/Annabella/Margaret in her New York City stage debut. The company just met the press and below you can meet the new company!

AMERICAN PSYCHO Musical Announces Plans for Broadway Opening in Spring 2016!
AMERICAN PSYCHO Musical Announces Plans for Broadway Opening in Spring 2016!
April 2, 2015

American Psycho is heading to Broadway! According to an Equity casting notice, producers David Johnson, Jesse Singer, Jeffrey Richards, and Jerry Frankel plan to begin Broadway previews in mid-February 2016, with a mid-March 2016 opening. Rehearsals will begin in January. Casting has not yet been announced.

STAGE TUBE: On This Day for 4/5/15- THE PIRATE QUEEN
STAGE TUBE: On This Day for 4/5/15- THE PIRATE QUEEN
April 5, 2015

Today in 2007, The Pirate Queen opened at the Hilton Theatre (now the FoxwoodsTheatre), where it ran for 85 performances. The Pirate Queen is a musical written by Claude-Michel Schonberg and Alain Boublil, best known for their adaptation of Les Miserables. It is based on the life and adventures of the 16th century Irish chieftain and pirate Grainne O'Malley, who was one of the last Irish clan leaders to resist the English conquest of Gaelic Ireland. The cast featured Stephanie J. Block as the title character and Linda Balgord, who was nominated for a Drama Desk Award for her performance as Queen Elizabeth I.

STAGE TUBE: On This Day for 4/4/15- FOLLIES
STAGE TUBE: On This Day for 4/4/15- FOLLIES
April 4, 2015

Today in 1971, Follies opened at the Winter Garden Theatre, where it ran for 522 performances. Follies is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and a book by James Goldman. The story concerns a reunion in a crumbling Broadway theatre, scheduled for demolition, of the past performers of the 'Weismann's Follies,' a musical revue (based on the Ziegfeld Follies), that played in that theatre between the World Wars. The musical was nominated for eleven Tony Awards and won seven. The piece has enjoyed a number of major revivals, and several of its songs have become standards, including 'Broadway Baby', 'I'm Still Here', 'Too Many Mornings', 'Could I Leave You?', and 'Losing My Mind'.

STAGE TUBE: On This Day for 4/3/15- SOUTH PACIFIC
STAGE TUBE: On This Day for 4/3/15- SOUTH PACIFIC
April 3, 2015

Today in 2008, the first Broadway revival of South Pacific opened at the Vivian Beaumont Theatre, where it ran for 996 performances. South Pacific is a musical with music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II and book by Hammerstein and Joshua Logan. The musical centers on an American nurse stationed at a U.S. Naval base during World War II who falls in love with an expatriate French plantation owner but struggles to accept his mixed-race children. A second romance concerns a U.S. Lieutenant who falls in love with a young Asian woman. The musical premiered in 1949 and won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1950.

STAGE TUBE: On This Day for 4/2/15- HAMLET
STAGE TUBE: On This Day for 4/2/15- HAMLET
April 2, 2015

Today in 1992, Hamlet opened at Criterion Center Stage Right, where it ran for 45 performances. Set in the Kingdom of Denmark, the play dramatizes the revenge Prince Hamlet exacts on his uncle Claudius for murdering King Hamlet, Claudius's brother and Prince Hamlet's father, and then succeeding to the throne and taking as his wife Gertrude, the old king's widow and Prince Hamlet's mother. The play vividly portrays both true and feigned madness - from overwhelming grief to seething rage - and explores themes of treachery, revenge, incest, and moral corruption.

STAGE TUBE: Watch Vanessa Hudgens Perform 'I Never Want to Go Home Again' from GIGI!
STAGE TUBE: Watch Vanessa Hudgens Perform 'I Never Want to Go Home Again' from GIGI!
April 1, 2015

LIVE WITH KELLY AND MICHAEL's Kelly Ripa and guest co-host Mark Consuelos sat down with Vanessa Hudgens this morning to talk about her new Broadway musical, Gigi. Later the actress performed 'I Never Want to Go Home Again.' Check out her full appearance below!

TV: Watch a Scene from Broadway's SKYLIGHT- with Carey Mulligan and Bill Nighy!
TV: Watch a Scene from Broadway's SKYLIGHT- with Carey Mulligan and Bill Nighy!
April 1, 2015

Carey Mulligan and Bill Nighy reprise their critically acclaimed West End performances in the hit London production of David Hare's Skylight at the John Golden Theatre (252 West 45th Street), directed by two-time Tony Award-winner Stephen Daldry. SKYLIGHT played to sold-out houses when it opened in the West End in June; it recently received the 2014 Evening Standard Award for Revival of the year. SKYLIGHT, which also features Matthew Beard, is currently in previews at the John Golden Theatre (252 West 45th Street), where it will open tomorrow, Thursday, April 2. Skylight will play a 13-week limited engagement through Sunday, June, 21. Below, BroadwayWorld brings you a scene from the show, featuring Nighy and Mulligan in action!

STAGE TUBE: On This Day for 4/1/15- Debbie Reynolds
STAGE TUBE: On This Day for 4/1/15- Debbie Reynolds
April 1, 2015

Happy Birthday Debbie Reynolds! Reynolds regularly appeared in movie musicals during the 1950s and had several hit records during the period. Perhaps her most high-profile film role was in Singin' in the Rain (1952) as Kathy Selden. On Broadway, Reynolds has starred in such shows as Irene, Debbie, and Woman of the Year. Reynolds appeared in her West End show Debbie Reynolds: Alive and Fabulous

TV Exclusive: Laura Benanti & Christopher Fitzgerald Get Down and Dirty as Liesl & Rolf? Watch '16 Going on 17' from MISCAST!
TV Exclusive: Laura Benanti & Christopher Fitzgerald Get Down and Dirty as Liesl & Rolf? Watch '16 Going on 17' from MISCAST!
March 31, 2015

One of the biggest events of the theatre season went down last night, as MCC presented their annual gala, Miscast. At the event, a slew of Broadway's hottest stars get to perform songs from roles in which they would never be cast, and in this edition, Laura Benanti and Christopher Fitzgerald gave THE SOUND OF MUSIC their own, irreverent twist that you just have to see to believe. BroadwayWorld is excited to exclusively bring you their full performance of 'Sixteen Going on Seventeen' below!

STAGE TUBE: Seth Meyers Recounts His Parents' Trip to DOCTOR ZHIVAGO!
STAGE TUBE: Seth Meyers Recounts His Parents' Trip to DOCTOR ZHIVAGO!
March 31, 2015

Directed by two-time Tony Award winner Des McAnuff, the highly anticipated new Broadway musical Doctor Zhivago is currently in previews and will open on Tuesday, April 21 at the Broadway Theatre (1681 Broadway). On Last night's episode of 'Late Night,' Seth Meyers told a hilarious story about his parents' recent trip to the show. Find out what went down below!

TV: Watch Beth Leavel, John Bolton, Julia Murney & More Sing from the Golden Age in BROADWAY BY THE YEAR!
TV: Watch Beth Leavel, John Bolton, Julia Murney & More Sing from the Golden Age in BROADWAY BY THE YEAR!
April 4, 2015

The latest edition covered 1941 to 1965, featuring songs from Oklahoma, Carousel, Finian's Rainbow, Kiss Me Kate, The Pajama Game, My Fair Lady, West Side Story, Oliver!, Hello Dolly, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying and more. BroadwayWorld brings you highlights from the evening below!



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