Theater
Keanu Reeves to Make Broadway Debut in ‘Waiting for Godot’ in Fall 2025
Keanu Reeves will make his Broadway debut in Waiting for Godot. The play, directed by Jamie Lloyd, will come to Broadway in fall 2025. Reeves will play Estragon and Alex Winter, an actor and co-star with Reeves in Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure, will play Vladimir in the revival of Samuel Beckett’s play. Reeves is […]
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Adam Driver to Star in Off-Broadway Play ‘Hold On to Me Darling’
Adam Driver will star as a fictional country music icon in Kenneth Lonergan’s play Hold On to Me Darling this fall. The play, directed by Neil Pepe, is slated to begin performances at Off-Broadway’s Lucille Lortel Theatre on Sept. 24, ahead of an Oct. 16 opening night. The production is currently slated for a limited […]
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Shari Redstone’s Next Act: Broadway!
What’s next for Shari Redstone after the deal to sell her stake in Paramount? Producing a Broadway play. Redstone is a co-producer on the Broadway play Job, written by Max Wolf Friedlich, which began previews at the Hayes Theater on July 15, about a week after the announcement of her own drama-filled Paramount sale. The play itself is a […]
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Broadway Box Office: ‘The Outsiders’ Grows Post-Tonys Streak
The Outsiders continued to break box office records for the sixth week in the row. The musical brought in $1.46 million for the week ended July 28, with capacity over 100 percent. The show, based on the novel by S.E. Hinton about teens growing up in 1960s Tulsa, Oklahoma, has been on an upward trend […]
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Andrea Martin, Melora Hardin Join Robert Downey Jr. in Broadway Play ‘McNeal’
Andrea Martin, Melora Hardin and Ruthie Ann Miles have joined the Broadway cast of McNeal, starring Robert Downey Jr. On Monday, the production also announced that “a highly realistic Metahuman Digital Likeness” of Downey will be used within the production, appearing alongside Downey himself. The technology was developed by AGBO, Anthony and Joe Russo’s independent […]
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‘Queen of Versailles’ Musical Plans 2025-2026 Season Broadway Run
The Queen of Versailles, a new musical based on TV personality Jacqueline “Jackie” Siegel, is scheduled to come to Broadway in the 2025-2026 season. The musical, which features a score by Stephen Schwartz, is currently playing an engagement in Boston’s Emerson Colonial Theatre, with Wicked star Kristin Chenoweth as Siegel and The White Lotus’s F. […]
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Adam Lambert, Auli’i Cravalho to Take Over Lead Roles in ‘Cabaret’ on Broadway
Adam Lambert and Auli’i Cravalho will take over the lead roles in Cabaret this fall from Eddie Redmayne and Gayle Rankin. The two will begin performances, as the Emcee and Sally Bowles, respectively, at the August Wilson Theatre starting Sept. 16 for a run through March 30, 2025. This will mark the Broadway debuts for […]
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Broadway Box Office: ‘Oh, Mary!’ Breaks Record, Extends Run
Cole Escola’s comedy Oh, Mary! broke the box office record at the Lyceum Theatre last week, grossing $1.05 million and besting the record held by 2022 best musical winner A Strange Loop. Last week was the first full week of regular performances for the play, in which Escola portrays Mary Todd Lincoln as a wannabe […]
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Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS Executive Director Tom Viola to Retire After 36 Years
Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS executive director Tom Viola is retiring from the philanthropic nonprofit organization after 36 years. Viola will retire at the end of 2024 and will be succeeded by Danny Whitman, current director of development at the nonprofit, starting Jan. 1, 2025. Viola will remain a consultant for the organization through 2025. Broadway Cares/Equity […]
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Broadway Box Office: ‘The Outsiders’ Keeps Climbing Post-Tony Awards
The Outsiders box office continued to climb in the aftermath of Tony Awards, with the musical bringing in $1.4 million for the week ended July 14. This is the fourth week in a row that the musical, which won the Tony for best musical on June 16, has broken the house record at the Bernard […]
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‘Oh, Mary!’ Theater Review: Comedy Genius Cole Escola Serves Revisionist American History as Riotous Queer Silliness
Escola portrays first lady Mary Todd Lincoln as an alcoholic wannabe cabaret star, with Conrad Ricamora as her long-suffering husband and James Scully as her acting coach.
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J.K. Rowling Play ‘TERF’: How Controversial is the Buzzed-About Production?
It’s one of the most talked-about plays in years — and it hasn’t even had its first rehearsal. That’s because TERF, a new one-act production set to premiere Aug. 2 at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, dares to take on one of the most powerful — and controversial — women on the planet. That would be […]
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