Is it a squirrel? Is it a beaver?
Coming to Broadway in 2023
Attend the starry opening night!
In honor of Lunar New Year, we spotlight some of the finest pieces of theatre — both musicals and plays — set in Asia.
We celebrate Martin Luther King Jr.
Monday, January 16 marks Martin Luther King, Jr. Day across the United States.
This is the 2022 Broadway’s Best Awards
They can sing, they can dance and yes, they can act.
It’s December, the time for giving and the time for openings!
Larissa FastHorse is the first known, female Native American playwright produced on Broadway.
Broadway’s big showstopping moments
Broadway’s “dance revues” in which the choreography does the heavy lifting.
Tuesday night’s ceremony recognized the year’s best marketing across film, television, home entertainment, gaming and live entertainment.
Q&A with Ohio State Murders Tony nominated lighting designer
We sit down and chat before the first preview of Ohio State Murders
Capsule Review
What Broadway Can Learn from TV and Streaming
November brings a slot of new musicals and unique theatrical offerings
It’s every Broadway fan’s favorite time of year… the start of the World Series!
Performances begin January 10, 2023
From books to the theatre, mystery content and suspenseful storytelling is showing no signs of losing steam.
Phylicia Rashad, Jeffrey Richards, Molly Ringwald, Michael Rupert, Matthew Byam Shaw, Phillipa Soo, Richard Thomas
Eric McCormack, Ian McShane, Jessie Mueller, Casey Nicholaw, Kelli O’Hara, Stephen Pasquale, Austin Pendleton, Neil Pepe, Kenneth Posner, Zachary Quinto
Marin Ireland, Cherry Jones, Adam Kantor, Stacy Keach, John Larroquette, Kenny Leon, Patti LuPone, Joe Mantello and Michael Mayer.
Kerry Butler, Brian Cox, Bryan Cranston, Michael Feinstein, Santino Fontana and Julie Halston
Jason Alexander, Debbie Allen, Annaleigh Ashford, Elizabeth Ashley, Candace Bergen, Andre Bishop and Danny Burstein.
WATCH FOR MEMORIES FROM THEATRE COLLEAGUES THIS WEEK!
60 years of Woolf
Directly on the heels of her Cost of Living Broadway debut this month, we were lucky enough to snag a few minutes with this celebrated writer and pick her talented brain to learn more about what inspires Majok.
Why fairy tales? Perhaps the answer lies in the colorful utopia in which these stories are set.
By Robyn Roberts
From A Visit to a Small Planet to The Best Man, his legacy continues.
We’re ready to step out for New York’s hottest shows
Broadway has a long history of translating movies to the stage including some classic and fan favorite shows.
We wish you a Happy New Year from Broadway’s Best Shows.
We were fortunate enough to speak with Michael and get Twenty questions with a Tony Award Winner.
My favorite part of theater is rehearsal and tech when the play emerges. Thrilling! – Blair Brown
Jessie Mueller can currently be seen in Tracy Letts’ Tony Nominated Best Play, The Minutes, playing at Studio 54 until July 23rd.
We are very grateful that Jessie took some time between shows to answer BBS’s newest series “Twenty Questions with a Tony Award Winner.”
We were fortunate enough to speak with Elizabeth Ashley and ask her “Twenty Questions with a Tony Award winner.”
Imagine having a true life “in the theater”, what would that mean? Austin Pendleton, now celebrating his 60th year in the theater can tell you.
Join us for John C. Russell’s Stupid Kids on Wednesday, September 22nd!
“Sometimes it seems…as though only intelligent people are stupid enough to fall in love & only stupid people are intelligent enough to let themselves be loved.” – Elizabeth Bishop, from her notebook
We can’t wait to have you join us for our presentation of Show of Titles streaming from Sunday, June 13 at 7pm EST to Thursday, June 17 at 4pm EST.
We’ve created a Spotify playlist of some classic title songs you can expect to hear during the show.
At the heart of August Wilson’s ‘Gem of the Ocean’ is a magnificent ritual that takes place in ‘the City of Bones’ which is located many fathoms deep down in the Atlantic Ocean. The Atlantic is said to be the largest graveyard for the millions of Africans intended for slavery in America but who died […]
In high school, when the Drama department was putting on a new show, the school would block out an entire day’s worth of English class periods to be spent in the auditorium watching the ‘preview’ of that show.
My attempt to “mother” while on stage, was the first of many miscalculations as a parent. As much as I’d like to think I’m a swell multitasker-there was simply no damn way to do both tasks at hand.. I could not maintain even a slight veneer of the character.
Most people think I’m from New York, especially after years of singing all of those sophisticated show tunes, in Nightclubs and on Broadway and always in a well cut suit. But truth to tell, I’m from Columbus, Ohio and I learned all the classic show tunes from afar, never dreaming I’d have a personal association with the Great White Way and experience the genuine endorphin rush of playing multiple times on Broadway.
A starry series of livestream readings of Broadway’s best plays to benefit The Actors Fund.
She stopped me with this gem of a lesson, “Why are you apologizing to me?? Stop it. Are you sorry for having a question? Do you ever notice how women are the only people who apologize for asking something? It’s ridiculous…
Join us for The Sisters Rosensweig!
It’s unpredictable, sometimes even unreliable, but it’s in that unknowing that makes theater a place where the most interesting and wonderful things can happen. And it’s radical. People are affected differently when you put yourself out there in front of them.
“Those of us who work on the boards have seen the incredible medical miracle that is working on the stage. Yes, it drains and exhausts and demands but it also energizes and often transforms the actor.”
Broadway’s Best Shows is proud to present Show of Titles, a musical extravaganza with dozens of Broadway stars performing the title songs from over 20 beloved musicals to benefit The Actors Fund.
You are probably familiar with the name Sarna Lapine, you know, the director of “Sunday In The Park With George,” “Madame Butterfly,” “Little Women,” “War Horse” and “Dirty Dancing,” just to name a few. Well, Lapine has decided to turn her focus to a new production and is doing a livestream of Lillian Hellman’s, “Watch On The Rhine”, as part of the “Spotlight on Plays” series to benefit The Actors Fund, Thursday, May 13th at 8pm, livestreaming on Stellar.
One of my favorite things about working in the theater is how fiercely present it forces us all to be. How much courage is required. And what discoveries spring from that.
Yes, I loved being on stage and feeling the stillness and focus and magic of a theater full of people all willing a story into being. But what I remember even more, and what gave me the itch to make my life in the theater, was the backstage.
It was a wonderful opportunity to explore Lillian Hellman’s classic play with such a dream cast as part of this series of online performances.
Every night I was swept away as the actors and technicians joined together to believe wholeheartedly in the story we were telling.
In my first 10 years or so in New York, I concentrated on being a performer and I wasn’t really aware that I wanted to direct – but I’d subconsciously absorbed the shows and experiences where the staging had a big influence on me.
Broadway photographers have a big task: capture the magic, beauty and wonder of a brand new show every night, each one posing new and unexpected challenges.
In 1981, I was in my last year of high school in the suburbs of Toronto. I’d done a bunch of musicals in theatre class (Godspell, Pippin, Fantasticks) but never worked professionally.
We rushed into the back of the theatre, up a flight of stairs, and caught her at the top of the stairs as she passed out in our arms.
So I’m known for being rather enthusiastic in rehearsal rooms, and the energy of this season was apparently really sending that enthusiasm into its extremes – hah!
I fought for the story in the hopes that it would fight for me. And then, out of that big, looming shadow shrank there emerged a man.
So he asked me to come to a callback audition a few days later. At which I totally bombed. I’d never heard of a callback.
While many people may associate springtime with Shakespeare sonnets, Impressionist paintings, or even madrigals, spring has also been the focus of many Broadway composers and lyricists.
On the night of February 1, 1979, I stood in the vom of Circle-in-the-Square on Broadway, terrified.
During my run as Melchior in Spring Awakening, I was living a double life.
About 6 minutes into the evening I noticed that sitting on front row…in…the middle…to my right was my ex girlfriend.
Production Still On Track for 2021-2022 Season
Pearl Cleage on “Naked Wilson” and her thoughts on intersectionality in theatre.
Playwright, Larissa Fasthorse digs into “The Thanksgiving Play”, the pandemic and its premiere of Broadway’s Best Shows’ Spotlight on Plays!
frequently asked questions
Saluting Shubert VP Dessie Moynihan for Women’s History Month
Double Tony nominee Dede Ayite on how her costumes tell stories
David Cromer gives us an in-depth look into his process with “The Sound Inside”.
Heather Gilbert reflects on “The Sound Inside”
Robert O’Hara, Tony Nominated Director of “Slave Play” Is Making His Mark
Will Hochman interviews Adam Rapp
Williamstown Theatre Festival’s Mandy Greenfield reflects on “The Sound Inside”
Daniel Kluger discusses “The Sound Inside”.
Mary-Louise Parker reflects on “The Sound Inside”
Keepers of the “Dream”: The men who portrayed MLK on The Great White Way
It’s all but forgotten now, but The Cool World still points like an arrow at how the country was changing at the beginning of the 1960s.
Normally when we celebrate our history or historical figures, they are people of the past who have done amazing things to help build our society to where we are today. There are also those that we watch make history as they live their lives. One of those history makers is Broadway’s longest running African American Press Agent and Producer Irene Gandy.
Looking Back at Forgotten Plays by Black Playwrights – Four Decades Later Samm Art-Williams Play Still Hits “HOME”
Though 45 Years Have Past, “The First Breeze of Summer” continues to be a Timeless American Play
When I was taken, knees, shaking, to meet Miss Bacall, I kept thinking: “Please let her understand that if I am good it will only help her!”
The Broadway production of Tartuffe, at Circle in the Square, in 1978 was something that set me on an unthinkable trajectory of success.
Beginnings Several months ago the producer, Jeffrey Richards asked me to write about “the play or musical that inspired me to become a director.” The problem was there was no one production that inspired me to think,”I’m going to be a director.” There was however, one musical that acted as a catalyst, and ignited my […]
The role that escaped me – one that I would have loved to play. It’s a play I’m pretty sure hasn’t been written yet. There are significant roles for Vinie Burrows and for me. I’ve met Vinie only a couple of times and seen only a little of her work. But she impresses me, and […]
