Broadway’s new one-woman-show Ann, written by and starring Emmy winner Holland Taylor, explores the trials and victories of larger-than-life Texas governor Ann Richards. The play currently in previews at the Vivian Beumont Theater at Lincoln Center, where it will open on March 7. Before heading to see Ann, brush up on your Richards trivia with 10 facts you need ...

Fifty-six years after it first premiered on television, Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella finally waltzes onto Broadway in a re-imagined and completely re-written production starring Laura Osnes and Santino Fontana. Below, we trace the magical journey of the ever-evolving musical Cinderella from a historic TV event to a stage-worthy fairytale for the 21st century.


An Offer Too Good to Refuse
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Tennessee Williams’ Cat on a Hot Tin Roof contains all the elements of good drama: sex, greed, deception, alcoholism, violence and the specter of death. This Pulitzer Prize-winning dissection of a Southern family is receiving a lustrous revival at Broadway’s Richard Rodgers Theatre starring Scarlett Johansson and Benjamin Walker as Maggie and Brick Pollitt. How did Williams, a brilliant ...

A dashing drifter, a beautiful girl and the last day of summer… sounds romantic, no? Passion and propriety collide in William Inge’s Picnic, the 1953 dramedy that’s receiving a starry Broadway revival at the American Airlines Theatre. How did this steamy tale fare when it debuted, and how has it continued to thrill audiences for 60 years? Get ...

Clifford Odets’ timeless drama Golden Boy tells the story of a young Italian New Yorker in the late 1930s who pursues “the American dream” of fame and fortune and, by doing so, loses everything he holds dear. The play premiered in 1937 to great fanfare, and now Lincoln Center Theater is presenting the first Broadway revival in 60 years. Starring ...

Few films are as beloved and fondly remembered as A Christmas Story, the 1983 holiday movie that brought pink bunny suits and leg-shaped lamps into the pop culture lexicon. Now, a musical adaptation of the film is making its Broadway debut, but before the snow falls and the curtain rises, learn the history of how this cherished Christmas story made ...

They say that everything is bigger in Texas…including the musicals! The Public Theater is presenting the NYC premiere of Giant, a musical based on the 1952 novel by Edna Ferber. We dug deep into the history of this Lone Star State saga (best known now for the starry 1956 film adaptation) and the epic musical it inspired.


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The life of 1920s multimedia superstar Aimee Semple McPherson is immortalized in the new musical Scandalous, written by Today co-host Kathie Lee Gifford and featuring music by David Pomeranz and David Friedman. After years in development, the show is set to open on November 15 at the Neil Simon Theatre, with Broadway vet Carolee Carmello in the title role. Read ...

Even the greatest sleuths can’t get to the bottom of Charles Dickens’ The Mystery of Edwin Drood, a novel that was left unfinished when the author died suddenly halfway through writing it. A century later, Dickens’ fragmentary story inspired a zany 1985 Broadway musical, which is back on Broadway this fall in its first major revival. Before cracking the ...

The Tony-winning, family-friendly musical Annie is back on Broadway in a revival directed by James Lapine. Below, we trace Annie's history from a dark 1885 poem to the 2012 production starring Anthony Warlow, Lilla Crawford and Katie Finneran.


You Won't Be an Orphan For Long 
James Whitcomb Riley’s 1885 poem “Little Orphan Annie” served as the inspiration ...