T.G.I.F., Broadway fans! Before we head out for happy hour, we’re revisiting the most important lessons we learned over the last seven days on the Great White Way. From Taydina dream casting to Banana Joe’s Broadway debut, check out a few of the crazy, weird and downright awesome things we learned this week.


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The Tony Awards Administration Committee met for the second time this season to decide the eligibility of 14 Broadway productions from the 2012-13 season. The 14 productions discussed include Grace, Cyrano de Bergerac, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, The Heiress, Annie, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Scandalous, A Christmas Story, Dead Accounts, The Anarchist, Golden Boy, Glengarry Glen Ross ...

Cheyenne Jackson has been tapped to co-star with Arrested Development’s Jeffrey Tambor in Amazon Studios’ new comedy pilot The Onion Presents: The News, reports Deadline.com.

The project is set behind the scenes at the Onion News Network, the fictional news agency behind the popular spoof journalism site The Onion. Jackson will play Cameron, described as a rising news ...

Watch out, Nikki Finke! The Litchfield County Times surprisingly broke the news that three-time Oscar winner Meryl Streep will star as the Witch in the movie adaptation of Into the Woods, directed by Rob Marshall. Broadway arranger and composer David Krane, who worked with Marshall on the Chicago movie, spilled the magic beans in a January 31 interview with the ...

It’s time to stock up on Champagne and noisemakers because 2013 is almost upon us, and with it will come a whole new slate of Weekend Polls for Broadway.com readers. But first, let’s look back at which polls fired up theater fans and drove them to make their voices heard and votes counted. Readers were invested in ...

Broadway hunk Cheyenne Jackson has released the full music video for "Don’t Wanna Know," the latest single from his new solo album (available in 2013). In the video, Jackson gets dumped by his boyfriend (played by West Side Story's Matt Cavenaugh) and is trying to get over the heartbreak. With a video featuring sexy backup dancers (including Priscilla ...

Cheyenne Jackson has tapped Tony Award winner Nina Arianda to join him as a special guest for his New Year’s Eve celebration Cheyenne Jackson… Music of the Mad Men Era, which will be held at the Kennedy Center on December 31.

Reprising his performance at Carnegie Hall last year, Jackson will sing lounge music from the ‘50s and ‘60s ...

2012 is almost over, but don't start looking ahead to the new year just yet. There is still a month left before 2013, and we guarantee it'll be filled with plenty of learning experiences and life lessons to be gleaned from the goings-on in the Broadway community. So what did theatergoers learn this past week? A heck of ...

Cheyenne Jackson… pop star? That seems to be what the Broadway veteran is going for in his new music video “Don’t Wanna Know,” the third single off of his new solo album (available in 2013). The song is available for download on December 18, but you can get a preview of the colorful pageantry that is his music video ...

Broadway.com Audience Choice Awards host and winner Darren Criss enjoyed a special stage-centric weekend: Criss arrived in the Big Apple to support his Glee co-star Amber Riley as she made her New York stage debut in Encores! toe-tapping musical extravaganza Cotton Club Parade. (Riley must be one heck of a co-star: In four days she received surprise backstage visits ...