The family-friendly interactive off-Broadway extravaganza Gazillion Bubble Show has been entertaining families for more than seven years. The international phenomenon, created by record-breaking bubble artist Fan Yang, explores the fragile, mysterious and magical world of bubbles. Now performed by Yang’s son, two-time Guinness Book of World Records holder Deni Yang, the show continues to thrill audiences with its blend ...

Seminar star Jerry O’Connell traded in his Broadway nights for an early morning with Kelly Ripa. The charismatic O’Connell co-hosted Live! With Kelly on February 9. Over their morning coffee, he cracked jokes with Ripa about Seminar, its longevity and the strenuous schedule of a Broadway show. O’Connell also dished on his co-stars and getting backstage ...

Three-time Tony nominee Marin Mazzie has played the loving mother in Ragtime, the troubled mother in Next to Normal and now the misunderstood mother in Carrie. The big-voiced star stopped by Show People with Paul Wontorek to dish about her star turn in MCC Theater's reimagined Carrie. Highlights of their gab session include Marin dressed as the world’s ...

For a quarter of a century, the music, mayhem and mystery of The Phantom of the Opera has delighted Broadway audiences night after night. Andrew Lloyd Webber’s classic musical, featuring lyrics by Charles Hart and Richard Stilgoe, opened on January 26, 1988 and officially became the longest-running show in Broadway history in 2006. Now entering its 25th year at ...

Encores! kicks off its 19th season with Stephen Sondheim and George Furth’s Merrily We Roll Along, which examines the lives of three artists whose friendship is tested by time, events, ambition and fate. Directed by Sondheim’s “old friend” James Lapine, the production at New York City Center stars Colin Donnell as Franklin Shepard, Lin-Manuel Miranda as Charley Kringas ...

As Delray, the owner of an underground African-American rock 'n' roll bar, Memphis’ Christopher Jackson knows how to get the party started. Thus, it’s no surprise the actor keeps the ball rolling and the energy up backstage at the Shubert Theatre. The performer invited Broadway.com into his dressing room and confessed he’d be sporting baseball cleats in ...

Any Broadway star who can attract Elmo, Joel Grey, Donna Murphy and Nick Jonas to the stage at a Monday night benefit performance must be pretty important. Tony winner Kristin Chenoweth did just that when the Drama League saluted her at its annual benefit gala on February 6 at NYC's Pierre Hotel. Broadway.com Editor in Chief Paul Wontorek ...

Phantom of the Opera fans are snapping up tickets to see the Australian production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical sequel Love Never Dies, which was recorded at the Regent Theatre in Melbourne and will be shown in select movie theater across America on February 28 and March 7. For a tantalizing peek at this sumptuous production, click below to ...

The New Directions students were challenged to include Spanish in their performances when Evita leading man Ricky Martin showed up as hot teacher David Martinez on the February 7 episode of Glee. During the night’s big number, Martin took the stage with Glee’s own feisty Latina Naya Rivera to perform a bilingual cover of Madonna’s "La Isla ...

As a monologist, Mike Daisey pursues his obsessions for a living. Chief among them is technology, and Apple products in particular. After a long love affair with these items, Daisey’s curiosity was piqued when images taken inside a Chinese factory that produces them appeared on the Web. He traveled to China to investigate how the objects that he—and ...