Valentine’s Day is fast approaching, and there are few places more romantic than Broadway! From Spider-Man's Peter Parker and Mary Jane Watson to Porgy and Bess' title characters and The Lion King's Simba and Nala, today’s Broadway landscape is filled with couples in love who can’t help but sing about it. (Hey, that’s what ...

MCC's reworked production of the notorious musical Carrie, based on the Stephen King novel of the same name, began previews this week at off-Broadway’s Lucille Lortel Theatre. As King's first book to be published, Carrie kick-started the author's prolific career, which includes bestsellers The Shining, Misery, Pet Sematary, It and many more. Carrie may be the ...

Earlier this week, the 2012 Oscar nominations were announced and, as usual, several Broadway veterans (Viola Davis, Glenn Close, Meryl Streep, Christopher Plummer and Janet McTeer) will vie for acting awards. Nominees for the evening's top honor, Best Picture, include Steven Spielberg’s adaptation of the children's novel War Horse, which has already spawned a Tony-winning drama of ...

Broadway is about to say farewell to the beautiful Weismann girls of Follies as the hit Kennedy Center production ends its limited engagement on January 22. The lush production was chosen as one of Broadway.com’s Top Five Shows of 2011. Directed by Eric Schaeffer, the revival offered musical theater fans a chance to see Bernadette Peters, Jan ...

Broadway got a dose of Dolly Parton when she helped bring her movie 9 to 5 to the Rialto in 2009, but after seeing Parton back in acting action in her new movie Joyful Noise (oppposite Newsies star Jeremy Jordan) we’ve got a hankering to see Dolly herself on stage! While we’re certain she’d be sensational in ...

Porgy and Bess opens on Broadway next week (January 12), which means that Audra McDonald is officially back on the boards. The four-time Tony winner has originated roles in Ragtime and Master Class, helped brought new life to revivals of 110 in the Shade, Carousel and A Raisin in the Sun and received an Emmy nomination for her performance in ...

Broadway.com already published our list of the top five shows of 2011, and now we want to hear from you, our faithful readers. While it was agonizing for us to choose just five offerings from this incredible year, we are giving you the nearly impossible task of choosing only one! As 2011 comes to a close, we want to ...

Whether you're planning to spend New Year's Eve partying like it's 1999 or in a When Harry Met Sally embrace, one inevitable part of your evening is the New Year’s kiss, which, according to tradition, ensures that your ties of affection will continue through the next 12 months. We thought back on the last year and ...

Oh, behave! Earlier this week plans were announced for Mike Myers to adapt his popular film franchise Austin Powers for the Broadway stage. The musical will reprotedly be a prequel to the hit movies and feature the music of Burt Bacharach and Elvis Costello. While it will be tough to fill Myers’ crushed velvet suit, we put together a list ...

In 1957, Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella brought Julie Andrews into the homes and hearts of millions of Americans as the young girl with an angelic voice, who goes from a servant to a princess. Since then, the made-for-television musical has been reimagined twice with Lesley Ann Warren and Brandy each taking a turn as the iconic title character. Now ...