The Wiz Producers Kristin Caskey, Mike Isaacson, Brian Anthony Moreland, Ambassador Theatre Group, Kandi Burruss and Todd Tucker released the first look of Emmy Award-winning and Grammy Award-nominated Wayne Brady as ‘The Wiz’ in the groundbreaking musical set to open on Broadway on Wednesday, April 17, in a limited engagement at the Marquis Theatre (210 West 46th Street) with preview performances to begin on March 29. The current coast-to-coast pre-Broadway tour is now in San Francisco and has been a sold-out smash sin ..read more

Fall down a rabbit hole of sensual wonders and surreal delights at Queen of Hearts, Company XIV’s sumptuous ode to Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. Peer into a decadent dreamworld laced with a mesmerizing blend of stunning circus, shining chanteuses, brilliant burlesque, classical dance, and lavish design. This enchanting fall from innocence returns to Théâtre XIV March 1st for a limited engagement. Mark your calendars—the exclusive presale begins January 22. General ticket sale begins on January 29. The Champagne Presale will include front row seatin ..read more

Sonia Friedman Productions is pleased to announce that award-winning theatre, film, and television actor Michael Stuhlbarg (Broadway: The Pillowman; Film: A Serious Man, Call Me By Your Name; TV: “Boardwalk Empire”) will return to Broadway for the first time in almost 20 years to star in Patriots, the Almeida Theatre production of the shockingly timely new play by Peter Morgan, creator of “The Crown.” Patriots, which critics have called “topical and terrifying” (Air Mail), is about billionaire Boris Berezovsky, the kingmaker behind Vladimir Putin’s ..read more

Tony nominee Josh Groban and Tony winner Annaleigh Ashford completed their 46-week run in the Broadway revival of Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler’s Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street January 14 at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre. The musical will be led by the show’s understudies Nicholas Christopher (as Sweeney) and Jeanna De Waal (as Mrs. Lovett) until February 8. Tony winners Aaron Tveit and Sutton Foster will then play Sweeney and Mrs. Lovett (respectively) beginning February 9, for a 12-week limited run. Groban and Ashford have helped make the revival one of Broadway’s consistent ..read more

The Green Room 42 – the intimate concert venue dubbed Broadway’s “off-night hotspot” by The New York Times – will present “RuPaul’s Drag Race All-Stars” finalist Ginger Minj and rising drag star Gidget Galore in “The Broads Way” for three performances on Saturday, February 10 at 9:30 PM, Sunday, February 11 and Monday, February 12, both at 7:00 PM. Directly from their sold-out run in Provincetown, Minj (Hocus Pocus 2, Netflix’s Dumplin’) and her drag sister Galore (OutTV’s “Sew Fierce”) take a trip d ..read more

Ramin Karimloo and David Hyde Pierce lead the crew as the “The Pirate King” and “W.S. Gilbert & Major General” in a Roundabout reimagining of The Pirates of Penzance. Scott Ellis (Doubt; Kiss Me, Kate) directs and Warren Carlyle (Harmony; Kiss Me, Kate) choreographs with a hilarious new adaptation by Rupert Holmes (The Mystery of Edwin Drood), musical direction by Joseph Joubert (Caroline, or Change), and orchestrations by Joubert and Daryl Waters (Memphis). Gilbert & Sullivan’s pirate ship docks in New Orleans in this jazzy-bluesy vision of the crowd-pleasing class ..read more

St. Lydia’s, a progressive storefront church in Brooklyn, presents an intimate, site-specific, hour-long new play, The Voices in Your Head, from January 8–29, 2024. The dark comedy, about an idiosyncratic support group, is presented by St. Lydia’s, Billy McEntee and the independent theater collective Those Guilty Creatures. The play opens tonight and is created by Grier Mathiot and Billy McEntee, and Ryan Dobrin directs. Shows are quickly selling out, but tickets are on sale at StLydias.org/events. In The Voices in Your Head, support group members g ..read more

Due to the enormous popularity and sold out Inaugural Cruise, Sixthman and EBG are thrilled to present the 2nd annual sailing of The Broadway Cruise. Theatre legend and multi-Tony Award winner Bernadette Peters (Old Friends, Annie Get Your Gun, “The Good Fight”) joins the previously announced stars of the theatre and creative luminaries for an unforgettable vacation where tropical weather and calm seas await. The Broadway Cruise will leave from Miami and sail to Key West and Grand Cayman Island, March 13 – March 18, 2024. Confirmed pe ..read more

Lempicka, the sweeping new musical portrait celebrating the gripping true story of renowned artist Tamara de Lempicka, released a new music video of “Woman Is” performed by Eden Espinosa. Featured on the forthcoming Original Broadway Cast Recording of Lempicka from Sony Music Masterworks, “Woman Is” includes lyrics by Carson Kreitzer and music by Matt Gould, and is the already wildly popular Act One Finale from the highly anticipated new musical. Performances of Lempicka will begin on March 19, 2024, at the Longacre Theatre (220 W 48t ..read more

by Billy McEntee Many of us once had embarrassing AOL Instant Messenger screen names; asking what yours was can be a comical icebreaker. What we did online, though, can get to a place of greater vulnerability, and, in the early aughts when AIM flourished, taking on a digital persona sometimes made it easier for queer people to connect. Ryan Drake’s upcoming You Don’t Have to Do Anything is part memory play and part period piece: it mines the pre-social media internet to unearth the ways in which adolescents discovered and enacted their sexualities. Playing February 9–23, 2024 at HER ..read more