Olivier-winning actress Elaine Paige is giving Broadway.com listeners a chance to hear her BBC Radio 2 show Elaine Paige on Sunday. This week, Paige offers the latest stage and screen news as well as some fan-favorite June tunes. Plus, she pays tribute to Richard M. Sherman, the legendary Disney composer who passed away earlier this month at the age of 95. Catch the full episode by clicking the link below ..read more

Over the past four years, for obvious reasons, “home” has become a symbol of safety and wellbeing. More than 40 years ago, playwright Samm-Art Williams explored the many meanings of the word in his Tony-nominated play Home. This poetic 90-minute drama (with plenty of laughs mixed in) charts the coming of age of Cephus Miles, a North Carolina farmer who suffers a series of losses, is jailed for refusing to fight in Vietnam and makes an ill-considered move to a Northern city before figuring out where he really belongs. Home is now back on Broadway for the first time since 1980 in a revival prod ..read more

The Tony-nominated family drama Appropriate has extended its run at the Belasco Theatre by one week. The limited engagement will now end June 30. The play is nominated for eight Tony Awards including Best Revival of a Play, Best Direction of a Play for Lila Neugebauer and noms for stars Sarah Paulson and Corey Stoll. The play also stars Michael Esper, Natalie Gold, Graham Campbell, Alyssa Emily Marvin and Ella Beatty. Lincoln Cohen and Everett Sobers alternate in the role of Ainsley. Appropriate centers on the tumultuous reunion of the Lafayette fa ..read more

“When my doctor told me the diagnosis, I said, ‘I promise you if I get through this, I will speak about it.’” Sara Chase is already making good on that promise—a show of faith that her doctor will hold up the other end of the bargain. The diagnosis she’s referring to is tubal cancer, or cancer of the fallopian tubes—a piece of news the Great Gatsby performer kept to her inner personal and professional circles before deciding to share it publicly in an interview with Broadway.com Managing Editor Beth Stevens on The Broadway Show. Of course, the time to keep information like that private gets c ..read more

Tony Award winner and MacArthur Fellow Bill Irwin will return with his award-winning show On Beckett. Conceived, written and performed by Irwin, On Beckett explores the writings of Waiting for Godot playwright Samuel Beckett. It will begin performances at Irish Repertory Theatre on the Francis J. Greenburger Mainstage, on July 10, with an official opening night set for July 11. The limited run will conclude August 4. In his intimate 90-minute show, Irwin will explore a performer’s relationship with Beckett, mining the physical and verbal skills acquired in his years as a master clown and ..read more

Empire: The Musical, a new musical centered around the history of the Empire State Building, will premiere this summer with a 12-week limited engagement at New World Stages. Directed by Tony winner Cady Huffman, performances will begin July 1 ahead of a July 11 opening.  Empire features a book, music and lyrics by Caroline Sherman and Robert Hull. Told through the lens of three generations of New Yorkers spanning the Roaring Twenties, the Great Depression and the Bicentennial Year of 1976, the story shines a light on one of history’s greatest feats of will and desire. With a de ..read more

If the Tony Awards speak to what’s happening on Broadway now, the Jimmy Awards provide a forecast of Broadway's future. Formally known as the National High School Musical Theatre Awards, the Jimmy Awards are an annual celebration of outstanding musical theater talent in high schools across America—from Dallas to Des Moines, San Antonio to San Diego, Memphis to Minneapolis. This year's Jimmy Awards will be held on June 24 at the Minskoff Theatre. Until then, The Broadway Show will be chronicling the Road to the Jimmys, spotlighting a few of the regional competitions that send their m ..read more

In a conversation with Broadway.com last year, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins described what he’s going for in his uniquely lyrical stage directions: “I felt like the idea is to be inspirational,” he said. “The language you use has to activate the actor’s imagination.” The opening stage direction of Appropriate, his play about the secrets unearthed during a fraught family reunion, is both simple and strange: “Light abandons us and a darkness replaces it.” The closing stage direction—taking up the entirety of Act Two, Scene Three—is something else entirely. In a succession of rapid-fire scenes, punctu ..read more

Having made her Broadway debut in Dreamgirls aged just 18, Tony nominee Kecia Lewis admits that she wanted to keep on being the “cute ingénue.” Four decades later, surrounded by young performers making their Broadway debuts in Hell’s Kitchen, she has embraced her veteran status. “The kids just started calling me Mama,” she told Charlie Cooper on The Broadway Show. “It’s an honor, especially when young people want to be around you, number one; and number two, when they’re interested in what you have to say.” Lewis, currently nominated for a Tony for her performance as pianist Miss Li ..read more

CJay Philip, the founder and creative director of Dance & Bmore theater programs in Baltimore, MD, is the winner of the American Theatre Wing's 2024 Excellence in Theatre Education Award. The award, co-founded by the American Theatre Wing, the Broadway League and Carnegie Mellon University, recognizes a K-12 theater educator in the U.S. who has had an exemplary impact on the lives of students and who embodies the highest standards of the profession. The award will be presented to Philip at the 77th Annual Tony Awards in New York City on June 16. Philip will also receive $10,000 for D ..read more