At a time when theater seems like it’s being consumed by celebrity, [Audra McDonald’s] career represents a commitment to the old-fashioned principles of artistry… when audiences arrive at the Majestic Theatre, they’re not coming to see her because she’s famous, they’re not there to take a photo or breathe the same air as a movie star; they’re there to witness her raw talent.
Audra McDonald photographed in New York City on March 14, 2025.Photograph by Erik Carter for TIME
Gianna Harris, part of the original Broadway cast of the Alicia Keys musical Hell's Kitchen, will step into the title role of the hit jukebox musical & Juliet June 10 at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre.
Harris, who was also seen on Broadway in School of Rock The Musical, will succeed Maya Boyd, who will play her final performance June 8.
Producers also announced that Cheryl Porter, the vocal coach known for her viral TikTok videos, will make her Broadway debut in & Juliet August 7, playing a 13-week engagement as Angélique. Porter, known to millions as Mama Cheryl, voiced “The Circle of Life” in Italian for Disney’s 2019 The Lion King; she will succeed Tony nominee Jeannette Bayardelle, who will play her final performance August 3.
Tickets for the long-running production are now on sale through February 8, 2026.
Gianna Harris and Cheryl Porter (Credit: Playbill.com)
What McDonald does is expose a woman you hadn’t known existed, but who when you think about it later was always there. In the song’s stormy preface, Rose speaks of “what I been holding down inside of me.” That turns out to be something more than the wounded, outsize ego of someone who believes she should have been a contender. The resentment and jealousy that Rose feels toward Gypsy and her younger, runaway daughter, the beloved and cosseted June (Jordan Tyson), are transformed into a more far-reaching fear of abandonment.
Audra McDonald singing “Rose’s Turn” in Gypsy (Graham Dickie/The New York Times)
Joy Woods is breaking ground on Broadway. After a string of successful roles on the boards — including Six, The Notebook and Off-Broadway's Little Shop of Horrors — the 24-year-old talent landed in the record books with her role in George C. Wolfe's revival Gypsy, as the first Black actress to play Louise on the Great White Way (pun intended).
Joy Woods as the title character in Gypsy on Broadway. Credit: Julieta Cervantes
Broadway's high-grossing revival of David Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross has recouped its entire initial investment in nine weeks, as of the week ending May 12. In its most recent week on the Main Stem, the production broke the house record at the Palace Theatre with a weekly take of $2.4 million.
Kieran Culkin and Bob Odenkirk in Glengarry Glen Ross (Emilio Madrid)
Bob Odenkirk (“Better Call Saul”) earned a Tony nomination for his Broadway debut in the hit revival of “Glengarry Glen Ross.” But almost 30 years ago, if he’d gotten his way, he would have starred in a very different production of David Mamet’s celebrated play.
Kieran Culkin, left, and Bob Odenkirk, right. Photo credit: Emilio Madrid
The Emmy-winning actor opens up about his new Broadway role in the acclaimed play that offers a sharp critique of American capitalism and the lengths people go to for success.
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By all accounts, the main event this Broadway season is director George C. Wolfe’s revival of Gypsy, starring six-time Tony Award winner Audra McDonald as the ambitious, overbearing, and fiercely protective Mama Rose. It’s a punishing, seismic role that’s been played by a true murderer’s row of Broadway divas—including Ethel Merman, Bernadette Peters, and, of course, Patti LuPone—but McDonald, the first Black actor to play Rose, was determined to interpret it anew.
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Art can be incredibly inspiring, and that was certainly the case when Oprah saw the Broadway musical Gypsy in March. In her Intention that week, Oprah shared how the experience moved her. “To watch someone perform at their highest vibration, a performance straight out of the soul bed. It was so stirring, her soul stirring ours, the audience, and us all having this glorified shared frequency experience,” Oprah said of lead (and six-time Tony winner) Audra McDonald’s performance. “I couldn’t scream loud enough, applaud, stomp my feet hard enough.”
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On Broadway, musical supervisor Andy Einhorn conducts a 26-person orchestra, but for Tiny Desk, that ensemble was stripped down to 11 musicians. Sisters Louise and June, played by rising stars Joy Woods and Jordan Tyson, respectively, plead for a moment of peace and independence in "If Momma Was Married." Leading man Danny Burstein joins Woods and McDonald for the charming "Together, Wherever We Go." The trio of "stunning strippers" portrayed by Lesli Margherita, Lili Thomas and Mylinda Hull leave a mark with the comedic crowd pleaser "You Gotta Get a Gimmick." McDonald's enthralling performance of "Some People" closes out the show…
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The Broadway production of “& Juliet” will host a special sing-along performance. Hosted by NSYNC’s Joey Fatone, the event will take place during the 7 p.m. performance of the Max Martin jukebox musical on May 8. As previously announced, Fatone will return to the role of Lance beginning on April 22 at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre.
Joey Fatone in “& Juliet” on Broadway, 2025 (Credit: Matthew Murphy)
Ali Louis Bourzgui and Myra Molloy will join the cast of the Tony-winning Best Musical Hadestown beginning May 6 at the Walter Kerr Theatre.
Bourzgui, who starred in the title role of the recent Broadway revival of The Who's Tommy, will step into the role of Orpheus. Molloy, known for voicing the Thai version of Disney’s Moana and winning Thailand’s Got Talent, will take over the role of Eurydice.
The duo will succeed Carlos Valdes and Hailey Kilgore, respectively, who will play their final performances May 4.
Myra Molloy and Ali Louis Bourzgui (Photo from Playbill.com)
“It’s fun to be a part of once, but I’m an interloper as I always am, so it’s not easy,” [Bob] Odenkirk says, explaining that he doesn’t expect to return … unless, he jokes, they do a Broadway version of “Brian’s Song” with [Michael] McKean in the Billy Dee Williams role.” … But McKean says the play offers more than showy roles. “It’s about toxic masculinity and what’s in our nature,” he says. “There’s the slow boil everyone is on in a game with high stakes where your success says something about how much of a man you are.”
Bob Odenkirk, right, confers with Donald Webber Jr. in “Glengarry Glen Ross.”
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The Broadway revival of David Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross, starring Kieran Culkin, Bob Odenkirk and Bill Burr has extended its Broadway run for a second time by another two weeks. The drama, directed by Patrick Marber, which began performances at the Palace Theatre on March 10, officially opens on March 31 and will now run through June 28.
Kieran Culkin
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Joey Fatone will return to the Broadway production of & Juliet for an encore engagement as Lance at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre this April. Fatone debuted in the role on January 21, initially scheduled to play a limited engagement through March 16. He now plans to return to the show for a second run from April 22 through July 31.
Joey Fatone as Lance in "& Juliet"
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Gypsy—which tells the story of real-life burlesque performer Rose Louise Hovick—better known as Gypsy Rose Lee—and her mother Rose Thompson Hovick, is the story of a mother who refused to accept "no" for an answer… Audra McDonald and Joy Woods are the first African American actresses to bring these leading roles to life on the Broadway stage, and the theme surrounding the unyielding spirit of Black mothers who will do whatever it takes to protect and uplift their children isn’t lost on either of them.
Joy Woods & Audra McDonald in Gypsy. Photo: Julieta Cervantes.
"My dream was never to be the focal," [D’Amelio] confesses. "I wanted to be a backup dancer. I wanted to support and be a part of a community. I love being a part of a group that just shows art. I think there's something so special about dancing with other people and telling a story with other people."
Charli D’Amelio in the cast of &Juliet on Broadway. Photo: Evan Zimmerman
BILL BURR: That is the thing about this play: Every time you read it, you find something else, and it isn’t just a little thing. It’s this big tub of amazing stuff that you can delve into. BOB ODENKIRK: It’s about guys, and how they love competing, and how they love giving each other shit and they resent it at the same time.
Bob Odenkirk, Kieran Culkin, and Bill Burr in rehearsals. Photo credit: Jay Kolsch
The acerbic comic sounds like a Mamet character, and thanks to Nathan Lane, he’s making his Broadway debut as one in “Glengarry Glen Ross”.
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Sarah Silverman's musical "The Bedwetter" is largely autobiographical but she says its themes of self-awareness and taking care of one another are especially important right now.
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