The limited engagement will feature Betsy Aidem as Margie, Audrey Corsa as Dora, Kayla Davion as Joanne, Susannah Flood as Lizzie, Kristolyn Lloyd as Celeste, Irene Sofia Lucio as Isidora, Charlie Thurston as Bill, and Adina Verson as Susan. The production understudies are LeeAnne Hutchison, Matthew Russell, and Kedren Spencer.
Bess Wohl's Liberation Will Make Broadway Bow →
Bess Wohl’s new play Liberation, which made its world premiere Off-Broadway via Roundabout Theatre Company earlier this year, will bow on Broadway this fall, playing a 14-week limited engagement at the James Earl Jones Theatre beginning October 8. Opening night will be October 28. Whitney White will direct after staging the Off-Broadway run.
Morgan Dudley, Jack Wolfe, Rebecca Naomi Jones and More Will Enter Hadestown on Broadway in September →
For the first time since the show opened in 2019, Hadestown will change the full principal cast. Beginning on September 2, the company will feature Disney star Morgan Dudley as Eurydice, Grammy Award winner Kurt Elling as Hermes, Broadway veteran Rebecca Naomi Jones as Persephone, Tony Award winner Paulo Szot as Hades and West End breakout star Jack Wolfe as Orpheus.
A Chorus Line Is Getting a 1-Night-Only Benefit Concert on Broadway →
Original cast members will share the stage with other Broadway favorites to benefit the Entertainment Community Fund for a one-night-only special concert A Chorus Line Official 50th Anniversary Celebration. The performance will be held on July 27 at 7:30PM ET at Broadway’s Shubert Theatre.
Audra McDonald Is Our Greatest Living Stage Actor →
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.
Gianna Harris Will Be Broadway's New Juliet in & Juliet; TikTok Vocal Coach Cheryl Porter to Also Join Cast →
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)
Nothing on Broadway Hits Harder Than Audra McDonald’s ‘Rose’s Turn’ →
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.
Joy Woods Pushes Past the Pressures of Being Broadway's First Black Gypsy: 'I'm Just the Next' →
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).
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Broadway's Glengarry Glen Ross Recoups →
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.
Why Bob Odenkirk Has Wanted to Do ‘Glengarry Glen Ross’ for Decades →
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.
How Broadway’s Audra McDonald and Joy Woods Made Gypsy Their Own →
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.
Listen to an Exclusive Song From Gypsy, the Broadway Show Oprah Couldn’t Get Enough Of →
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.”
Gypsy: Tiny Desk Concert →
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…
Joey Fatone will host a sing-along at Broadway’s ‘& Juliet’ →
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.
