While appearing on the September 19 episode of Broadway.com's daily live Facebook news show #LiveAtFive, Broadway alum Andrew Samonsky spoke about his upcoming trip across the country in the first national tour of Come From Away and how he knew he needed to be a part of the production.

Samonsky, who has previously been on Broadway in South Pacific, The Mystery of ...

The fall theater season is here with an abundance of new Broadway offerings. Get ready to fill your calendar with new plays and musicals and exciting revivals. To help get a handle on what's to come, Broadway.com presents our 2018 Fall Theater Preview, hosted by Tony winner Laura Benanti and brought to you by Masterpass™.

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Miss Saigon, Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil's moving musical, claimed its vital spot in the musical theater canon when it premiered in London's West End in 1989. Lea Salonga played the part of Kim, a 17-year-old Vietnamese girl who is recently orphaned and forced to work in a Saigon bar and brothel. There, she meets and falls in love with ...

With her production company, Sonia Friedman has developed and produced more than 160 shows in London and New York since 1990, making her one of the most powerful and prolific producers. In Broadway.com’s new series Industry Insider, we talk to the people who make the theater community special, even though they are not center stage.

How We Describe Her Job ...

The 72nd Annual Tony Awards are over, but that’s no reason to stop celebrating! Catch up on all of our Broadway.com coverage of the 2018 Tonys.

The Band's Visit and Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Top 2018 Tony Award Winners
The full list of the winners of the 2018 Tony Awards.

De Niro's Trump Talk, Josh Groban's Waitress ...

The 2018 Tony Awards are officially over! June 10 was a night of emotional speeches, political shoutouts, unforgettable performances and many a trip to the podium for The Band’s Visit. Broadway.com’s Ryan Casey illustrated some of the most memorable moments from the night! Go ahead—enjoy those viewing party leftovers, stay in those sweatpants for as long as possible and relive ...

Awards junkies everywhere foam at the mouth for the EGOT: when artists manage to win an Emmy, Oscar, Grammy and Tony Award. Racking up all four major American entertainment awards (in competitve categories) is a feat accomplished by only 12 people in the world, including Whoopi Goldberg, Rita Moreno, Audrey Hepburn and Marvin Hamlisch. In February, Frozen composer Robert Lopez became ...

Puffs, Or: Seven Increasingly Eventful Years at a Certain School of Magic and Magic was only supposed to play five performances at the People’s Improv Theatre in 2015. “We barely received funding of a few thousand dollars and put it up in the winter of that year,” explains playwright Matt Cox. “The best case scenario was that people would ...

After too much coffee and more cookie dough than we care to mention, we're still talking about the 2018 Tony Award nominations. (Trust us—we will be until June 10.) We're beyond excited for this year's nominees, but in a season chock-full of talent, not everyone heard their name on the morning of May 1. (What can we say—we can't all be "Spa-hnge-Bob ...

"Let me be your star," said the 2018 Tony nominees! Smash alums Leslie Odom Jr. and Katharine McPhee woke up early on May 1 to get spiffed up, head to the Lincoln Center Library of the Performing Arts, announce the 2018 Tony nominations and give SpongeBob SquarePants—sorry, Spa-hnge-Bob SquarePants—a fancy, schmancy new  pronunciation (it is a Tony-nominated musical, after ...

Last night, NBC resurrected the classic musical Jesus Christ Superstar just in time for Easter. Following up the network's past live musical broadcasts such as The Wiz, The Sound of Music and Hairspray!, this Andrew Lloyd Webber tuner follows Jesus and his apostles in the days before his crucifixion. Audiences saw the stunning performances from John Legend, Sara Bareilles and Brandon ...

In the corporate world, employees leaving a job are often asked to sit through an exit interview with HR about their time at the company. That concept doesn’t exist for Broadway performers, but we love checking in with stars as they finish up a successful run. After playing everyone's favorite street rat-turned-eventual prince for years, original star Adam Jacobs is ...

Queen Elsa has been hard at work this winter, but spring is on the horizon and Broadway.com is warming up for the exciting season ahead. The Spring Preview series features interviews, photo shoots and videos of the stars and shows you don't even know you love yet. To help keep track, here is your guide to the buzziest plays and musicals, new works and revivals, off and on ...

The spring theater season has officially begun, and a slew of highly anticipated musicals and plays, both brand new and revisited, are set to bow. Broadway.com's Spring Preview series captures the stars bringing these stories center stage in the new season.

Whether you've seen the movie or not, you've heard of Mean Girls, Tina Fey's 2004 teen comedy about a high ...

The spring theater season has officially begun, and a slew of highly anticipated musicals and plays, both brand-new and revisited, are set to bow. Broadway.com's Spring Preview series captures the stars bringing these stories center stage in the new season.

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child picks up where the of last of J.K. Rowling’s globe-conquering Harry Potter ...

The spring theater season has officially begun, and a slew of highly anticipated musicals and plays, both brand-new and revisited, are set to bow. Broadway.com's Spring Preview series captures the stars bringing these stories center stage in the new season.

Frozen, the Broadway mounting of the smash-hit animated film, is getting ready to bow at the St. James Theatre. For the five ...

Forget the roses and chocolates—we've got the perfect Valentine's Day treats for you. We're celebrating V-Day Broadway style. In honor of the lovey-dovey holiday, the Broadway.com staff put their heads (and hearts!) together to create some Great White Way-centric sweet nothings to share with your beloved. View them below, click on the link to print out the cards to ...

As "The Phantom of the Opera" celebrates its 30th anniversary on Broadway on January 26, Broadway.com looks back at the show's start and the secret to its success and shines the spotlight on its new trio of stars—Peter Jöback as The Phantom, Ali Ewoldt as Christine and Rodney Ingram as Raoul with a sexy photo ...

The tree is trimmed, the holiday party hangovers are coming fast and furiously and the Secret Santa (re)gift is ready. This means there’s ony one thing left to cross off your holiday to-do list: select Broadway.com’s 2017 Star of the Year! From fabulous debuts to Tony-winning turns, you have 10 talented performers all deserving of your vote. Choose ...

If you've got a sweet tooth for rainbow bright sets and costumes, an addictive score and big, splashy dance numbers and performances, Broadway's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is your treat of choice. In addition to pheonomenal principal perfomers led by two-time Tony winner Christian Borle, the ensemble of the show truly transports audiences to that world of pure imagination with ...

Bummed that summer is over? Don’t be! In rehearsal rooms all around Manhattan, some of the most innovative theater artists in the world are prepping a fall season filled with hilarious and heartbreaking plays and joy-filled musical adventures sure to show you a good night out both on and off-Broadway. Not sure where to start? In our Fall Preview special ...

It’s this summer’s ice bucket challenge, and it’s leaving participants a lot less chilly! Hamilton mastermind Lin-Manuel Miranda is encouraging fans of the revolutionary hit musical to donate to the Immigrants: We Get the Job Done Coalition via Prizeo—and to post a video of themselves singing their favorite Hamilton song using the hashtag #Ham4All. The grand prize includes tickets ...

One of our favorite parts of the Tony Awards (aside from the fabulous fashion and totally GIF-able moments) is seeing stars perform selections from Broadway musicals in front of a nationwide audience. The 2017 ceremony was chock full of great performances, including numbers from Dear Evan Hansen, Come From Away, Groundhog Day, Great Comet, Bandstand, Miss Saigon and tons more ...

What a night! The 2017 Tony Awards went down at Radio City Music Hall in New York City on June 11, and the performances, speeches and Kevin Spacey's hilarious hosting made for some highly GIF-able moments. From Great Comet drink slinging to touching speeches at the podium to audience members caught on camera, check out 20 moments from Broadway's biggest ...

Nobody does musicals like Broadway. Every Broadway season feels chock full of big-hearted, big-singing shows that all compete for that final trophy on Tony Awards night: the one engraved with perhaps the two most important words in showbiz: Best. Musical. But have you noticed the 2016-2017 season has more musicals than almost ever before hoping to grab that spinning mantel ...