Broadway

“Ratatouille: The TikTok Musical” is getting the Broadway treatment as an all-star streaming event after a social media ode to the 2007 Disney Pixar film became a hit with over 20 million views. Daniel Mertzlufft, the NYC based composer who started the social movement, joined LX News to talk about the virtual concert and how it will do some good...

Broadway soprano Rebecca Luker has died at 59

Tony Award-winning choreographer, actress and Bob Fosse collaborator Ann Reinking has died.

Jimmy Fallon and Andrew Rannells recap the year through Broadway songs like “Defying Gravity” from “Wicked” and “My Shot” from “Hamilton.”

An original cast member of “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child” was randomly assaulted in a New York City subway station this week, resulting in a need for surgery. Broadway actor Alex Weisman says he was punched in the face while he was at a B train stop on 103rd Street on Tuesday afternoon for no apparent reason. He got…

Carol Burnett has put the variety back in her show. 65 episodes have been restored and expanded and are streaming on services including Tubi and The Roku Channel.

Cast members of the musical “Wicked” have been putting their time off to good use through their new advocacy organization called “Change for Good.” The group, which includes the show’s current and former stars, made a music video to help encourage young people to vote, and will soon be making their powerful voices heard on other issues like environmental...

Billy Porter is busy

The sobering musical “Jagged Little Pill,” which plumbs Alanis Morissette’s 1995 breakthrough album to tell a story of an American family spiraling out of control, earned a leading 15 Tony Award nominations Thursday, as the Broadway community took the first steps to celebrate a pandemic-shortened season that upended the theater world

The Broadway League has extended its shutdown of live, in-person performances another four months in light of the ongoing pandemic. Previously, marquees were supposed to be darkened until January 0f 2021, but that date was pushed further back to May 30, 2021, the Broadway League said Monday. “We are working tirelessly with multiple partners on sustaining the industry once we…

The lights on Broadway are set to remain dark until at least January, but there will be a plethora of new online productions of some of classic plays this fall with a handful of self-isolating actors, including Matthew Broderick, Morgan Freeman, Patti LuPone, Laura Linney and David Alan Grier.

Broadway theaters may be dark, but performers are bringing life back to New York City in a few new ways. Theater stars like Andrew Rannells, Norm Lewis and Bernadette Peters took to Times Square on Wednesday for a pop-up performance of “Sunday” from Stephen Sondheim’s “Sunday in the Park with George.” They socially distanced on the red steps of...

The singing and dining inside an iconic Theater District staple are set to return this week after six months and a close call. Just one day after all indoor restaurants are allowed to reopen in New York City, workers at Ellen’s Stardust Diner will seat and sing to customers once again on Thursday, Oct. 1, Artistic Director Scott Barbarino confirmed…

Despite being interrupted by the coronavirus pandemic, the shortened Broadway season will nonetheless have a Tony Awards.

The Broadway musical “Diana” isn’t waiting for theaters to reopen in New York to offer its show to a live audience — it’s going to Netflix.

With the future of Broadway uncertain, actor and producer Ron Simons addresses how quarantine has altered his creative process and explains the trajectory of his career from software engineer to award-winning producer.

Amanda Kloots is honoring the memory of her late husband Nick Cordero, who died July 5 from coronavirus complications, by sharing a series home videos and pictures documenting their loves story and his health battle.

For 95 days, Amanda Kloots held a therapeutic singalong every afternoon with Nick Cordero’s fans as her husband battled the coronavirus in the hospital. A day after the Broadway star died at 41 from COVID-19 complications, Kloots led one last tearful rendition of his song “Live Your Life” on Monday with his fans on Instagram Live. “Thank you so much for the past 95 days...

Hollywood is in mourning over the loss of Nick Cordero.

Broadway star Nick Cordero has died from coronavirus complications. His wife, Amanda Kloots, shared the devastating news Sunday evening on her Instagram. He was 41 years old.