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Lincoln Center Theater’s upcoming Broadway production of Adam Guettel beloved cult musical Floyd Collins will star Jeremy Jordan in the title role, producers announced today, confirming a rumor that’s been buzzing through New York’s theater community for weeks.

Talk of Jordan’s involvement spiked Tuesday when producers of Broadway’s The Great Gatsby announced that actor Ryan McCartan would soon be taking over the lead role of that musical from the exiting Jordan.

The Lct production, which begins previews at the Vivian Beaumont Theater on Thursday, March 27, 2025, and opens on Monday, April 21, will also feature Jason Gotay as Homer Collins, Sean Allan Krill as H.T. Carmichael, Marc Kudisch as Lee Collins, Lizzy McAlpine as Nellie Collins, Wade McCollum as Bee Doyle, Jessica Molaskey as Miss Jane, Taylor Trensch as Skeets Miller, and Cole Vaughan as Jewell Estes, with an ensemble of Kevin Bernard, Dwayne Cooper, Jeremy Davis,...

Jeremy Jordan will star in the Broadway premiere of Floyd Collins this spring. 

Jordan, who is currently starring in The Great Gatsby on Broadway, with other credits including Newsies and Smash, will lead a cast that includes Jason Gotay as Homer Collins, Sean Allan Krill as H.T. Carmichael, Marc Kudisch as Lee Collins, Lizzy McAlpine as Nellie Collins, Wade McCollum as Bee Doyle, Jessica Molaskey as Miss Jane, Taylor Trensch as Skeets Miller and Cole Vaughan as Jewell Estes. 

Additional cast members include Kevin Bernard, Dwayne Cooper, Jeremy Davis, Charlie Franklin, Kristen Hahn, Happy McPartlin, Kevyn Morrow, Zak Resnick, Justin Showell, Colin Trudell and Clyde Voce. 

The musical, which features a book by Tina Landau, with music and lyrics by Adam Guettel, and additional lyrics by Landau, is scheduled to begin previews Thursday, March 27 and open on Monday, April 21 at the Vivian Beaumont Theater. Landau, who directed SpongeBob SquarePants on Broadway,...

With so much turmoil in the world, it’s at least a little comforting that things haven’t changed much in Grover’s Corners, the place that gives Our Town, Thornton Wilder’s beloved 1938 report from Smalltown USA, its name. People there are born, love and die without so much as looking up to savor what they have. That’s life.

And while a check-in from the fictional New Hampshire town circa 1901-1913 is always a moving and welcome addition to anyone’s frazzled day, the new staging by Kenny Leon, opening on Broadway tonight at the Ethel Barymore Theatre with a cast that includes Jim Parsons, Katie Holmes, Richard Thomas, Billy Eugene Jones, Ephraim Sykes and Zoey Deutch, lacks the strong personality that would send it to the top of the many Our Towns that have staked claims on the world’s stages for nearly a century.

Leon, a...

The Tony award-winning play Our Town is getting another revival on Broadway!

Jim Parsons and Katie Holmes are set to the lead the cast of the upcoming adaptation, which will have a very limited engagement on the Great White Way, Deadline reports.

Also joining the cast is Zoey Deutch in her Broadway debut!

Keep reading to find out more…

“Thornton Wilder’s Our Town in my mind stands at the top of the Mount Rushmore of great American Theatre,” director Kenny Leon shared in a statement. “I feel blessed and fortunate to have gained the trust of The Wilder estate to present this classic to another generation of theatre lovers. It’s long been a burning desire to collaborate on a Broadway production of such magnitude that speaks so beautifully and intimately to all people about our shared time on the planet.”

Jim will star as the Stage Manager, Katie...

Law & Order fans, we’ve got a fresh off the press preview for the new Season 23 Episode 4 episode titled Unintended Consequences!

Find out everything you need to know about the Unintended Consequences episode of Law & Order, including a full preview, videos, release date, cast information and how to watch!

Law & Order Unintended Consequences Season 23 Episode 4 Preview

Get ready for another thrilling episode of “Law & Order” as NBC brings you “Unintended Consequences” on February 8, 2024, at 8:00 Pm. This riveting installment dives into the world of crime and justice as Detectives Shaw and Riley find themselves entangled in a murder mystery that will leave you on the edge of your seat.

In this episode, the detectives are on the case of a real estate agent’s murder, a crime that sends shockwaves through the community. As they meticulously piece together the evidence, they encounter prominent clients who may hold...

Law & Order fans, we’ve got a fresh off the press preview for the new Season 23 Episode 3 episode titled Unintended Consequences!

Find out everything you need to know about the Unintended Consequences episode of Law & Order, including a full preview, videos, release date, cast information and how to watch!

Law & Order Unintended Consequences Season 23 Episode 3 Preview

In the upcoming episode of “Law & Order” titled “Unintended Consequences,” set to air on NBC at 8:00 Pm on February 1, 2024, viewers are in for a riveting legal drama that delves into the complexities of a real estate agent’s murder. Detectives Shaw and Riley, portrayed by Dylan McDermott and Ariel Winter respectively, take center stage as they navigate the intricate web of clues surrounding this high-stakes case.

As the investigation unfolds, Shaw and Riley find themselves delving into the lives of the victim’s prominent clients, seeking answers in unexpected places.

Exclusive: “You thought you knew Scrooge,” an ominous voice intones. “You don’t know this Scrooge.” So get acquainted with Estella Scrooge, the upcoming world premiere streaming musical with a heavy-hitting Broadway pedigree.

This first-look trailer (watch it above) features Betsy Wolfe (Waitress) singing the show’s “Never Look Down” as clips and characters from the cleverly filmed production take us through this new musical spin on Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. References and storylines from other Dickens classics — including Great Expectations, Little Dorrit and Bleak House — are incorporated into the mix.

Estella Scrooge will premiere Friday, November 27 at EstellaScrooge.com. Tickets go on sale Tuesday for $24.99 at Ticketmaster.com.

As Deadline reported in September, Estella Scrooge utilizes greenscreen technology and virtual sets along with individually recorded performances. Billed as “the first fully-realized musical to be filmed in virtual production,” Estella Scrooge uses hundreds of images, animations and digital environments blended...

Lawrence Clayton, who made his Broadway debut in Dreamgirls and most recently starred in the 2015 revival of The Color Purple, died November 2 after a two-year battle with glioblastoma cancer. He was 64.

His death was confirmed by the Buchwald talent agency.

Born in North Carolina and educated at North Carolina Central University in Durham, Clayton moved to New York and would become a consistent presence on the Broadway stage for nearly 35 years, beginning when he became part of the replacement cast of the hit Dreamgirls in 1981, taking over the role of Effie’s songwriting brother C.C. White.

Between Dreamgirls and 2015’s The Color Purple, in which he played Celie’s cruel husband Old Mister, Clayton appeared in such musicals as The High Rollers Social and Pleasure Club (1992), Once Upon a Mattress (1996), The Civil War (1999), It Ain’t Nothin’ but the Blues (1999) and Bells Are Ringing (2001).

In addition to numerous touring productions — including Dreamgirls,...

Exclusive With a roster of Broadway actors from such recent or on-pause productions as Waitress, Hadestown, The Play That Goes Wrong and Moulin Rouge!, a new musical inspired by A Christmas Carol and other works of Charles Dickens will make its streaming debut before Christmas utilizing technology to combine socially distanced performances.

Estella Scrooge, with a book and direction by Tony Award winner John Caird and music and lyrics by Paul Gordon (Tony-nominated for 2001’s Jane Eyre), will star Betsy Wolfe (Waitress) as the title character, the niece of Carol‘s Ebenezer Scrooge. Clifton Duncan (The Play That Goes Wrong) will costar as her childhood sweetheart Philip “Pip” Nickleby.

Also featured are Patrick Page (Hadestown), Carolee Carmello (Mamma Mia) and Danny Burstein (Moulin Rouge!) as Ebenezer Scrooge.

Those actors and others will film their performances – separately, live, and one at a time – this week, with...

Hey, "Instinct" fans. We hope you guys enjoyed tonight's back-to-back episodes 7 and 8. Now that they're officially done and over, it's time to go over a few things that will take place in next week's episode. Thanks to CBS, we ,once again, have a few teaser description we can share with you guys via their episode 9 press release. So, we will definitely reference that in this spoiler session. To get things started,episode 9 does have a title. It's officially named, "Manhunt." It sounds like episode 9 will feature some very intense and dramatic scenes as Ryan and Dylan get caught up in a major showdown on boat! Dylan gets very disturbing news and more! We'll go ahead and start off this spoiler session with the Ryan and Dylan situation. It turns out that the intensity level to catch the Sleeping Beauty Killer will be turned up a notch. Ryan and Dylan will...

Trent Dawson (Henry Coleman on As the World Turns) is currently starring in a new production of "A Man for All Seasons" at the Acorn Theater in New York City. As Sir Thomas More refuses to recognize Henry VIII's divorce and ascendancy as Supreme Head of the new Church of England, "A Man for All Seasons" reveals the risk of speaking truth to power and the clash that follows when fierce political will collides with deep moral conviction.

"A Man for All Seasons" stars Michael Countryman as Sir Thomas More, with Carolyn McCormick as his wife, Lady Alice. The cast also features John Ahlin (and Olivier Award nominee Kevyn Morrow as well as three-time Daytime Emmy nominee Dawson as Henry VIII, Drama Desk Award winner David McElwee, Todd Cerveris, Kim N. Wong, Sean Dugan and Harry Bouvy. The show is directed by Christa Scott-Reed for Fellowship for Performing Arts, at Theatre Row.

The stage production of Baz Luhrmann’s “Moulin Rouge!” that opened in Boston this summer is heading to Broadway.

Producer Carmen Pavlovic announced Monday that the musical will open on Broadway at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre, with previews beginning June 28, 2019 prior to a July 25 opening night.

The cast from the show at Boston’s Emerson Colonial Theatre will transfer to Broadway, including Karen Olivo, Aaron Tveit, Danny Burstein, Sahr Ngaujah, Tam Mutu, Ricky Rojas and Robyn Hurder.

Also Read: 'Moulin Rouge!': Watch Aaron Tveit Channel Ewan McGregor in Broadway-Bound Musical (Video)

“We are thrilled to be bringing ‘Moulin Rouge! The Musical’ to Broadway,” said producer Carmen Pavlovic in a statement. “We are especially delighted that the show is going to the Hirschfeld – the perfect theater for this production with its lavish architecture and rich history of landmark Broadway shows.”

Based on the Oscar-nominated 2001 film of the same name...

By Lee Pfeiffer

I've become somewhat jaded and downright cynical when it comes to the tidal wave of musical stage productions based on popular, non-musical motion pictures. So it was with a sense of wariness that I approached the world premiere engagement of "The Sting" at the Papermill Playhouse in Millburn, NJ. After all, the classic, Oscar-winning 1973 film doesn't need musical production numbers to "improve it". There was already a great deal of interest in the production prior to the relatively last-minute announcement last month that the production would star Harry Connick, Jr. That sent already healthy tickets sales into overdrive and you'd be hard-pressed to find seats for the engagement, which runs through April 29. It doesn't take long to set aside one's suspicions that this might be a lightweight rip-off of a great film. As with all Papermill shows, this one first impresses with its creative and often ingenious...

Watch below as Bandstand'sLaura Osnes,Corey Cott,Joe Carroll,Brandon J. Ellis,James Nathan Hopkins,Geoff Packard,Joey Pero,Carleigh Bettiol,Mary Callanan,Max Clayton,Patrick Connaghan,Andrea Dotto,Andrew Leggieri,Erica Mansfield,Kevyn Morrow,Becca Petersen,Keven Quillon,Ryan VanDenBoom,James Nathan Hopkins,Joey Pero,Geoff Packardperform 'Love Will Come and Find Me Again,' 'Right This Way' and 'Nobody.'...

Here is one of the great triumphal surprises in a Broadway season that has had its share of them: A revival of The Color Purple that lifts an already formidable musical into greatness just seven years after its initial run closed. Propelled by a pair of knockout performances from Jennifer Hudson and Cynthia Erivo, both making their Broadway debuts, this transfer from London’s Menier Chocolate Factory takes a minimalist visual approach to a story that sprawls across decades and continents, training the focus firmly on the twists and turns of Alice Walker’s highly populated, Brontë-worthy tale of a Southern black girl who survives poverty, rape and deprivation before finding love and accomplishment in womanhood.

Erivo, a UK musical theater and contemporary opera prodigy, plays Celie, a teenage girl living in rural Georgia in 1909 who has borne two children by Pa (Kevyn Morrow), the man she believes to be her father.

Recently, CBS delivered the new, official synopsis/spoilers for their upcoming "Elementary" episode 21 of season 3. The episode is entitled, "Under My Skin, " and it turns out that we're going to see some very interesting and intense stuff go down when Sherlock and Watson join a huge manhunt to locate a vicious killer, and more! In the new, 21st episode press release: When Two New York City Paramedics Are Killed During A Kidnapping,Holmes And Watson Join The Manhunt To Find The Murderer And The Woman He Abducted. Press release number 2: When two New York City paramedics are killed during a kidnapping, Holmes and Watson are going to join the manhunt to find the murderer and the woman he abducted. Also, Holmes is going to learn important information about his recovery sponsor, Alfredo (Ato Essandoh), that strains their relationship. Guest stars feature: Fisher Stevens (Marty Ward), Terry Serpico (Wallace Turk...