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Dead Outlaw will play its final performance on Broadway on Sunday, June 29, producers announced today.

The critically lauded musical, nominated for seven Tony Awards including Best Musical, opened at the Longacre Theatre on Sunday, April 27. When it closes it will have played 14 previews and 73 regular performances.

Dead Outlaw is the third Broadway show, following Smash and Real Women Have Curves, to announce its closing after being shut out at the Tonys.

With music and lyrics by David Yazbek and Erik Della Penna, and a book by Itamar Moses, Dead Outlaw tells the strange-but-true tale of Elmer McCurdy, a bank robber killed in a shoot-out in 1911. His embalmed corpse went unclaimed and was put on display, sometimes mistaken for a mannequin, in various carnivals, wax museums and even amusement parks until the 1970s.

In a statement, producers Lia Vollack and Sonia Friedman said, “Like Elmer McCurdy, Dead Outlaw is a true outlier — strange,...

Dead Outlaw cast members Julia Knitel and Andrew Durand recently stopped by The View for an exclusive performance of "Millicent's Song." The musical, which is currently playing at Broadway's Longacre Theatre, has been nominated for 7 Tony Awards, including Best Musical. Watch the performance here! Dead Outlaw is a new musical that stars Andrew Durand, Jeb Brown, Julia Knitel, all of whom are nominated for their performances, along with Eddie Cooper, Dashiell Eaves, Ken Marks, Trent Saunders, and Thom Sesma. The show is the darkly hilarious and wildly inventive musical about the bizarre true story of outlaw-turned-corpse-turned-celebrity Elmer McCurdy. As Elmer’s body finds even more outlandish adventures in death than it could have ever hoped for in life, the show explores fame, failure, and the meaning –...

Watch a video of Andrew Durand, Julia Knitel, and Jeb Brown performing "Normal" in Dead Outlaw on Broadway. The song is a standout from David Yazbek and Erik Della Penna's Tony-nominated score for the new musical. Durand, Knitel, and Brown are also all nominated for their respective performances in the acclaimed musical. With a book by Itamar Moses and direction by David Cromer, Dead Outlaw is nominated for 7 Tony Awards and is currently playing on Broadway at the Longacre Theatre. Dead Outlaw also stars Eddie Cooper, Dashiell Eaves, Ken Marks, Trent Saunders, and Thom Sesma. Dead Outlaw is the darkly hilarious and wildly inventive musical about the bizarre true story of outlaw-turned-corpse-turned-celebrity Elmer...

Earlier this month, The Outer Critics Circle announced the winners for the 2025 Outer Critics Circle Awards, honoring the 2024-2025 Broadway and Off-Broadway season. The awards ceremony was held on Thursday, May 22, 2025 at Lincoln Center’s New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. Check out photos below! Award presenters at the celebration included Natalie Venetia Belcon (Buena Vista Social Club), Victoria Clark (Kimberly Akimbo), Andrew Durand (Dead Outlaw), Steve Guttenberg (It Takes Two), and Thom Sesma (Dead Outlaw). This year's ceremony also commemorates the 75th anniversary of the organization's founding, when the first-ever awards were presented to T.S. Elliot's The Cocktail Party (Play), Gian Carlo Menotti's The Consul, and performers Sheila Guyse (Lost in the Stars) and Daniel Reed. The big winners included Maybe Happy Ending, John Proctor is the Villain, Boop! The Musical, Stranger Things: The First Shadow, Drag: The Musical, Cats: The Jellicle Ball, and...

Seven-time Tony Award-nominated new musical Dead Outlaw released a never-before-seen video of leading man, Tony Award nominee Andrew Durand, performing “Killed a Man in Maine.” Watch the video here! With a book by Itamar Moses, music and lyrics from David Yazbek and Erik Della Penna, and direction by David Cromer, Dead Outlaw is nominated for 7 Tony Awards and is currently playing on Broadway at the Longacre Theatre. The show stars Andrew Durand, Jeb Brown, Julia Knitel, all of whom are nominated for their performances, along with Eddie Cooper, Dashiell Eaves, Ken Marks, Trent Saunders, and Thom Sesma. Dead Outlaw is the darkly hilarious and wildly inventive musical about the bizarre true story of...

Dead Outlaw just released a first look at the 7-time Tony Award-nominated production featuring Tony Award nominees Andrew Durand, Jeb Brown, Julia Knitel and the full company including Eddie Cooper, Dashiell Eaves, Ken Marks, Trent Saunders, and Thom Sesma. Watch the vide0 here! With a book by Itamar Moses, music and lyrics from David Yazbek and Erik Della Penna, and direction by David Cromer, Dead Outlaw is nominated for 7 Tony Awards and is currently playing on Broadway at the Longacre Theatre. Dead Outlaw is the darkly hilarious and wildly inventive musical about the bizarre true story of outlaw-turned-corpse-turned-celebrity Elmer McCurdy. As Elmer’s body finds even more outlandish adventures in death than it could have ever hoped for in life, the show explores fame, failure,...

The Outer Critics Circle has announced the winners for the 2025 Outer Critics Circle Awards, honoring the 2024-2025 Broadway and Off-Broadway season. The big winners included Maybe Happy Ending, John Proctor is the Villain, Boop! The Musical, Stranger Things: The First Shadow, Drag: The Musical, Cats: The Jellicle Ball, and more. The complete list of winners is below. The awards ceremony will be held on Thursday, May 22, 2025 at Lincoln Center’s New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. Award presenters at the celebration will include Natalie Venetia Belcon (Buena Vista Social Club), Victoria Clark (Kimberly Akimbo), Andrew Durand (Dead Outlaw), Steve Guttenberg (It Takes Two), and Thom Sesma (Dead Outlaw). This year's ceremony also commemorates the 75th anniversary of the organization's founding, when the first-ever awards were presented to T.S. Elliot's The Cocktail Party (Play), Gian Carlo...

The new musical Dead Outlaw is now open on Broadway and the show’s stars Andrew Durand and Julia Knitel led the star-studded red carpet.

The actors, who are both getting Tony nomination buzz, stepped out for the opening night celebration on Sunday (April 27) at the Longacre Theatre in New York City.

Other cast members in attendance included Jeb Brown, Eddie Cooper, Dashiell Eaves, Ken Marks, Trent Saunders, and Thom Sesma.

VIPs on the red carpet for the opening night included Ben Platt and Noah Galvin, Ariana DeBose, Neil Patrick Harris and husband David Burtka, Jim Parsons and husband Todd Spiewak, and former Company co-star Patti LuPone and Katrina Lenk.

Dead Outlaw is the “darkly hilarious and wildly inventive musical about the bizarre true story of outlaw-turned-corpse-turned-celebrity Elmer McCurdy. As Elmer’s body finds even more outlandish adventures in death than it could have ever hoped for in life, the show explores fame,...

A new musical and two original plays will lead the 2025 Tony Awards nominations, according to Gold Derby's official odds in 17 categories ahead of Thursday's announcement.

Death Becomes Her, a stage adaptation of the 1992 cult classic comedy film, will have the biggest tally of all shows with eight. It's expected haul follows its 12 nominations at the Outer Critics Circle last week, where it similarly bested all other shows. Two original musicals, Dead Outlaw and Maybe Happy Ending, will tie at six nominations apiece. Gypsy and Sunset Boulevard, which are our leading contenders for the Best Musical Revival prize, and British import Operation Mincemeat will also likely score well with nominators with five bids each.

Cole Escola's historical romp Oh, Mary! and Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' fiery family drama Purpose will lead all plays and play revivals with five nominations each. This is Escola's Broadway debut as playwright and performer, while Jacobs-Jenkins...

The 2024-25 Broadway season, which kicked off last June with a revival of the play Home and concluded with the openings of musicals Dead Outlaw and Real Women Have Curves this past Sunday, featured 42 musicals, plays, and revivals. With six more productions than last season, Tony nominators will have no shortage of works to consider when they meet to vote, which will no doubt make predictions even more challenging than usual.

Before the Tony nominations are announced on Thursday, review our official odds below, which are derived from predictions by our experts, editors, and users, in 17 of the 26 categories. Agree or disagree with these odds? There's still time to make your predictions at Gold Derby.

Musicals

Best Musical

1. Maybe Happy Ending – 7/4

2. Dead Outlaw – 4/1

3. Death Becomes Her – 6/1

4. Operation Mincemeat – 13/2

5. Buena Vista Social Club – 9/1

Best Musical Revival

1. Gypsy – 2/1

2. Sunset Boulevard – 9/4

3. Floyd Collins – 9/2

4. Pirates! The Penzance Musical – 13/2

Best Actress (Musical)

1. Audra McDonald, Gypsy – 41/20

2. Nicole Scherzinger,...

Broadway’s 2024-25 season got off to a rather fine start, from the wildly popular and hysterically funny Oh, Mary! to the fabulous splash of Death Becomes Her and the wonderful left-field sleeper Maybe Happy Ending, and wrapped up with some equally excellent season closers like Just In Time and Dead Outlaw.

This compendium of Deadline’s Broadway reviews takes a look at all of them. Use it as a guide for your theater-going, or a sneak peek at what this year’s Tony Awards might have in store on Sunday, June 8.

Real Women Have Curves: The Musical

Opening Night: April 27

Venue: Broadway’s James Earl Jones Theatre

Direction & Choreography By: Sergio Trujillo

Book: Lisa Loomer with Nell Benjamin, based on the play by Josefina López and the HBO screenplay by Josefina López and George Lavoo

Music & Lyrics By: Joy Huerta and Benjamin Velez

Cast: Tatianna Córdoba, Justina Machado,...

The indignities of the grave pale in comparison to the indignities of having your preserved corpse put on display as a sideshow attraction, wax museum exhibit, or amusement park horror ride prop. You could ask Elmer McCurdy all about that if he wasn’t, as one of the best songs in Dead Outlaw, an unmissable musical filled with excellent tunes, puts succinctly, dead. Had Elmer stayed dead in one last place a bit longer he might have added an appearance on The Six Million Dollar Man to his show biz resume.

In one of the quirkiest, most morbid and somehow loveliest musicals to hit Broadway this season – even Floyd Collins‘ dying spelunker plot seems conventional by comparison – Dead Outlaw, directed by David Cromer, is a very late entry in Broadway’s 2024-2025 season, and absolutely one of the best.

Six new Broadway productions opened in March, inaugurating the spring season and foreshadowing the 12 additional openings to come before Tony Awards nominations are announced. See below for a breakdown of how our official odds have changed since our last predictions update on March 6, as Gold Derby users, editors, and experts have been updating their predictions based on performances and critics reviews.

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Purpose: Prior to opening, our users were only predicting a single nomination for this new American family drama for its Tony-winning featured actress Kara Young. Since the glowing critical response to playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' latest effort, it has surged with three additional expected bids for Best Play, featured actress Latanya Richardson Jackson, and director Phylicia Rashad. It certainly hasn’t hit its ceiling yet, either, as its lead actor Jon Michael Hill and featured actor Harry Lennix are both within striking distance in sixth place in their respective categories.

Dead Outlaw, the much anticipated Broadway musical coming this spring, has announced that the cast of the critically acclaimed Off Broadway cast will reprise their roles from the 2024 staging.

Starring in the Broadway production of the musical directed by David Cromer will be Andrew Durand as Elmer McCurdy, Jeb Brown as Band Leader/Jarrett, Eddie Cooper as Coroner Johnson, Dashiell Eaves as Louis/Charles Patterson, Julia Knitel as Helen/Maggie, Ken Marks as George, Trent Saunders as Andy Payne, Thom Sesma as Coroner Noguchi, with Emily Fink and Max Sangerman as understudies.

Written by Itamar Moses, featuring music and lyrics from David Yazbek and Erik Della Penna, Dead Outlaw will open on Broadway at the Longacre Theatre on April 27.

Produced by Lia Vollack Productions and Sonia Friedman Productions, the show is described as “the darkly hilarious and wildly inventive musical about the bizarre true story of outlaw-turned-corpse-turned-celebrity Elmer McCurdy. As...

David Adjmi’s Stereophonic was named Best Play of the year by the New York Drama Critics’ Circle today, with the Best Musical Award going to the Off Broadway production of Dead Outlaw from the team behind The Band’s Visit.

Stereophonic, currently on Broadway, has received 13 Tony Award nominations, and includes songs written by Will Butler from the indie rock band Arcade Fire. The play tells the story of a fractious 1970s Fleetwood Mac-like rock band recording what will be a massive Rumours-like hit record.

Dead Outlaw, with music and lyrics by David Yazbek and Erik Della Penna and a book by Itamar Moses, is inspired by the life of Elmer McCurdy. The musical, which premiered this year at the Minetta Lane Theatre, was originally conceived by Yazbek and tells the story of an outlaw from the early 20th Century whose corpse became a traveling sideshow exhibit for decades.

Nominations for the 2024 Outer Critics Circle Awards were announced on Tuesday, April 23. The stars of the hit Broadway revival of “Merrily We Roll Along,” Jonathan Groff, Lindsay Mendez and Daniel Radcliffe, read off the nominees live from the Museum of Broadway.

Off-Broadway productions ultimately out-paced Broadway with this critics group. The new David Yazbek musical “Dead Outlaw” led the pack with nine nominations. It was followed by “The Connector,” another Off-Broadway musical, and “Stereophonic,” a lauded Broadway play, with seven nominations each.

While there are no Tony nominators in the Outer Critics Circle membership, these nominations can provide some clues as to how theater aficionados are thinking about this season’s Tony race. Of the five productions cited for Best New Broadway Musical, only “Days of Wine and Roses” and “Suffs” made the cut in the all-important Best Score category. They were joined by two Off-Broadway entries, as well as...

Jeb Brown (City Center’s Pal Joey), Eddie Cooper (Parade), Andrew Durand (Shucked) and Dashiell Eaves (Broadway’s A Christmas Carol) are among the cast set for the upcoming Audible staging and recording of Dead Outlaw, a new musical from the team behind The Band’s Visit.

The musical, which tells the bizarre true story of a turn-of-the-20th-century outlaw whose corpse became a mummified side-show attraction for decades, will begin previews on Wednesday, February 28 ahead of a Sunday, March 10 opening night at Audible’s Off Broadway Minetta Lane Theatre.

The limited engagement runs through Sunday, April 7, and will be recorded and released on Audible at a later date.

Also included in the principal cast will be Julia Knitel (Beautiful: The Carole King Musical), Ken Marks (Take Me Out), Trent Saunders (Hadestown) and Thom Sesma (City Center’s Oliver!).

As Deadline exclusively reported back in 2022, Dead Outlaw, conceived by David Yazbek,...

Winners of the 2022 Lucille Lortel Awards for Outstanding Achievement Off-Broadway were announced in a ceremony on May 1, 2022, at NYU Skirball. New musicals “Kimberly Akimbo” and “Oratorio for Living Things” tied for the most wins, with three trophies each. The Lucille Lortel Awards are produced by the Off-Broadway League and Lucille Lortel Theatre, with additional support provided by Tdf.

The cast of Ars Nova’s “Oratorio For Living Things” took home the inaugural award for Outstanding Ensemble, while the Broadway-bound “Kimberly Akimbo” nabbed the two individual musical acting categories, with Lead Performance going to Victoria Clark and Featured Performance going to Bonnie Milligan.

Special honorees this year included Deirdre O’Connell (“Dana H.”), who was presented the Lifetime Achievement Award by Heidi Schreck; and David Henry Hwang, who was inducted onto the famed Playwrights’ Sidewalk by Jeanine Tesori.

Find the nominees and recipients of the 2022 Lucille Lortal Awards below.

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Nominations for the 37th Annual Lucille Lortel Awards for Outstanding Achievement Off-Broadway were announced April 7, 2022 by Lilli Cooper and Lea DeLaria, stars of Broadway’s “Potus.” The Lortel Awards were created in 1985 to honor outstanding achievement Off-Broadway. The Lucille Lortel Awards are produced by the Off-Broadway League and Lucille Lortel Theatre, with additional support provided by Tdf. Winners will be announced at a ceremony on May 1, at NYU Skirball.

Tony Award hopeful Deirdre O’Connell is the recipient of this year’s Lifetime Achievement Award. She won a Lortel Award for her riveting solo performance in “Dana H.” at the Vineyard Theatre last year. That production transferred to Broadway in the fall.

Acclaimed playwright David Henry Hwang is this year’s Playwrights’ Sidewalk Inductee. His name will be added to a star on the sidewalk outside the Lucille Lortel Theatre on Christopher Street, a permanent monument to Off-Broadway playwrights.

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Kimberly Akimbo, Assassins, Prayer for the French Republic and The Chinese Lady were among the Off Broadway productions receiving multiple nominations for this year’s Lucille Lortel Awards for Outstanding Achievement Off Broadway, announced today.

Among the innovations in this year’s 37th Annual Lortel Awards are the first non-gendered performance categories, and the first-ever Lortel for Outstanding Ensemble. In the new Ensemble category, the inaugural nominees are the casts of English, Oratorio For Living Things, and Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992.

Kimberly Akimbo and Oratorio For Living Things scored the most nominations, with six each, while Black No More and On Sugarland received five. Assassins, Prayer for the French Republic and The Chinese Lady each have four nominations.

The awards will be handed out on Sunday, May 1, at NYU Skirball in Manhattan. The Lucille Lortel Awards are produced by the Off-Broadway League and Lucille Lortel Theatre, with additional support provided by Tdf.

In this episode, Ben and Daniel talk about 'Take Me to the World A Sondheim 90th Birthday Celebration.' The online broadcast featured Meryl Streep, Bernadette Peters, Patti LuPone, Audra McDonald, Mandy Patinkin, Christine Baranski, Donna Murphy, Sutton Foster, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Kelli O'Hara, Aaron Tveit, Maria Friedman, Iain Armitage, Katrina Lenk, Michael Cerveris, Brandon Uranowitz, Stephen Schwartz, Elizabeth Stanley, Chip Zien, Alexander Gemignani, Ann Harada, Austin Ku, Kelvin Moon Loh, Thom Sesma, and Raul Esparza. Drama Desk Award winner Mary-Mitchell Campbell was the evening's music director, with Paul Wontorek serving as director.

Last night’s Take Me to the World: A Sondheim 90th Birthday Celebration online all-star tribute concert got off to a rocky start – technical difficulties pushed the YouTube special more than an hour past its planned “curtain” – but the impressive line-up, top-notch performances and celebratory mood combined for an all’s-well evening.

Watch the concert below.

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The show – a Zoom-style benefit 3:28 – Broadway Musicians – “Overture” (Merrily We Roll Along) 8:47 – Sutton Foster – “There Won’t Be Trumpets” (Anyone Can Whistle) 12:47 – Neil Patrick Harris – “The Witch’s Rap” (Into the Woods) 16:26 – Kelli O’Hara – “What More Do I Need?” (Saturday Night) 19:56 – Judy Kuhn – “What Can You Lose?” (Dick Tracy) 23:53 – Katrina Lenk – “Johanna” (Sweeney Todd) 27:11 – Aaron Tveit – “Marry Me a Little” (Company) 32:58 – Beanie Feldstein & Ben Platt – “It Takes Two” (Into the Woods) 36:25 – Brandon Uranowitz – “With So Little to Be Sure Of” (Anyone Can Whistle) 41:04 – Melissa Errico – “Children and Art” (Sunday in the Park with George) 46:20 – Randy Rainbow – “By the Sea” (Sweeney Todd) 49:21 – Elizabeth Stanley – “The Miller’s Son” (A Little Night Music) 54:21 – Mandy Pantinkin – “Lesson #8” (Sunday in the Park with George) 59:05 – Maria Friedman – “Broadway Baby” (Follies) 1:02:36 – Lin-Manuel Miranda – “Giants in the Sky” (Into the Woods) 1:05:46 – Lea Salonga – “Loving You” (Passion) 1:08:28 – Laura Benanti – “I Remember” (Evening Primrose) 1:14:06 – Chip Zien – “No More” (Into the Woods) 1:19:27 – Josh Groban – “Children Will Listen/Not While I’m Around” (Into the Woods/Sweeney Todd) 1:25:13 – Brian Stokes Mitchell – “The Flag Song” (Assassins) 1:28:04 – Michael Cerveris – “Finishing the Hat” (Sunday in the Park with George) 1:33:28 – Linda Lavin – “The Boy From…” (The Mad Show) 1:37:10 – Alexander Gemignani – “Buddy’s Blues” (Follies) 1:41:08 – Ann Harada, Austin Ku, Kelvin Moon Loh & Thom Sesma – “Someone in a Tree” (Pacific Overtures) 1:50:59 – Raúl Esparza – “Take Me to the World” (Evening Primrose) 1:53:55 – Donna Murphy – “Send in the Clowns” (A Little Night Music) 1:58:47 – Christine Baranski, Meryl Streep & Audra McDonald – “The Ladies Who Lunch” (Company) 2:03:31 – Annaleigh Ashford & Jake Gyllenhaal – “Move On” (Sunday in the Park with George) 2:08:14 – Patti LuPone – “Anyone Can Whistle” (Anyone Can Whistle) 2:11:46 – Bernadette Peters – “No One Is Alone” (Into the Woods) 2:17:49 – Ensemble – “I’m Still Here” (Follies)...

Update, with additional performances: Jake Gyllenhaal, Linda Lavin, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Laura Benanti, Neil Patrick Harris and Ben Platt are among the second wave of stars to sign on for Sunday’s Stephen Sondheim virtual birthday concert.

Also joining the all-star benefit for Artists Striving To End Poverty are Annaleigh Ashford, Melissa Errico, Beanie Feldstein, Josh Groban, Judy Kuhn, Randy Rainbow and Lea Solanga. Special appearances will be made by Victor Garber, Joanna Gleason, Nathan Lane and Steven Spielberg.

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They’ll all join the previously announced Meryl Streep, Bernadette Peters, Patti LuPone and Audra McDonald, among many others, in the special virtual concert to celebrate Sondheim’s 90th birthday.

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Producers of the long-running Off-Broadway production of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street said the intimate, immersive rendering of the Stephen Sondheim masterpiece will close on August 26.

Sweeney Todd‘s original Broadway incarnation in 1979 remains one of the peak moments in musical theater history, but the current interpretation breathed a whole different life into the show. The Tooting Arts Club initially mounted the production in London in 2014, using venues as small as 35 seats and combining the performance with food available for purchase from the same pie shop used in the show’s set.

The pies, served with mashed potatoes, echoed the prominent role of Mrs. Lovett’s bake shop in the show, but thankfully they were not, as the songs have it, “The Worst Pies in London” or flecked with bits of “A Little Priest.” The production then opened at New York’s Barrow Street Theatre, with...

Off Broadway Korean-pop musical “Kpop” topped the nominations for the 2018 Lucille Lortel Awards, snagging nine nominations for the annual awards for Off Broadway fare.

“Kpop,” which Ars Nova (“Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812”) produced in association with Ma-Yi Theater Company and Woodshed Collective, led a list of musical nominees that also included “Bella: An American Tall Tale” (six nominations) and “The Lucky Ones” (five.) The top-nominated play was “Mary Jane” (six nominations), the Amy Herzog play that premiered at New York Theatre Workshop in a staging that starred Carrie Coon (who’s nominated for an acting award).

Special awards will be given to Eve Ensler, for the lifetime achievement award; Michael Friedman, the late composer who will be inducted into the Lortel’s Playwrights’ Sidewalk; and Wp Theater, for body of work.

The full list of the 33rd annual Lucille Lortel Awards nominations follows. Winners will be announced...

The company of Barrow Street Theater's immersive mounting of Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd celebrated one year of baking up scares this week. The newest cast members Thom Sesma, Sally Ann Triplett, Zachary Noah Piser, Billy Harrigan Tighe, DeLaney Westfall werein attendance to send Sweeney into its next year of murder, mayhem, and meat pies BroadwayWorld was on hand to celebrate. Check out photos from the event below...

On Broadway and beyond, a curtain can rise as quickly as it can fall; a star can be swapped as easily as Bernie Telsey can say, “That’s enough.” Theater is the beating heart of New York show business and, if you want to make it here, it’s crucial you’re up to date on incoming projects, latest castings, and other industry news. Don’t worry, Broadway baby, Backstage has your back. Every week, we’re rounding up the can’t-miss stories no thespian should live without, so you can focus on important matters like hitting your high F. Curtain up and light those lights! The pie shop gets new management.Off-Broadway’s immersive production of Stephen Sondheim’s “Sweeney Todd” has announced that Thom Sesma and Sally Ann Triplett will take over the tuner’s respective leading roles beginning Feb. 27. They replace current stars Hugh Panaro and Carolee Carmello,...

Producers of the Tooting Arts Club production of Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, which broke the Barrow Street Theatre sales house record for the week ending December 31st, announced today that Thom Sesma as Sweeney Todd, Sally Ann Triplett as Mrs. Lovett, Zachary Noah Piser as Tobias, Billy Harrigan Tighe as Anthony and DeLaney Westfall as Johanna will join current cast members Michael James Leslie as Judge Turpin, John Rapson as The Beadle and Stacie Bono as Pirelli amp Beggar Woman startingTuesday, February 27, 2018. The cast also includes Matt Leisy, Liz Pearce, Danny Rothman and Monet Sabel.

The best thing about Classic Stage Company's small-scale, extensively trimmed production of Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman's extraordinarily-written 1976 musical, Pacific Overtures, is a chance to see a terrific ensemble of actors taken from the New York stage's severely underutilized pool of Asian-American talent. The company includes notables of the musical stage such as Ann Harada, Orville Mendoza, Thom Sesma and Marc Oka.

Recently, Fox released the new,official synopsis for their upcoming "Gotham" episode 2 of season 2. The episode is entitled, "Rise of the Villains: Knock, Knock," and it turns out that we're going to see some very dramatic and high intense stuff go down as Gordon is forced to track down a deadly Arkham inmate that has escaped , and more! In the new, 2nd episode press release: A Deadly Escape Rocks The City On An All-new "Gotham." Press release number 2: Following his reinstatement, Gordon is going to get thrust onto the high-profile case tracking the deadly inmate escape from Arkham Asylum. In the meantime, Galavan is going to plan his next move, while Bruce enlists the help of his father's old friend to unlock the secrets in his office, and Nygma will attempt to ask out Kristin Kringle (guest star Chelsea Spack) on a date. Guest stars feature: Richard Kind as Mayor James,...

Rehearsals start this week at The 5th Avenue Theatre for the sweeping new musical, Waterfall, featuring Laura Griffith Broadway Sweet Smell of Success, The Light in the Piazza, Thom Sesma Broadway The Times They are A-Changin', Man of La Mancha, J. Elaine Marcos Broadway Annie, Priscilla Queen of the Desert, and Thai pop superstar Bie Sukrit. This epic new Broadway-bound musical love story features a distinguished international creative team and a cast of 20. Seattle is the second of two locales where this unique and exciting musical is being developed after completing a popular and critically successful run at the Pasadena Playhouse in June.

The 5th Avenue Theatre joins with producing partner Pasadena Playhouse in welcoming Emily Padgett Broadway Side Show, Rock of Ages, Thom Sesma Broadway The Times They are A-Changin', Man of La Mancha, J. Elaine Marcos Broadway Annie, Priscilla Queen of the Desert, and Thai superstar Bie Sukrit to the cast of the world premiere of Waterfall, an epic new Broadway bound musical love story.Performances at Pasadena Playhouse take place now through June 28, 2015. Let's see what the critics had to say...

The 5th Avenue Theatre joins with producing partner Pasadena Playhouse in announcing that Emily Padgett Broadway Side Show, Rock of Ages, Thom Sesma Broadway The Times They are A-Changin', Man of La Mancha, J. Elaine Marcos Broadway Annie, Priscilla Queen of the Desert, and Thai superstar Bie Sukrit will lead the cast of the world premiere of Waterfall, an epic new Broadway bound musical love story, featuring a distinguished international creative team and a cast of 20.

The world premiere of Greg Edwards amp Andy Sandberg's new comedy, Craving for Travel will run Off-Broadway through February 9, 2014 at the Peter J. Sharp Theater 416 W. 42nd Street, NYC. Directed by Sandberg Shida, The Last Smoker in America, a Tony Award-winner as a producer of Hair, the cast features Michele Ragusa Young Frankenstein, Disaster and Thom Sesma The Lion King, The Times They Are A-Changin' collectively playing thirty characters-chiefly, Joanne and Gary, rival travel agents and former spouses vying for their industry's most prestigious honor the Globel Prize. Craving for Travel is commissioned and produced by Jim Strong, one of America's leading luxury travel agents.The show opened last night and you can check out photos fom the big event below...

The world premiere of Greg Edwards ampAndy Sandberg's new comedy, Craving for Travel will run Off-Broadway January 9 - February 9, 2014 at the Peter J. Sharp Theater 416 W. 42nd Street, NYC. Directed by Sandberg Shida, The Last Smoker in America, a Tony Award-winner as a producer of Hair, the cast featuresMichele Ragusa Young Frankenstein, Disaster and Thom Sesma The Lion King, The Times They Are A-Changin' collectively playing thirty characters-chiefly, Joanne and Gary, rival travel agents and former spouses vying for their industry's most prestigious honor the Globel Prize. Craving for Travel is commissioned and produced by Jim Strong, one of America's leading luxury travel agents.BroadwayWorld's Richard Ridge met the company yesterday and you can check out what they had to say about the new play below...

The Muny announced today principal casting for the third show of its 94th season, Disneys Aladdin July 5-13, directed by Gary Griffin, and choreographed by Alex Sanchez.Tony Nominees Robin de Jesus and John Tartaglia star as Aladdin and the Genie, respectively. Joining them will be Jason Graae as Omar, Curtis Holbrook as Iago, Francis Jue as Kassim, Eddie Korbich as Babkak, Samantha Massell as Jasmine, Ken Page as the Sultan, and Thom Sesma as Jafar.

Patti LuPone, Richard Thomas, Mary Beth Hurt, Jay O. Sanders and Henry Stram will join forces with the previously announced Michi Barral, Cindy Cheung, Joel de la Fuente, Angel Desai, Ann Harada, Jennifer Ikeda, Paul Juhn, Peter Kim, Ken Leung, Li Jun Li, Jennifer Lim, Angela Lin, Paolo Montalban, Olivia Oguma, Jon Norman Schneider, Thom Sesma, Sab Shimono, Jade Wu, Jonny Wo, James Yaegashi and Stacey Yen to raise funds that will go directly to Japanese theater artists devasted by last years earthquake when they appear in this Sundays March 11 benefit performances of Shinsai Theaters for Japan, at the Great Hall at Cooper Union Seventh Street at Third Avenue.

Patti LuPone, Richard Thomas, Mary Beth Hurt, Jay O. Sanders and Henry Stram will join forces with the previously announced Michi Barral, Cindy Cheung, Joel de la Fuente, Angel Desai, Ann Harada, Jennifer Ikeda, Paul Juhn, Peter Kim, Ken Leung, Li Jun Li, Jennifer Lim, Angela Lin, Paolo Montalban, Olivia Oguma, Jon Norman Schneider, Thom Sesma, Sab Shimono, Jade Wu, Jonny Wo, James Yaegashi and Stacey Yen to raise funds that will go directly to Japanese theater artists devasted by last years earthquake when they appear in this Sundays March 11 benefit performances of Shinsai Theaters for Japan, at the Great Hall at Cooper Union Seventh Street at Third Avenue.