Congratulations to Camp Rolling Hills, The Gold, and Tink! on their New York Musical Festival awards! Check out the full list HERE.
The recent concert of Ragtime on Ellis Island may get a full-scale production in 2017! Get more details about it on BroadwayWorld.com. Also, check out video highlights from the concert on TheaterMania.com!
Congratulations to Rachel Resheff (Fish in the Dark, Shrek, Billy Elliot, Mary Poppins, The People in the Picture), whose film “Annabelle Hooper and the Ghosts of Nantucket” is out now on DVD, iTunes, Amazon, and on-demand! Find out more in her Instagram post below:
Happy trails to the companies of New York Spectacular, Trip of Love, and Camp Rolling Hills! We can’t wait to see what’s next for all of you!
Kids from Fun Home, School of Rock, and Kinky Boots, as well as young theatre critic Iain Armitage, are featured in Hamilton‘s Hamilkids video of “The Schuyler Sisters”!
Congratulations to Maya Grace Fischbein who went on as John yesterday in Fun Home! She is the first actor to have portrayed all three Bechdel children on Broadway! Get more information in her post:
Happy opening to the company of Camp Rolling Hills at the New York Musical Festival! Break a leg to all!
Read an article about Broadway for Black Lives Matter HERE, and check out photo coverage from the event featuring the kids of Runaways on Playbill.com. Also, check out a video below–go to 0:39 for the Runaways cast!
Giuseppe Bausilio (Newsies, Billy Elliot, Irving Berlin’s America), Joshua Colley (Newsies, Les Miserables, You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown), David Guzman (Newsies), Jacob Guzman (Newsies), Luca Padovan (School of Rock, Newsies), and Zachary Unger (Newsies, Chaplin, Big Fish) have joined a Newsies reunion concert at 54 Below on August 21st! Get more details on 54Below.com.
BuzzFeed highlighted the Broadway roots of Gaten Matarazzo (Les Miserables, Priscilla Queen of the Desert) and Caleb McLaughlin (The Painted Rocks at Revolver Creek, The Lion King), both currently starring in “Stranger Things” on Netflix! Read the article HERE.
And here are pictures and videos from the kids of Trip of Love, The Gold, School of Rock, New York Spectacular, and Matilda!
Happy trails to Abigail Shapiro and the company of Liberty, which closed today! We can’t wait to see what’s next for you, Abigail! Here’s a full-cast picture:
Happy trails to Jenna Ortega, who played her final performance in New York Spectacular today! Be sure to catch her on “Stuck in the Middle” and “Elena of Avalor” on Disney Channel!
Watch Maya Jade Frank (Evita, Mary Poppins, A Little Princess) on tonight’s episode of “Bizaardvark”! Here’s a picture of Maya working on the episode:
IBT featured Nia Sioux talking about Trip of Love and “Dance Moms”! Read the article on IBTimes.com.
If you have a cable subscription, you can watch Tori Murray (Ruthless!) on “All In with Cam Newton” HERE!
Tink!, Camp Rolling Hills, and Lisa and Leonardo have extended their runs! Get more information on TheaterMania.com.
Join Fun Home on Facebook to watch a livestream of the opening of the concert in Orlando tonight!
The trailer for “Legends of the Hidden Temple” is out now! Watch it below, featuring Isabela Moner (Evita) and Colin Critchley (Waiting for Godot, Kinky Boots, New York Spring Spectacular).
And here are pictures and videos from the kids of School of Rock, Motown, Lisa and Leonardo, Tink!, Les Miserables, New York Spectacular, and Fun Home!
Happy opening to the company of Missing Gemini! Break a leg to all for tonight’s opening performance!
Break a leg also to the company of A Day by the Sea, which began previews tonight!
Motown has announced a closing date of July 31st. Get more details on Playbill.com.
We have a lot of news about new projects that our alumni and current kids have booked! Congrats to all:
Alphonso Jones II (The Lion King) has booked a feature film.
Maizy Boosin (Camp Rolling Hills) will appear on “Chopped” next month.
Gregory Diaz (You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown) has booked a commercial for American Family Insurance.
Lilli Jacobs (A Little Princess) has booked a voiceover for Atlantic Broadband.
Alivia Clark (Little Miss Sunshine, Dream Street) has a new animated series coming in 2017.
Madeleine Pace (Once) will appear in the short film “Hide and Seek”!
Lynn Masako Cheng (The King and I) has joined the tour of Annie! She’s pictured below with Alyssa Marvin (Number the Stars), who is also joining the tour’s company, and Madisen Johnson, a member of the tour cast.
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Check out pictures from the New York Musical Festival opening night party, featuring the kids of Camp Rolling Hills and Tink!, on TheaterMania.com.
The cast of She Loves Me will celebrate their cast recording at Barnes & Noble on August 3rd! Get more details on Playbill.com.
In case you missed it, check out Nia Sioux (Trip of Love) on Pix11 in the video below!
Watch Carly Gendell (School of Rock) sing “The Rules of Being Cool”!
And here are pictures and videos from the kids of Cabaret for a Cause, Lisa and Leonardo, Matilda, New York Spectacular, Les Miserables, Fun Home, Missing Gemini, and School of Rock!
Fiddler on the Roof has announced a closing date of December 31st, 2016. Go see Hayley Feinstein (A Little Princess) and the cast before then! Get more details on Playbill.com.
Twins and Newsies alumni David Guzman and Jacob Guzman are all grown up now and appearing in Hamilton and Fiddler on the Roof, respectively! Read an article about them on Playbill.com.
Watch Shane Davis (Matilda) dance with Justin Bieber in the video below! Also, check out Shane in ACT Magazine!
Check out pictures of the kids of Camp Rolling Hills at opening night of the New York Musical Festival on BroadwayWorld.com!
And here are pictures and videos from the kids of Tink!, New York Spectacular, Lisa and Leonardo, Fun Home, Cabaret for a Cause, Trip of Love, Kinky Boots, and Motown!
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