Happy first preview to the company of Once On This Island! Break a leg, everyone!
Abigail Dylan Harrison (A Christmas Story Live, Ruthless!) will return to “The Affair” when it returns for a fourth season!
Kids’ Night On Broadway returns on February 27th, 2018! Find out more on TheaterMania.com.
Vote for Allie Kiesel (A Christmas Story Live) in the BroadwayWorld Connecticut Awards HERE!
Watch Broadway alumni Gaten Matarazzo (Les Miserables, Priscilla Queen of the Desert) and Caleb McLaughlin (The Painted Rocks at Revolver Creek, The Lion King) groove on “The Late Late Show with James Corden”!
Tonight, Christopher Convery (Kinky Boots) starts recurring on “Gotham”!
Get your copy of this year’s Carols for a Cure CD, featuring tracks sung by the casts of Waitress, Anastasia, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, School of Rock, A Bronx Tale, Kinky Boots, The Lion King, and more, from the Broadway Cares Online Store!
Watch Christopher Convery (Kinky Boots) sing “Superman” at 54 Below!
Jad Grey (Radio City Christmas Spectacular) is in an ad for Family Dollar!
Once On This Island has announced its lottery policy! Get more details on BroadwayWorld.com.
Get ready for the next Cabaret for a Cause events: two shows on December 11th at 6:00pm and 8:30pm!
The 6:00pm show will feature young performers including alumni Alessandra Baldacchino (Fun Home, A Little Princess), Ava DeMary (Matilda, Evita, Billy Elliot), Cate Elefante (Waitress), Sophia Gennusa (Camp Rolling Hills, Doctor Zhivago, Matilda), Eleanor Koski (Les Miserables), Madison Elizabeth Lagares (On Your Feet), Eliza Holland Madore (Peace, Love and Cupcakes, Matilda, Once), Rileigh McDonald (Good for Otto, Matilda), Madilyn Jaz Morrow (Matilda), Zell Steele Morrow (Really Rosie, Fun Home), Analise Scarpaci (Matilda, A Christmas Story), Sadie Seelert (A Little Princess, Mary Poppins), and Alexandra Vlachos (Matilda).
The 8:30pm show will feature young performers including alumni Amaya Braganza (The King and I, Annie), Lilyana Cornell (Everybody, Les Miserables), Evie Dolan (School of Rock), Georgi James (Annie, Billy Elliot, A Tale of Two Cities), Annabelle Kempf (Billy Elliot), Ethan Khusidman (School of Rock, Soul Doctor, Chaplin), Diego Lucano (Peace, Love and Cupcakes, School of Rock), Sawyer Nunes (Radio City Christmas Spectacular, Finding Neverland, Matilda), Sam Poon (Runaways, The King and I, Macbeth), Taylor Richardson (Smokefall, A Christmas Memory, Annie), Mavis Simpson-Ernst (You’re A Good Man Charlie Brown, A Little Princess, Evita), Mckayla Twiggs (Anastasia, Les Miserables, Once), and Oscar Williams (Fun Home).
Watch Broadway alumni Meliki Hurd (Matilda) and Gaten Matarazzo (Les Miserables, Priscilla Queen of the Desert) in this commercial for Verizon Fios!
Take a look at pictures from opening night of Everybody on TheaterMania.com!
Evie Dolan (School of Rock) and Rozi Baker (Shrek, Mary Poppins, Bonnie & Clyde) will join Drew Gasparini at 54 Below on March 20th! Get more details on 54Below.com.
There’s only two more days until our newest Broadway Kid alumni interview!
Get a sneak peek at Inside Edition’s segment on the 40th anniversary of Annie below!
And here are pictures and videos from the kids of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Anastasia, The Lion King, and School of Rock!
The Drama League Award Nominations were announced today! Check out our earlier post HERE for the full list of nominees, with our featured shows bolded! Congratulations to all!
Brooklyn Shuck (Tuck Everlasting, Matilda, Annie) will perform at Broadway Does Country at 54 Below with her sisters Sydney (Annie tour) and Raleigh (How the Grinch Stole Christmas! tour)! Find out more on 54Below.com.
The kids of Broadway predict their futures at 20 years old in this video!
Next Wednesday, Corinne Wilson (School of Rock) will do an Instagram takeover of @TheBroadwayWiz! Get more information in the Instagram post below:
In case you missed it, here’s the premiere episode of “Containment,” featuring Zachary Unger (Big Fish, Chaplin, Newsies)!
The Philadelphia Story is eyeing a Broadway return! Get more information on Broadway.com.
Check out pictures from Fun Home‘s #OneYearOnBroadway celebration on TheaterMania.com!
The kids of Fun Home, School of Rock, and more celebrated the newest Lights of Broadway trading cards release recently! Watch a video from the release party below or on BroadwayWorld.com!
And here are pictures from the kids of Tuck Everlasting, Matilda, Finding Neverland, Fun Home, School of Rock, and The King and I!
Alexa Valentino (Dream Street, Number the Stars) was interviewed by Verizon Fios 1 News about her single! The interview aired at 5pm today. Buy her song HERE!
Bobbi MacKenzie (School of Rock) will appear on Good Day Oregon tomorrow! We will have video soon after. Get more information in the Facebook post below:
The kids of School of Rock are featured in Broadway.com’s Day in the Life with Sierra Boggess! Watch the video HERE.
Fun Home is taking video submissions for the child roles in its Broadway and national tour productions! Get more information on Playbill.com.
Check out photo coverage from Tori Murray‘s (Ruthless!) history-making 54 Below show on BroadwayWorld.com!
Shannon Harrington (Women Without Men) will take part in Take Ten, an evening of ten-minute plays at The COW Theater! Get more information HERE.
BroadwayCon will return January 27-29, 2017! Find out more on Broadway.com.
Here’s “Too Old to Cut the Mustard” from Rachel Resheff‘s (Fish in the Dark, The People in the Picture, Shrek, Billy Elliot, Mary Poppins) 54 Below show, along with Alessandra Baldacchino (Fun Home, A Little Princess), Olivia Chun (The King and I), and Mehret Marsh (The Lion King)! You can also check out some pictures from the show in the Facebook post below.
Here are some behind-the-scenes pictures from “Hide and Seek,” a new film featuring Sophie Knapp (Once, Dream Street, A Little Princess)!
Watch the kids of Broadway play Chubby Bunny in the video below!
And here are pictures and videos from the kids of Tuck Everlasting, Kinky Boots, School of Rock, Matilda, and She Loves Me!
Congratulations to Kyliegh Curran, Mehret Marsh, and Cayen Martin, who will make their Broadway debuts in The Lion King this week!
This is Presley Ryan‘s (The Sound of Music LIVE, A Little Princess) last week at Fun Home! We can’t wait to see what will be next for her.
Ava Della Pietra was on for Sophie in School of Rock today at 2pm, and she’ll be on for Katie from 3/24 to 3/26! Go see her! Also, keep an eye out for a new demo of her original song “Fly”! Here she is in the recording studio:
Here’s a new commercial featuring Maddox Elliot (Dream Street)!
Congrats to Talia Ryder, who went on for Lavender in Matilda for the first time today!
Here’s a clip of Tahlia Ellie (The Gray Man) on “I’d Kill For You”!
Here’s the music video for “Free 2 Love,” an original song by Alexa Valentino (Dream Street, Number the Stars)! It also features Abigail Paige Murphy (Dream Street) and Ashley Birdsall (Dream Street).
Get a behind-the-scenes look at the opening night of Disaster! with Baylee Littrell on BwayZone.com!
And here are pictures and videos from the kids of The Lion King, School of Rock, Women Without Men, The King and I, Matilda, Les Miserables, and Fun Home!
Rachel Resheff (Fish in the Dark, The People in the Picture, Shrek, Billy Elliot, Mary Poppins) will return to 54 Below on April 3rd! Among the special guests joining her will be Nicholas Barasch (She Loves Me, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, West Side Story). Get more information 54Below.com!
Shane Davis (Matilda) has joined the lineup for Lyrics for Life in LA! Get tickets HERE.
City Center will hold an open call for teens for the Encores! Off-Center production of Runaways! Get more information on TheaterMania.com.
Emma Howard (Violet, Matilda) and Jaidyn Young (Annie) take the stage next week in North Hollywood! Get tickets and more information HERE.
Matilda received a visit from Tinkerbelle the Dog! Check out the video below:
Here’s Oscar Williams (Fun Home) singing “Photograph” by Ed Sheeran at Cabaret for a Cause!
Check out some of the kids of School of Rock performing with Mister G!
And here are pictures and videos from the kids of School of Rock, The Lion King, Les Miserables, On Your Feet, and Cabaret for a Cause!
Hayden Signoretti (Finding Neverland, Richard III, Mary Poppins) will take part in this Sunday’s 13 Wishes cabaret in LA! Get more info HERE.
Alessandra Baldacchino (Fun Home, A Little Princess) and Gabriella Baldacchino (A Christmas Story tour) will perform at next week’s 8:30pm performance of Cabaret for a Cause! Find out more HERE.
Lyrics for Life LA host Madisyn Shipman made her Broadway debut in 2010 in Enron! Catch her and her co-host Casey Simpson in LA on March 19th! Get more information HERE.
Luca Padovan (School of Rock, Newsies) talked to BroadwayWorld about Hamilton, Laura Osnes, and more! Read his Q&A on BroadwayWorld.com.
Baylee Littrell (Disaster!) is featured on Pix11! Read the interview HERE, and watch the video below!
Also, check out Baylee and Lilla Crawford (Annie, Billy Elliot) figuring out emoji puzzles together at Disaster! opening night below or on Playbill.com.
Ethan Khusidman (School of Rock, Soul Doctor, Chaplin), Luca Padovan (School of Rock, Newsies), Isabella Russo (School of Rock), and Evie Dolan (School of Rock) were interviewed recently! Check out the video below:
Watch the kids of School of Rock sing “Sweet Child O’ Mine”!
Check out highlights from She Loves Me below or on Playbill.com!
And here are pictures and videos from the kids of The Lion King, School of Rock, Fun Home, and Matilda!
YBAN interviewed Maya Jade Frank (Evita, Mary Poppins, A Little Princess) and Tehya Rose Frank in honor of their upcoming LA cabaret for 13 Wishes! Read the interview HERE, and get tickets to the 13 Wishes cabaret on 13Wishes.net!
Check out photo coverage from the opening night curtain call of Disaster! on BroadwayWorld.com!
Sisters Hayley Feinstein (Fiddler on the Roof, A Little Princess) and Tori Feinstein (Matilda, How the Grinch Stole Christmas!) will perform at the 5:30pm Cabaret for a Cause performance next week! Get tickets now for both performances on CabaretForACause.us.
Lyrics for Life is fast approaching! Get tickets for the LA event HERE!
Brandon Niederauer (School of Rock) will take part in a benefit for Long Island High School for the Arts next Monday! Get more information on Newsday.com.
And here are pictures and videos from the kids of The Lion King, Women Without Men, On Your Feet, School of Rock, and Disaster!
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