Did you watch the season premiere of “Mixed-ish,” starring Arica Himmel (The Layover), last night on ABC? If you missed it, catch up now on ABC.com!
Congratulations to Talia Ryder (Matilda), who is nominated for a Film Independent Spirit Award for her work in “Never Rarely Sometimes Always”! The film is nominated for six other awards in addition to Talia’s, including Best Feature.
The York Theatre Company has been a home for Off-Broadway productions like You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown, Forbidden Broadway, Panama Hattie, Christmas in Hell, and more. Now, they need your help to recover from their recent flood! See how you can donate HERE.
Today is National Swing Day! We salute the youngest swings of Broadway, from shows like Matilda, Billy Elliot, School of Rock, and Annie!
“Earwig and the Witch,” with Taylor Paige Henderson (The Bedwetter), will arrive on digital and Blu-Ray this spring!
Lily Tamburo (Mrs. Doubtfire) recently completed a project for “Mother Goose Club”!
Continuing our look back at the past ten years, today check out “Stranger Things” star Gaten Matarazzo performing at the 2014 Tony Awards with his castmates from the Broadway revival of Les Miserables! #YoungBway10
“I Wish: The Roles That Could Have Been” live-streamed earlier today on 54 Below’s YouTube page, and featured alumni Emerson Steele (Violet) and Nicholas Barasch (She Loves Me, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, West Side Story)! Tune in for future live-streamed concerts HERE.
Kids from Fun Home, Caroline, Or Change, and more took part in an Earth Day-themed music video for Broadway Green Alliance! Find out more and watch the video on Playbill.com.
Nirvaan Pal (School of Rock) live-streamed a concert from his home on (YOUNG)’s Instagram account earlier today!
In case you missed it, here’s Analise Scarpaci (Matilda, A Christmas Story) and her Mrs. Doubtfire castmates on “Stars In The House”:
Here’s the newest episode of “The Early Night Show” with Joshua Turchin (Trevor, Forbidden Broadway, The Pill), featuring Caroline Basu (School of Rock) and Emily Zimmerman (The Bedwetter)!
And here are videos from the kids of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child!
Check out these throwbacks to the casts of Matilda and A Christmas Story performing at the 2013 Tony Awards, as we continue to look back at the past ten years! #YoungBway10
Theatre for a New Audience’s Off-Broadway production of Waiting for Godot has been postponed. For more information, go to TFANA.org.
Get a first look at “The Secret Society of Second-Born Royals,” with Niles Fitch (The Lion King, Our Lady of Kibeho), coming to Disney+ this summer, on Entertainment Weekly!
You have until Friday, April 24th, to watch the entire Disney on Broadway 25th Anniversary Concert with Andrew Barth Feldman (Dear Evan Hansen)!
And here are pictures and videos from the kids of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Frozen, and The Bedwetter!
Happy belated birthday to Mark Aguirre (Trevor)! We hope you had a great day, Mark!
Broadway will remain closed through June 7th due to coronavirus. Find out more on Broadway.com.
This means that Beetlejuice has officially played its final performance at the Winter Garden Theatre. Producers are still considering a move to another theater, but final decisions won’t be made until Broadway reopens. Happy Trails to Presley Ryan and the company of Beetlejuice; we can’t wait to see what’s next for you. Get more details on BroadwayWorld.com.
For now, you can go inside a typical day at Beetlejuice with Presley, courtesy of Inside Edition! Presley also got a shout-out recently in New York Magazine.
Unfortunately, the Off-Broadway production of Whisper House at 59E59 Theaters has also been canceled. To Wyatt Cirbus and the rest of the team, we can’t wait to see what’s next for you. Take a look at footage from their final dress rehearsal:
The Drama Desk Awards have announced that they are going online and will remain on schedule. Get more information on Playbill.com.
Continuing our walk down memory lane, 2014 at Young Broadway Actor News saw productions of Violet and Les Miserables, as well as plays like Act One and Mothers and Sons!
In 2015, we had a jam-packed year, including welcoming Fun Home, School of Rock, Finding Neverland, and the recent revival of The King and I to Broadway!
In 2016, new shows like Waitress, Tuck Everlasting, and A Bronx Tale debuted, and Falsettos returned to Broadway!
Check back here tomorrow to find out the guests who will join our special 10th anniversary concert! #YoungBway10
Tonight, watch Caroline Basu (School of Rock) guest star on “Grey’s Anatomy”!
The Broadway production of Frozen is taking more video submissions from members of Actors’ Equity. Get more details HERE. If you are not a union member, you can submit for Young Anna and Young Elsa HERE.
The cast of Mrs. Doubtfire got together virtually on their original opening night date for a digital run-through of the show and a “faux-pening” celebration!
And they weren’t the only ones–the cast of Caroline, Or Change also held a virtual opening night party on their originally-scheduled opening night:
Check out new episodes of “The Early Night Show” with Joshua Turchin (Trevor) below and on BroadwayWorld.com! One episode features Hayley Feinstein (Fiddler on the Roof, A Little Princess), Tori Feinstein (Matilda), Addison Valentino, and Daniel Dunlow; the other includes Kyla Carter (Number the Stars), Lily Brooks O’Briant, and Alexa Lasanta.
Also, Joshua Turchin will chat with Camp Broadway about his career so far, this Friday!
Here’s the schedule of online classes from Broadway Babysitters this week!
Broadway and Off-Broadway alumni including Sway Bhatia (Really Rosie, Dream Street), Jordan Cole (School of Rock), Winter Donnelly (Our Dear Dead Drug Lord, Frozen), Kaylin Hedges (The Bedwetter, Kris Kringle), and Madison Elizabeth Lagares (School of Rock, On Your Feet) took part in Shine Theatre Arts Project’s recent virtual cabaret! Watch here:
Check out “Broadway Jackbox” with Andrew Barth Feldman (Dear Evan Hansen) and the Evan Hansens of Broadway, the U.S. national tour, and the West End on BroadwayWorld.com!
And here are pictures and videos from the kids of The Bedwetter, Trevor, Whisper House, Flying Over Sunset, and Tina!
We are presenting an online concert in honor of our 10th anniversary on April 13th (our birthday) at 7pm EST / 4pm PST on YouTube, to benefit The Actors Fund and their COVID-19 relief resources! More details coming soon. #YoungBway10
In 2012, we welcomed shows like Annie, Newsies, Once, and A Christmas Story!
And 2013 was packed with shows like Matilda, Kinky Boots, Big Fish, and Pippin!
Eleanor Koski (Les Miserables, “God Friended Me”) livestreamed a concert from her home on (YOUNG)’s Instagram account earlier tonight!
Here’s a new episode of “The Early Night Show” with Joshua Turchin (Trevor), featuring Madeleine Pace (The Hard Problem, Once), Lily Tamburo (Mrs. Doubtfire), and Anya Jimenez!
And here are pictures and videos from the kids of Trevor, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, The Bedwetter, The Lion King, Flying Over Sunset, and more!
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Check out Episode 2 of “Bleu Skies,” the Broadway.com vlog for Holiday Inn, featuring a new segment called Moments with Morgan Gao!
Dance Spirit highlighted Eduardo Hernandez (On Your Feet) and Kevin Tellez (On Your Feet)! Check out the article HERE.
“Stranger Things,” which features Caleb McLaughlin (The Lion King, The Painted Rocks at Revolver Creek) and Gaten Matarazzo (Les Miserables, Priscilla Queen of the Desert), is coming back for Season 2! Find out more:
There’s just one more day to sign up for the Parents Guide to Broadway workshop! Find out more below and sign up HERE!
Tonight, Jad Grey (Radio City Christmas Spectacular) will guest star on “The Night Shift” at 10/9c on NBC! Get more information:
Happy birthday to Kevin Tellez (On Your Feet)! We hope you had a great day, Kevin!
Get your tickets for Lyrics for Life now! It’s almost sold out. It will feature Oona Laurence (Matilda), Annabelle Kempf (Billy Elliot), Laurissa Romain (South Pacific), Ashley Brooke (Doctor Zhivago, Dream Street), Sumaya Bouhbal (Runaways), Mavis Simpson-Ernst (You’re A Good Man Charlie Brown, Evita, A Little Princess), GiaNina Paolantonio (Matilda), Elizabeth Crawford (Tuck Everlasting), Christie Kim (The King and I), Sophie Knapp (Once, A Little Princess, Dream Street), Abbey Rose Gould (A Little Princess), Peyton Ella (The Sound of Music LIVE, A Little Princess), Ethan Haberfield (Mary Poppins), Frenie Acoba (Runaways, Matilda), Taylor Caldwell (Runaways, School of Rock), Chris Sumpter (Runaways, Matilda), Luka Kain (South Pacific), Stephen Sayegh (A Little Princess), and more to be announced! Find out more on the Facebook event.
Anthony Rosenthal‘s Broadway debut in Falsettos is featured on Playbill.com!
And here are pictures and videos from the kids of On Your Feet, School of Rock, Fun Home, Les Miserables, Kinky Boots, Matilda, Falsettos, and The Lion King!
Congratulations to the company of Les Miserables, which celebrates its 1000th performance today!
Alessandra Baldacchino (Fun Home, A Little Princess) will perform with Fun Home at tomorrow’s Broadway in Chicago event at Millennium Park at 6:15pm! Find out more in her Instagram post:
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Isaiah D. Negron (The Lion King) will appear in the first three episodes of the new Netflix series “The Get Down,” released today! Watch it HERE.
Check out pictures from this week’s Broadway in Bryant Park, which included the cast of Ruthless!, on Playbill.com!
Read an interview with Mimi and Talia Ryder‘s mom about their work in Matilda on Playbill.com!
Win tickets to see Les Miserables before it closes next month! Get the details HERE.
Former Broadway child actors will perform at 54 Below in early 2017! Lineup to be announced. Get more information on 54Below.com!
Congratulations to Sean Reda (Les Miserables, Radio City Christmas Spectacular) and Analise Scarpaci (Matilda, A Christmas Story) on their voiceover bookings! Find out more:
Maddox Elliot (Dream Street) has booked the role of Young Aaron in a short film called “The Indivisibility of Blood,” and he is on hold for an episode of “Investigation Discovery”! Congrats! Get more information about his roles below, and check out a commercial that Maddox and his brother Hayden did for Chevrolet!
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