Demi Singleton (School of Rock, The Lion King) appears in the new documentary “Showbiz Kids,” which premiered tonight on HBO! It streams on HBO Max beginning tomorrow.
Tickets are now on sale for Kids of the Arts’ production of Peace, Love and Cupcakes, with lots of Broadway and Off-Broadway alumni in the cast and creative team! For more information about the multiple casts, and to purchase tickets, click HERE.
Andrew Barth Feldman (Dear Evan Hansen) took part in Broadway Podcast Network’s “E-Ticket To Broadway” stream tonight! Get more details on BroadwayWorld.com.
Mia Williamson (Once On This Island) is taking part in “Project Sing Out” on July 20th!
Here’s a new episode of “The Early Night Show” with Joshua Turchin (Trevor, Forbidden Broadway, The Pill), featuring Alexa Lasanta, Emerson Steele (Violet), Arianna Pereira, and Rising Starz!
And here are videos from the kids of The Bedwetter, Tina, and Harry Potter and the Cursed Child!
Be sure to register for Playhouse by SDM’s virtual workshops this week, including the one with Andrew Barth Feldman (Dear Evan Hansen), happening tomorrow at 11am EST! Get more information about Andrew’s workshop HERE, and sign up for the others at PlayhouseBySDM.com/Classes. Here’s a look at those other workshops:
Shaylin Becton (The Lion King) is featured on Pharrell and SoundCloud’s compilation “i am OTHER, Volume 1,” featuring new indie artists! Listen HERE.
And check out this picture from the kids of The Bedwetter!
Watch the full Dog Star Rescue telethon, featuring lots of former and current Broadway and Off-Broadway kids, here:
Also, watch Kids of the Arts’ full virtual showcase, also with several of our alumni, here:
“Broadway Jackbox” with Andrew Barth Feldman (Dear Evan Hansen) returned today with stars from Newsies, Waitress, and A Strange Loop! Get more details on Playbill.com.
And check out this video from Presley Ryan (Beetlejuice), who is taking part in the #Hear1Sing1 campaign created by Harmony Helper!
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!
Tonight, we are celebrating 10 years online with a benefit concert for The Actors Fund! There is an incredible lineup of performers, and their performances in the concert earlier tonight are already available on our YouTube channel. Watch HERE, and be sure to donate to The Actors Fund and Actors’ Equity’s Curtain Up Fund HERE, or on Facebook!
We’re also reflecting on 2020 so far and what’s to come, including Mrs. Doubtfire, Sing Street, Caroline, Or Change, and Trevor!
The newest episode of “The Early Night Show” with Joshua Turchin (Trevor, Forbidden Broadway, The Pill) is now available on BroadwayWorld.com, featuring Eleanor Koski (Les Miserables), Christian Harmston, and Alex Vacchiano!
Winter Donnelly (Our Dear Dead Drug Lord, Frozen) live-streamed a concert on (YOUNG)’s Instagram account today!
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!
Congrats to Robert Montano and Carlos Carreras who have been cast in this year’s Radio City Christmas Spectacular! This is Robert’s 3rd year and Carlos’s 1st year!
Happy 1st preview to The Rose Tattoo! The show officially opens on October 15th.
Beetlejuice released a longer clip of “Dead Mom” feat. Sophia Anne Caruso! Watch below.
Makayla Joy Connolly made her Broadway debut in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child this week! Check out the pictures below.
The Tony Awards have announced that the 2020 ceremony will take place on June 7th, airing on CBS at 8/7c. Nominations will be announced on April 28th.
Earlier this week, I (Lindsay) went to see Inland Valley Repertory Theater’s production of Fun Home (feat. Broadway alum Maya Grace Fischbein) at the Candlelight Pavilion in Claremont, CA! Congratulations on a great performance, Maya!
“Fancy Nancy”, a Disney Junior show starring Mia Sinclair Jenness (Les Miserables), has been renewed for a 3rd season! Season 2 begins airing on October 4th.
Taylor Richardson (Annie, Smokefall, A Christmas Memory) has been cast in a new Netflix film “Sorta Like A Rock Star”. Click HERE for more info.
Joshua Turchin (Forbidden Broadway, The Pill) has booked a voiceover gig. More details coming soon.
Cate Elefante (Waitress) was on the set of a commercial this week! We will let you know when it begins to air.
We have some more videos from (YOUNG)! Take a look below.
And here are pictures and videos from the kids of Beetlejuice and Make Believe!
Happy Trails to Catherine Ashmore Bradley, who played her final performance of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child today! Look for an exciting announcement about her next project coming soon!
Happy Trails as well to Delaney Quinn and Scarlett Sher, who played their final performances of Waitress this weekend! We can’t wait to see what’s next for both of you!
Watch the newest members of the ALDC, including alum GiaNina Paolantonio (Matilda), perform their first ever group dance during the “Kids Tell All” special of “Dance Moms,” as well as their group routine “The Chosen One”!
Tonight, kids from Frozen, A Bronx Tale, and more took part in the latest installment of (YOUNG)! Get more information HERE.
Jordan Cole (School of Rock) recorded a song for Noggin!
Congrats to Ramon Reed (The Lion King), whose Disney Channel show “Just Roll With It” has been picked up for a second season! Get more details on Deadline.com.
Raigan Newton will make her Broadway debut as Lulu in Waitress! Congrats, Raigan!
Today, “Hustlers” arrives in theaters featuring Scarlett Sher (Waitress)! See it if you can!
Sophia Anne Caruso (Beetlejuice) and Andrew Barth Feldman (Dear Evan Hansen) will be at the autograph table at this year’s BC/EFA Broadway Flea Market, and Beetlejuice, Dear Evan Hansen, Frozen, The Lion King, and Waitress will all have tables there! Get more details about the event on Playbill.com.
Kids from School of Rock and more are singing Andrew Lloyd Webber’s music at The Green Room 42 tonight! Get tickets HERE.
Watch the Abby Lee Dance Company perform their group routine “Body & Soul,” with alum GiaNina Paolantonio (Matilda)!
And here are pictures and videos from the kids of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, The Rose Tattoo, Tina, and Waitress!
Danielle Becht (Dream Street) and Maya Slaughter (Dream Street) are directing Kids Cabaret 2018: Believe, Brundage Park Playhouse’s annual cabaret, and their siblings Bobby Becht (Dream Street) and Naina Slaughter (Dream Street) will be performing in it! Get tickets HERE.
Artyon Celestine (A Christmas Story Live) is one of the pros on the inaugural season of “Dancing with the Stars Juniors,” premiering October 7th on ABC!
Darius Kaleb (Motown, A Raisin in the Sun) has joined the cast of “One Dollar,” a new CBS All-Access show, premiering on August 30th!
Lianah Sta. Ana spent her senior year of high school performing in Miss Saigon. Now, she’s attending Columbia University this fall!
Welcome to Young Broadway Actor News! We are the leading news website for Broadway and Off-Broadway kids and teens under 18. Come back and visit soon!
Parents
Wanna know how to contribute to the blog? Find out more here!
Newsletter
Regional Shows
If you're an alum who's doing a non-Broadway/Off-Broadway show right now or if you want to keep up with the theatrical adventures of alumni, check out our Upcoming Regional Shows page.
Disclaimer
This website cannot be reproduced without permission from the webmaster. No copyright infringement is ever intended. This is a 100% fansite and has no connection with these young actors, their families, or their managements. If you have a problem with anything on this website, please contact us before taking any further action.
