When I Grow Up, our Broadway kid alumni interview series, is back with Akira Golz (Matilda), who is now starring as the title role in the brand new Nick Jr. show “Nella the Princess Knight”! Our founder Lindsay talked with Akira about Matilda, “Nella,” and her favorite things to do in NYC. Check it out HERE!
Break a leg to Mattea Marie Conforti (Matilda) and the company of Sunday in the Park with George on their opening night tonight!
The film of Newsies will return to theaters one more time on March 4th! Get more details on BroadwayWorld.com.
Christopher Convery (Kinky Boots) has a new website from Stage Door Designs! Check it out HERE.
Check out pictures of the company of Everybody on their opening night on Broadway.com!
There are pictures from opening night of If I Forget on TheaterMania.com!
Here’s a hint about our next alumni interviewee: they switched their mode of transportation from scooter to unicorn! Any guesses? Only one more day until the interview is released!
Get a sneak peek at the cast of Anastasia in rehearsals on Broadway.com! Also, check out photo coverage from the show’s press event yesterday, also on Broadway.com.
Playbill takes you behind the scenes at School of Rock via Snapchat! Find out more HERE.
Professional Performing Arts School’s upcoming Mainstage production of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying features lots of talented teens, including some of our alumni! The show runs March 29th to April 1st at Park West Theater in New York City. Be sure to check out the Dear Evan Hansen prize pack that you can win, including tickets, a backstage tour, and more! YBAN and KOT alumni in the cast include Madison Mullahey (Shrek tour, Mary Poppins tour), Erica Simone Barnett (Matilda), Madilyn Jaz Morrow (Matilda), Drew Minard (Billy Elliot tour), Kara Oates (Mary Poppins, Billy Elliot), Eden Duncan-Smith (The Lion King, Fences), Christian Dell’Edera (A Christmas Story tour), Brionna Trilling (Billy Elliot tour), Christina Jimenez (Runaways), and Maxwell Cabral (Runaways). Get more details about the show on PPASMainstage.com or in the Facebook post below:
Here’s the full video of the Annie segment from Inside Edition!
And here are pictures and videos from the kids of School of Rock and On Your Feet!
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!
Happy Trails to Isabella Russo (School of Rock), who has departed the role of Ryder in The Mother of Invention! Good luck with your pilot, Isabella!
Happy Trails to Alexandria Suarez and Fabi Aguirre (Les Miserables), who have played their final performances as Little Gloria in On Your Feet! We can’t wait to see what’s next for both of you!
And here are pictures and videos from the kids of A Bronx Tale, Waitress, On Your Feet, Amelie, Kinky Boots, Anastasia, and BroadwayCon!
A national tour of On Your Feet will launch in October 2017! Get more details on TheaterMania.com.
Congratulations to Akira Golz (Matilda) on the premiere of “Nella the Princess Knight,” which aired yesterday and in which Akira voices the title role! Check out her interview with People.com.
Brandon Niederauer (School of Rock) is doing a show in Connecticut! Get more information HERE.
Here’s a cute promo for the final two days of Matildapalooza at 54 Below, February 16th and 17th!
Nicole Wildy (Dream Street) has been cast in the one-night-only concert of Boy Meets Girl! Find out more:
GiaNina Paolantonio (Matilda) is now appearing in a commercial for Pace Salsa! Watch it below:
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And here are pictures and videos from the kids of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, School of Rock, The Mother of Invention, Waitress, On Your Feet, Kinky Boots, and the Broadway kid panels at BroadwayCon!
Be on the lookout for a “Stranger Things” teaser, featuring alumni Gaten Matarazzo (Les Miserables, Priscilla Queen of the Desert) and Caleb McLaughlin (The Painted Rocks at Revolver Creek, The Lion King), during the Super Bowl tonight!
Here’s Lynn Masako Cheng (The King and I) and Alyssa Marvin (Number the Stars) singing “When I Grow Up” with their castmate from the Annie national tour Heidi Gray!
And here are pictures and videos from the kids of Annie, Sunday in the Park with George, Matilda, Kinky Boots, School of Rock, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Waitress, and On Your Feet!
Happy first preview to the company of If I Forget at Roundabout Theatre Company!
Tonight, Mavis Simpson-Ernst (You’re A Good Man Charlie Brown, Evita, A Little Princess), Laurissa Romain (South Pacific), and others will sing Demi Lovato at Feinstein’s/54 Below! Get tickets HERE.
Watch alumna Rozi Baker (Mary Poppins, Shrek, Bonnie & Clyde) sing backup on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert”!
And here are pictures and videos from the kids of School of Rock, Kinky Boots, Waitress, The Lion King, On Your Feet, and Matilda!
“Stranger Things,” featuring alumni Gaten Matarazzo (Les Miserables, Priscilla Queen of the Desert) and Caleb McLaughlin (The Painted Rocks at Revolver Creek, The Lion King), took home the SAG Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series last night! Congrats, guys! Also, here are Gaten and Caleb meeting the press backstage at the SAG Awards:
Today was the last day of BroadwayCon! Lilla Crawford (Annie, Billy Elliot) and Savvy Crawford (Amelie, A Little Princess) appeared in Seth Speaks at 5pm today!
Check out these pictures of alumni Madeleine Pace (Once) and Swayam Bhatia (Dream Street) filming their segment on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon”!
Maddox Elliot (Dream Street) will guest star tonight on “Evil Lies Here” at 10pm on Investigation Discovery! Find out more:
Here’s a vlog from Anthony Rosenthal (Falsettos) about the second day of BroadwayCon!
And here are pictures and videos from lots of our alumni at BroadwayCon this weekend!
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