News From Broadway

A sun puppet looks down on a lit globe in Starcadia
Off-Off-Broadway News

Starcadia, a new immersive musical about the planets, workshops at Masquerade

Four late nights in October for a ninety-minute show led by The Starpeople, with Hamilton’s longest-serving George Washington as Saturn.

Key art for The Dog Show: Come. Sit. Stay. at the Triad Theater, four colored bands each carrying the show title with a dog’s head bursting through the letter O
Off-Broadway News

The Dog Show, a new comedy by David Javerbaum, opens at the Triad in October

Monologues from the dog’s point of view, from the former head writer of The Daily Show — and two seats at every performance reserved for an actual dog.

The Orpheum Theatre company of Slam Frank. Photo by Shawn Salley
Off-Broadway News

Slam Frank Opens Off-Broadway at the Orpheum on October 4

Previews are running on 2nd Avenue and the official opening is set for October 4. Slam Frank, the Anne Frank hip-hop satire that made its name downtown last season, is booked at the Orpheum Theatre through November 30.

Patti LuPone. Photo by Emilio Madrid
Cast Changes and Announcements

Patti LuPone, Shoshana Bean and Savion Glover join the Rodgers & Hart concert at Carnegie Hall

Six more performers have joined A Celebration of Rodgers & Hart, the one-night concert at Carnegie Hall on Monday, October 5, taking the bill to sixteen.

Stagedoor 50: a one-night-only concert celebrating 50 years of Stagedoor Manor, September 28 2026 at Town Hall NYC
Broadway News

Nicholas Christopher and Ansel Elgort join Stagedoor 50 at the Town Hall

A one-night concert for fifty years of the Catskills theater camp that trained half a Broadway guest list, with all proceeds to the Entertainment Community Fund.

Key art for Spring Awakening at Studio Seaview: a figure in a white dress running through green woodland
Off-Broadway News

Spring Awakening names its principal cast for a twelve-week run at Studio Seaview

Eleven principals, four of them making Off-Broadway debuts and two cast from an open call that saw 2,532 performers, in Danya Taymor’s Off-Broadway staging.

The company of Richard O'Brien's The Rocky Horror Show at Studio 54 on Broadway. Photo by Joan Marcus
Broadway News

Rosie O'Donnell steps in as Narrator at The Rocky Horror Show for two weeks in October

Rosie O'Donnell plays the Narrator in Richard O'Brien's The Rocky Horror Show at Studio 54 for two weeks in October, covering a short leave for Rachel Dratch.