Michelle Dorrance's First Broadway Gig, Plus 9 Other Musicals We Can't Wait to See This Season

What do Percy Jackson, Princess Diana and Tina Turner have in common? They’re all characters on Broadway this season. Throw in Michelle Dorrance’s choreographic debut, Henry VIII’s six diva-licious wives and the 1990s angst of Alanis Morissette, and the 2019–20 season is shaping up to be an exciting mix of past-meets-pop-culture-present. Here’s a look at […]

Inside Katrina Lenk's Latest Broadway Gig: The Band's Visit

When Katrina Lenk says her feet never touched the ground in her Broadway debut, as a replacement in Spider-Man: Turn off the Dark, she’s not telling you how deliriously happy she was—though she was. Lenk is being literal: Playing Arachne, the show’s magical spider-woman, she was suspended in a gigantic web throughout. Her ability to […]

The Stars and Stories Hitting Broadway Stages This Year

The closing months of the 2016–17 season brought a glut of extraordinary music and dance to Broadway’s stages, and the superabundance has left 2017–18 looking a bit anemic. Partly it’s real estate—there are only so many Broadway theaters; in June, nearly three dozen were occupied. The only musical scheduled to open this summer was Prince […]

Choreographer's Confessional: Patrick McCollum's First Time Working in Heels

Choreographer Patrick McCollum says he’s accident-prone. So he hesitated a bit when Stephen Brackett, the director he’d loved working with on the off-Broadway musical The Lightning Thief, asked him to choreograph The Legend of Georgia McBride. It wasn’t the material that gave him pause—the author, Matthew Lopez, is an award-winning playwright, and the comedy centers […]