The Broadway company ofLeopoldstadtis in rehearsalsTom Stoppard's Olivier Award-winning Best New Play, directed by two-time Tony Award nominee Patrick Marber, will begin itslimited Broadway engagement on Wednesday, September 14 ahead of a Sunday, October 2 opening night at the Longacre Theatre. In this video, watch as Marber and just a few of the38-member company check in with BroadwayWorld's Richard Ridge as they begin work in the rehearsal room.
- 8/9/2022
- by BroadwayWorld TV
- BroadwayWorld.com
A new musical is enchating audiences off-BroadwayBetween the Lines, based on the novel by international bestselling author Jodi Picoult and Samantha van Leer, is now in performances at the Second Stage'sTony Kiser Theater. In this video, watch as Arielle Jacobs and Jake David Smith check in with BroadwayWorld's Richard Ridge to chat about their histories with the show, finally bringing it to life onstage, and so much more...
- 8/2/2022
- by Backstage With Richard Ridge
- BroadwayWorld.com
Broadway dance legends united for the 2022 Chita Rivera Awards, which honoredoutstanding choreography, featured dancers, and ensemble in shows on Broadway and Off Broadway, as well as outstanding choreography in film that opened pre-Covid as well as in the 2021-2022 season. Watch video coverage as BroadwayWorld's Richard Ridge hits the red carpet to chat with the nominees and the great Chita Rivera herself.
- 7/16/2022
- by BroadwayWorld TV
- BroadwayWorld.com
In just days, the Second Stage Theater production of Richard Greenberg's Tony Award-winning play, Take Me Out, will officially begin previews at theHayes Theater, where it was originally set to open almost two years ago. Right before Broadway shut down, BroadwayWorld's Richard Ridge met with the company while they were still in rehearsals. We're looking back on that day ahead of the show's official return...
- 3/6/2022
- by BroadwayWorld TV
- BroadwayWorld.com
Broadway is back and BroadwayWorld is bringing you all of the interviews you crave with your favorite Broadway stars Richard Ridge is keeping up with all of their latest projects on Backstage Live, bringing you in-depth interviews weekly. Below, watch as he catches up with two of the stars of Audible Theater's Long Day's Journey Into Night,Ato Blankson-Wood andJason Bowen.
- 2/12/2022
- by Backstage With Richard Ridge
- BroadwayWorld.com
Broadway is back and BroadwayWorld is bringing you all of the interviews you crave with your favorite Broadway stars Richard Ridge is keeping up with all of their latest projects on Backstage Live, bringing you in-depth interviews weekly. Below, watch as he catches up with two of the young wizards of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, James Romney and Brady Dalton Richards, who play as Albus Potter and Scorpius Malfoy respectively.
- 2/12/2022
- by Backstage With Richard Ridge
- BroadwayWorld.com
Broadway is back and BroadwayWorld is bringing you all of the interviews you crave with your favorite Broadway stars Richard Ridge is keeping up with all of their latest projects on Backstage Live, bringing you in-depth interviews weekly. Below, watch as he catches up with two of the stars of Audible Theater's Long Day's Journey Into Night,Ato Blankson-Wood andJason Bowen.
- 2/9/2022
- by Backstage With Richard Ridge
- BroadwayWorld.com
Broadway is back and BroadwayWorld is bringing you all of the interviews you crave with your favorite Broadway stars Richard Ridge is keeping up with all of their latest projects on Backstage Live, bringing you in-depth interviews weekly. Below, watch as he catches up with two of the young wizards of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, James Romney and Brady Dalton Richards, who play as Albus Potter and Scorpius Malfoy respectively.
- 2/8/2022
- by Backstage With Richard Ridge
- BroadwayWorld.com
Broadway is back and BroadwayWorld is bringing you all of the interviews you crave with your favorite Broadway stars Richard Ridge is keeping up with all of their latest projects on Backstage Live, bringing you in-depth interviews weekly. Below, watch as he chats with The Book of Mormon's Elder Price and Elder Cunningham, Kevin Clay and Cody Jamison Strand...
- 1/9/2022
- by Backstage With Richard Ridge
- BroadwayWorld.com
The Tony, Grammy and Olivier Award winning musical Jersey Boys, is now back atNew York City's New World Stages 340 West 50th Street Stage 1, starring Jonathan Cable as Nick Massi, Aaron De Jesus as Frankie Valli, Cj Pawlikowski as Bob Gaudio and John Rochette as Tommy DeVito. BroadwayWorld's Richard Ridge just caught up with all four of the stars and you can catch the full interview below...
- 12/12/2021
- by BroadwayWorld TV
- BroadwayWorld.com
This episode is for all the Lin-Manuel Miranda fans. Broadway World's own Richard Ridge takes us to the opening night of the Broadway run of his landmark musical In the Heights, where Lin told Ridge, why the musical touches such a diverse audience of every age. 'Tonight, I feel a real sense of accomplishment. I think the immigrant and universal things that happen are, we do the jobs that no one else wants to do.Our parents sacrifice and they do things that they don't want to do, so we can do better than they did. I think everyone responds to that and it strikes a universal chord.'...
- 5/3/2020
- by BroadwayWorld TV
- BroadwayWorld.com
This episode of Broadway Rewind takes Richard Ridge to the opening night of the off- Broadway musical Frankenstein, which starred Hunter Foster, Steve Blanchard and Christiane Noll. We also drop by the CD recording of the hit musical Xanadu, where Cheyenne Jackson told Ridge, 'Xanadu lifts you up. It's 90 minutes but you are onstage the entire time. I'm loving it.'...
- 4/25/2020
- by BroadwayWorld TV
- BroadwayWorld.com
This episode of Broadway Backwards looks back at the loss of one of the musical theatre's most dashing young stars, Daniel McDonald. We give you a look at him in the Kander and Ebb musical Steel Pier'We also dropped by New World Stages to meet the women of Doug Stone's off Broadway Tupperware comedy 'Sealed For Freshness', and for all the Stephanie J. Block fans, BroadwayWorld's own Richard Ridge takes us to a rehearsal of the epic Alain Boublil, Claude-Michel Schonberg and Richard Maltby Jr. musical The Pirate Queen.
- 4/22/2020
- by BroadwayWorld TV
- BroadwayWorld.com
This episode of Broadway Rewind is a look at Disney's Mary Poppins and a behind the scenes look at director John Doyle's production of the Stephen Sondheim and George Furth musical Company,which welcomed back to Broadway Raul Esparza as Bobby. Raul told BroadwayWorld's Richard Ridge, 'The show is a groundbreaking piece of musical theatre, that is a masterpiece. I've seen many, many productions of it, and I've enjoyed them all, but I never knew, that it was this good and I feel like it was just written.'...
- 4/19/2020
- by BroadwayWorld TV
- BroadwayWorld.com
BroadwayWorld's Richard Ridge says, 'This episode of Broadway Rewind features a heart, a hustler and a hoofer.' We give you a sneak peek at the Broadway musical 'The Drowsy Chaperone', which welcomed back to Broadway, Tony Award winner Sutton Foster and introduced us all to Bob Martin as Man in Chair. We also met the cast of Mark St. Germain's play, 'The God Committee', but the episode starts at the opening night of Roundabout's production of Joe Orton's comedy 'Entertaining Mr. Sloane' which featured a stellar cast including Chris Carmack, Alex Baldwin and the late great Jan Maxwell, whom Richard Ridge says, 'was one of the greatest actresses of her generation'.
- 4/17/2020
- by BroadwayWorld TV
- BroadwayWorld.com
'This episode of Broadway Rewind is a look at a legend, a classic and a musical poet,' says BroadwayWorlds' own Richard Ridge. 'I got to chat with Cyndi Lauper who was making her Broadway debut in Roundabout's production of The Threepenny Opera, than I dropped by the opening of the new production of Jacques Brel starring Robert Cuccioli, but it started off downtown at the now defunct Actors Playhouse to catch up with an icon I had always wanted to meet, T.V. and cult film star Adrianne Barbeau, who was starring as the legendary Judy Garland in a one woman show 'The Property Known as Garland' written by her husband Billy Van Sant.
- 4/16/2020
- by BroadwayWorld TV
- BroadwayWorld.com
BroadwayWorld's Richard Ridge says, 'That this episode of Broadway Rewind features something Toxic, something Royal and something Academic.' We drop by New World Stages for a look at the David Bryan and Joe DePietro musical, The Toxic Avenger.We also visit with two-time Tony Award winner Matthew Broderick and the cast of Roundabout's production of The Philanthropist, but we kick it off at the opening night of director Neil Armfield's production of Eugene Ionesco's Exit The King, which starred Academy Award winners Geoffrey Rush and Susan Sarandon, Tony Award winner Andrea Martin and Lauren Ambrose. Geoffrey Rush told Ridge, 'I just phoned my wife and said, 'Darling I just made my Broadway debut and it's a marker. It's not what I aimed for. I had never really, seriously ever thought about it... I used to listen to a lot of Broadway musical theatre back in the mid 60's...
- 4/12/2020
- by BroadwayWorld TV
- BroadwayWorld.com
This episode of Broadway Rewind takes you to the opening night celebration of the new production of Michael Bennett's Pulitzer Prize winning musical A Chorus Line. But we start things off at a rehearsal for the one night only Actors Fund Benefit of The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, which starred Emily Skinner as Miss Mona and Broadway's original 'Annie' herself, Andrea McArdle as Doatsey Mae. McArdle told BroadwayWorld's own Richard Ridge about her take on the role and her song, 'She reminds me a little bit of that Mabel Normand character. Doatsey Mae is very smart. If it wasn't for that Chicken Ranch in town, she would have been a happening girl. She's overshadowed by all of this tardiness in this tiny little town, and the song, is a heartbreaking number. It's sweet and a great country number.
- 4/9/2020
- by BroadwayWorld TV
- BroadwayWorld.com
'This episode of Broadway Rewind is such a treat', says BroadwayWorld's own Richard Ridge, 'because it has Chita' We also visit with the cast of Tom Stoppard's play, Rock N' Roll which starred Brian Cox, Rufus Sewell, but we start things off ay the first day of rehearsal for Tracy Letts' groundbreaking play, August Osage County, which came to Broadway following a sold-out run at Steppenwolf.
- 4/4/2020
- by BroadwayWorld TV
- BroadwayWorld.com
BroadwayWorld's Richard Ridge continues his journey with the latest Broadway Rewind, which takes the audience to Town Hall for the 4th annual ABC Daytime Salutes Bcefa, but we start things off by meeting the company and bringing you a sneak peek at the Broadway musical Cry Baby,which is based on the hit John Waters film. It starred James Snyder, Elizabeth Stanley and Harriet Harris. Waters told me how he felt about being asked to turn one of his other hit films into a Broadway musical.'I was thrilled because I had just had such a wonderful experience with Hairsprayand to be honest, Cry Babywas the only real musical movie I ever made. Hairspraywas a dance movie.The music in this is such a breath of new talent on Broadway.'...
- 4/2/2020
- by BroadwayWorld TV
- BroadwayWorld.com
BroadwayWorld's own Richard Ridge, says of this episode of Broadway Rewind, 'It is jammed packed with Albee, Brooks and Pinter and I had one of the biggest pinch me momentsof chatting with one of the greatest playwrights Edward Albee, himself.We head to SecondStage for the opening of Edward Albee's Peter and Jerrybut we start off at the first day of rehearsal for revival of the Harold Pinter classic, The Homecomingwhich featured a stellar cast including Ian McShane, Raul Esparza, Eve Best and Michael McKeen. Director Daniel Sullivan told me what he loved about the play, 'When I read it now, almost 40 years after it was done, it still scares me. I had never directed Pinter, so I thought it was about time.''...
- 3/31/2020
- by BroadwayWorld TV
- BroadwayWorld.com
BroadwayWorld's own Richard Ridge said of this 2008 episode of Broadway Rewind, 'I loved looking back at the musical Next to Normaland realizing the impact it has had on the musical theatre genre.We start off high a top Rockefeller Center to the Rainbow Room for The Drama League's Gala where they honored beloved producer Roger Berlind. It featured many of the stars and shows that he produced over his illustrious career. Look for David Hyde Pierce, Marin Mazzie, Jason Danieley, Donna Murphy, Karen Ziemba and Debra Monk.'...
- 3/31/2020
- by BroadwayWorld TV
- BroadwayWorld.com
On Thursday, December 13th, Frank 'Fraver' Verlizzo will discuss his 5 decades as Broadway's award-winning theatrical poster designer with Broadway World's Richard Ridge in the Bruno Walter auditorium at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center. Verlizzo, known as 'Fraver,' is the author of the best-selling Fraver By Design Five Decades of Theatre Post Art from Broadway, Off-Broadway, and Beyond which was published in May by Schiffer Publishing. The book includes over 250 of his theatre poster designs from Broadway, Off-Broadway, regional and international productions. The Lincoln Center Library event begins at 6 pm and admission is free.
- 12/7/2018
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Tune in tomorrow, Sunday September 30th at 11am Est to BroadwayWorld's Facebook Pageand watch The Prom's Beth Leavel and BroadwayWorld's Richard Ridge tour the Broadway Flea Market and Grand AuctionThe heart of NYC's theatre district will be filled with Broadway stars, fans and unmissable theatrical treasures this Sunday, September 30, 2018, for the 32nd Annual Broadway Flea Market amp Grand Auction, produced by and benefiting Broadway CaresEquity Fights AIDS.
- 9/30/2018
- by Jeffrey Vizcaino
- BroadwayWorld.com
Tune in tomorrow, Sunday September 30th at 11am Est to BroadwayWorld's Facebook Pageand watch The Prom's Beth Leavel and BroadwayWorld's Richard Ridge tour the Broadway Flea Market and Grand AuctionThe heart of NYC's theatre district will be filled with Broadway stars, fans and unmissable theatrical treasures this Sunday, September 30, 2018, for the 32nd Annual Broadway Flea Market amp Grand Auction, produced by and benefiting Broadway CaresEquity Fights AIDS.
- 9/29/2018
- by Jeffrey Vizcaino
- BroadwayWorld.com
Backstage with Richard Ridge: It's a Broadway Super-Clique! A Chitchat with the Ladies of Mean Girls
This is a cautionary interview...Don't be fooled by the characters they play.The ladies of Mean Girls are tight, and we've got the proofRight before the show's whopping twelve Tony nominations rolled in earlier this week, BroadwayWorld's Richard Ridge sat down with five of the coolest ladies on Broadway Erika Henningsen, Taylor Louderman, Ashley Park, Kate Rockwell and Barrett Wilbert Weed.
- 5/5/2018
- by Backstage With Richard Ridge
- BroadwayWorld.com
'I wish I could say that it's fun but it's not. It's painful and it's complicated.'Lee Pace has ruled Middle Earth, wandered the galaxy, and now he's come back home to Broadway. The star of stage and screen returns this season in the critically acclaimed revival of Angels in America, and he's not taking it lightly. Watch below as he chats with BroadwayWorld's Richard Ridge about the challenges of performing such heavy subject matter, how he gets through a two show day, and so much more...
- 5/2/2018
- by Backstage With Richard Ridge
- BroadwayWorld.com
'For so many reasons this has been the single most challenging thing that I've ever done, but the most rewarding thing I've ever done.'Joshua Jackson, who makes his Broadway debut this season, knows that his experience inChildren of a Lesser God has been a special one. Watch below as he chats with BroadwayWorld's Richard Ridge about the challenges of delivering dialogue for two, learning a whole new language for this role, and the joys of sharing the stage with his remarkable co-star, Lauren Ridloff.
- 4/29/2018
- by Backstage With Richard Ridge
- BroadwayWorld.com
As BroadwayWorld announced just last week, BroadwayWorld's longtime TV host, Richard Ridge married his partner of 37 years, Preston Ridge in a small and private ceremony on Wednesday morning. Here's to many happy years of health, love and happiness. Prior to his long tenure with BroadwayWorld.com, Ridge toured the world as a performer and hosted the popular television program Broadway Beat.We are excited to bring you photos from inside the ceremony below...
- 6/30/2014
- by Walter McBride
- BroadwayWorld.com
Yesterday, July 9, friends and family of Bradshaw Smith Founder amp Executive Producer of Broadway Beat and Applause Video, gathered at the New Signature Theatre space to honor the former cabaret star and beloved videographer at an intimate memorial celebration. Performers and speakers who came out to show their respects included Jared Bortz, Mario Cantone, Dan Daly, Jamie deRoy, Julie Halston, Jeff Harnar, Linda Harris, Karen Mason, Susie Mosher, Sidney Myer, Lee Roy Reams, Richard Ridge, Steven Skeels and Todd Stockman. As part of the celebration, Bradshaw's longtime friend and editor, Jonathan Frank, compiled the best of Bradshaw's cabaret past, and below, BroadwayWorld is thrilled to bring you the highlights from Bradshaw's career as a perfomer and cabaret fixture.
- 7/10/2012
- by BroadwayWorld TV
- BroadwayWorld.com
A memorial celebration to honor the life and career of Bradshaw Smith Founder amp Executive Producer of Broadway Beat and Applause Video has been scheduled for Monday, July 9 at 4Pm. Some of the performers and speakers taking part will include Jared Bortz, Mario Cantone, Dan Daly, Jamie deRoy, Julie Halston, Jeff Harnar, Linda Harris, Karen Mason, Susie Mosher, Sidney Myer, Lee Roy Reams, Richard Ridge, Steven Skeels and Todd Stockman. The memorial will take place at The Pershing Square Signature Center, 480 West 42nd Street between 9th and 10th Avenues. A reception will follow in the Signature Theatres Caf and Bar.
- 7/2/2012
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
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