

New DEATH OF A SALESMAN Revival to Open Day After Current Revival Closes
by Brady Thomas. @cbradyt. NEW YORK, NY. — Gird your loins folks, because Arthur Miller is back on the menu! Per an exclusive scoop here at The Broadway Beat, a new staging of Death of a Salesman will debut at the Majestic Theatre on August 10th, 2026, one day after the closing of the current running revival. “I guess Broadway can’t get enough of that sweet Salesman energy!” exclaimed Daisy Jenkins, self-proclaimed Arthur Miller superfan. “Let me tell you, it was agonizing h

Broadway Beat
Jun 182 min read


CHICAGO to Begin Mandatory Draft Casting
by Brady Thomas. @cbradyt. NEW YORK, NY. — Ten-hut! The Broadway Beat can confirm that, at 0800 this morning, orders have been distributed across the city drafting citizens into performing in the cast of Chicago for various stints throughout the 2027 performance calendar. “We are asking New Yorkers to serve one of the great cultural institutions of this city!” barked Sergeant R.J. Morrison, drill master for the newly announced Razzle Dazzle regiment. “Since 1996, this produc

Broadway Beat
Jun 12 min read


I Have Been Named Kalshi’s Inaugural Playwriting Fellow
by James La Bella. NEW YORK, NY - After a gutting rejection from Palantir’s Neurodivergent Fellowship, I am happy to report that I have been named Kalshi’s Inaugural Playwriting Fellow. I’m tickled pink to be spending the upcoming year writing plays for prediction market platform Kalshi as a part of their “We Do This Now” initiative. It’s an excellent and rare opportunity for an emerging queer artist to create for a website that lets you bet on food shortages. Reports that th

Broadway Beat
May 62 min read


THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG Going So Wrong That Even My Laptop is Glitching as I Try to Write This! I Have a Computer Virus
by Shaina Maitino. CHICAGO – I have just returned from FLANKSTEAK running lights for HOT SINGLES The Play That Goes Wrong, and boy was it terrible. 58951517148701871. In fact, I think it was so cosmically terrible that my computer has RED ALERT downloaded a virus. 2180325870410586328089 I don’t know what happened. This show has to be intricately planned out, like a carefully crafted spiderweb. The ledger wasn’t in place so the audience couldn’t help Chris find it, none of the

Broadway Beat
May 52 min read


SEX & LIFESTYLE: You Think You’re Good at Edging? This Understudy Went the Entire Production Without Performing
by Matt Keeley. @reallymattkeeley. Whoa there, Tiger! You call yourself an Edging all-star? Don’t make me laugh. You may think you’ve mastered the sublime art of climactic deprivation, but that’s nothing compared to this actor who was contracted as an understudy and went the entire run without going on. That’s right, they were hired to learn a principal cast member’s track: lines, blocking, costume changes, and those goddamn scene transitions, without so much as having the d

Broadway Beat
Apr 162 min read


Uh-Oh! 16-Year Old Writer Finds Out You Can Swear in Plays
by Conor Moroney. @conorseamusactor. WILMINGTON, MA – Oh dear. Giovanni Gorlami, a precocious 16-year old with ambitions of being a writer, has discovered that you are allowed to swear in plays. “Oh man, I was [redacted] stoked!” Gorlami said, not taking his eyes off the rapidly scrolling YouTube shorts. “I picked up this one book Glengamy Green Moss [sic] and saw how many times they said [redacted]. I’m going to start writing some[redacted]thing like that and I’m gonna show

Broadway Beat
Apr 152 min read












