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Waitress, the hit Broadway musical that played more than 1,500 performances during its 2016-2020 run, will return for a limited, four-month engagement this September, with composer Sara Bareilles in the lead role, producers announced today. Bareilles will star as the pie-making Jenna Hunterson when the show begins…

It’s going to be a pop girl summer as Peacock sets a premiere date for Girls5eva, from Tina Fey and Meredith Scardino. Created and written by Scardino, Girls5eva will premiere on the NBC streaming platform on Thursday, May 6. The comedy series, which stars Sara Bareilles, Renée Elise Goldsberry, Paula Pell and Busy Phi…

Sara Bareilles will lead the cast of Tina Fey and Robert Carlock’s Girls5eva original series for NBCU’s Peacock. Bareilles’ casting was announced today during Peacock’s CTAM virtual press tour. Written by Meredith Scardino, in Girls5eva, when a one-hit-wonder girl group from the 90's gets sampled by a young rapper…

Apple TV+ has put a face to its Little Voice. The streamer today unveiled the first-look photo of Brittany O'Grady in the lead role of its musical drama from J.J. Abrams, Sara Bareilles and Jessie Nelson and set a July 10 premiere date. Check out the pic below. The half-hour coming-of-age series, which Apple TV+ ordere…

Broadway actor Nick Cordero remains in a coma after recently undergoing a leg amputation and the subsequent insertion of a temporary pacemaker, all results from complications of a battle against COVID-19, and now Cordero’s former Waitress castmates and colleagues have joined together for some musical encouragement. Wai…

Waitress composer and star Sara Bareilles has revealed that she has made a full recovery from COVID-19. In an Instagram story, Bareilles says, "I had it, just so you know. I'm fully recovered, just so you know. And I am just thinking about all the people who are walking through this really tricky time and sending a…

Sara Bareilles, Broadway’s Waitress composer and lyricist, will return to the starring role for a limited engagement in January, launching the hit musical production’s third year. Though the Tony- and Grammy-nominated Bareilles wrote the show’s music, she did not originate the role of the pie-baking Jenna (that was…

A relative newcomer to the small screen known for his portrayal of Terry Silver in Power, Broadway veteran Brandon Victor Dixon made a huge splash this season, earning his first Emmy nomination for his portrayal of Judas in Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert. Signaling the prospect of a major crossover career for…

In Sara Bareilles and Jessie Nelson’s stage musical adaptation of the feature film Waitress, there’s a purity and innocence baked into the sweet story which follows, like the title suggests, a small-town waitress who unexpectedly gets pregnant from her abusive husband and escapes reality by baking spectacularly quirky…

After last year’s Kevin Spacey-hosted Tony Awards, the annual award show honoring the best of Broadway needed a palette cleanser for obvious reasons. With Sara Bareilles and Josh Groban as hosts, they certainly reset vibe of the 72nd annual Tonys with a positive energy and humor as they let their theater geek flag…

UPDATED with video. True to form, hosts Sara Bareilles and Josh Groban opened the 72nd Annual Tony Awards at Radio City Music Hall in New York with an original piano duet. As they played their grand pianos side-by-side (watch above), it seemed like a lovely duet and then it quickly turned into a jaunty tune that…

The 72nd annual Tony Awards honoring the year’s best on Broadway are set for Sunday at Radio City Music Hall in New York, airing on CBS and hosted by Sara Bareilles and Josh Groban. Here’s how to catch all the action. The three-hour CBS broadcast will air live on the East Coast at 8 PM ET, but is tape delayed in the…