On Broadway now

[GretchaSketh]

Posted: 6/16/04 at 8:38pm

Is there a list somewhere with all plays and musicals on Broadway right now? I know most of the plays that were at the Tony's but what about other musicals like Phantom and is Les Mis still playing? What about 42nd Street? Anyone know where I can find this? Us west coasters don't know much:P (well maybe that's just me! Just trying to become educated)!

[StickToPriest]

Posted: 6/16/04 at 8:39pm

www.ibdb.com

[MargoChanning]

Posted: 6/16/04 at 8:43pm

Look to your left .... under shows........

[GretchaSketh]

Posted: 6/16/04 at 8:44pm

Thanks, i can't believe I missed that. LOL

[MusicPos2]

Posted: 6/16/04 at 9:04pm

Lol, or Playbill, Broadway.com has most shows. Telecharge lists all of them. And no, LES MIS closed awhile ago :'(.

[MargoChanning]

Posted: 6/16/04 at 9:16pm

Actually, I just noticed that the list hasn't been updated in a month or two -- Drowning Crow, Gypsy, King Lear, Match and Sixteen Wounded have all closed; Bombay Dreams, Caroline or Change, and Frozen are open and running. Good sights to check for current shows, news, reviews and updates:

-- playbill.com (news, listings and a great discount club)
-- broadway.com (news, reviews & articles)
-- nytheatre.com (also has reviews and the most extensive and up-to-date list and synopses of current Broadway, off-Broadway and off-off-Broadway productions),
-- theatremania (reviews, articles, listings and a discount club)
-- broadwaystars.com (excellent; daily links to theatre-related articles from several publications; keeps a listing of upcoming shows, dates and theatres on the right side of the page)
-- curtainup.com (reviews -- excellent)
-- broadwaybox.com (discount info for all the current broadway and off-broadway shows)
-- ibdb.com (searchable database for broadway history)
-- the Lortel Arhives at www.lortel.org/LLA_archive/index.cfm (searchable database for off-Broadway)
-- www.broadway-theater-tickets.com/includes/Theater/ (seating charts for all the New York theatres)

[MusicPos2]

Posted: 6/16/04 at 9:21pm

Be careful, Broadway.com (and maybe Playbill.com) don't have all the shows. Check something like Telecharge, they'll have everything, even if they don't sell tickets to it.

[StickToPriest]

Posted: 6/16/04 at 9:22pm

But the best, and always updated, is ibdb.com

[MargoChanning]

Posted: 6/16/04 at 9:41pm

Actually, Telecharge doesn't list Roundabout's shows (Broadway or off-Broadway -- Roundabout handles their own ticketing), off-Broadway shows that they don't sell tickets to (which is maybe half all the listings at any given time -- smarttix handles a lot of those because they charge the theatres a lower fee), and ignores off-Broadway altogether. Ticketmaster's even worse.

Playbill is more complete than either of them and nytheatre.com is maybe the only complete and up-to-date listing of every single show playing in New York at any given moment (and no I don't work them).

[MargoChanning]

Posted: 6/16/04 at 9:50pm

ibdb.com covers ONLY Broadway and ignores everything else which is a joke considering Broadway represents only a fraction of the theatre going on in New York at any given time and an even smaller fraction of the GOOD theatre going on at any given time. A site that ignores, the Public, Signature, Manhattan Theatre Club, MCC, Atlantic, Playwrights, BAM, Second Stage, the Vineyard, LCT's Newhouse, NYTW, Encores and all of commercial off-Broadway is totally useless for listings. Heck, most of the Tony nominees and winners this and in nearly every season start out at one of those theatres.

Updated On: 6/16/04 at 09:50 PM