Jewelle Blackman News

Toronto Musical Concerts (TMC) Artistic Producer, Christopher Wilson and Associate Director, Ryan Kelly offer a daily YouTube Live stream, BIG GIRL & Friends supporting The AFC (Actors' Fund of Canada) beginning Monday, March 23.

HADESTOWN won the Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album, and celebrated with an on-stage presentation with the Grammy statue!

Hadestown has won the Grammy for Best Musical Theater Album! The announcement was made during the Grammy Awards Premiere Ceremony on Sunday, January 26. 

During the first night of BroadwayCon, the First Look event was held. The event gave fans a first look into this season's new musicals. Shows that performed at this year's event included Six, Girl From the North Country, Company, Emojiland, Between the Lines, Sing Street, Jagged Little Pill, Mrs. Doubtfire, Caroline or Change, and more!

On Friday, January 10th at 1 pm,  Tony Award-winning Hadestown held an added special performance for The Actors Fund. It was the first special performance of 2020 for The Actors Fund.  Tony Award winner André De Shields rocked the house after the performance with a 'curtain sermon' about The Actors Fund that will be long remembered.

Hadestown has joined the Broadway 2020 lineup for an exclusive MainStage Spotlight Session on Sunday, January 26, 2020.

The Tony Award winning and Grammy nominated cast of Hadestown donated a special matinee performance at The Walter Kerr Theatre on January 10 to The Actors Fund.

Good morning, BroadwayWorld! We hope everyone who celebrates had a great Christmas, full of family, friends, and love.

Happy Holidays from Broadway Sessions! Our Annual All-Star Holiday Show this past Thursday the 19th was such a joyous occasion. Belting, tapping, singalongs and laughing- oh my! Our All-Star lineup included Paige Davis (Chicago, Trading Spaces), Patrick Page (Hadestown) Jewelle Blackman (Hadestown), Max Chernin (Sunday in The Park), Rhaamell Burke-Missouri (King Kong), Hernando Umana (School of Rock), Nicole Vanessa Ortiz (Smokey Joe's Cafe), Riza Takahashi (Mean Girls), Gianna Yanelli (Mean Girls), Jessica Juanich (Bat Out Of Hell), Imari Hardon (Avenue Q), Robert Mantano (Radio City Christmas Spectacular), Eric Sebek (Radio City Christmas Spectacular), The Honey Taps, Colleen Harris, Michael Kirk Lane, Katryna Marttala, and Anthony Fett. 

Last night Broadway Sessions offered up it's annual All Star Holiday Show at The Laurie Beechman. Broadway Sessions alumni will reunited for an evening of holiday music, magic, laughs and love.

This Thursday night, December 19th, Broadway Sessions offers up it's annual All Star Holiday Show. Broadway Sessions alumni will reunite for an evening of holiday music, magic, laughs and love. 

This year's opening number was a sparkling celebration of the more than 200 actors making their Broadway debuts this season. The performance featured 60 newcomers, from a bevy of Broadway's brightest children to adults stepping into the spotlight. Featured performers included Jewelle Blackman and Yvette Gonzalez-Nacer (Hadestown), Clinton Greenspan (Aladdin), Gizel Jiménez (Wicked), Jeigh Madjus (Moulin Rouge! The Musical), Reneé Rapp (Mean Girls) and Marissa Rosen (Kristin Chenoweth: For The Girls). The full-hearted number, which received a standing ovation, was written by Michael Liscio Jr. and Jed Resnick, and directed and choreographed by Richard J. Hinds. Check out the full performance below!

Six weeks of enthusiastic fundraising erupted into two extraordinary performances of lighthearted parodies, inspiring calls-to-action and exceptional dance at this year's Red Bucket Follies. The show, which was performed December 9 and 10, 2019, celebrated the 58 Broadway, Off-Broadway and national touring companies that participated in fall fundraising for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS.

Musical Theater Songwriter Daniel Abrahamson's Showcase at the Birdland Theater in NYC

Watch the cast of Hadestown perform 'Livin' It Up On Top' at 93rd Annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade below!

Hadestown recently celebrated 250 performances on Broadway!

We're going way down to Hadestown thanks to the show's three Fates: Jewelle Blackman, Yvette Gonzalez-Nacer and Kay Trinidad. The trio took to TikTok for a behind the scenes look at their process of getting ready to bring the underworld to the stage of Broadway's Walter Kerr Theatre. Check out the videos to see them living it up backstage!

Holiday Time is here! Tinkerbelle the Dog's cover of Lea Michelle's Christmas In New York will bring all good cheer.  

Birdland Theater will present Daniel Abrahamson in 'Second Date' on Sunday, December 1 at 7:30pm. Fresh off his first sold out 'First Date,' composer/lyricist Daniel Abrahamson wants to take you on a 'Second Date' with all new songs, some Broadway faces, new glasses and a swinging band led by musical genius Matt Lowy.

Carols for a Cure is back for 2019 in its 21st edition! Below, check out exclusive photos of Eva Noblezada, Reeve Carney, Amber Gray, Andre de Shields and the cast of Hadestown as they gather to record their track- 'Midwintersong.'