They say you can tell a lot about a person from looking at their shoes. Footwear plays a key role in the new musical Kinky Boots, but from the title alone you might not know that it is a big-hearted Broadway extravaganza with a universal message of tolerance.

Baby, its cold outside, but the second half of the Broadway season is certainly heating up this winter.

Way back in 1997, something big and rather risky was brewing on Broadway. Disney took the gamble in reimagining its recent hit film The Lion King for the stage. Fifteen years – and over 65 million guests – later, it is safe to say that the gamble has paid off. For director Julie Taymor's visionary creation, the circle of life looks more like an unbroken line.

For theater lovers, all roads converge at Times Square. This winter, six of the hottest shows--Annie, Jersey Boys, The Lion King, Mary Poppins, Newsies, and Wicked--are welcoming Broadway Direct readers by offering them the best seats in the house for a limited time.

James M. Nederlander (Chairman) and James L. Nederlander (President) celebrate the 100th anniversary of The Nederlander Organization by becoming the New York Landmark Conservancy’s first father/son duo to be named “Living Landmarks,” an honor that will be bestowed tonight at their annual gala at the Plaza Hotel.

With over 700 productions of Annie in this country a year, chances are you’ve seen it at some point, or are at least familiar with the song “Tomorrow.” The musical about an optimistic orphan during the Great Depression originally opened on Broadway in 1977 and ran for almost 6 years. Now it’s being revived on Broadway for the first time since 1997.

Award-winning novelist Michael Morpurgo discusses his experience writing War Horse. "I grew up in London just after the Second World War, a London of bomb sites and ration books. I played in bomb sites (surely the best playgrounds ever made). We had cellars for dens, crumbling walls to climb, and in amongst the rubble I made endless discoveries."

Tony Award winner Scarlett Johansson returns to Broadway to heat up the stage this winter in a new revival of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Tennessee Williams’ compelling drama of the Deep South.

Critics, voters and audiences all agree that Once has brought something special to Broadway. Since its first workshop less than two years ago, Once has won eight Tony Awards®, including Best Musical, captivated thousands of people a week at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre and become the unlikeliest smash hit on Broadway.

“Glass slippers are so back,” reads the tagline for the new production of Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella, starting previews at the Broadway Theatre on January 21, 2013. As contemporary as that tagline reads, book writer Douglas Carter Beane approached this musical by going back to the late 1600s—to Charles Perrault’s original French story.