The upcoming Broadway revival of The Rocky Horror Show had a special first audience for its studio run \u2013 New York City’s The Rocky Horror Picture Show shadowcast. Since 1976, the group performs Rocky Horror around the East Village and in other venues. Go inside the run in a new social media post.<\/p>\n
“It’s too late to back out, so good luck,” director Sam Pinkleton said before the run began. “The Rocky Horror Show has stayed relevant for 53 years because of the work that you do. I find it extremely moving to love something together.”<\/p>\n
The video shows tearful reactions from the Rocky Horror shadowcast.<\/p>\n
“The world is rotten and we get to love Rocky Horror. So this is our angle that we’ve been loving it from,” Pinkleton concluded.<\/p>\n
About The Rocky Horror Show on Broadway<\/p>\n
Richard O\u2019Brien\u2019s The Rocky Horror Show, with direction by Tony Award winner\u00a0\u00a0Sam Pinkleton<\/a>, will be led by\u00a0\u00a0Luke Evans<\/a>\u00a0as \u201cFrank-N-Furter.” The revival will begin previews on Thursday, March 26, 2026, ahead of an opening on Thursday, April\u00a0 23, 2026 at Studio 54 on Broadway (254 West 54th Street). This is a limited engagement through Sunday, June 21,\u00a0 2026.\u00a0<\/p>\n The cast will also include Tony Award nominee\u00a0Rachel Dratch<\/a>\u00a0(POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass are Seven\u00a0 Women Trying to Keep Him Alive, \u201cSNL\u201d) as \u201cNarrator;\u201d Tony Award nominee\u00a0Andrew Durand<\/a>\u00a0(Dead Outlaw,\u00a0 Shucked, Little Shop of Horrors) as \u201cBrad;\u201d Tony Award nominee and Theatre World Award winner\u00a0Amber Gray<\/a>\u00a0(Eureka Day; Hadestown; Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812) as \u201cRiff Raff;\u201d Critics Choice Award nominee Harvey Guill\u00e9n (\u201cWhat We Do in the Shadows,\u201d Companion, Puss in Boots: The Last Wish) as \u201cEddie\/Dr. Scott\u201d\u00a0 making his Broadway debut; Academy Award nominee and The Actor Award [formerly known as the SAG Award]\u00a0winner\u00a0Stephanie Hsu<\/a>\u00a0(Everything Everywhere All at Once, SpongeBob SquarePants: The Musical, Be More Chill)\u00a0as \u201cJanet;\u201d Academy Award and multiple time Emmy Award nominee\u00a0Juliette Lewis<\/a>\u00a0(\u201cYellowjackets,\u201d Cape Fear) as \u201cMagenta\u201d making her Broadway debut; Imagen Foundation Award nominee Josh Rivera (\u201cAmerican Sports\u00a0 Story,\u201d The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes, West Side Story) as \u201cRocky\u201d making his Broadway\u00a0 debut; and Golden Globe Award winner and Emmy Award nominee Michaela Ja\u00e9 Rodriguez (\u201cLoot,\u201d \u201cPose,\u201d Rent)\u00a0as \u201cColumbia\u201d making her Broadway debut. The cast will also include: Ren\u00e9e Albulario, Anania, Boy Radio, Caleb\u00a0 Quezon,\u00a0Andres Quintero<\/a>,\u00a0Larkin Reilly<\/a>,\u00a0Paul Soileau<\/a>, and John Yi.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n The Rocky Horror Show will feature choreography by Ani Taj (Dead Outlaw, Untitled DanceShowPartyThing w\/\u00a0Sam Pinkleton<\/a>), music supervision by\u00a0Kris Kukul<\/a>\u00a0(Beetlejuice, All In: Comedy About Love), set design by Tony Award nominee dots (Appropriate, Oh, Mary!), costume design by Tony Award nominee David I. Reynoso (Water for\u00a0 Elephants, Sleep No More), lighting design by Tony Award winner\u00a0Jane Cox<\/a>\u00a0(Appropriate, Macbeth), sound design\u00a0 by Tony Award winner\u00a0Brian Ronan<\/a>\u00a0(Beautiful, The Great Gatsby), wig & hair design by Drama Desk Award nominee Alberto \u201cAlbee\u201d Alvarado (The Outsiders, Sumo) and make-up design by Sterling Tull (No Glow, \u201cLove\u00a0 Island USA\u201d), with\u00a0Bryan Bauer<\/a>\u00a0(Oh, Mary!, Mother Play) as the production stage manager.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The upcoming Broadway revival of The Rocky Horror Show had a special first audience for its studio run…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":158307,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9,56,63,65,64],"class_list":{"0":"post-158306","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-ny","10":"tag-nyc","11":"tag-nyc-headlines","12":"tag-nyc-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158306\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}