When Idina Menzel stepped foot into Tina Landau’s office and saw it filled with photos of trees, she knew she’d found the right director to make her vision come to life. She’d recently fallen in love with redwoods — that mythical species of tree that stretches taller than […]

Musicals are often all about escapism, and in Idina Menzel’s grand return to Broadway, she takes that idea to a whole new level. “How would it feel to stop my life and be able to get completely away?” she says. She explores this question is Redwood, which she […]

Idina Menzel and her 15-year-old son Walker Diggs were all smiles at the Los Angeles premiere of “Wicked” on Nov. 9. But Menzel says she thought long and hard before allowing her son to join her on the red carpet. “I never let him ever go on the red […]

Shortly before a run-through of her new Broadway musical, “Redwood,” Idina Menzel reflected on her performing roots that stretch back to Long Island. “Baylis Elementary, third grade,” she said during a Zoom chat from the Nederlander Theatre, where the show opens Thursday. “That was my very first solo […]

The Tony winner is back on Broadway in Redwood, and she’s once again flying. There is something poetically fortuitous about Idina Menzel returning to Broadway in a musical called Redwood. While she may only stand at 5’6”, her presence is colossal. Perhaps it’s her iconic career (Rent, Wicked, […]

As the actress prepares to open Broadway’s ‘Redwood,’ she exclusively tells Parade she sometimes thinks about ‘leaving the business and just sort of going off the grid.’ Two weeks before Idina Menzel returned to Broadway in the new musical Redwood, wildfire began to quickly envelope Southern California. Like […]

Menzel, a fan favorite since “Rent,” is back on Broadway in “Redwood,” and this time she’s climbing conifers. Idina Menzel was sitting on a bench in a California redwood grove, yearning for silence. It was late one autumn afternoon, and I had been trying for months to get […]

With Redwood, Menzel and an all-female creative team bring a new musical to the Great White Way. Idina Menzel is sitting in the same dressing room she did almost 30 years ago, when she made her Broadway debut as Maureen Johnson in Rent. This time around, though, her […]