Company E + U.S. Department of State

Broadway
Bound

The Great White Way becomes a meeting place—where international artists sing, dance, create, and tell a story together.

6International editions

5Countries

Since 2014Creating together

A stage built together

Not a touring show.
A shared creation.

Broadway Bound celebrates one of America’s most recognizable art forms by placing collaboration—not presentation—at its center.

Company E artists work side by side with local singers, dancers, musicians, and creative teams. Together, they reimagine iconic songs and stories for a new place, a new cast, and a new audience.

Every Company E artist is also a teacher. That means the work naturally reaches beyond the production itself—expanding into master classes, workshops, and deeper collaborations shaped by the artists and institutions in each community.

Every Broadway Bound program has been created in collaboration with the U.S. Department of State and U.S. Embassies, using musical theatre as a vibrant language for exchange, trust, and human connection.

Gather

Creating a company, and a community.

Local artists and Company E come together as one international ensemble.

Create

Make it belong here.

Music, dance, and story are shaped by the voices and energy in the room.

Meet on the stage.

The final performance belongs equally to the artists who made it and the community gathered around it.

Kharkiv · Ukraine

What we made
still carries forward.

In December 2017, Broadway Bound came to Kharkiv to celebrate 25 years of diplomatic relations between the United States and Ukraine.

American and Ukrainian artists built the work together—rehearsing, teaching, listening, and becoming an ensemble. The world around Kharkiv is profoundly different today. The relationships formed through that collaboration are not.

Art transcends distance and history. It can give people a reason to cross the space between them—and something enduring to carry home.

See the work in motion

Montevideo.
One city.
One company.

A cast of 150 Uruguayan artists joins Company E in a vivid expression of what Broadway Bound can become.

The journey

Broadway Bound
around the world.

Each edition begins again—with a new place, a new ensemble, and a new set of relationships.

012014

Ashgabat

Turkmenistan

The first Broadway Bound brings artists together around the songs, movement, and stories of American musical theatre.

022015

Baku

Azerbaijan

A new international cast builds the next chapter of the program.

032015

Montevideo

Uruguay

A cast of 150 Uruguayan artists takes the stage in a landmark production.

042016

Astana

Kazakhstan

Broadway Bound comes to Astana to celebrate the American 4th of July and the National President's Day of Kazakhstan.

052017

Kharkiv

Ukraine

A deeply meaningful collaboration celebrates 25 years of diplomatic relations between the United States and Ukraine.

062026

Malta + Gozo

Malta

Broadway Bound returns as a U.S. Department of State Cultural Envoy program.

The newest chapter · 2026

Malta
+ Gozo

A U.S. Department of State Cultural Envoy Broadway Bound.

The program's latest iteration took Broadway Bound to Malta and Gozo - continuing more than a decade of artistic exchange through American Musical Theater.

Supported byU.S. Embassy MaltaBureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, U.S. Department of State

Malta as a case study

The program begins with Broadway Bound.
It always expands.

Alongside creating the Broadway Bound experience in Malta and Gozo, Company E’s artist-teachers conducted half a dozen master classes—opening the program into sustained, discipline-specific exchange.

The Company worked with the University of Malta, the Professional Drama Theater of Malta, schools, students, and artists across both islands. Each encounter created another way to listen, teach, learn, and build together.

6Master classes2IslandsOneExpanding collaboration

Students with Company E artists at the conclusion of the Broadway Bound workshops in Gozo — Gozo · 2026
Students with the Company E team of Tara Compton, Philip Baraoidan, Amikaeyla Gaston, and Clifton Brockington at the conclusion of the Gozo workshops.

Dance students participating in a University of Malta master taught by Philip Baraoidan — University of Malta · 2026
Dance Department master class taught by Company E artist Philip Baraoidan.

Amikaeyla Gaston and Yorika performing together during a music workshop in Malta — Malta School of Music · 2026
A music jam and workshop led by Amikaeyla Gaston and Yorika.

Company E artists and participants gathered in a circle during a Teatro Malta workshop — Teatro Malta · 2026
Tara Compton and Amikaeyla Gaston with Malta-based artists in a collaborative theater workshop.

Cultural diplomacy in practice

An American art form.
A global conversation.

Broadway Bound is an enduring collaboration between Company E, the U.S. Department of State, U.S. Embassies, and extraordinary artists around the world.

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the story go next?

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Not a touring show.A shared creation.