A performance of a new production of Ibsen’s “An Enemy of the People” was interrupted by protesters who shouted “no theater on a dead planet.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:12PMKenny Leon will direct a starry revival of Shakespeare’s tragedy in the spring of 2025.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:12AMThe long-running parody show, which has been staged in New York and on tour, will open this summer at the Hayes Theater.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:06PM“A Wonderful World,” featuring Armstrong’s songs, is set to begin previews at Studio 54 in October after previous runs in Miami, New Orleans and Chicago.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:42PMThe streamer is co-producing a play about Putin’s Russia from the creator of “The Crown” while also developing a screen adaptation.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:36PMThe company said that it was leaving its space in a former bank in Times Square after 25 years because the rent was too high and the lease had unfavorable terms.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:24AMWhy are 18 shows opening in March and April, and which one is for you? Our theater reporter has answers.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:24AMHow the Broadway star simultaneously mastered leading roles in “Once Upon a Mattress” and “Sweeney Todd.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:24AMThe Delacorte is being renovated, so this summer will instead bring a mobile production and then a filmed play to outdoor sites in the city’s five boroughs.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:32PMThe playwright Lucas Hnath has been making magic with the sound of speech. Now he’s directing a play by Mona Pirnot, his wife, in which a computer speaks her words.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:32AMAmy Ryan will replace her in the show, which also stars Liev Schreiber and began previews on Saturday.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:36PMThe new jazz age musical adaptation of the classic 1959 Billy Wilder film closed in December.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:42PMOnstage and off, she was celebrated as a pathbreaking triple-threat who left a huge legacy in musical theater and dance.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:06PMThere was no formal celebration for the newest honorees. Instead, the American Theater Wing presented cash grants to sustain their work.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:06PMThe play, by Peter Morgan of “The Crown,” will star Michael Stuhlbarg and is scheduled to open in April.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:02AMWritten by David Adjmi and featuring songs by Will Butler, the drama follows five musicians making an album in the 1970s.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:32PMWritten by David Adjmi and featuring songs by Will Butler, the drama follows five musicians making an album in the early 1970s.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:06AMThe musical, which Manilow wrote with Bruce Sussman, is about a German singing ensemble that collided with the rising Nazi regime.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:24PM“I thought this could be my swan song, in terms of the angry-young-man thing,” said the actor of his rocky run of “Danny and the Deep Blue Sea.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:42PMNo reason was given for her unexpected retirement after 18 years in the pivotal role.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:36PMThe latest adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic novel will feature Jeremy Jordan (“Newsies”) as Jay Gatsby and Eva Noblezada (“Hadestown”) as Daisy Buchanan.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:54AMRoundabout Theater Company, the biggest nonprofit on Broadway, said it would produce the three shows next season.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:18PMBranden Jacobs-Jenkins is lined up to write the book, and Lileana Blain-Cruz will direct.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:24AMThe Tony winner for best musical, about a high school girl with a rare genetic disorder and a criminally dysfunctional family, will begin a national tour in September.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:32PMThe musicals of Stephen Sondheim often struggled at the box office during his lifetime, but since his death several have become huge hits on Broadway.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:32AMDavid Landay, an author of the 1982 stage musical, reworked a kidnapping scene for a 2021 production. Now he’s suing the estates of his coauthors for the right to keep going.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:32PMThe small theaters that help make the city a theater capital are cutting back as they struggle to recover from the pandemic.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:18AMThe musical, now midway through a sold-out Off Broadway run at the Public Theater, will transfer to the Shubert Theater in March.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:42PMA show about the televangelist, with songs by Elton John and Jake Shears, had a run in London last year and plans to open in New York next season.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:32AMThe production, a new translation by Heidi Schreck, will also star Alison Pill, William Jackson Harper, Alfred Molina and Anika Noni Rose.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:06AM“The Heart of Rock and Roll” is a romantic comedy featuring songs by the chart-topping 1980s band.
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