Tuesday, April 16, 2013
The Nance, the new play by Douglas Carter Beane (Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella), opened April 15 at the Lyceum Theatre. Set in 1937 New York, the Lincoln Center Theater production s…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 11:30AMMonday, April 15, 2013
As the 2012-13 Broadway season approaches the finish line, the winners and losers at the box office are clearly emerging. (A Broadway season runs from June until May of the following year.) …
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 05:53PMThe Breakfast buffet will be shutting down earlier than expected. Breakfast at Tiffany’s, the new Broadway adaptation of Truman Capote’s classic novella about high-spirited party girl Ho…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 05:20PMMotown: The Musical, a jukebox retrospective chronicling the rise of the legendary R&B record label and its founder Berry Gordy, Jr., opened April 14 at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre. Gordy …
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 01:17PMFriday, April 12, 2013
Matilda the Musical, based on Roald Dahl’s 1988 children’s novel about a precocious little girl overcoming neglectful parents and a monstrous headmistress, opened at the Shubert Theater …
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 12:38PMThursday, April 11, 2013
Musical theater giant Andrew Lloyd Webber is planning to develop a new musical based on the 2003 film School of Rock. The comedy, written by Mike White (The Good Girl, HBO’s Enlightened) a…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 03:54PMTuesday, April 9, 2013
Mirroring the hard luck experienced by its characters, the Broadway musical Hands on a Hardbody will close at the Brooks Atkinson Theater with a final evening performance on Sat., April 13 a…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 01:37PMMonday, April 8, 2013
Daniel Craig will take a break from playing dashing superspy James Bond on screen to star opposite his wife, Oscar winner Rachel Weisz (The Constant Gardener) in a Broadway revival of Harold…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 04:59PMTuesday, April 2, 2013
Movie heartthrob Orlando Bloom and Tony nominee Condola Rashad will star in a new Broadway staging of Shakespeare’s timeless classic of star-crossed lovers Romeo and Juliet. The production…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 02:49PMLucky Guy by the late Nora Ephron (When Harry Met Sally, Sleepless in Seattle) opened at the Broadhurst Theater on April 1. Two-time Oscar winner Tom Hanks stars as Mike McAlary, Pulitzer Pr…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 01:44PMMonday, April 1, 2013
In Matilda The Musical, Gabriel Ebert and Lesli Margherita play Mr. and Mrs. Wormwood, the neglectful, TV-obsessed parents of everyone’s favorite child-genius heroine. With great zea…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 05:18PMAnn, the solo play written by and starring Holland Taylor about the late Texas governor Ann Richards, has lengthened its Broadway term of office. The biography will now play through Sept. 1 …
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 12:53PMTuesday, March 26, 2013
Oscar-winning and Tony-nominated actor Philip Seymour Hoffman crosses once again to the other side of the footlights to direct A Family for All Occasions for the Labyrinth Theatre Company, w…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 01:34PMThursday, March 21, 2013
Breakfast at Tiffany’s, a stage version of Truman Capote’s beloved 1958 novella by award-winning playwright Richard Greenberg (Take Me Out), opened at the Cort Theatre on March 20. This …
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 02:04PMFriday, March 15, 2013
Carole King joins the long list of pop icons who have become the subject of a Broadway musical. Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, which follows the life of the singer-songwriter of such cl…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 05:23PMFriday, March 1, 2013
Buying a ticket for a Broadway show before the opening and reviews always comes at a risk. It might be the greatest thing since The Book of Mormon— or a turkey that will have you doing the…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 04:20PMMonday, February 25, 2013
Whether it’s diving into the madness of MacBeth, paying a visit to Wonderland or helping solve a decades-old murder, at a growing number of immersive theater productions around the c…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 05:57PMFriday, February 22, 2013
Where else can a theatergoer choose between singing-and-dancing missionaries, foul-mouthed businessmen and disco-clad dancers shimmying to ABBA music? Credit the vibrant diversity to the int…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 07:00PMThursday, February 21, 2013
Shia LaBeouf will not be making his Broadway debut in the upcoming revival of Orphans after all. A press release stated that the 26-year-old star of such films as Transformers and Lawless …
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 04:46PMMonday, February 11, 2013
You may know her as the outspoken cougar mom on Two and a Half Men, Peggy Peabody on The L Word, Judge Roberta Kittleson on The Practice, or–if you’re of a certain age–Tom Hanks’s bo…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 05:18PMFriday, February 8, 2013
Clive Davis is getting ready to switch from rock and pop to show tunes. The legendary record producer is planning to bring a revival of the classic 1956 musical My Fair Lady to Broadway in 2…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 12:48PMThursday, February 7, 2013
Does your cat have what it takes to make it on Broadway? Find out when the upcoming Broadway production of Breakfast at Tiffany’s holds an open call for felines to play the role of “Cat,…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 05:14PMTuesday, February 5, 2013
Gloria and Emilio Estefan are joining the conga line to Broadway. The Grammy-winning couple announced they are planning to develop a musical based on their life stories and are working with …
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 03:06PMFriday, February 1, 2013
Tony winner and Emmy nominee Alan Cumming (Cabaret, The Good Wife) will be bloodying up Broadway with his one-man interpretation of Shakespeare’s tragedy Macbeth, opening at the Ethel Barr…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 04:18PMTuesday, January 29, 2013
After a hit run Off-Broadway, playwright Christopher Durang’s wild comedy Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike will make the leap to Broadway with a 17-week limited engagement at the Golden…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 05:32PMFriday, January 25, 2013
Fanboys and theater lovers rejoice! Two respected classical actors who also happen to be headliners of highly popular science-fiction and fantasy franchises are coming to Broadway. Ian McKel…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 02:14PMThe Tony-winning director Julie Taymor will return to her Off-Broadway roots for her next project, a production of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream which will also be the launch o…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 11:07AMWednesday, January 23, 2013
The stage version of Aladdin will fly to Toronto before opening on Broadway. The Disney-produced show is scheduled for a nine-week run at the Canadian city’s Ed Mirvish Theatre from Nov. 1…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 05:06PMRespected actor Sam Waterston, beloved singer-actor Betty Buckley and prolific director Trevor Nunn are among this year’s inductees to the Theater Hall of Fame. They will be honored on Jan…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 12:25PMTuesday, January 22, 2013
The revival of Jekyll & Hyde, the musical based on the immortal horror classic by Robert Louis Stevenson, will move to Broadway following the completion of its national tour. The product…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 04:46PMFriday, January 18, 2013
In Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Scarlet Johansson returns to Broadway for the first time since her Tony-winning performance in Arthur Miller’s View From The Bridge in 2010, but her sophomore eff…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 01:28PM 
