Tony Award winner Matthew Broderick will return to the New York stage this spring with a starring role in the American premiere of David Ireland’s Ulster American. Set for a limited run at Off Broadway’s Ir…

Broadway’s Stranger Things: The First Shadow saw a jump in attendance and grosses last week, no doubt spurred by the hoopla generated by last month’s arrival of the TV series’ Season 5. For the week endin…

Second Stage Theater’s upcoming Broadway production of Gina Gionfriddo’s Becky Shaw will feature Alden Ehrenreich (Weapons), Patrick Ball (HBO Max’s The Pitt) and three-tie Tony nominee Linda Emond i…

Following a sold-out 2024 international premiere at Theatre Calgary in Alberta, Canada, Beaches, A New Musical will open on Broadway this spring at the Majestic Theatre. The limited New York engagement will lau…

Simu Liu, best known for roles in, among other projects, Marvel’s Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings and the CBC/Netflix comedy series Kim’s Convenience, will make his Broadway debut in the hit comed…

Titanique, the irreverent Off Broadway and West End reimagining of James Cameron’s hit 1997 film, will begin a 16-week limited Broadway engagement at the St. James Theatre on March 26, 2026, with an opening n…

Producers of the first-ever Broadway revival of Yasmina Reza’s Tony Award-winning play Art starring Bobby Cannavale, James Corden and Neil Patrick Harris say the production has recouped its capitalization.…

Samuel D. Hunter’s Little Bear Ridge Road, the play starring Laurie Metcalf and Micah Stock that marked the Broadway return of producer Scott Rudin, will end its limited engagement two months early after posi…

D.L. Coburn, the playwright who won the 1978 Pulitzer Prize for drama for his much-produced The Gin Game, died from colon cancer December 3 at a Dallas hospice center. He was 87. His death was reported by his w…

EXCLUSIVE: Michael Esper (Broadway’s Appropriate, TV’s Trust) and Kayli Carter (TV’s Mrs. America) are among the newly announced cast members for the Manhattan Theatre Club’s upcoming world premiere Bro…

EXCLUSIVE: The works of ‘Night, Mother playwright Marsha Norman have been acquired by the theatrical division of International Literary Properties (ILP), the global company that invests in, acquires, and mana…

Tony and Obie Award-winning actor, writer and director John Cameron Mitchell (Hedwig and the Angry Inch) will return to Broadway in Cole Escola’s hit play Oh, Mary! for a limited 12-week engagement this winte…

Broadway got an updated look at itself today, with the Broadway League’s annual demographics report showing yet again that the typical theatergoer was more than likely female, white, about 41 years old, a U.S…

EXCLUSIVE: Juan Carlos, one of the original cast members of Broadway’s Stranger Things: The First Shadow, was onstage one evening last June when, just as Act One was coming to an end, he jumped on the set’s…

Broadway’s Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, revitalized by the recent casting of the film franchise’s Tom Felton as Draco Malfoy, once again topped the box office roster with a magical gross of $2,939,627…

The Queen of Versailles, the new and soon-to-close Broadway musical starring Kristin Chenoweth and F. Murray Abraham, will close its doors even earlier than previously announced: Producers informed the cast tod…

Rachel Dratch, Campbell Scott, Claybourne Elder and Wayne Brady have signed on for several upcoming productions in the New York City Center’s Off Broadway Encores! revival series beginning with High Spirits i…

Slave Play playwright Jeremy O. Harris has been has been released from custody in Japan three weeks after being arrested on suspicion of attempting to smuggle illegal drugs into the country. The Tony-nominated …

Bigfoot!, the new musical comedy set for an Off Broadway bow this February, has found its titular beast – it’ll be Grey Henson of Mean Girls and Elf – and its trio of humans to be played by Alex Moffat, C…

 Shoshana Bean (Hell’s Kitchen, Wicked) is joining the cast of this spring’s Broadway musical version of The Lost Boys, taking the role of Lucy Emerson, the mother of two teenaged boys who become embroile…

Ragtime opened at Broadway’s Vivian Beaumont last week to strong reviews and solid box office, supporting new Lincoln Center theater artistic director Lear deBessonet’s judgement in opening her inaugural se…

The union representing Broadway musicians is vowing to go on strike later this week if a last-ditched effort at mediation Wednesday fails. “The Broadway musicians represented by Local 802 AFM are going into m…

Director Lear deBessonet has chosen wisely in the first production of her inaugural season as Artistic Director of Lincoln Center Theater, resurrecting the grand, however imperfect musical Ragtime, first staged…

The world premiere of Simon Rich’s All Out: Comedy About Ambition, with direction by Tony Award-winner Alex Timbers, will begin performances Friday, December 12, at Broadway’s Nederlander Theatre with an al…

Alex Brightman (Beetlejuice) and Sara Chase (The Great Gatsby, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt) will reprise their roles of Josh Skinner and Melissa Gimble in the upcoming Broadway production of Schmigadoon! Brightma…

Mark Rosenblatt’s Olivier Award-winning play Giant starring John Lithgow as iconic children’s author Roald Dahl has set its Broadway opening date for Monday, March 23, 2026, and will bring much of its celeb…

Actor Ansel Elgort (Baby Driver, West Side Story) will make his professional dance debut in Pete Townshend’s Quadrophenia, A Rock Ballet at New York City Center next month. Directed by Rob Ashford with choreo…

A quartet of fall season arrivals began previews on Broadway last week, helping to boost the total 31-show gross to $39,416,736, a 25% jump over the previous week when there were 27 shows. And as if to show the…

Broadway musicians of AFM Local 802 have “overwhelmingly” voted to authorize a strike if needed in the ongoing negotiations for a production contract with the Broadway League. The union’s strike authoriza…

Talks between Actors’ Equity and The Broadway League will continue late next week after two days of mediation this week failed to produce results in the rocky quest for a new production contract. Al Vincent J…

EXCLUSIVE: With mediation between Actors’ Equity Association and the Broadway League continuing its second and final scheduled day Thursday, 31 members of Congress, including House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeff…

Last season’s acclaimed Off Broadway hit Cats: The Jellicle Ball is coming to Broadway: The reimagined take on Andrew Lloyd Webber’s classic Cats begins previews at the Broadhurst Theatre on Wednesday, Marc…

Heather Christian, the playwright and composer whose acclaimed, genre-defying 2022 musical Oratorio For Living Things is currently being staged in a revival Off Broadway, and Garrett Bradley, the filmmaker whos…

The Broadway world premiere of the new musical The Lost Boys has set an April 26, 2026, opening date and a principal cast that will include Caissie Levy, LJ Benet, Ali Louis Bourzgui and Benjamin Pajak. Preview…

Ragtime was a sell-out, Waiting For Godot approached the $2 million mark and Hamilton once again broke the $3 million mark in an overall hold-steady week on Broadway. In total, the 27 Broadway shows grossed $31…

Two-time Tony Award winner Michael Cerveris (Fun Home, Sweeney Todd) will play Ebenezer Scrooge in Jack Thorne’s adaptation of Dickens’ A Christmas Carol at New York’s Perelman Performing Arts Center Off …

The critically lauded revival of Damn Yankees at Arena Stage in Washington, D.C., is eyeing a move to Broadway, according to a report in The New York Times. The revival’s lead producer is Haley Swindal, the e…

John Woodvine, the prolific Olivier Award-winning British stage actor who appeared in more than 70 stage productions at the Old Vic, the National Theatre and Royal Shakespeare Company and made memorable turns i…

Ben Lewis, the Australian actor who played the title role in The Phantom of the Opera in London’s West End, died today in Sydney, Australia, of bowel cancer. He was 46. His death was announced on Instagram by…

Kandi Burruss, the producer, singer and TV personality, has joined the producing team of Broadway’s upcoming revival of August Wilson’s Joe Turner’s Come and Gone starring Taraji P. Henson and Cedric “T…

EXCLUSIVE: Casey Likes, who recently starred on Broadway in Back To The Future and Almost Famous, will star in writer-director Delfine Paolini’s sophomore feature Sky, Zyprexa, Night, which begins production …

More than 1,000 actors have signed a letter expressing solidarity with Actors’ Equity in its ongoing negotiations with the Broadway League as the union demands significant increases in healthcare contribution…

John Malkovich will appear on screen as President Coriolanus Snow in the first-ever stage adaptation of The Hunger Games when the production begins performances in London later this month. Adapted by Conor McPh…

EXCLUSIVE: Development of the upcoming Broadway-bound Dolly Parton bio-musical Dolly: A True Original Musical is continuing as planned and will not be impacted by the singer’s recently disclosed health challe…

Dog Day Afternoon, the new Stephen Adly Guirgis play based on the classic 1975 movie and starring Jon Bernthal and Ebon Moss-Bachrach, will begin Broadway previews on Tuesday, March 10, 2026, and officially ope…

Marcel on the Train, the new play by Ethan Slater and Marshall Pailet, will make its world premiere at Classic Stage Company Off Broadway this February, with Slater starring as mime Marcel Marceau and Pailet di…

Ragtime, Lincoln Center Theater’s revival of the Stephen Flaherty-Lynn Ahrens-Terrence McNally musical, began previews last week and filled every seat at the Vivian Beaumont Theater for the three performances…

Schmigadoon!, a new musical based on the popular Apple Original series from Universal Television, will head to Broadway for a limited engagement this spring after a successful run at The Kennedy Center. Produce…

The arrival of James Graham’s Punch on Broadway at this particular moment in time would seem thoroughly in keeping with horrific real-life events and the gut-wrenching zeitgeisty fictions like Adolescence tha…

Of course it works. Two old friends known for their clownish escapades, always wanting to get back to somewhere they were – anywhere but here, really – all the while using ever so odd verbiage to conduct id…

John Christopher Jones, an actor whose more than a dozen Broadway credits include David Rabe’s Hurlyburly, Disney’s Beauty and the Beast and the 1993 musical adaptation of The Goodbye Girl, died September …

New York’s venerable Manhattan Theatre Club has selected Associate Artistic Director Nicki Hunter to take over as Artistic Director when Lynne Meadow steps aside on December 1. Meadow has held the position of…

Waiting For Godot (starring Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter) and a supercharged Hamilton (with newly returned star Leslie Odom, Jr., reprising his role as Aaron Burr) were among Broadway’s top earners last week,…

Succession‘s Nicholas Braun and two-time Tony winner Kara Young (Purpose, Purlie Victorious) will star in an Off Broadway revival of Rajiv Joseph’s Pulitzer Prize finalist Gruesome Playground Injuries this …

EXCLUSIVE: Diego Andres Rodriguez, who portrayed “Che” in the 2025 West End production of Evita, has signed with Anonymous Content for representation. In Evita, Rodriguez starred alongside Golden Globe-winn…

Kristin Chenoweth, whose about to star in the upcoming Broadway musical The Queen of Versailles, is opening up about the flack from fans she caught last week after posting a social media message interpreted as …

A proposal to build a casino in Times Square has been denied by the Community Advisory Committee whose approval was needed for the bid to proceed through the state’s licensing process. In a 4-2 vote, the bid …

EXCLUSIVE: Tony Award winner Ari’el Stachel (The Band’s Visit) will star in a new autobiographical solo drama-comedy he’s written titled Other, which actor-producer LaChanze will produce Off Broadway next…

I don’t think I’d consider Yasmina Reza’s Art a masterpiece, though after seeing the sharp new Broadway production of the play starring Bobby Cannavale, James Corden and Neil Patrick Harris I’d probably…

Broadway box office surged last week as some big name stars arrived – and in one case, returned – to New York stages: Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter sold out their first preview of Waiting For Godot, and orig…

John Lithgow will bring his Olivier Award winning performance as Roald Dahl in Mark Rosenblatt’s Giant to Broadway in March, 2026, producers announced today. Directed by Nicholas Hytner, Giant will transfer t…

Producers Sonia Friedman Productions, Sue Wagner, John Johnson, and LaChanze Productions announced today that the Tony Award-winning musical Dreamgirls will return to New York in the Fall of 2026 in the first-e…

EXCLUSIVE: Ann M. Martin’s bestselling book series The Baby-sitters Club is being developed into a stage musical with a book by Kate Wetherhead (The Devil Wears Prada), music and lyrics by Mark Sonnenblick (K…

Foresight Theatrical, which serves as both executive producer and general manager on many Broadway shows and tours, today announced a planned transition in company partnership, with two longstanding team member…

Broadway general management and executive producing firm Bespoke Theatricals is expanding its leadership team with the promotions of general managers David Roth and Danielle Saks to partners. Roth and Saks will…

Jane Fonda, Marisa Tomei, Mark Ruffalo, Sanaa Lathan and Rosanna Arquette are among the stars who will take part in a one-night-only benefit production in New York next month of This Is Crazy!, a new play by V,…

An investor in the Broadway production of Cabaret At The Kit Kat Club is suing that show’s producers, claiming that despite the revival grossing more than $90 million he has seen no return on his $50,000 inve…

Broadway took a hit in the box office over the Labor Day holiday weekend last week, with most of the shows on the boards reporting declines in weekly grosses. In all, the 27 productions on Broadway grossed a to…

Broadway’s upcoming Beetlejuice The Musical return has found its cast, with most of the performers from the show’s national tour intact, including Justin Collette in the title role. The New York staging at …

EXCLUSIVE: A new play by Wallace Shawn, directed by André Gregory, will be produced Off Broadway by Scott Rudin and Barry Diller, the producers announced today. Hope Davis, Maria Dizzia, John Early and Josh Ha…

Oscar-winning director Taika Waititi (Jojo Rabbit, Thor: Love and Thunder) is set to produce a New York-bound stage musical-comedy about the ill-fated Fyre Festival and its creator Billy McFarland, with “Skyf…

EXCLUSIVE: The honorees of the New York City’s first-ever theater-specific Made In NY Awards have been announced by the Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment: Performer and producer LaChanze, public rel…

Broadway’s Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club has announced an early closing date – Sunday, September 21 – as star Billy Porter withdraws from the production due to what producers say is a “serious case of sep…

Actor George Wendt, producer Paul Libin, director Mark Brokaw and Take Me Out playwright Richard Greenberg will be among the luminaries honored with Broadway’s second group light-dimming next week. The Broadw…

Five-time Emmy winner Wayne Brady and Scottish pop singer Lulu will perform two concert stagings of To Sir, With Love – A New Musical at London’s West End in November. Both concerts, at Gillian Lynne Theatr…

Thomas Schumacher, a pioneering force for nearly 40 years behind Disney Theatrical Group’s reign as a top Broadway and international stage presence, will depart the company at the end of the month, Alan Bergm…

Modern Family‘s Sarah Hyland and Broadway newcomer Sadie Dickerson will join the hit Bobby Darin musical Just In Time starring Jonathan Groff, with Hyland taking over as Connie Francis and Dickerson as Sandra…

Broadway box office was mostly in a holding pattern last week as the industry gears up for a busy fall season, but some shows broke from the pack to do very well indeed for the late-summer dog days. Purpose, Br…

Tony Award winner Jane Krakowski (Nine) will take over the lead role of the Broadway hit comedy Oh, Mary! on October 14, joining the company as Mary Todd Lincoln for a limited eight-week engagement through Dece…

Pete Townshend’s Quadrophenia, A Rock Ballet will make its New York stage debut this November, producers announced today. Directed by Rob Ashford with choreography by Paul Roberts, the dance production will p…