From BroadwayWorld's Archive: In this production of THE LITTLE FOXES, actresses Laura Linney Cynthia Nixon alternate playing the roles of Regina and Birdie in Lillian Hellman's legendary play about greed and a…

Lyndsey Turner is directing the new production of the Lillian Hellman play.

From BroadwayWorld's Archive: Currently in previews at at MTC's Samuel J. Friedman Theatre is Manhattan Theatre Club's new Broadway production of Saint Joan, written by Nobel Prize in Literature and Academy Awa…

From BroadwayWorld's Archive: Cynthia Nixon has won the 2017 Tony Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play for Lillian Hellman'S The Little Foxes. This marks Ms. Nixon's fourth T…

Four-time Emmy Award winner & Academy Award nominee Laura Linney (My Name Is Lucy Barton, Lillian Hellman's The Little Foxes) and Tony nominee Jessica Hecht (The Assembled Parties) returned to Broadway in Summe…

Check out the trailer of Ann Talman's acclaimed cabaret show, ANN TALMAN: ELIZABETH TAYLOR AND THE SHADOW OF HER SMILE, coming to the Playhouse on April 21! Talman portrayed Elizabeth Taylor’s daughter on Br…

It’s been seven years since Cynthia Nixon has appeared on a New York stage (when she won a Tony for “The Little Foxes”), but that’s not what Jordan Seavey’s new play is about, despite the coincidence …

Actress, director and teacher Lynda Gravátt, best known for her extensive work off-Broadway, died on February 23. The cause of her death has not been publicized. She was 77. Born in Harlem in 1946, Gravátt b…

Iguana Revival with Eclectic Cast By: David Sheward September 20, 2023: La Femme Theater Productions will present an Off-Broadway revival of Tennessee Williams' The Night of the Iguana, directed by Emily Ma…

“To Kill a Mockingbird” For 65 years Richard Thomas has been a working actor, first making his Broadway debut when he was a seven-year-old in …

June 10, 2023: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron Fassler Between 41st and 66th streets there are forty-two legit Broadway theatres (this includes the Palace, currently under renovation and scheduled to reope…

By David Auburn Directed by Daniel Sullivan With Laura Linney, Jessica Hecht Four-time Emmy Award® winner & Academy Award® nominee Laura Linney (My Name Is Lucy Barton, Lillian Hellman’s The Little …

Summer, 1976 By David Auburn Directed by Daniel Sullivan With Laura Linney, Jessica Hecht Four-time Emmy Award® winner & Academy Award® nominee Laura Linney (My Name Is Lucy Barton, Lillian Hellman’s The L…

The opening night for #Summer1976Play was a joyous, star-studded affair! Take a peek inside the celebrations. 📸 ----- By David Auburn Directed by Daniel Sullivan With Laura Linney, Jessica Hecht Four-t…

By David Auburn Directed by Daniel Sullivan With Laura Linney, Jessica Hecht Four-time Emmy Award® winner & Academy Award® nominee Laura Linney (My Name Is Lucy Barton, Lillian Hellman’s The Little …

Just announced! Summer, 1976 has now been extended through June 10. Don't miss Laura Linney and Jessica Hecht on Broadway together 🌞 Summer1976Play.com ------- By David Auburn Directed by Daniel Sullivan W…

Laura Linney and Jessica Hecht on the power of female friendship 💛 Video reposted from The Broadway Show and the full interview is available to watch at broadway.com! #Summer1976Play By David Auburn Directe…

Jessica Hecht explores her character’s personality, the complexities of a two person play and why it’s extra special to be working with director Dan Sullivan again. ----------------------- By David Auburn D…

SUMMER, 1976 By David Auburn Directed by Daniel Sullivan With Laura Linney, Jessica Hecht ON BROADWAY at the SAMUEL J. FRIEDMAN THEATRE Now in Previews. Four-time Emmy Award® winner & Academy Award® nominee…

For the first time ever, Laura Linney and Jessica Hecht are sharing the stage. Don’t miss your chance to see these two stars together in Summer, 1976 on Broadway. -------- SUMMER, 1976 By David Auburn Direc…

Proof, The Columnist, Lost Lake and now, #Summer1976Play. Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright David Auburn returns to MTC with his fourth new play, which stars Laura Linney and Jessica Hecht as two friends who fi…

SUMMER, 1976 By David Auburn Directed by Daniel Sullivan With Laura Linney, Jessica Hecht ON BROADWAY at the SAMUEL J. FRIEDMAN THEATRE Begins performances April 4, 2023. Four-time Emmy Award® winner & Acade…

Like Halley’s comet sailing across the deep dark sky, a wonder to behold, Ann Talman sails across the stage and into our hearts in “Ann Talman: Elizabeth Taylor and The Shadow of Her Smile.” Ms. Talman…

Frederick Weller is set to join the off-Broadway staging of Tennessee Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof as Big Daddy. Directed by Joe Rosario, the show returns to the Theatre at St. Clement’s after an off-Broad…

The finished score by Lehrman is 50% music he created based on themes by Blitzstein: pieces of his unproduced 1932 opera "The Condemned" (an earlier work about Sacco and Vanzetti), a march, a cabaret song, a so…

By: Paulanne Simmons September 13, 2022: Ann Talman first met Elizabeth Taylor when she played Taylor’s daughter in the 1981 Broadway revival of Lillian Hellman’s The Little Foxes. The show toured for 18…

Oscar and Tony nominee Laura Linney is returning to Broadway. She will star in the world premiere of Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright David Auburn's Summer, 1976, directed by Tony winner Daniel Sullivan. Per…

Manhattan Theatre Club will present the world premiere of Summer, 1976 written by Pulitzer Prize winner David Auburn (Proof, The Columnist), starring Tony Award® & Academy Award® nominee Laura Linney (My …

The first national tour of Aaron Sorkin’s stage adaptation of Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird launches March 27 at Shea's Performing Arts Center in Buffalo, New York. Emmy winner Richard Thomas (The Walto…

By: David Sheward February 8, 2022: Transposing classic plays into modern eras has been an accepted theatrical technique for quite a while now. Moving these timeless works into a contemporary setting can ill…

Long have I been a fan of Charles Dingle’s turn in William Wyler’s 1941 screen adaptation of Lillian Hellman’s The Little Foxes opposite Bette Davis, one of his first, biggest, and flashiest screen roles.…

This Week in Broadway History: June 8 - 14 🎭OPENING NIGHTS🎭   June 10, 1982: Transferring from off-Broadway, Torch Song Trilogy  opened at The Little Theatre (renamed The Helen Hayes Theatre duri…

This Week in Broadway History: April 27 - May 3 🎭OPENING NIGHTS🎭  April 27, 1986: Hey, big spender! The Bob Fosse directed revival of Sweet Charity starring Debbie Allen opened at the Minskoff and st…

This Week in  Broadway History: February 9 - 15 🎭OPENING NIGHTS🎭 Chita Rivera (center) in The Rink February 9, 1984: Chita Rivera and Liza Minnelli open in The Rink at the Martin Beck Theatre. Riv…

Mint Theater Company (Jonathan Bank, Producing Artistic Director)will kick off its Silver Lining Streaming Series today January 4th with the on-demand streaming of the HD recording of Days To Come by Lil…

Jason SchaferHometown: Sacramento, CaliforniaCurrent Town: Brooklyn!Q:  Tell me about Bleeding Love?A:  Bleeding Love is a post-apocalyptic musical. It started as an assignment that I gave myself. I realized …

The revival of Lillian Hellman’s drama opened at the Martin Beck Theatre May 7, 1981.

Buffman produced everyone, including Elizabeth Taylor in The Little Foxes (it was a hit) and Muhammed Ali in Buck White (it was a memorable flop). But he “was even busier in Florida than on Broadway. Starting…

In his long career, he persuaded Elizabeth Taylor to make her Broadway debut in “The Little Foxes” and produced a memorable flop starring Muhammad Ali.

The Manhattan Theatre Club revival opened April 19, 2017.

The play, which premiered on Broadway in 1939, has recieved four subsequent revivals.

Just like our choice for Mr. Broadway this month, our Ms. Broadway is probably better known by the world at large for her TV and film work in such shows as Frasier, Sully, and every iteration of the Tales of th…

Laura Linney is never one to avoid a challenge. When she last appeared at Manhattan Theatre Club’s Samuel J. Friedman Theatre she was alternating in the roles of “Regina” and “Birdie” in the revival o…

I was going to do a "best-of" for 2019 plus a "looking forward" for 2020, when I realized that their focus would be much the same: the treasure that is non-Broadway theatre.I'm not denying the treasure that is …

Laura Linney may be alone during the entirety of My Name Is Lucy Barton but she was not alone on the opening night red carpet. The one-woman show opened on Broadway on January 15, at the Samuel J Friedman Th…

Four-time Tony-nominated actress Laura Linney heads back to Broadway on January 4 in the new solo drama My Name Is Lucy Barton. Richard Eyre directs the production of Manhattan Theatre Club, scheduled to offici…

Performances begin tomorrow, Saturday, January 4, for the American premiere of the London Theatre Company (Nicholas Hytner and Nick Starr) production of My Name is Lucy Barton starring Laura Linney (Lillian Hel…

Tickets are now on sale for the main-stem premiere of My Name Is Lucy Barton, a new solo play based on the bestselling novel of the same name by Pulitzer winner Elizabeth Strout. Tony winner Richard Eyre will…

They have four Tony Awards and three Emmy Awards between the two of them, and now they will be playing sisters! According to TVLine, stage-and-screen greats Christine Baranski and Cynthia Nixon are teaming up t…

Complete casting has been announced for Second Stage's upcoming world premiere staging of Will Eno's The Underlying Chris. The previously announced off-Broadway production, directed by Tony winner Kenny Leon, …

Vassar & New York Stage and Film has announced a star-packed reading of the new musical Galileo, based on the life of the renowned scientist. Four-time Tony nominee Raúl Esparza (Company, Law & Order:…

ICM Partners has signed Ari’el Stachel, who won last year’s Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical for his performance in The Band’s Visit. Next February, Stachel will start rehearsals for The Pu…

Emmy Award-winning actor Richard Thomas will play the role of Atticus Finch in the previously announced national tour of To Kill A Mockingbird, Aaron Sorkin’s new play, directed by Bartlett Sher, and based on…

Manhattan Theatre Club, Lynne Meadow Artistic Director and Barry Grove Executive Producer have just announced the American premiere of the London Theatre Company Nicholas Hytner and Nick Starr production of My …

For her next Broadway run, Laura Linney is going solo. The four-time Tony Award nominee will return to the Great White Way early next year for the American premiere of My Name Is Lucy Barton, Rona Munro’s st…

The Little Foxes star, who starred in the acclaimed solo play in London, will reprise her role on Broadway in 2020.

Laura Linney is headed home to Broadway. The four-time Tony nominee will headline the main-stem premiere of My Name Is Lucy Barton, a new solo play based on the bestselling novel of the same name by Pulitzer…

Laura Linney is headed home to Broadway. The four-time Tony nominee will headline the main-stem premiere of My Name Is Lucy Barton, a new solo play based on the bestselling novel of the same name by Pulitzer…

Here's a quick roundup of stories you might have missed today. Ben Platt to Host 2019 Jimmy Awards Tony winner Ben Platt, star of Netflix's upcoming series The Politician, has signed on to toast America's most…

Complete casting is set for Continuity, a new dark comedy by acclaimed playwright Bess Wohl (Small Mouth Sounds), making its world premiere with Manhattan Theatre Club at New York City Center's Studio at Stage …

Casting is here for Long Lost, a new play by Pulitzer winner Donald Margulies (Time Stands Still) making its world premiere with Manhattan Theatre Club this spring. Tony winner Daniel Sullivan (The Little Foxe…

The Lyric Stage Company's The Little Foxes is taut, tense, and eerily reflective of our own uneasy, pernicious times. The post Theater Review: “The Little Foxes” — American Greed Triumphant appeared first…

Casting is complete for the highly anticipated new staging of Arthur Miller's All My Sons, arriving at Broadway's American Airlines Theatre on April 4. Jack O'Brien will direct the previously a…

Back in December, we honored the wonderful Gideon Glick as our man of the month. Currently co-starring with Mr. December in To Kill a Mockingbird is Frederick Weller, who plays a wretched human being …

An A-list group of theater alums have signed on for Netflix's Ratched, Ryan Murphy's new series starring Emmy-winning Broadway alum Sarah Paulson (American Crime Story, The Glass Menagerie). Ratche…

Manhattan Theatre Club's American premiere of The Nap, written by Olivier Award nominee Richard Bean One Man, Two Guvnors and directed by Tony Award winner Daniel Sullivan Lillian Hellman's The Little Foxes Rab…

The Little Foxes Reviewed by Iris Mann  Antaeus Theatre Company  Through December 10 RECOMMENDED They just don’t write them like this anymore. Lillian Hellman’s The Little Foxes runs two-and-a-half hou…

Manhattan Theatre Club's American premiere of The Nap, written by Olivier Award nominee Richard Bean One Man, Two Guvnors and directed by Tony Award winner Daniel Sullivan Lillian Hellman's The Little Foxes Rab…

William Youmans - Film: Birdman, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, A League Of Their Own, Mrs. Soffel, Nadine, Compromising Positions, Fresh Horses.  TV: The Little Match Girl, Separate But Equal, Priva…

The Southern home of the Giddens family has a whiff of new money to it, but siblings Ben Hubbard (Chuck Brinkley), Oscar Hubbard (Bob Gerchen) and Regina Giddens (Kari Ely) have a deep capacity for what they’…

Blackmail, larceny and marriages of convenience are all part of the mix in Lillian Hellman’s “The Little Foxes.”

Friday “Indecent”: By Paula Vogel, the show chronicles a 1923 Broadway debut of Jewish playwright and a play about a forbidden lesbian romance. Through Nov. 4 at Victory Gardens Theater, 2433 N. Lincoln Ave…

"Days to Come" fills in the gap in Hellman’s career between her first play, the controversial "The Children’s Hour," and the immediate successors, the hugely commercial hit and often revived, "The Little Fo…

Brian Murray, a multi-talented actor and director who amassed almost two dozen Broadway credits over 35+ years on Broadway, died on August 20 of natural causes. He was 80. Murray's death was confirmed by th…

Mary Bacon, Janie Brookshire, Roderick Hill, and more will star in the 1936 family drama from the Little Foxes playwright.

Marc Blitzstein's opera is based on Lillian Hellman's play 'The Little Foxes'

Manhattan Theatre Club has announced the final two entries in the company's 2018-2019 season: Eleanor Burgess' The Niceties and Pulitzer winner Donald Margulies' Long Lost—both New Y…

Currently in previews at at MTC's Samuel J. Friedman Theatre is Manhattan Theatre Club's new Broadway production of Saint Joan, written by Nobel Prize in Literature and Academy Award winner Bernard Shaw and dir…

The season will also include new productions of The Little Foxes, Twelfth Night, and Kiss of the Spider Woman.