817 stories by "DAVE ITZKOFF"
The Broadway revival of "Godspell," Stephen Schwartz and John-Michael Tebelak's musical loosely based on parables from the New Testament, will play its final performance on June 24.
Aaron Sorkin, the creator of "The Newsroom," talks about balancing the writing of his new HBO series with film projects like "The Social Network" as well as upcoming assignments like a scree…
An archaeological dig in London has unearthed remains of the Curtain Theater, which was home to the Lord Chamberlain's Men from 1597 to 1599 and was the site where plays including "Romeo and…
Debra Winger, whose films include "Terms of Endearment," "Urban Cowboy" and "An Officer and a Gentleman," is replacing Laurie Metcalf in David Mamet's play about a prison inmate with a radic…
Funny or Die presents a family-friendly musical send-up of that gritty HBO crime drama featuring the original cast members Michael Kenneth Williams, Sonja Sohn, Larry Gillard Jr., Andre Royo…
Paul Williams, the songwriter of "Evergreen," "We've Only Just Begun" and "Rainbow Connection," talks about a new documentary on his life, the ups and downs of his career and, of course, his…
In America, Simon Amstell may not yet have the name recognition of Eddie Izzard or Billy Connolly, but a New York producer who helped break those better-known names is betting that he'll be …
An early look at Tom Hooper's adaptation of "Les Misérables" offers tantalizing glimpses of Hollywood A-listers playing sad Parisians, but the focus is firmly on Anne Hathaway, who plays th…
Peter Dinklage, the the Golden Globe and Emmy Award-winning star of HBO's "Game of Thrones," will appear at the 2012 Bard SummerScape in a new production of Molière's satire "The Imaginary …
The Broadway performers Brian d'Arcy James and Will Chase are leaving "Smash," the NBC comedy-drama about the making of a Broadway musical, as are Raza Jaffrey and Jaime Cepero, who played t…
A test drive of the MIT Media Lab's electronic enhancements to the site-specific theater piece "Sleep No More."
City Center's Encores! will open just as it did when the long-running revival series began in 1994, with a production of "Fiorello!," Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick's musical about Fiorello …
Brooke Shields will play Chris MacNeil, the mother of an afflicted child, and Richard Chamberlain will play the veteran demon-chaser Father Merrin in a stage adaptation of "The Exorcist" tha…
The musical, about a team of drag performers journeying through remote Australia in a camping (and camp) bus, will play its final show at the Palace Theater on June 24.
Bret Michaels, the frontman of the rock band Poison, had sued the producers of the Tony Awards after he was injured by a descending backdrop during the 2009 awards broadcast, and CBS, which …
"Chaplin," a new musical about the life and career of Charlie Chaplin, will be presented at the Barrymore Theater, with previews to begin on Aug. 21 and an opening night planned for Sept. 10.
"Leap of Faith," adapted from the 1992 movie starring Steve Martin and featuring Raúl Esparza as the fraudulent evangelist Jonas Nightingale, will close after earning only one Tony Award …
The musical adaptation of "Rebecca," the Daphne du Maurier novel, will now open at the Broadhurst Theater on Nov. 18. It previously postponed a planned April 22 opening after producers were …
Anjelica Huston, who plays a Broadway producer on "Smash," will perform her first musical number on the show: "September Song," which was written for and made popular by her grandfather Walt…
Paul Rudd, the "Role Models" and "Knocked Up" star, and Emma Stone, whose films include "The Help," will play C. C. Baxter and Fran Kubelik, the parts originally played by Jack Lemmon and Sh…
A production of "God of Carnage," the Yasmina Reza comedy about bickering adults, will star four teenage actors when it is presented at Boston's Bulger Performing Arts Center in May.
The West End production of "The King's Speech," written by David Seidler, the Academy Award-winning screenwriter of the film, opened to positive reviews in March and was to run through July …
"Nice Fish," written by Mark Rylance and Louis Jenkins, will make its debut at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis next year.
Christian Borle, an actor in NBC's "Smash," is also keeping a foot in the theater, playing a pirate in "Peter and the Starcatcher," opening Sunday on Broadway.
A musical version of "The Nutty Professor," adapted from Jerry Lewis's hit 1963 and starring Michael Andrew as Julius Kelp and directed by Mr. Lewis, will make its debut in July at the James…
