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Blythe Danner and Sarah Jessica Parker star as mother and daughter in Amanda Peet's play about the family of a Bernie Madoff-type investment scammer.NEW YORK – Amanda Peet makes a prom…
The $75 million musical that made headlines with its costly delays and string of accidents will play its final performance at the Foxwoods Theatre in early January.NEW YORK – The most …
Playing eight doomed aristocrats, Jefferson Mays steps into shoes worn by Alec Guinness in the screen classic "Kind Hearts and Coronets" in this new musical based on the same novel.While the…
Composer William Finn and writer-director James Lapine's musical is based on Michael Arndt's Oscar-winning screenplay for the 2006 Fox Searchlight family road-trip comedy.Designer Beowulf Bo…
Returning to Broadway for a nine-week limited engagement, Billy Crystal's 2004 solo show looks poised to repeat its success, grossing north of $1.1 million in its first six previews.It can&r…
The Tony-winning Broadway musical, adapted from the 1992 Christian Bale movie, will launch its North American tour in October 2014, officially opening in Philadelphia.NEW YORK -- Extra! Extr…
Opening in summer 2014, the play was adapted by Lee Hall ("Billy Elliot") from Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard's screenplay for the 1998 Oscar-winning Gwyneth Paltrow movie.NEW YORK -- Viola de…
The new deal, shepherded by Alan Horn, follows an aborted attempt several years ago to develop the property with composer Adam Guettel.read more
Mark Rylance cements his place among the greatest living stage actors in this ridiculously entertaining double from Shakespeare's Globe, which hits Broadway after slaying London.read more
One of the commercial high hopes of the fall season, the musical adaptation of the 2003 Tim Burton movie becomes the fifth show this season to end its run early.read more
The seven-time Grammy winner is working with Tom Kitt on a musical expanded from her multiplatinum 1995 album and dipping into the rest of her body of work.read more
Nathan Lane, Megan Mullally, Patrick Wilson and Sierra Boggess will headline the one-night concert staging on April 3 of the classic 1950 Frank Loesser musical.read more
The romantic comedy musical starring Zachary Levi and Krysta Rodriguez wil play its final performance at the Longacre Theatre on Jan. 5.read more
The stage adaptation of John Grisham's racially charged courtroom thriller will close early on Nov. 17 after receiving tepid reviews from New York critics.read more
Jeff Goldblum and Laurie Metcalf play a political power couple struggling with damage control in "Clybourne Park" playwright Bruce Norris' new comedy.read more
Headlining this song-and-dance salute to the Jazz Age, Fantasia Barrino is first on a roster of guest stars that will include k.d. lang, Toni Braxton and Kenny "Babyface" Edmonds.read more
Julie Taymor rekindles her artistic flame with William Shakespeare's comedy of mismatched lovers, the director's first New York stage project since "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark."read more
Tom Stoppard's witty drama about love and marriage was first produced on Broadway in 1983, winning five Tony Awards including best play.read more
"Becoming Dr. Ruth," a one-woman show starring Debra Jo Rupp, tells the story of Dr. Ruth Westheimer, sex therapist, refugee and former ace sniper.
Daniel Craig, Rachel Weisz and Rafe Spall play the three points of an adulterous triangle in Mike Nichols' smash Broadway revival of Harold Pinter's semi-autobiographical 1978 drama.read more
"Eager to Lose," a play that combines rhyming couplets with burlesque, is running at Ars Nova.
Mary-Louise Parker stars as a recently widowed upstate New York woman in 1917, determined not to face her family's financial reality in Sharr White's drama.read more
Ramin Karimloo, Will Swenson, Caissie Levy and Nikki M. James will star in the revival of Alain Boublil & Claude-Michel Schonberg's epic musical, opening in March.read more
Sharr White's two-character play comes to New York following its world premiere at the Odyssey Theatre in Los Angeles.read more
Peter Scolari will star as baseball legend Lawrence Peter "Yogi" Berra in the new play exploring the history of the New York Yankees.read more
