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Turns out you can go home again: The incoming Broadway revival of "Les Miserables" will open next spring at the Imperial Theater, the venue where the original Rialto production played for mo…
How do you turn an analysis of contemporary East/West politics into a smart-mouthed, sharply paced drama? Pour it into a convincing thriller plot. That's what Lucy Kirkwood has done in her s…
Broadway left its B.O. records unbroken in the 2012-13 season, logging drops both in cumulative gross and, more notably, in attendance. It's been a while since a Main Stem season didn't brea…
Kwame Kwei-Armah's play "Beneatha's Place" has turned legit industry heads as part of an ambitious project at Baltimore's Center Stage, which is presenting the new title, inspired by "A Rais…
Rebecca Hall will topline a Broadway revival of American expressionist play "Machinal" at the Roundabout Theater Company, where the show will be directed by Brit helmer Lyndsey Turner. Sophi…
There are a couple of well-established paths to Broadway for a new play. "Blue Highway" isn't taking any of them. The new work by David Marlett (pictured at left) is being developed simultan…
This year the Tonys will launch a second-screen digital destination, with interactive content set to stream during the annual live kudocast on CBS " a measure other TV skeins, such as the AM…
Ethan Coen returns to Off Broadway this fall with new play "Women or Nothing," set to bow at the Atlantic Theater Company in a run that precedes the December release of his latest pic, "Insi…
If theater owners are the most powerful figures on Broadway, then there's a new power player in town. The purchase this week of Broadway's largest venue, the 1,930-seat Foxwoods, reps the fi…
I love you, I hate you, I’ll kill you. That’s the lurid premise of “Murder Ballad,” the hot and sticky rock opera that made auds sweat when it opened six months ago a…
New York City Center’s long-running Encores! program, which has yielded a string of commercial Broadway transfers including the still-running revival of “Chicago,” has set …
Comedian Carol Burnett has been selected by Washington, D.C.’s Kennedy Center to receive this year's Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. Award will be presented Oct. 20 at a kudof…
Broadway’s Walter Kerr Theater has found a summer tenant, with dance revue “Forever Tango” returning to the Main Stem for a ten-week run prior to the fall opening of new mu…
Ambassador Theater Group, the largest owner/operator of theaters in the U.K., has at last planted a flag on Broadway with the acquisition of the Foxwoods Theater, current home to “Spid…
Zachary Levi, the “Chuck” star soon to appear in upcoming Marvel sequel “Thor: The Dark World,” will make his Broadway debut this summer in “First Date,” …
Tony contenders including tuner "Matilda" and play "Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike" were among the titles to emerge as winners at the 2013 Drama Desk Awards. "Matilda" led the pack with…
The Drama League contributed its two cents to the 2012-13 awards season discussion, tapping tuner “Kinky Boots” and new play “Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike” to …
As Russian supper club entertainment goes, “Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812″ could put belly dancers out of business. In this smartly engineered transfer, Dave Ma…
With the selection of Broadway producer Jed Bernstein (pictured) as the next president of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, one of Gotham's major nonprofits looks poised to inject its …
The Broadway transfer of “The Glass Menagerie,” toplined by Cherry Jones and Zachary Quinto, has snagged the Booth Theater for its upcoming Gotham run, beginning previews at the …
With the eyes of the Gotham theater industry focused on the current Tony race, you might not notice that in an under-the-radar Down Under locale, there's a big new stage show swinging into p…
Roger Rees will topline a Broadway revival of Terrence Rattigan’s play “The Winslow Boy” as part of the 2013-14 Broadway season at the Roundabout Theater Company, which als…
Producers grumbling about the revenue lost from all those comp tickets they have to hand out to Tony voters can now take heart: Tony noms and awards seem to be exerting a stronger influence …
Billy Crystal has marked his calendar for the Broadway return of “700 Sundays,” the autobiographical solo show that proved a box office powerhouse when it preemed on the Rialto i…
It didn't hurt to be a Tony nominee last week, when a general upward trend at the Broadway box office proved most likely to bring increases at those individual titles currently enjoying a sp…
