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Veteran legiters William Craver and Peter Lawrence, nonprofit org Career Transition for Dancers and North Carolina's long-running historical drama "The Lost Colony" are set to receive the 20…
Those crazy people at the Public really know how to have fun. “Here Lies Love,” an exuberant musical inspired by the life of Imelda Marcos and set to the pounding disco beat of a…
Amid the annual onslaught of legit season announcements, the Public Theater's 2013-14 slate stands out "Â not so much for what's unexpected on the lineup, but for its array of projects tha…
The five shows to open on Broadway this week have all gotten an awards-season boost to contribute to their opening-night media spotlight, with the Drama League naming a wide-ranging slate of…
When Michael Bloomberg became the mayor of New York on Jan. 1, 2002, he took the reins of a city still reeling from the devastating aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks just four months earlier.
Where to begin? Well, there’s a live vulture on stage, and an uprooted tree suspended in mid-air, and a pool of water that appears to be bottomless. And that’s before the house l…
Sometimes, legit critics still sell tickets. Case in point: "Matilda," the Broadway transfer of the Brit hit that won Stateside raves after its April 11 opening " and then topped $1 million …
And they're off: The Outer Critics Circle launched the 2013 legit awards-season frenzy with its annual pack of nominations, led by Broadway revival "Pippin" with 11 nods and new Rialto music…
New musical "Big Fish" has a high-class problem. In the six months between the end of this Chicago tryout and its Broadway launch in September, creatives need to resist tampering too much wi…
Spoiler alert: Here's what's going on with the tortured, institutionalized man depicted by Alan Cumming in the new Broadway production of "Macbeth."
The National Theater of Scotland’s production of “Macbeth,” starring Alan Cumming, opened on Broadway April 21. The following is Mark Fisher’s original review (June 1…
After all the hoo-hah about the backstage battles that had Alec Baldwin climbing onto his high horse and Shia LaBeouf crawling off the field, you'd have expected this "Orphans" revival to be…
Longrunning Broadway tuner “Mamma Mia!” will shift from the Winter Garden Theater, its home of the last 12 years, to the Broadhurst Theater later this year. At 1,182 seats, the B…
The Broadway musical version of “Bullets Over Broadway” has targeted the St. James Theater, with the show locking the venue and the timeframe for an April 2014 bow. Production wi…
Whatever headaches Richard Greenberg might be having, what with this month’s closing of “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” on Broadway and next month’s opening of “…
WASHINGTON " The Kennedy Center will produce the world premiere of new tuner "Little Dancer," with book and lyrics by Lynn Ahrens and score by Stephen Flaherty. Susan Stroman ("The Sco…
In 1949, when “The Big Knife” was first done on Broadway, Clifford Odets’ disenchanted Hollywood matinee idol Charlie Castle must have seemed like a tragic hero, a gi…
The Tribeca Film Festival will launch an annual award, named for the late writer-director Nora Ephron, to be given to a female writer or director. The Nora Ephron Prize, which comes with a $…
A new play a Pulitzer winner and another by a fast-rising up-and-comer are among the brewing legit works tapped for development as part of the 2013 National Playwrights Conference at the Eug…
Lincoln Center Theater’s stunning production of Douglas Carter Beane’s “The Nance” is a textbook example of how to put on a classy show. It helps to have a bona fide …
It was a good news-bad news week on Broadway last week, with the upbeat headline centered on "Kinky Boots," which for the first time joined fellow spring openers "Lucky Guy" and "Cinderella"…
Ayad Akhtar’s play “Disgraced,” which preemed at Chicago’s American Theater Company prior to an Off Broadway run at Lincoln Center Theater, has snagged the 2013 Pulit…
The Broadway faithful (at least, the part that covers the Baby Boomer demographic ranging from “mature” to “doddering”) will have its mantra ready when cooler heads p…
With tourists pouring into Gotham, summer can be a great time to be on Broadway. Off Broadway? The jury's still out. It's the big, splashy musicals that pull in the majority of warm-weather …
The New York transfer of U.K. musical “Matilda” opened April 11 at Broadway’s Shubert Theater. The following is David Benedict’s review (Daily Variety, Dec. 13, 2010)…
