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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)…
“The Last Goodbye,” the tuner mash-up of “Romeo and Juliet” and the songs of Jeff Buckley, will open the 2013-14 season at San Diego’s Old Globe Theater. Produc…
Mary-Louise Parker circles back to Broadway this fall, returning to Manhattan Theater Club for the Gotham nonprofit’s co-production of Sharr White’s “The Snow Geese.”…
The Lark Play Development Center has awarded the 2013-14 Playwrights of New York fellowship to Kimber Lee, who nabs one of the heftiest legit development awards out there, including a year o…
"Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" "Â coming soon to an arena near you? The legal settlement reached April 10 between Julie Taymor and producers of Broadway tuner "Spider-Man" not only brings…
Veteran Broadway group ticket seller Scott Mallalieu has opened the doors at his new group sales firm, GreatWhiteWay.com. Mallalieu was the prexy of Group Sales Box Office, the StreetR…
WASHINGTON "Â Signature Theater's sassy revival of "Dreamgirls" and Folger Theater's wild western take on "The Taming of the Shrew" drew top laurels April 8 at the Helen Hayes Awards, D.C.…
"Hands on a Hardbody" is taking its hands off the vehicle and withdrawing from the competition, with the Broadway musical posting a closing notice for the end of the week. Most legiters had …
As Tom Hanks topliner "Lucky Guy" continued to rake it in at the Broadway box office last week, star-driven plays led by Better Midler and Alec Baldwin joined the fray and Midler outing "I'l…
Producer Scott Rudin has lined up his latest star-heavy Broadway revival, tapping Daniel Craig and Rachel Weisz to appear in a fall production of Harold Pinter’s “Betrayal”…
Never underestimate the power of a good-bad musical, which can make consenting adults yearn to be dancing queens and adolescent witches and, in the case of "Kinky Boots," drag queens in stil…
Theater stints for William Friedkin, William Petersen and Amy Brenneman are on tap for the 2013-14 season at the Geffen Playhouse. Friedkin will direct the L.A. nonprofit's revival of Harold…
When NBC confirmed the news "The Tonight Show" changeover in 2014, Broadway ears perked up. For legit publicists, the cross-country move could be a boon: The opportunity to promote Main Stem…
It's an Off Broadway awards show, but that doesn't mean there aren't plenty of stars lined up for it: The roster of actors to score nominations for the 2013 Lucille Lortel Awards includes Ja…
The Eugene O'Neill Theater Center's National Music Theater Conference has lined up a trio of new tuner projects for development during the conference's 2013 summer session, corralling a line…
Tom Hanks is a natural. Although he hasn’t trod the boards in years, the affable movie star takes to the stage like a fish to water in “Lucky Guy,” Nora Ephron’s affe…
The Easter holiday is all about resurrection, and Broadway box office rose to the occasion. Sales spiked last week during the Easter-Passover frame, driving a full 13 productions above the $…
The "Romeo and Juliet" that arrives on Broadway next season starring Orlando Bloom may be the first Main Stem staging of the Shakespeare play since 1986 "Â but it's not the first productio…
The Tony Awards have tapped two legiters with TV profiles, Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Sutton Foster, to announced the 2013 Tony nominations later this month. Ferguson, who had logged several s…
Jenna Segal, a former production development exec at MTV, Nickelodeon and VH1, is pulling together her first Broadway project as a lead producer, tapping a team of creatives for a revival of…
With twenty actors racing between fifty roles across a time-traveling plot, Bruce Norris's "The Low Road" is a cross between a pageant and a parable. Dominic Cooke's supremely witty, fleet-f…
Add Patsy Cline to the list of music acts making their way to Broadway, with tuner "Always… Patsy Cline" aiming for a Rialto run this summer in a production that stars "American Idol" alum…
