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"What is growing up, precisely?" That's an unusually loaded question since it's asked by the woman who inspired "Alice in Wonderland" of the man who inspired "Peter Pan." Having issued the c…
Five Filipino immigrants in Tel Aviv work by day as live-in caregivers to elderly Hasidic men but by night they form a gleefully low-rent drag act. You couldn't make it up, and guess what? T…
Spring break is a great time to be a Broadway show "Â but not so much if you're a new title. For proof, take a look at last week's Main Stem box office. Four productions joined the fray du…
Veteran legiters Bernard Gersten, Ming Cho Lee and Paul Libin have each scored the 2013 Tony Awards' special kudo for lifetime achievement in the theater. Trio of prominent industry figures …
The movie stars who showed up for the March 21 opening-night curtain call of “Hands on a Hardbody” weren’t the usual Hollywood types. They were the real-life subjects of th…
Well, Broadway finally got itself an all-American musical in “Hands on a Hardbody.” The question is, will an all-American audience go for it? It’s hard to picture hotel con…
New York legiters continued to lay the groundwork for the upcoming spring awards season, with the Tony Awards Administration Committee deeming the current Broadway staging of "Cinderella"eli…
Off Broadway company Playwrights Horizons has tapped former "Do No Harm" topliner Steven Pasquale to co-star in this season's tuner adaptation of "Far From Heaven," while also lining up a 20…
Gotham partygoers are used to celebs in their midst. So it was remarkable that at least one star made everyone go all gushy at the March 20 opening night party of Broadway's new "Breakfast a…
It’s like trying to ignore the elephant in the room, watching Richard Greenberg’s stage adaptation of Truman Capote’s 1958 novella “Breakfast at Tiffany’s”…
LONDON "Â Inventive Brit legit outfit Punchdrunk, creators of current Gotham sensation "Sleep No More," return to London with the world preem of "The Drowned Man: A Hollywood Fable," a maj…
LONDON " Alex Beard has been appointed CEO of the Royal Opera House, succeeding Tony Hall, who ankled to become Director-General of the BBC. The £250,000 ($375,000) position is the key…
Sex, drugs and lad-mag shenanigans are looking to make an unlikely move from the frat house to a Broadway house, with a stage adaptation of Tucker Max's controversy-baiting book "I Hope They…
Spring breakers weren't just a big deal at SXSW last week " they made a splash on Broadway, too. Vacationing families helped push Main Stem box office high enough that eight shows ended up t…
The Tony Awards will return to Radio City Musical Hall for their 2013 edition, Â locking in June 9 for Broadway’s headline kudofest. Eligibility cutoff for the 2012-13 legit season i…
"Lucky Guy," the Tom Hanks starrer that recently began perfs on Broadway, pulled in more than $1 million from just seven perfs in Week 41 (March 4-10), but girl power, from young-femme magne…
Screenwriter-director Douglas McGrath has lined up a Broadway project, penning the book for "Beautiful: The Carole King Musical," which is aiming for a Rialto run in spring 2014, according t…
The Barry Manilow musical "Harmony," now gearing up for a regional nonprofit co-production that will play Atlanta and L.A. next season, has been an on-again, off-again Broadway contender sin…
Christopher Durang's play "Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike" opened March 14 at Broadway's John Golden Theater following an Off Broadway run at Lincoln Center Theater, where the show open…
A world premiere by Edward Albee and the U.S. bow of the new title by Caryl Churchill are among the notable additions to Off Broadway's 2013-14 lineup. Albee play "Laying an Egg," set to bow…
Jenna Fischer and Leslie Bibb are among the four-actor cast of the world premiere of the latest play by Neil LaBute, “Reasons to Be Happy.” Both Fischer (“The Office”…
It used to be that when a Broadway show booked an out-of-town tryout, it actually went out of town. Not anymore. The world premiere of Rialto-targeted musical "Honeymoon in Vegas" premieres …
Kevin McCollum aims to grow 'Submissions Only'
Multiple factors contribute to musical's new boom
Kurt Peterson & Victoria Mallory,
Of the Original Casts of Follies and the Lincoln Center Revival of West Side Story,
Reunite On the NY Stage for the First Time in 40 Years: When Everythin…
