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Producer Ken Davenport has racked up an impressive collection of Tony Award nominations (and a couple of wins) for shows like "Once on This Island," "Kinky Boots," and "Spring Awakening."Â�…
Technology plays a major role onstage in “Be More Chill,” the high school-set musical that uses a brain altering super-computer — masquerading as a popularity drug ̵…
Since starting his tenure on “So You Think You Can Dance” 10 seasons ago, Spencer Liff has choreographed Broadway productions from “Falsettos” to “Hedwig and th…
Yes they can-can — they can transform Baz Luhrmann's 2001 absinthe-tinged fantasia "Moulin Rouge!" into a socko stage spectacular. The story's been strengthened in this splashy product…
From his unhinged Hamlet to a sympathetic Richard III, Mark Rylance has always been a great re-inventor of Shakespeare's key roles. Now, returning to the Globe in "Othello" after a few years…
Kwame Kwei-Armah and Shaina Taub's musicalized "Twelfth Night" is the kind of outdoor summer theater that transcends bad weather. Even if the skies crackle with lightning and showers s…
This might sound familiar to film buffs: A lying and philandering U.S. president suffers a debilitating stroke and is furtively replaced by a body double, who then foils the plot by honoring…
It's really hard to laugh when somebody's holding a gun to your head. That's the way this Go-Go's feels in “Head Over Heels,” an over-written, over-designed, and generally overdo…
Zachary Quinto’s got a big role on his bucket list — and it’s in a stage musical. Listen to this week's podcast for free below and at Apple Podcasts: On the latest episo…
Here are lyrics from a song in the new musical "This Ain't No Disco" that creatives Stephen Trask ("Hedwig and the Angry Inch") and Peter Yanowitz hope will make us yearn for the golden age …
In “Straight White Men,” Young Jean Lee's cutting but deeply humane satire about straight white male privilege and pain, Armie Hammer, Josh Charles and, in an especially heart-wr…
Fifty years after his play "Forty Years On," Alan Bennett is still pining for the England of old. Just as his first play lamented the slipping standards of an old public school and, by exten…
In Judaism, death is followed by the sitting of shiva. For seven days, seated mourners reflect on their loss. The ritual recurs throughout "The Lehman Trilogy," playwright Steffano Massino's…
In “Mary Page Marlowe,” Tracy Letts, the Tony-winning actor (“Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?”) and Pulitzer and Tony-winning playwright (“August: Osage C…
Ashes to ashes, Dusty to Dusty. Almost 20 years after her death, the loss of Dusty Springfield still stings on these shores. Sniffles ring out at the end of Jonathan Harvey's jukebox musical…
"Imperium" builds Rome in a day. Robert Harris' trilogy of novels charts the city's slide from a great civilization to a grim imperial power, as democracy buckles and dictatorship digs in. O…
The new jukebox bio-musical "The Cher Show" captures a good amount of the vibrant personality and genuinely admirable perseverance that make Cher the ultimate celebrity survivor. But lik…
Think Broadway is big now? Then get ready, because the boom is just beginning. So says Ken Davenport, the producer of the Tony Award-winning Broadway revival of “Once On This Island,&#…
Just when you thought it was safe to go to the theater again without suffering through plays about straight couples caught up in parenting issues of interest to no one but themselves, along …
Although Idina Menzel looks fabulous in "Skintight," the new play by Joshua Harmon (Bad Jews," "Significant Other"), her character, Jodi Isaac, is a total wreck when she flies into New York …
Director Saheem Ali and the very fine designers of the Manhattan Theater Club have created a magical setting for Donja R. Love's "Sugar in our Wounds," a romantic drama (the first in a trilo…
The thing about doing a play is: You gotta really like it. That's actor BD Wong's philosophy, anyway. "You need to enjoy it more in a play than a television show or in a film, I think," Wong…
Matt Bomer and Andrew Rannells may be starring in a Broadway show, but they can be superfans just like everybody else. The two actors, now appearing in the new revival of “The Boys in …
When it comes to award shows, the viewers at home often get the best seats in the house: Their sofas, where presumably no one is as hot or as hungry as the folks in black tie packed into the…
It's a year of sure things and wild cards. As Broadway heads into the 2018 Tony Awards (airing June 10 on CBS), a lot of the night's biggest winners feel like foregone conclusions — ex…
