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Israel Horovitz, the longtime playwright-director who helmed the 2014 film "My Old Lady," has been accused of sexual misconduct by nine women. The women came forward in a report in the New Y…
Israel Horovitz, the longtime playwright-director who helmed the 2014 film “My Old Lady,” has been accused of sexual misconduct by nine women. The women came forward to the New Y…
Steve Martin has a flair for surreal comedy — a style that suits “Meteor Shower,” his new play about the existential mischief caused one night in 1993 when a deluge of mete…
Julie Taymor’s production of “M. Butterfly,” which recently opened on Broadway with Clive Owen in the cast, has set its closing date, with producers announcing the show wil…
The young actor Ethan Slater has been involved in the "SpongeBob Squarepants" stage musical since its very first workshop five years ago. But back then, he had no idea he was auditioning for…
With his new play "The Minutes," a simmering satire of a small-town city council meeting that evolves — or devolves — into something of a horror tale, Pulitzer-winning playwright…
Teenaged girls in Ghana prove they can be just as nasty" and as needy " as their international sisters everywhere. Delightful ensemble work from a cast of girlish thesps performing in "Schoo…
You know what you're ordering with a musical comedy based on the music of Jimmy Buffett, an artist whose beach bum persona and preference for Hawaiian shirts and flip-flops contribute as muc…
When Ayad Akhtar won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, he thought: “Well, very little good can come of this.” Akhtar, who won the award for his play “Disgraced,” tal…
The medium is the message " or so they say. If Paddy Chayefsky's classic TV news satire isn't just prescient, but positively prophetic in our age of fake news, the point is pressed home by a…
With a real estate man in the White House as America's Salesman-in-Chief, “Glengarry Glen Ross,” David Mamet's crisp 1983 evisceration of the common street salesman, takes on new…
The set's a bit grander and the music sounds richer, but success hasn't spoiled this embraceable musical fable about the surprising friendships that bloom in the middle of a political desert…
Teachers who have already had Dennis (Ki Hong Lee) in class agree on one thing:Â the kid scares them. Like some disgruntled teenager planning to shoot up his school, Dennis dresses all in…
A Bee Gees stage musical is on the way, with Universal Pictures’ theater division, Universal Theatrical Group, pacting to develop a production based on the life story and hit tunes of …
Lin-Manuel Miranda, the creator and original star of "Hamilton," will return to the title role when the Broadway smash plays a three-week run in Puerto Rico in early 2019. Miranda, who is Pu…
Lin-Manuel Miranda, the creator and original star of “Hamilton,” will return to the title role when the Broadway smash plays a three-week run in Puerto Rico in early 2019. Mirand…
Bill de Blasio is cruising to an easy victory in the race for mayor of New York City, setting up a second term for the incumbent Democrat who faced weak opposition at the polls. With just un…
Stephen Flaherty wasn’t sure he had permission to write “Once On This Island.” So says the Broadway composer in the latest episode of Stagecraft, Variety‘s theater po…
Amy Schumer made a big-money debut at the Broadway box office last week, playing to capacity crowds in the initial previews of the play in which she stars, “Meteor Shower.” Schum…
Kelli O’Hara will star in a new Broadway revival of “Kiss Me, Kate,” playing one of the lead roles in a Roundabout Theater Company production set for spring 2019. O’H…
The tepid tone and low energy level of "Illyria" would have us believe that the birth of the New York Shakespeare Festival was a walk in the park " Central Park, that is, where Joseph Papp c…
“Hello Again,” the 1994 Michael John LaChiusa musical that hits screens next week in a new film adaptation, is expanding its reach to more than 230 cinemas for the movie’s …
Maybe, someday, we can live down the 1980s. But not any day soon, if Ayad Akhtar has anything to do with it. The Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright ("Disgraced") returns with poisoned pen and…
Matt Bomer will make his Broadway debut (following a one-night-only appearance in “8”)Â in “The Boys in the Band,” a new revival of the landmark 1968 drama to be di…
David Fincher ordered Jonathan Groff to stop smiling. Repeatedly. Broadway favorite Groff (“Hamilton,” “Spring Awakening”) tells the behind-the-scenes tale in the …
