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Halloween weekend is usually pretty frightful at the Broadway box office, what with all the costumes parties and trick-or-treating that keep theatergoers — particularly family audience…
Emma Rice is an old-fashioned romantic " no doubt about it. When she brought “Brief Encounter” to Broadway back in 2010, the whole stage seemed to swoon, as lovers were knocked s…
“So Long Boulder City,” the solo stage spoof inspired by the recent Oscar contender “La La Land,” has lined up an Off Broadway run in December following a well-receiv…
Donald Trump and Michael Moore dueled on Twitter over Moore’s recent Broadway show, with Trump taking a potshot at Moore’s “The Terms of My Surrender” in the midst of…
London has a brand new theatre in The Bridge " not only the biggest to be built here in 20 years, but the first new commercial playhouse of its size in 80. Dreamed up by former National T…
Julie Taymor had harsh words for Harvey Weinstein, the disgraced movie mogul with whom she worked on her 2002 film “Frida.” “I think he should go to jail,” Taymor sai…
Clive Owen returns to Broadway in David Henry Hwang's "M. Butterfly," a revised version of the 1988 drama about a French diplomat who was caught in a scandalous affair with a Chinese opera s…
New York’s Museum of Modern Art has set the initial lineup for The Contenders, its annual screenings of awards-season buzzmagnets, opening the series in November with Martin McDonagh&#…
Ubisoft, the French company behind videogames including “Assassin’s Creed” and “Rayman Raving Rabbids,” will expand into the live entertainment market with R…
Clint Black, the country music star who’s sold more than 20 million albums worldwide, is at work on a Christmas musical for the stage, with a theater industry reading of the new show s…
There's a lot of professional pizzazz assembled on the Manhattan Theater Club stage for "The Portuguese Kid," the world premiere of the new play written and directed by John Patrick Shanley.…
How did Michael Urie shake the memory of original actor Harvey Fierstein when he took on the lead role of “Torch Song”? He didn’t even try. “He’s always there,&…
Some prisoners go out of their minds when confined to the 23-hour isolation wing of Rikers Island prison. In the Signature Theater revival of Stephen Adly Guirgis’ “Jesus Hopped …
A careful blend of sincerity and insults made for a raucous tribute to retired late-night TV host David Letterman at Washington, D.C.’s John F. Kennedy Center on Sunday night, when …
Broadway musicals are already beginning to line up for next season, with comedy "The Prom" now signed up to hit New York in a production that opens in November 2018 following a 2016 debut in…
In "Torch Song," an affectionate if ill-considered revival of Harvey Fierstein's "Torch Song Trilogy," Michael Urie makes a brave but bizarre effort to channel the playwright's own groundbre…
“Get Out,” writer-director Jordan Peele’s surprise smash of a scary movie, led the pack of nominations for the 2017 Gotham Awards, Independent Filmmaker Project’s ann…
The Tony-winning actor Tracy Letts only discovered acting because somebody blackmailed his father into starring in a community theater play. Letts, who as a writer (“August: Osage Coun…
“Springsteen on Broadway” had the megabucks launch — and continues to do huge business — but the other show to begin previews around the same time, “The Band…
“War Paint,” the musical that stars big Broadway names Patti LuPone and Christine Ebersole, will go dark earlier than expected, setting an imminent closing for Nov. 5. The show, …
"I’ll handle it myself, thanks." That was The Boss himself, jovially dressing down the few people in his Broadway audience who had begun to clap along to "Dancer in the Dark." This was…
Broadway, mark your calendar: The Tony Awards have set the date for the 2018 ceremony, locking in June 10, 2018 for the CBS telecast, live from the stage of Radio City Music Hall. At the sam…
Can you zap old material into new life? The perennial problem of the family Frankenstein is the same one facing the comedian Mel Brooks. Exhuming “Young Frankenstein,” his classi…
Elizabeth McGovern, until recently the gracious mistress of PBS's "Downton Abbey," has a far more fractious household to manage in "Time and the Conways," J.B. Priestley's 1937 drawing-room …
It’s official: The Boss is a Broadway blockbuster. “Springsteen on Broadway” ($2,332,108) exploded out of the gate with a huge first week, easily topping $2 million for jus…
