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Will Bernadette Peters be Broadway’s next Dolly? It’s looking that way, after persistent rumors in the theater industry — potentially confirmed in a recent social media pos…
“Springsteen on Broadway,” Bruce Springsteen’s buzzmagnet concert engagement that opens on Broadway in October, has extended by a whopping 10 weeks, stretching the run to F…
“Itzhak,” Alison Chernick’s documentary about famous violinist Itzhak Perlman, will get its world premiere at the 2017 Hamptons International Film Festival, which will open…
Hear ye the Gospel of Luke " as written for our times by the playwright Christopher Shinn. In “Against,” Ben Whishaw's earnest Luke is a tech billionaire supposedly instructed by…
Summer is winding down, and the Broadway box office is winding down with it: Sales in one of the last weeks before Labor Day slipped by 7% as city tourism slowed. The majority of individual …
The 2017 New York Film Festival has lined up a roster of special events that includes world premiere screenings of documentaries about Steven Spielberg and Bob Dylan, as well as a conversati…
Apples and Oranges Studios, the firm that has been on the producing team of Broadway shows including “An American in Paris” and “Memphis,” has launched a nonprofit ar…
The best 16 shows on Broadway are all playing at the Samuel J. Friedman Theater in "Prince of Broadway," a sumptuous revue celebrating the 60-plus-years of legendary director-producer Harold…
The 2017 New York Film Festival’s Spotlight on Documentary lineup includes work by a number of notable directors, with world premieres by Vanessa Redgrave (“Sea Sorrow”), A…
“Latin History for Morons,” the John Leguizamo solo show that played Off Broadway earlier this year, will move uptown for a Broadway run that begins in October at Studio 54. Nell…
Thomas Meehan, the co-writer of Broadway hits “Annie,” “The Producers,” and “Hairspray,” has died. He was 88. The winner of three Tony Awards, Meehan was …
Most of the Broadway box office found itself in the grip of the usual late-August slowdown last week — but not “On Your Feet!,” the bio-musical about Gloria Estefan and her…
Matt Shakman, the director behind two recent watercooler episodes of “Game of Thrones,” has been named the artistic director of Los Angeles’ Geffen Playhouse. He’ll j…
In a theater festival with 3,398 shows, it can be hard to get your voice heard. But making his presence felt more than most on this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe is Irvine Welsh, wh…
Al Gore and Jason Blum will be honored at the 2017 IFP Gotham Awards, with Gore set to receive the humanitarian tribute and Blum tapped to get the industry tribute. The Gothams, the Independ…
Denzel Washington, one of Broadway’s biggest draws at the box office, is set to make his Broadway return this spring in Eugene O’Neill’s “The Iceman Cometh.” Sc…
Stuart Thompson, the longtime theater producer and general manager of shows including “The Book of Mormon” and the upcoming musical adaptation of “Mean Girls,” died i…
The sincere and entirely enjoyable new musical "Trevor" is based on the 1994 short film of the same name, known for its Oscar win but even more for having inspired suicide prevention organiz…
Judith Light sings! The actress, known for everything from TV work ("One Life to Live," "Who's the Boss?" "Ugly Betty") to Tony-winning stage turns ("Other Desert Cities," "The Assembled Par…
You have to admire Alan Ayckbourn. At 78 years old, after more than 80 plays, he's undertaken a work of size, sweep and ambition. But with “The Divide,” a two-part, six-hour and …
A well-received London revival of Tom Stoppard’s 1974 play “Travesties” is making the move to Broadway, with the Roundabout Theater Company giving a spring slot to the prod…
“Groundhog Day,” the musical that won over critics and awards voters in the U.K. but never caught on in New York, has posted a Broadway closing notice for September after a run o…
Joshua Jackson will headline a new Broadway revival of the Mark Medoff play “Children of a Lesser God,” starring in a production that makes the move to New York following a well-…
Did “Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812” benefit from its recent casting controversy? The musical was one of the few to report a significant rise at the Broadway box off…
Broadway smash “Hamilton” is going mobile with the launch of an official app, consolidating resources for the musical across its rapidly expanding portfolio of productions. The a…
