The membership of Actors’ Equity Association, the union that represents theater actors and stage managers, has ratified a new five-year contract with the League of Resident Theaters, t…
The 2017 edition of The List, the index of underproduced female-written plays reported annually by the playwrights collective known as the Kilroys, focuses for the first time this year on pl…
The management of “1984,” the lauded West End import playing at Broadway’s Hudson Theater, felt it necessary to ban children under 13 from the stage production adapte…
Stage trials are nothing new. Ayn Rand had a big Broadway hit with one back in 1935: “Night of January 16” was designed to put her philosophy, individualism, to the test. Ferd…
The Broadway revival of “Cats,” which opened last summer and is one of four Andrew Lloyd Webber musicals now running in New York, has posted its closing notice, sticking around t…
Kenny Wax, the British producer who is currently represented on Broadway with “The Play That Goes Wrong,” has been appointed the new president of the Society of London Theater, t…
Does “Transparent” have the makings of a musical? That was the question — literally — at “Faith Soloway & Friends: Should ‘Transparent’ Become a…
“Bandstand” continued its upward trajectory, “Oslo” got a shot in the arm and “Hello, Dolly!” set its latest record at the Broadway box office last week, …
The upcoming Broadway revival of “M. Butterfly,” set to star Clive Owen in a production directed by Julie Taymor, has planted its flag in the Cort Theater, where the show will op…
It's not surprising that Kevin Spacey would choose to resurrect David W. Rintels' 1974 play about Clarence Darrow " the famed criminal lawyer who, for four decades, fought with unusual compa…
An independent rally for New York’s Public Theater brought out a crowd of about 150 people in support of the organization that’s currently under fire for a controversial producti…
Fresh off the Tonys, from which their musical "Dear Evan Hansen" emerged with six trophies including best musical, songwriting duo Benj Pasek and Justin Paul have a horse in the Emmy race. I…
A.R. Gurney, the playwright who chronicled the foibles and mores of wealthy, white Anglo-Saxon protestants in plays such as “The Dining Room,” “The Cocktail Hour,” an…
“Indecent” became the third Broadway play to announce its closing in the wake of the Tony Awards, with the show now set to shutter June 25. The production — which earned go…
There weren't many surprises from this year's Tony Awards ceremony, which handed "Dear Evan Hansen" its expected win for best new musical and saw major acting trophies go to Ben Platt ("Dear…
About six million people watched the Tony Awards Sunday night on CBS — but a live audience of only about 6,000 caught the show from inside the room itself. Here’s what you missed…
Two plays that walked away empty-handed from the Tony Awards ceremony have posted closing notices, now that it’s become clear that the awards-season attention hasn’t provided eno…
The sins of the father revisited on the son — it's a stage staple that tracks back to Ancient Greece. From Captain Alving in Ibsen's “Ghosts” to Arthur Miller's arms-dealin…
Kirsten Childs’ high spirits are infectious. “Bella: An American Tall Tale,” a musical folk tale having its premiere at Playwrights Horizons, is her irresistible invitation…
The Public Theater’s new Free Shakespeare in the Park production of “Julius Caesar,” which has stirred controversy with its depiction of a Trump-like Caesar, opened Monday …
Brutus is a commanding figure in the Public Theater’s Free Shakespeare in the Park production of “Julius Caesar.” The wily Mark Antony also looms large. But the most fearso…
The Public Theater, the longtime New York nonprofit currently taking fire for its Free Shakespeare in the Park production of “Julius Caesar,” has responded to the outcry by refus…
In a year without a "Hamilton," the races for the 2017 Tony Awards had seemed fraught with unpredictably.
In a year without a “Hamilton,” the races for the 2017 Tony Awards had seemed fraught with unpredictably. But while there were a couple of dark horses (“Come From Away,R…
Access Entertainment, the banner launched last year by Len Blavatnik’s Access Industries, made headturning investments in film and TV right out of the gate. But theater is part of the …