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The Broadway box office turnaround at “A Doll’s House, Part 2” has prompted producers to give the show a lengthy extension, with the new play, initially announced for 16 we…
Bikini Bottom hits Broadway later this year, when “SpongeBob SquarePants,” the stage musical that premiered in Chicago in 2016 as “The SpongeBob Musical,” opens at th…
After a career spent mostly in TV, Matthew Perry, best known for “Friends” and fresh off three seasons in CBS’s recently cancelled “The Odd Couple,” is starring…
“Escape to Margaritaville,” the Jimmy Buffett musical currently running at the La Jolla Playhouse in California, will escape to Broadway next year, landing at the Marquis The…
Bette Midler and the Broadway revival in which she stars, “Hello, Dolly!,” were among the Tony nominees anointed by the Drama Desk Awards, which also handed another top play crow…
Violence begets violence in Gary Owen's "Killology" — whether it's real or represented. Entering the debate about the effects of explicit computer games, Owen's dark three-actor play c…
“On Your Feet!,” the Broadway bio-musical based on the lives and music of Gloria Estefan and Emilio Estefan, will finish up its Broadway run this summer, in advance of a North Am…
The pop stardom of Brendon Urie has made the Panic! at the Disco frontman a star at the Broadway box office, too, with the start of Urie’s stint in “Kinky Boots” goosing th…
Alanis Morissette's Grammy-winning 1995 album "Jagged Little Pill" will soon hit the stage, with the premiere of a new musical featuring Morisette and Glen Ballard's tunes and a book by Diab…
Alanis Morissette’s Grammy-winning 1995 album “Jagged Little Pill” will soon hit the stage, with the premiere of a new musical featuring Morisette and Glen Ballard’s …
Among the many subjects of speculation about the Tony Awards this year: Bette Midler, and when she’ll perform during the awards telecast. At the start, kicking off the show with a bang…
Panic! at the Disco frontman Brendon Urie is moving from the concert stage to the Broadway stage later this week, stepping into one of the lead roles in “Kinky Boots” this Friday…
There’s a hold-your-breath inevitability to what is finally disclosed in "Building the Wall," the powerful dystopian drama about life in the Donald Trump era by Robert Schenkkan. You h…
The paradox of “Woyzeck” is simple: Georg Büchner's play is unfinished, but unimprovable. Based on a real-life murder case, a story of a soldier who self-destructs, it is bri…
“The Band’s Visit,” the Off Broadway musical that’s picked up a slew of trophies this year, has locked in the details of its Broadway run, opening at the Barrymore Th…
“Can You Forgive Her?,” a whimsical piece of work by Gina Gionfriddo (“Becky Shaw,” “Rapture, Blister, Burn”), looks like a play, talks like a play, and s…
With “Hamilton” pushing premium ticket prices to new highs and a fresh crop of popular titles like “Dear Evan Hansen” powering hearty sales, the 2016-17 Broadway s…
“Oslo” scored yet another playwriting trophy — as well as an ensemble acting honor — on its way to the Tonys, taking one of two 2017 Obie Awards for best new American…
Writer-actor Hamish Linklater’s new play “The Whirligig,” expressionistic in form and melancholy in tone, examines the whirling emotions of the friends and family who are k…
Glenda Jackson, the Oscar winner who hasn’t appeared on the New York stage in almost 30 years, will star on Broadway next year in Edward Albee’s “Three Tall Women,” p…
Broadway producers may have spent much of this week courting the theater industry’s Tony Awards voters at the Broadway League’s annual spring conference, but fans have signaled t…
“Come From Away,” the musical that slipped into the Broadway season to give “Dear Evan Hansen” a run for its money at the Tony Awards, picked up four trophies at the …
Idina Menzel, the “Frozen” star and “Wicked” Tony winner who was also one of the leads in Lifetime’s “Beaches,” will star Off Broadway in “Ski…
The Tony nominations have seemingly helped “Groundhog Day” turn heads, with the Broadway musical lifted to its highest weekly tally yet in the wake of seven nods including best m…
Running a nice little family restaurant in New York isn't what it used to be, what with spiking rent prices, competition with hipster eateries and ever-changing food tastes. These and more a…