There's a lot of struggling in the messy musical adaptation of Jules Feiffer's delightful young adult novel, premiering at Sag Harbor's Bay Street Theater in this summer enclave on Long Isla…
Broadway fortune tellers had it so easy last year: For every awards-season prediction, they could just point to “Hamilton.” In contrast, the 2017 race for the Tony Awards feels n…
A group of some of the most-employed casting directors in the New York theater industry led a rally in front of Radio City Music Hall Thursday morning as part of an ongoing public effort to …
“Cost of Living” is a bittersweet play by Martyna Majok about people who need other people to survive — some of them quite literally. It’s also about people who absol…
When hit Netflix series “13 Reasons Why” turned a spotlight on teen suicide and the challenges of responsibly telling stories about it, Broadway fans took note, because “De…
Patti LuPone, Kevin Kline, Bartlett Sher: There are plenty of Broadway veterans among this year's Tony nominees, but there are plenty of newbies on the list, too. In fact, several people wer…
The small town of Ashland, Ore., lies just over the California border in the forested foothills of the Siskiyou and Cascade mountain ranges. It has a population of 20,000, a bustling restaur…
As far back as last fall, there were those in the New York theater industry whispering that the new musical “Come From Away” might turn into the 2016-17 season’s sleeper su…
Cyndi Lauper will write the songs for a new stage musical adaptation of “Working Girl,” the hit 1988 screen comedy that starred Melanie Griffith. Fox Stage Productions, the studi…
Jason Alexander, the “Seinfeld” alum who won a 1989 Tony Award for “Jerome Robbins’ Broadway,” will return to the New York stage this fall, starring in the worl…
Psychodrama was a fun fad back in the over-sharing era of the 1970s.  Well, now therapeutic theater is back, raised from the dead by onetime “Friends” fave Matthew Perry, w…
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…