Sara Bareilles wasn’t content just to write the songs for a Broadway musical — now she’s starring in the show as well. The popular singer-songwriter will step into the lead…
Jerry Seinfeld will produce “Letters From a Nut by Ted L. Nancy,” a new stage show based on the series of books by Ted L. Nancy, otherwise known as comedian Barry Marder. The sho…
New York nonprofit Manhattan Theater Club has added Lucy Kirkwood’s play “The Children” to its 2017-18 Broadway season, along with an Off Broadway production of Anna Ziegle…
There is abundant sex and nudity in Sarah Ruhl’s new play, “How to Transcend a Happy Marriage,” along with some brainy conversation about the ethics of animal slaughter. Th…
Good golly, “Hello, Dolly!” The splashy new revival starring Bette Midler cemented its status as the hottest ticket at the Broadway box office this spring when it exploded right …
By Friday morning, most of Broadway had heard: Early during the first New York preview of the much-anticipated London hit “Groundhog Day,” the set’s revolving stage sto…
You might not know the name William Daniels, but you probably know his face " and if not his face, certainly his voice. The actor made a name for himself in the 1960 Off Broadway premiere…
Danny DeVito is having a lot of breakfast for dinner these days. Making his Broadway debut in the Roundabout Theater Company revival of “The Price,” DeVito finds a lot of comedy …
Arthur Miller is back on Broadway with “The Price,” a rarely-revived play written in the 1960s, with strong references to the 1930s, that still reverberates with meaning for the …
The Eugene O’Neill Theater Center has named actress Judith Light the recipient of its annual Monte Cristo Award, handed out each year to a theater creative whose work has had a major i…
Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau sat beside Ivanka Trump in the Wednesday night audience at Broadway musical “Come From Away” — and the pairing took on a political re…
Jo Lampert is so conspicuously exotic, with her pale, elongated face and icicle-thin body, that it’s entertaining just to watch her wave her flag and model her sexy armor. The performe…
“In the Body of the World,” the solo show written by and starring Eve Ensler, will get its New York premiere next year, playing Off Broadway in a Manhattan Theater Club staging t…
With a winter storm pounding the East Coast and forcing school and road closures all across the Northeast, New York City is, despite some disruptions, largely open for business — at le…
There's plenty of wattage but little illumination in the latest groupthink by The Debate Society, the theater collective that spent seven years making "The Light Years," which tells twin sto…
The new Broadway revival of “Present Laughter” only played  two performances last week, but it might be a show to keep an eye on: Buoyed by a cast led by Kevin Kline, the Noel…
Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Broadway smash “Hamilton” will continue to conquer the world — or at least the U.S. — with a second national tour, launching next year in S…
Here’s that feel-good show that audiences constantly pine for. “Come from Away” is a modest, earnest, life-affirming musical by Irene Sankoff and David Hein that makes peop…
For theatergoers who don’t happen to be seated in the third row of “The Glass Menagerie,” take it from those who sat up close: In the intimate new Broadway production st…
Of all the plays in the American canon, “The Glass Menagerie” seems a most unlikely candidate for deconstruction. But that doesn't deter director Sam Gold ("Fun Home," "Othello")…
"Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" is a play ruined by its reputation. Even people who've never seen Edward Albee's celebrated scorcher know this bruising, bloody, no-holds-barred battle is a…
It’s easy to imagine a project that could get J.J. Abrams‘ name on a Broadway marquee. A “Star Wars” stage outing from megaproducer Disney Theatrical Productions, may…
Wednesday was International Women's Day -- but it was also a two-show day for most of Broadway, so not many women in the New York theater industry -- many of whom work onstage and backstage …
Wednesday was International Women’s Day — but it was also a two-show day for most of Broadway, so not many women in the New York theater industry — many of whom work onstag…
Bill Condon, the director of the live-action version of “Beauty and the Beast” that arrives in theaters later this month, has signed on to direct Warner Bros. Theater Ventures…