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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…
The joke in "Hamlet" is that Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, the two stooges sent to spy on the great Dane, are interchangeable — the Tweedledum and Tweedledee of Elsinore. And so it usu…
Show-Score, the review-aggregator website that aims to become the Rotten Tomatoes of the theater world, has raised $2 million in new financing from a group of investors that reaches beyond t…
The heat is on in Saigon: “Miss Saigon,” one of the few megamusicals from the British invasion of the 1980s and 1990s not to have yet received a Broadway revival, has come in for…
“My Fair Lady,” the well-known musical that hasn’t been seen on Broadway in almost 25 years, has set dates for a Broadway return next year in a Lincoln Center Theater produ…
The Quad Cinema, the Greenwich Village theater that was New York City’s first multiplex, will reopen in April with upgrades and renovations to its facilities, tech, seats and branding.…
“Harry Potter and the Cursed Child,” the West End megahit that will apparate on Broadway next year, earned 11 nominations for the 2017 Olivier Awards, racking up a record haul fo…