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Poor wallflowers. They’re the ones no one asks to dance, to go to the prom, to get married. The wallflower in “Significant Other,” Joshua Harmon’s bittersweet play ab…
The Tooting Arts Club, a site-specific London community theater, has scored the ideal New York venue for its audience-pleasing version of “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Stree…
Allison Janney may be best known for her TV work, but she got her start on stage. Now, after four seasons (and counting) on “Mom” — not to mention the seven seasons she spe…
Andrew Scott's electrifying debut as sing-song psychopathic Moriarty in the BBC’s "Sherlock" opposite Benedict Cumberbatch in 2010 was the most career-changing cameo since Judi Dench's…
Janie Dee, comic royalty on English stages, applies her comedic chops to the title role in “Linda,” a feisty feminist play by Penelope Skinner that originated at London’s R…
Richard III loses his kingdom for want of a horse.  The main character in David Mamet’s new play, "The Penitent," compromises his career because of a typo.  Did this …
Signature Theater stages are currently filled with two quite different end-of-life accountings. In one theater there's Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' expansive, lively and cautionary parable play "…
After last week’s spike from Valentine’s Day and President’s Day, the Broadway box office of several of the street’s biggest shows dipped — but those declines w…
"The Night of the Iguana" is Tennessee Williams' darkly tragicomic 1961 musing on humanity's difficulties in hanging on to love, faith and grace, set on the eve of World War II when all thre…
A concert staging at City Center last fall of Stephen Sondheim’s 1984 Pulitzer Prize-winning musical “Sunday in the Park With George” went swimmingly, with Jake Gyllenhaal …
The problem with many, if not most, family dramas is that the families are so often hateful. Playwright Steven Levenson (book writer of “Dear Evan Hansen”) avoids that trap in &#…
The Geffen Playhouse in L.A. has lined up a 2017-18 season headlined by the world premiere of “Chasing Mem’ries,” a new musical starring Tyne Daly and featuring the songs o…
The playwright Brandon Jacobs-Jenkins (“Gloria,” "An Octoroon") must be concerned about the state of our immortal souls, because his new work, “Everybody” — now…
After a cold spell at the Broadway box office, sales heated up last week thanks to the date-night business around Valentine’s Day and the long-weekend traffic of President’s Day …
Genocide, terrorism, a massacre, and police violence: Those are the not-so-cheery but exceptionally topical catalysts of four new plays opening within weeks of each other and continuing simu…
The Stage Directors and Choreographers Society (SDC), the theatrical union that represents directors and choreographers, has signed on to become an affiliate of the Department of Professiona…
Tracy Letts’ kind and gentle play, “Man From Nebraska,” follows a nondescript Midwesterner who has a mid-life crisis of faith and goes to London to look for his absent God.…
“The Minutes,” the new play by actor and “August: Osage County” writer Tracy Letts, has locked in a Broadway slot in early 2018 with Scott Rudin producing. Anna D. Sh…
The fingerprints of the film industry are all over the new Broadway revival of "Sunday in the Park With George." There's star Jake Gyllenhaal, for one thing. And there's the unheard-of speed…
Singer-songwriter Sara Bareilles will play the lead role in “Waitress,” the Broadway musical for which she wrote the score, during a 10-week run that begins in late March. She…
New Directors/New Films, the annual New York festival of work by emerging filmmakers presented by the Museum of Modern Art and the Film Society of Lincoln Center, has set a 2017 lineup of 29…
With film and TV production in New York City filling local sound stages to capacity, the city will construct a new, 100,000-square-foot production facility as part of a $136 million developm…
Marquee names and musical revivals made waves at the Broadway box office last week, with Glenn Close raking in a hefty tally in the opening week of “Sunset Boulevard” and Jake Gy…
A new production of Harvey Fierstein’s seminal “Torch Song Trilogy” — now simply called “Torch Song” — will open the fall season at Off BroadwayR…
"In & Of Itself," the Frank Oz-directed magic show that played L.A.'s Geffen Playhouse last year, will get an Off Broadway run this spring from a varied team of producers that includes N…
