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…
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…