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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…
It may never snow on Sunset Boulevard, but it does on Broadway, where “Sunset Boulevard,” starring Glenn Close, opened Feb. 9 despite a winter storm that dumped a foot of snow on…
Glenn Close makes a triumphant return to the star role of Norma Desmond in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “Sunset Boulevard,” a once-in-a-lifetime role that won her a Tony Award in …
When Tony winner Leslie Odom Jr. played Aaron Burr in Broadway's "Hamilton," he seethed. Joshua Henry, who originally played the part in Chicago and will reprise the role in the upcoming tou…
She's a Mexican-born writer, tenacious, insecure, a "diversity hire" for a popular television detective program. He's an American-born janitor of Mexican heritage who works the night shift a…
“Love Never Dies,” Andrew Lloyd Webber’s sequel to his long-running smash musical “The Phantom of the Opera,” will play the Hollywood Pantages next season, wher…
The Super Bowl is always a tough time at the Broadway box office — but you’d never know it to look at “Hamilton,” the megahit that saw sales spike as its new premium …
As cinema chains explore new ways to expand and eventize the moviegoing experience, a new venture will look to the past, creating a massive indoor replica of a 1960s American drive-in theate…
The hit London stage adaptation of “1984,” the George Orwell novel that has suddenly become a bestseller in the age of Trump, will come to Broadway this summer in a production ba…
The New York Comedy Festival has found a new network partner in TBS, the Turner cabler that will integrate its talent into the festival — including Conan O’Brien, whose latenight…
Even tucked away in her dressing room deep in the basement of Broadway's Palace Theater, it proved impossible for Glenn Close to ignore what was happening in the outside world on a recent Fr…
It sounded like a stunt. Last year, the English National Opera, cash-strapped and hungry for a big draw, produced a semi-staged revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber's 1993 musical "Sunset Boulevar…
A lawsuit brought against the producers of “Hamilton” and the owners of the theater in which it’s playing has turned attention to issues of accessibility for disabled Broad…
The barking dog locked in the next room isn't the only animal neglected in Anna Jordan's bleak, brutal yet surprisingly tender play "Yen," making its American premiere in a powerfully acted …
The Broadway box office barely budged last week, as a small slate of about 20 shows held steady in the days before the spring’s stars — among them Glenn Close, Sally Field and Ja…
