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Big Broadway names — and a lot of Hollywood A-listers, too — hit the boards Monday night for “Stronger Together,” a one-night-only fundraiser performance for the Hill…
Oil seems to us a fact of life: Having never known a world without it, we take it as a given and we take it for granted. Ella Hickson's audacious stage epic, “Oil,” tilts time…
Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Really Useful Group has named Broadway producer Ken Davenport the company’s executive director for North America, giving him a role in the oversight ofÂ…
Individual productions had their ups and downs, but the overall Broadway box office held steady last week as three plays opened — “Oh, Hello on Broadway,” “Heisenb…
The starry Broadway fundraiser for the Hillary Clinton campaign, “Stronger Together,” will live-stream online, showcasing a just-announced set list that includes a rewritten &…
Actresses love to play Madame Ranevskaya, the enchanting idiot who dithers away the family estate in Anton Chekhov’s “The Cherry Orchard.” Film star Diane Lane (best rememb…
The Film Society of Lincoln Center has named Robert De Niro the recipient of its 44th annual Chaplin Award, which honors major industry talents. De Niro will take home the 2017 trophy for a …
The Manhattan Theater Club production of "The Encounter" opened on Broadway Oct. 13, following well-received Off Broadway run last year. Marilyn Stasio’s review of that ear…
“War Paint,” the new musical about dueling titans of the cosmetic industry, has staked out a spot in the 2016-17 Broadway season, snagging the Nederlander Theater for an April…
Disney Theatrical Productions has made profit-sharing offers to the actors slated to appear in an upcoming developmental lab of “Frozen,” the Broadway-bound stage musical adaptat…
The long Columbus Day weekend gave the Broadway box office a nice jolt last week, with overall sales shooting up 13% as tourist-magnet titles posted major gains and the one new a…
“Clue,” the Hasbro board game and 1985 movie it inspired, is headed to the stage in a new play penned by the movie’s writer-director, Jonathan Lynn, and bowing regionally a…
Imagine it: You're standing in front of 850 people, and you can't get your words out. The moment might provoke awkwardness or discomfort in a lot of audiences, but not the one that gathers t…
John Mulaney have taken their cult hit, “Oh, Hello,” to mainstream Broadway's Lyceum Theater, a “famously haunted theater,” according to the new residents. Their pre-…
The Broadway debut of Gil Faizon and George St. Geegland is long, long overdue — at least according to Gil and George, the 70-something Upper West Siders played by Nick Kroll and John …
“I don’t know what’s going on but I’ll just go along with it,” a character says in Steve Martin’s “Meteor Shower,” opening at New Haven’…
You could see the usual Broadway faces — Andy Karl, Laura Osnes, Rachel York — in the opening night audience of the Roundabout Theater Company's production of "Holiday Inn" Oct. …
Laurie Metcalf, Chris Cooper, recent Tony winner Jayne Houdyshell and Condola Rashad will star this spring in "A Doll's House, Part 2," a new play by Lucas Hnath that debuts this spring in a…
“Holiday Inn,” the 1942 film that starred Fred Astaire, Bing Crosby and a calendar full of Irving Berlin tunes, has gotten a complete and first-class stage redo at Roundabout The…
The Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. has tapped Jeffrey Finn, the Broadway producer behind shows including “An Act of God,” as its vice president of theater producing and progr…
The Broadway box office held steady last week, with the ups and downs at individual shows contributing to a slight overall rise in cumulative sales as one new title, “Falsettos,R…
Gordon Davidson, who in many ways shaped the Los Angeles theater scene as the head of the Center Theatre Group, died Oct. 2 at 83. Under his stewardship for nearly 40 years, CTG became a maj…
Variety raised a glass to “Hamilton” creator Lin-Manuel Miranda Saturday night in celebration of the world premiere of “Hamilton’s America,” director Alex Horwi…
Ava DuVernay’s “13th” opened the 54th New York Film Festival with a jolt of topical urgency, shaking up tradition as the first documentary to kick off the festival and addr…
