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“Bandstand,” the musical that premiered at the Paper Mill Playhouse last year, has joined the throng of new musicals crowding in to the 2016-17 Broadway season, lining up an Apri…
Donna Murphy has signed on to perform the lead role in the upcoming Broadway revival of “Hello, Dolly!” at Tuesday performances beginning in June, alternating with headliner B…
If ever a show caught the national mood, it's this — “Little England: The Musical” by another name. Adapted by Julian Fellowes (“Downton Abbey”) with a score by…
Kenneth Lonergan’s “Manchester by the Sea” topped the nominations for the 2016 Gotham Awards, the indie-centric trophies handed out annually by the Independent Filmmaker Pr…
Mike Bartlett’s play “Love, Love, Love,” now playing at the Roundabout Theater Company, takes an amused (and slightly horrified) look at the boomer generation as it arrogan…
Beanie Feldstein, the actress who appeared in “Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising,” has been cast in “Hello, Dolly!,” the upcoming Broadway revival starring Bette Midler. F…
Writer-performer Sarah Jones is amazing. In her 2005 solo show, “Bridge & Tunnel,” she gave life to a cross-section of immigrants who get by in the city by living under the r…
Allison Janney will lead the cast of a Broadway revival of “Six Degrees of Separation” this spring, co-starring with John Benjamin Hickey in a new production of the 1990 John Gua…
A retro genre piece, crisply adapted by David Hare, "The Red Barn" at London's National Theater watches as a man comes unstuck. Provincial lawyer Donald Dood (Mark Strong) hits mid-life only…
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-…
