The National Endowment for the Arts and longtime theater-industry executive Miles Wilkin will received the 2016 Special Tony Awards. These specials prizes are part of a slate of awards ha…
Paper Mill Playhouse has been named the winner of the 2016 Regional Theater Tony Award, the annual trophy handed out to companies beyond the Broadway world on which the Tony Awards focus. Lo…
Watching “Dear Evan Hansen,” now playing at Off Broadway’s Second Stage Theater, is like falling down a rabbit hole that leads back to high school. Steven Levenson’s …
Rajiv Joseph’s play “Guards at the Taj,” seen at the Atlantic Theater Company last year, and the Roundabout Theater Company’s revival of “The Robber Bridgeroom&…
Now that we finally know what "Shuffle Along" is, Broadway can get down to what it does best: gossiping and prognosticating about awards season. With nominations for the 2016 Tony Awards set…
"It's been like learning about family members you didn't know you had." That's how six-time Tony winner Audra McDonald described working on the Broadway musical "Shuffle Along," which capped…
David Schrader, the longtime executive at Disney Theatrical Productions, will depart his current position as the company’s exec vice president/managing director next month to strike ou…
“Shuffle Along” has been deemed a new musical in the upcoming Tony Awards race — thereby putting the freshly opened show, from a formidable team of creators and performers,…
"Elegy"Â might be described as a memory play — not because it recalls the past but because it is a play that remembers. As in his earlier play "Constellations" (seen on Broadway last…
"Shuffle Along" is to die for. Subtitled "The Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed," the dance-drunk show (choreographed by Savion Glover) recounts the perilous jour…
The well-received Roundabout Theater Company revival of “She Loves Me” led the nominations for the 2016 Drama Desk Awards, pulling in nine nods including best musical revival, pl…
When you've got big names like Jessica Lange, Michael Shannon, Gabriel Byrne and John Gallagher Jr. starring in "Long Day's Journey Into Night" on Broadway, some equally big names will show …
The tenderness between Gabriel Byrne, in the towering role of the fading Broadway actor James Tyrone, and Jessica Lange, as his beloved but tormented wife Mary, brings welcome relief from th…
With "Matilda" exiting Broadway in January, there's a new singing pre-teen hoping to generate the same family-audience appeal. But whether Winnie Foster, the main character in the new musica…
Andrew Keenan-Bolger wears a lot of hats. At 30, the fan-favorite stage actor ("Newsies") and star of the Broadway musical "Tuck Everlasting" is also an early digital-media adopter, a childr…
The Broadway musical "Waitress," earning a heaping helping of positive reviews in the wake of its April 24 opening, is so fresh out of the oven that it'll have theatergoers believing they ac…
Must theater sell its soul for new audiences? Director Jamie Lloyd has made it his mission to bring a new generation into theater, but at what price? Canny casting pulls in a young crowd; fl…
The theater industry may be in the final throes of activity before the Tony Awards nominations are announced May 3 — but right now, the brand-new big-earner at the Broadway box offi…
Jesse Tyler Ferguson, the star of ABC’s “Modern Family,” takes his shot at “Fully Committed,” Becky Mode’s tour-de-force-for-solo-actor about the travails…
The Broadway musical “Waitress,” earning a heaping helping of positive reviews in the wake of its April 24 opening, is so fresh out of the oven that it’ll have theatergoers…
“Waitress” owes its sweetness to the mouth-watering goodness of Jessie Mueller. As a diner waitress named Jenna, Mueller is such a honey bun, she melts us like the mounds of butt…
If Ivo van Hove's "Roman Tragedies" was a surprising medley of Shakespeare plays, his "Kings of War" history cycle, now running at London’s Barbican Center, is altogether more familiar…
Writer Jen Silverman is the recipient of the 2016-17 PoNY Fellowship, the annual playwrighting grant endowed with notably robust support (including a rent-free year in a Manhattan apartment)…
Broadway mourned Prince last night, as musicals “Hamilton” and “The Color Purple” took a moment during their curtain calls to honor the late musician with performance…
There’s no heart but lots of blood in "American Psycho," Duncan Sheik and Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa’s witty musical treatment of the scandalous 1991 novel by Bret Easton Ellis (and …