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“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 …
If you’re making a stage musical of “American Psycho,” one thing’s for sure: There will be blood. But that raises a whole host of questions: How do you make stage blo…
"Hamilton," "School of Rock," "American Psycho" and "Waitress" are among the Broadway nominees vying for the new musical trophy at the 2016 Drama League Awards, with plays "The Humans," "Ecl…
“American Psycho,” the Broadway musical that opens Thursday, and the well-received revival of “She Loves Me” topped the list of 2016 Outer Critics Circle Awards nomin…
Sheldon Harnick, the lyricist of Broadway musicals including “Fiddler on the Roof,” and Circle Repertory Company founder Marshall W. Mason will be the recipients of the 2016 T…
Liev Schreiber and Janet McTeer will lead the cast of “Les Liaison Dangereuses” on Broadway this fall, with Schreiber cast as the Machiavellian seducer Valmont. The actor steps i…
“Hamilton,” the Broadway smash that’s looked like an awards-season favorite from the moment it opened, has been awarded the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Although it’…
Can Cirque du Soleil sell on Broadway? Looks like it, at least judging from the one preview that new Cirque show “Paramour” has performed so far. “Paramour” —…
Original cast members of the Broadway megasmash "Hamilton" have reached a deal with the show's producers, led by Jeffrey Seller, to share in profits of the production, which has been one of …
Cirque du Soleil has joined the raft of entertainment-industry companies and individuals pressuring South Carolina to repeal recent legislation that is seen by many to be anti-LGBT, with the…
“Anastasia,” the new musical inspired by 20th Century Fox’s 1997 animated film, has made its Broadway intentions plain, with producers announcing a plan to arrive in New Yo…
Original cast members of the Broadway megasmash “Hamilton” have reached a deal with the show’s producers, led by Jeffrey Seller, to share in profits of the production, whic…
The president of Lincoln Center, Jed Bernstein, has suddenly stepped down from the post after about three years in the job. The former head of the Broadway League and a Broadway producer, Be…
Frank Langella has made a brilliant stage career of playing monumental heroes and villains, from King Lear to Count Dracula. So it makes sense that he would tackle the greatest hero-villain …
Broadway musical “Matilda” will close in January, following a run that saw the show become a popular destination for family audiences and city visitors seeking something quirkier…
Attorney Seth Gelblum, vocal coach Joan Lader and costume shop proprietor Sally Ann Parsons have been named the 2016 recipients of the Tony Honors for Excellence, the special annual awards h…
News plays by Pulitzer winner Annie Baker, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins and Will Eno, plus revivals of a series of plays by another Pulitzer winner, Suzan-Lori Parks, as well as one by Athol Fu…
Daniel Radcliffe will be the latest big-name screen actor to show up onstage at the Public Theater, the Off Broadway company that has recently hosted Lupita Nyong’o (“Eclipsed…
The Eugene O’Neill Theater Center’s National Playwrights Conference has lined up an eight-play slate for 2016 that includes a new work by Keith Huff, the “Mad Men”…
Broadway’s overall sales took a breather last week, but its new spring shows ramped up, with highs hit by titles including “Waitress” and “Shuffle Along” as pre…
Before playwright Tracy Letts and director Anna D. Shapiro teamed up at Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theater for the explosive, Tony and Pulitzer-winning family drama "August: Osage County…
