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“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…
The current Broadway production of “Blackbird,” starring Michelle Williams and Jeff Daniels, has been deemed a revival by the Tony Awards Administration Committee, while Jennifer…
Heather Headley, the theater-fan favorite who hasn’t had an ongoing Broadway role since she won a 2000 Tony Award for “Aida,” will take over for Jennifer Hudson in “T…
Jesse Eisenberg will reprise his role in his own play this summer in London, where “The Spoils” will open in June in a transfer that will star Eisenberg and a fellow member of th…
"Sunset Boulevard" made Glenn Close an icon of musical theater. Twenty-three years later, at age 69, she returns to a part that, she claims, has "haunted" her ever since — former scree…
The Broadway production of “The Glass Menagerie,” with Cherry Jones reprising her lead role, will be the centerpiece of the 2016 Edinburgh International Festival. The American Re…
Anne Washburn writes weird plays, and “Antlia Pneumatica” is no exception, although it does seem more grounded in reality than her post-apocalyptic “Mr. Burns.” In th…
Last week's firestorm about the casting notice for the Broadway juggernaut “Hamilton” was frustrating, disappointing, enlightening and educational. On its face, it was a simple d…
Diane Lane will lead the cast of the Roundabout Theater Company’s upcoming revival of Anton Chekhov’s “The Cherry Orchard.” As a child, Lane made her Broadway debut i…
Last week Jessica Lange and Jesse Tyler Ferguson led the final push of new shows in Broadway’s 2015-16 season, with three titles — “Long Day’s Journey Into Night&#…
