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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&#…
Sadie Thompson, that naughty lady of Pago-Pago, has had the struggle over her soul dramatized innumerable times on stage and screen since Somerset Maugham created her in his 1921 short story…
Oscar Isaac, the “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” actor who will next be seen on the bigscreen as the titular baddie in “X-Men: Apocalypse,” will play Hamlet in a 2017 …
Dame Judi Dench is now the winningest performer in the history of the Olivier Awards, the London equivalent of the Tony Awards. The actress picked up her eighth Olivier during an April 3 cer…
There’s bound to be head-scratching over Ivo van Hove’s peculiar Broadway production of “The Crucible,” Arthur Miller’s towering 1953 drama about the infamous 1…
A trio of Broadway veterans will head up the cast of the upcoming Broadway revival of “Falsettos,” with Christian Borle, Andrew Rannells and Stephanie J. Block on board to pla…
Mobile gaming and musical theater: Two great tastes that taste great together? That's the premise of "Peter Panic!," a new videogame in which let's-put-on-a-show dreams are achieved with …
“An Act of God,” the stage comedy that had a successful limited run on Broadway last year with Jim Parsons, will be back in New York come May, with Sean Hayes now filling t…
Nathan Lane and John Slattery will lead the starry cast of an upcoming Broadway revival of “The Front Page,” opening in New York in the fall with Scott Rudin producing. John Good…
BroadwayHD, the stage-centric subscription and on-demand service that launched last year, will take its latest step on the challenging path toward establishing itself as a Netflix for Broadw…
With the Easter holiday prodding the overall Broadway box office to rise again, the new musical “Waitress” had a hearty debut, averaging a whopping $140,000 per performance in…
The Broadway musical “Bright Star” had a couple of unannounced cast members for its opening night performance March 24: Steve Martin and Edie Brickell, who wrote the show, and jo…
A little bit of bluegrass music is quite enough of a good thing, so it’s just bad luck that “Bright Star,” a new musical by Steve Martin and Edie Brickell based on their 20…
John Legend has signed on to co-produce an Off Broadway production of “Turn Me Loose,” a new play about comedian and civil rights activist Dick Gregory, in a staging that will st…
Producers of of the Carole King musical “Beautiful” are targeting Broadway with a new musical adaptation of Audrey Hepburn film “Roman Holiday,” featuring Cole Porter…
What language are these people speaking, anyway? The equity traders in Sarah Burgess’ frighteningly funny play, “Dry Powder,” converse in the private jargon of the finan…
