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Kenneth Branagh proves a born farceur in Sean Foley's adaptation of Francis Veber's classic French farce “The Painkiller.” As an anonymous hitman who holes up in a hotel room …
Tony winner Patina Miller (“Pippin”) and Tony nominee Andrew Rannells (“The Book of Mormon”) will announce the 2016 Tony Awards nominations, set for May 3 at the Diam…
Warner Bros. Theater Ventures has locked in the Broadway plans for its musical “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,” with Jack O’Brien (“Hairspray,” “The C…
Laura Benanti would rather be singing "Vanilla Ice Cream" than starring on "Supergirl." After five years of focusing on TV ("Supergirl," "Nashville," "Nurse Jackie"), the fan-favorite actres…
Can a musical have a half-life? "Miss Atomic Bomb" does, and it's not quite long enough. Set against Nevada's nuclear tests of the 1950s — specifically, the beauty pageants set up in t…
The enduringly popular musical “Wicked” has hit $1 billion at the Broadway box office, 12½ years after it opened in 2003 and snowballed into a global megasmash. The show ha…
Country music superstar Strings McCrane is trying to get real — but in Kenneth Lonergan’s funny, beguiling but overwritten new play "Hold On To Me Darling," reality isn’t o…
Spring really started to heat things up at the Broadway box office last week, with the seasonal influx of city visitors driving a spike in sales — especially at the biggest names most …
Having fun shouldn’t be as exhausting as director Alex Timbers makes it out to be in his overly antic production of “The Robber Bridegroom” at the Roundabout Theater Compan…
It must have seemed like a good idea to adapt “Southern Comfort,” the 2000 film documentary by Kate Davis, into a folk and bluegrass musical. But good ideas don’t always pa…
Forest Whitaker is blessed with an air of warmth and decency that shines through in film roles like the one he played in "The Butler.” Michael Grandage, for lauded his stagings of &…
Back in 1996, Drew Hodges and the New York-based company he founded, SpotCo, were the brash upstarts in the insular world of Broadway marketing. Twenty years later, he has put together a boo…
The much-lauded revival of “Gypsy,” starring Imelda Staunton, and the West End production of American Tony winner “Kinky Boots” led the pack of nominations for London…
“Nerds,” the long-aborning and much-delayed musical comedy about the rivalry of Bill Gates and Steve Jobs, has hit another roadblock, cancelling a Broadway opening that had been …
Sometimes the most powerful fights are the ones we have in our own minds — a fact vividly depicted on stage in “The Royale,” a riveting play by Marco Ramirez (“Dar…
It’s rare for an instant A-lister like Lupita Nyong’o to return to the stage just as her movie career is kicking into high gear. But that’s what Nyong’o did, starring…
Jamie Lloyd is not the first director to cast black actors as Jean Genet's murderous maids. In doing so, he directly contravenes the playwright's advice. Genet warned against flattening a sl…
Longtime Broadway favorite Barbara Cook will bring an evening of songs and stories to Off Broadway this spring in “Barbara Cook: Then and Now,” a new production conceived by J…
It never fails. The minute you sit down to compose a Requiem Mass, Mom and Dad get on your case and perfect strangers show up on the lawn to keep a death watch. That’s the peculiar …
Broadway got a few intimations of its annual spring crush last week, as two notable titles — “Eclipsed” starring Lupita Nyong’o and the Steve Martin-Edie Brickell mus…
The new play by “Eclipsed” writer and “Walking Dead” star Danai Gurira, “Familiar,” is indeed on common turf — in the bosom of a loving family that …
Lincoln Center Theater has come aboard the Broadway revival of “Falsettos,” with the New York nonprofit theater company joining Jujamcyn Theaters to present the show at the Walte…
Broadway megahit “Hamilton” is heading to the White House next week, where the show’s creators and cast will test out plans for the production’s robust educational in…
The Broadway box office showed signs of growth last week — if only in baby steps — as sales began their spring recovery from the deepest depths of winter. It’s around this …
