Mia Michaels, the choreographer best known for her work on “So You Can Think You Can Dance,” has taken the reins of the new live production featuring the Rockettes, a summer s…
Chances are you’ve never heard of Hazel Ellis. And why should you? The Irish actress-playwright only wrote two plays, and after her second, “Women Without Men,” was produce…
We’re still seven weeks away from the Tony nominations on May 3, but this year’s competition is already a horse race. “Hamilton,” which opened all the way back in …
Was it love " or was it statutory rape? That’s the loaded question at the heart of Scottish playwright David Harrower’s profoundly unsettling drama, “Blackbird,” whic…
George C. Wolfe, the director-writer at the helm of the upcoming, starry Broadway musical “Shuffle Along,” will be honored by the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center with the 201…
Chicago swooned over an earlier production of “Smokefall,” a work written by playwright-screenwriter Noah Haidle (“Stand Up Guys”) and pristinely directed at Off B…
With fewer tourists in town to pack into big-name musical crowdpleasers, plays got a little room to breath at the Broadway box office last week as nonmusical titles, including well-received …
“Nice Fish” is both the title and the punchline of the deliriously funny existential ruminations that Mark Rylance (currently up for an acting Oscar for “Bridge of Spies…
The formula for a family-reunion play goes like this: Multiple generations of a clan get together for a holiday, air their dirty laundry at dinner, start fighting over dessert and at t…
Actor-turned-director Joe Mantello is among New York's most regularly employed stage directors, but even so, things are unusually busy for him this spring. His critically lauded staging of S…
Sandy Duncan has made a hasty exit from Broadway musical “Finding Neverland,” with its producers — led by Harvey Weinstein — battling rumors that she quit with a stat…
Director Robert Icke has become the great hope of British theater. The 29-year-old has a rare talent for tapping into a text's driving forces. He staged "1984" not as a possible future, but …
We know “a Sam Shepard actor” when we see one. He’s lean and weather-beaten and never far from a bottle. A mean look in his eye suggests he might be dangerous, or maybe jus…
After taking a bruising the previous week, the Broadway box office bounced back in a big way last week — thanks to valentines and presidents. Valentine’s Day always bring a sp…
“Come from Away,” the musical that earned enthusiastic reviews in an initial co-production at La Jolla Playhouse and Seattle Repertory Theater, has mapped out a road to Broadway,…
It’s not a stretch to imagine a musical version of "A Bronx Tale.” The 1993 film adaptation of Chazz Palminteri’s autobiographical one-man play — about growing up in …
Matthew Perry’s playwriting debut “The End of Longing” opened on the West End last night — and many London critics weren’t kind. The play, in which Perry also s…
In the run-up to "The End of Longing," the West End play written by and starring Matthew Perry, the actor-playwright let slip that he can't remember filming three seasons of "Friends," such …
It’s a common belief that analyzing what’s funny is not particularly funny. Mike Birbiglia proves the exception to the rule in his new solo show at Off Broadway's Lynn Redgrave T…
Four attractive urban professionals cross paths, flirt, make love, wrestle with racial issues and talk their way in and out of romantic relationships without quite committing themselves. Sou…
Ash Wednesday, the Christian calendar's annual reminder of life's transitory nature, seems a provocative choice for unveiling "An Act of God" at the Ahmanson. But if offense was intended, no…
Theater names Audra McDonald and Harold Prince are among the inaugural class of inductees at Lincoln Center’s new performing arts-focused hall of fame, Legends at Lincoln Center. Ja…
The New York theater scene is halfway to a “Dawson’s Creek” reunion. Thirteen years after the WB teen drama called it quits, Michelle Williams, who played Dawson’s ne…
The stage musical adaptation of Disney animated megahit "Frozen" is targeting a Broadway opening in spring 2018, following an out-of-town tryout in the summer of 2017, with exact dates still…
Danai Gurira doesn't need a sword to be formidable. Take away the dreadlocks and the katana of Michonne, the fan-favorite character she plays on "The Walking Dead," and Gurira proves brainy,…