Josh Groban will make his Broadway debut in “Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812,” gearing up to return to New York in September 2016. An uber-successful crooner who&#…
The opening night audience for Broadway’s “The Color Purple” didn’t wait for the curtain call to give the show a standing ovation. They rose to their feet during the …
Forget the looking glass. Blur frontman Damon Albarn and playwright Moira Buffini take us through "Black Mirror" territory in "Wonder.land," their musical reboot of "Alice in Wonderland." Re…
The ladies wear the pants in John Doyle’s ravishing revival of “The Color Purple.” Jennifer Hudson is radiant as the love machine Shug Avery. Danielle Brooks shakes the hou…
Tonight the Off Broadway musical “Daddy Long Legs” will become the first show, on or Off Broadway, to live stream a full performance, free of charge on any computer or mobile dev…
Christmases past, present and future have one thing in common: Someone, somewhere will be staging Charles Dickens' seasonal favorite “A Christmas Carol.” It's that creaky over-fa…
Sam Mendes has withdrawn as the director of the incoming Broadway production of “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,” the musical that he directed in its premiere production in Lo…
“The Man Who Fell to Earth,” the 1976 Nicolas Roeg movie starring an impossibly young and beautiful David Bowie, was initially a 1963 novel by Walter Tevis. Â In writing “…
Under the far better title of “Fat Camp,” “Gigantic” won the Best of Fest Award at the 2009 New York Musical Theater Festival. The perky charms of this offbeat musica…
In these days of tight budgets and straitened circumstances, theater artists coast to coast are scaling back reliable warhorses. The hope is always to find something new and true in well-wor…
Kids and guitars and rock ‘n’ roll? That’s a slam dunk — just ask the enthusiastic crowd at the opening night of the Broadway version of “School of Rock.”…
“School of Rock” took a tumble at the Broadway box office last week — but nobody’s expecting the show to stay down for long. The new musical from Andrew Lloyd Webber …
Andrew Lloyd Webber unleashed his inner child to write the period rock for “School of Rock,” an exuberant feel-good musical based on the beloved 2003 movie starring Jack Black as…
When Fanny Brice's boss tries to make a joke of her dowdy looks, dolling her up as a deluded bride convinced of her beauty, his comic star takes him to task. "They're supposed to laugh…
Like most of the Internet, Ali Stroker, a cast member in the Deaf West Theater revival of “Spring Awakening,” had a strong reaction to Kylie Jenner’s controversial ph…
In 2005, an actor named Griffin Matthews volunteered to work at an orphanage in Uganda and returned home to start his own charitable organization. The writer-performer drew on that episod…
With the addition of choreographer Lorin Latarro, the incoming musical “Waitress” has put together what’s being touted as Broadway’s first all-female creative team. L…
You’d think Lin-Manuel Miranda, the creator and star of Broadway hypemagnet “Hamilton,” would have hit peak pop-culture saturation by now, but then he had to go and top …
Helen Mirren spiced up the 2015 Gotham Awards ceremony with an acceptance speech that ranged from bawdy to funny to serious, getting in a dig at Donald Trump while she was at it. She slipped…
Four hard-working actors, ably assisted by a resourceful costumer and a nimble props master, make a mighty effort to play the 20-plus characters in “New York Animals.” Steven …
The holiday bounty on Broadway last week included a new Thanksgiving attendance record, with close to 290,000 theatergoers adding up to the best-attended Turkey Day week ever recorded.…
Routinely described as Britain's greatest living playwright — arguably in a job-share with Tom Stoppard — Caryl Churchill can do in a 45-minute triptych what most writers take th…
Playwright Patrick Barlow had a big, surprise hit with his stage version of “The 39 Steps,” racking up nine years in the West End and two more on Broadway, gleefully sending up i…
Does getting chased by zombies feel any less terrifying if the undead have experimental theater credits? Probably not. But even if most theater people might not have "The Walking Dead Experi…
Wallace Shawn is up to his old tricks again: pricking the conscience of right-on, left-leaning theatergoers. No one does that better than this impish, idiosyncratic polymath, who, at 72, sti…