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“The Humans,” the Stephen Karam play that won raves in its current Off Broadway run, has locked in dates for its anticipated Broadway transfer, starting performances in January a…
The team that brought L.A. audiences “Cruel Intentions: The Musical” and “The Unauthorized O.C. Musical” is at it again, lining up “The Unauthorized ‘Frid…
Add more Arthur Miller to the Broadway slate: The Arthur Miller Foundation will celebrate the centennial of the playwright’s birth with a starry benefit featuring Alec Baldwin, Ellen B…
Old-fashioned Broadway is embracing newfangled virtual reality, in the hopes that the fashionable 3D-imaging technique will add up to real-life ticket sales. Last week, "The Lion King" relea…
The Tony Awards have set dates and switched venues for their 2016 edition, returning to the Beacon Theater on Manhattan’s Upper West Side for a ceremony that will air live on CBS June …
“If I were a rich man,” goes the song from “Fiddler on the Roof” — and to judge by the first few performances of the new Broadway revival, this “Fiddler&#…
Theatre du Chatelet, the Paris opera house where Broadway’s “An American in Paris” premiered, has teamed with Harvey Weinstein’s Weinstein Live Entertainment to br…
The musical “Motown” has set a theater and a timeframe for its Broadway return, mapping out an 18-week run that starts in July 2016 at the Nederlander Theater. When the musica…
Producers of the Broadway musical “Dames at Sea” are abandoning ship, posting a closing notice for early January following several weeks of struggle at the box office. There̵…
Edward Albee seemed to have shattered the last social taboo with “The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia?”, his absurdist drama about a happily married man who discovers an even greater happ…
Sony's Tom Rothman threw a few punches of behalf of the studio's upcoming release "Concussion" and zeroed in on the issues in the movie business that keep him tossing and turning at night, s…
The world premiere stage adaptation of John Kennedy Toole’s picaresque, posthumously published, Pulitzer Prize-winning novel "A Confederacy of Dunces" is very much like its lead charac…
“Miss Saigon,” one of the wave of Brit-produced megamusicals that swept Broadway in the 1980s and early 90s, has set its sights on a Broadway return in spring 2017. The show, whi…
New York’s Roundabout Theater Company has scheduled a Broadway run of “Holiday Inn,” the stage musical developed from the 1942 movie under the auspices of Universal Stage P…
The Roundabout Theater Company has lined up two plays for its 2016-17 season from a couple of playwrights currently attracting buzz for work running in New York this season — Stephen K…
Broadway’s “The Lion King” will release a virtual reality video of the show’s opening number, “Circle of Life,” on a handful of digital platforms tomor…
Andrew Lloyd Webber, Jennifer Hudson and two familiar properties added up to strong initial showings at the Broadway box office for musicals “School of Rock” and “The…
"Modern Family" star Jesse Tyler Ferguson will return to Broadway this spring in a new production of "Fully Committed," the restaurant-world comedy by Becky Mode.
"Modern Family" star Jesse Tyler Ferguson will return to Broadway this spring in a new production of "Fully Committed," the restaurant-world comedy by Becky Mode. Ferguson, who got his start…
For a thriller, the Broadway production of “Misery” sure gets a lot of laughs. And that’s just how the creative team of the show, which stars Bruce Willis in his Broadway d…
The eek! factor is largely missing from “Misery,” starring a laid-back Bruce Willis as the bed-bound author held hostage by his “greatest fan,” played here by Laurie …
If you’re going to have an opening night party for the Broadway revival of Arthur Miller’s “A View from the Bridge,” it doesn’t hurt to throw it under an actual…
Breathe, everybody, breathe! Audiences really need to be reminded of that at the end of Ivo Van Hove’s magnificent production for the Young Vic of “A View From the Bridge,”…
It’s early yet in the 2015-16 Broadway season, but the Tony Awards Administration Committee has already made decisions that will influence the 2016 trophy race, including which p…
Two major musical-theater names, Patti LuPone and Christine Ebersole, have signed on to star in the world premiere of “War Paint,” the new musical by the creative team of &…
