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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 &…
Extended out-of-town tryouts are the stuff of legend — but 36 years? “Shear Madness,” the audience-participation murder mystery with franchises all over the country and…
These days, Broadway looks so diverse, it's like an episode of "Orange Is the New Black." Just last week, "Allegiance," a musical set during the Japanese-American internments of WWII, and st…
You might call “You Me Bum Bum Train” the ride of a lifetime — only that would be underselling it. It's the ride of several lifetimes at once. Morgan Lloyd a…
Men, don’t take your husbands to see “Dada Woof Papa Hot” at Lincoln Center Theater if either or both of you are on the fence about having children. Playwright Peter Pa…
After the sock in the jaw that was Halloween, Broadway box office picked up considerably last week with nearly every show on the boards rising, including “On Your Feet!,” the …
"I don't have a bucket list anymore!" George Takei declared after the Broadway opening of "Allegiance."
“China Doll,” the new Broadway play written by David Mamet and starring Al Pacino, has pushed back its opening by about two weeks in the midst of rumors of trouble during its pre…
“I don’t have a bucket list anymore!” George Takei declared after the Broadway opening of “Allegiance.” That’s because the new musical, which centers on o…
The strength of “Allegiance” is in the story. Not the musical’s book, which is no more than serviceable, but the disturbing real-life events behind it.  After the bom…
Kenneth Branagh has a habit of occupying West End theaters. In 1988, his actor-led company Renaissance Theatre took over the Phoenix for a season, challenging the commercial sector with its …