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 …
Music Theater International, the American theater licensing agency now broadening its reach with new offices this year in London and Australia, has taken the next step in its global growth w…
If the producers of “On Your Feet! The Story of Emilio and Gloria Estefan” know what’s good for them (odds are, they do), they’re ad-bombing Spanish-language media ou…
The upcoming Broadway production of “Waitress” has filled in its cast with a list of actors that includes Kimiko Glenn, one of the stars of “Orange is the New Black,”…
“The Bandstand,” the new musical currently wrapping up a tryout run at the Paper Mill Playhouse, has set its sights on Broadway, with producers announcing a plan to bring the sho…
The new musical at the Pasadena Playhouse about pop music ambition, "Breaking Through," never breaks out. One-dimensional characters, self-conscious darkness and a story derived from every m…
The Public Theater — the influential downtown institution that has recently provided the launchpad for “Hamilton” and “Fun Home,” as well as the Broadway-bound …
A slew of Broadway favorites — including Faith Prince, Roger Bart, Kerry Butler, Adam Pascal, Kevin Chamberlin and Rachel York — will star on Broadway this spring in the disaster…
Long before the Great Depression caused America's workforce to stall, Eugene O’Neill’s 1922 expressionist sequence of scenes, “The Hairy Ape,” rattled the cages of ca…
Ilana Glazer and Abbi Jacobson, the creators and stars of Comedy Central series “Broad City,” will host the 25th annual Gotham Independent Film Awards. In selecting Glazer and Ja…
Give the prophets of doom some credit: Halloween 2015 turned out to be just as rough on the Broadway box office as they’d expected. The holiday is always pretty scary for Broadwa…
Charles who? Although several notches down from America’s fixation on Princess Diana, our infatuation with the British royal couple, Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, and his lovely D…
Though the name on the marquee of the sold-out run of this world premiere at Connecticut's Hartford Stage is Kevin Bacon, the real stars of “Rear Window” are the windows — …
Glyndebourne has become a British institution: an opera house on a large country estate deep in the heart of the Home Counties. David Hare goes back to its beginnings with a portrait of its …
Being onstage with Keira Knightley can be dangerous. But mostly just for Knightley herself. The actress, making her Broadway debut in the Roundabout Theater Company’s Broadway producti…
Matt Ryan’s got a busy couple of weeks ahead of him. Tonight the actor opens in the Roundabout Theater Company’s Broadway production of “Therese Raquin,” in which …