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Two stage producers hope to usher Broadway fare into the digital streaming era with BroadwayHD, a new subscription and on-demand service that launches today.
The service kicks off with a li…
Two stage producers hope to usher Broadway fare into the digital streaming era with BroadwayHD, a new subscription and on-demand service that launches today. The service kicks off with a lib…
Two stage producers hope to usher Broadway fare into the digital streaming era with BroadwayHD, a new subscription and on-demand service that launches today.
Two stage producers hope to usher Broadway fare into the digital streaming era with BroadwayHD, a new subscription and on-demand service that launches today. The service kicks off with…
“Harry Potter and the Cursed Child,” the Harry Potter play due to open in the West End in the summer of 2016, will be a two-part epic set 19 years after J.K. Rowling’s seve…
How cruel, to make comparisons with a legendary star! How unkind! How unfair! Well, tough luck, because here it comes: the new leading lady of “Dames at Sea” is no Bernadette Pet…
Every year Chicago theater heats up as the weather begins to cool, but this autumn has quickly turned especially hot with high quality work, most all of it original. The likes of David R…
The Manhattan Theater Club presumably commissioned “Ripcord” from playwright David Lindsay-Abaire to give their faithful subscription audience a subject dear to their own hearts.…
“Bright Star,” the bluegrass musical by Steve Martin and Edie Brickell, has locked in its Broadway details, setting a March opening with a cast headed by Carmen Cusack, who origi…
Lupita Nyong’o will take her passion project “Eclipsed” all the way to Broadway, with the play — written by Danai Gurira, the playwright who is also a star of “…
In a Broadway box office frame when many musicals saw shrinkage following a long-weekend holiday, plays stood out as the shows gaining momentum, with productions including “King Charle…
Jim Dooley, a composer and songwriter who works regularly in TV, has acquired the musical theater rights to “Witch’s Night Out,” a 1978 animated special that starred the…
Daniel Craig will go from Bond to Iago next fall when he stars opposite David Oyelowo in an Off Broadway production of “Othello,” to be directed by Tony winner Sam Gold. Craig, w…
Matthew Broderick is becoming as much a fixture on Broadway as the TKTS booth. After nine months in starry smash "It's Only a Play" last season, he's back this fall in dog comedy "Sylvia," t…
It can safely be said that the Roundabout Theater Company’s Broadway revival of Harold Pinter’s “Old Times,” starring Clive Owen, Eve Best and Kelly Reilly, opened Oc…
The Roundabout Theater Company’s Broadway revival of "Old Times" can’t possibly miss. Â Harold Pinter’s three-handed battle for sexual dominance, first performed on Broad…
Bob Saget has signed on to join the cast of Broadway play “Hand to God,” stepping for the Tony-nominated comedy’s final months before the show ends it runs in January. Sage…
With two new plays joining the Broadway fray — including Keira Knightley making her Broadway debut in “Therese Raquin” — overall sales ticked upward following a week …
A perfect storm of factors, from the pope to the United Nations to the end of Broadway week, combined to hold back Broadway box office, pushing down both sales and attendance. The vast major…
John Krasinski will make his stage debut at the Public Theater this spring in “Dry Powder,” a new play to be staged by “Hamilton” director Thomas Kail. Krasinsk…
Things got physical at the Oct. 8 opening night of Manhattan Theater Club's revival of Sam Shepard's 1983 play "Fool for Love." Shepard's assault-and-battery story about tormented lovers Edd…
Robert O’Hara’s cruelly funny new play, “Barbecue,” shrewdly turns the formula for the American domestic comedy on its head, forcing uneasy thoughts about the facile …
Jeff Daniels and Michelle Williams will star in a Broadway staging of “Blackbird,” the David Harrower play to be directed by Joe Mantello (“Wicked”). Scott Rudin, the…
Love hurts — quite literally, in the Manhattan Theater Club's highly physicalized revival of Sam Shepard’s 1983 play “Fool for Love.” The production originat…
The Araca Group, the Broadway producer and merchandising firm, has launched a new division, Araca Media & Entertainment, to develop and manage Broadway-inspired entertainment properties …