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“A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder” has mapped out its exit strategy, with producers announcing that the show will play through the fall and shutter in January. …
With barbecues and back-to-school prep distracting potential audiences all weekend, Labor Day tends to be one of Broadway’s more lackluster holidays in terms of the long-weekend …
Whose life is it, anyway? That’s the ethical question that bedevils “Whorl Inside a Loop,” a meta-theater piece by Dick Scanlan and Sherie Rene Scott based on the experienc…
It was unusual back in 2001: A musical arriving on Broadway with a predominantly female leadership team, from the show's top producer to its director to its book writer. It's still pretty ra…
Zachary Levi, the “Chuck” star who’ll appear in NBC’s upcoming fall series “Heroes Reborn,” will step into the Broadway musical “She Loves MeR…
Actors’ Equity Association, the union that represents stage actors and stage managers, has reached a tentative agreement on a new labor contract with the Broadway League, the trade …
Castmates and classmates gathered in Manhattan’s Central Park on a sweltering August afternoon to honor Kyle Jean-Baptiste, the history-making “Les Miserables” actor who di…
“On the Town,” the well-reviewed Broadway musical that has struggled to attract ticketbuyers for much of its time on boards, seems to have found its magic ingredient: Misty…
He’s ready: SpongeBob SquarePants, the massive Nickelodeon property with a fanbase that reaches well beyond its target kiddie demographic, will go from Bikini Bottom to Broadway in …
The highly subscribed suburban Marriott Theater outside Chicago has been making strides over the last decade in developing original musicals, but it gets a jet-propelled thrust into the pote…
Thought you knew "Hamlet"? Think again. Benedict Cumberbatch's prince might have triggered a media frenzy, but make no mistake, this is director Lyndsey Turner's production — and it's …
Kevin Bacon will break a leg this fall in the world premiere of the stage adaptation of "Rear Window," which bows at Hartford Stage
Forest Whitaker, the actor and director who won an Academy Award for his performance in the 2006 film "The Last King of Scotland," will make his Broadway debut
The musical adaptation of 2007 indie film “Waitress” has set its Broadway timeline, snagging the Brooks Atkinson Theater for a run that starts preview in March. The show, with a …
Thom Yorke, the frontman for influential rock band Radiohead, has signed on to write original music for the upcoming Broadway revival of "Old Times" starring Clive Owen. Because Harold Pinte…
“The Bandstand,” the new musical directed and choreographed by “Hamilton” choreographer Andy Blankenbuehler, has locked in its casting in a trio of roles, with Laura …
How do you celebrate a Founding Father? With fireworks, of course. And the producers of ultrahot Broadway musical “Hamilton” obliged, capping the show’s opening night party…
Cell phones in Broadway theaters: What are people thinking? Now we know, sort of, thanks to a publicity-stunt press conference during which one cell phone offender — the guy who tried …
Deaf West Theater’s well-received production of Tony-winning musical “Spring Awakening” has set the dates for a Broadway run, snapping up the Brooks Atkinson Theater for an…
Harvey Fierstein is a playwright and an actor who has won Tonys for his works "Torch Song Trilogy" and "La Cage aux Folles." His show "Kinky Boots" is currently playing on Broadway. When I w…
Another play about the coming of age of an artistically inclined boy? Bor-ring. Douglas Carter Beane tries to minimize the ho-hum factor in “Shows for Days,” his own entry …
Jonathan Groff has appeared in plenty of projects onscreen and onstage "Â "Looking," "The Normal Heart," "A New Brain" "Â that seem like they've helped pave the way for the Supreme Court…
If Gurinder Chadha's Brit flick "Bend It Like Beckham," which gave the world one Keira Knightley, seems an odd choice for a musical adaptation, it actually works a lot better on stage than o…
There is some corner of a playing field that is forever England in the new play by Patrick Marber ("Closer"), his first in more than eight years, which turns a dysfunctional non-league socce…
