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At century's end, director-choreographer Susan Stroman and librettist John Weidman developed three stories-in-dance to preexisting recordings, and the resulting show,"Contact," glided away w…
In the final week on the boards, the Broadway revival of “Hedwig and the Angry Inch” went out with a bang — especially compared to the rest of the Street, where a lot of in…
Lucas Hnath’s soul-searching drama, “The Christians,” grabbed the eyeballs at the 2014 Humana Festival. Playwrights Horizons showed faith by opening its season with the…
Broadway saw the inklings of the coming fall rush last week, as previewing musical “Spring Awakening” (pictured above) was joined by Clive Owen in “Old Times” and Sam…
Producers of the Broadway musical “Amazing Grace,” which has struggled with poor sales since it began performances over the summer, have decided to throw in the towel at last, po…
The Broadway community turned out in force Monday to honor Roger Rees at a memorial for the Tony-winning Welsh actor at the New Amsterdam Theater. Actors Bebe Neuwirth, Chita Rivera, Sherie …
Triptyk Studios, the production company involved in the upcoming Broadway musical based on Archie comics, has tapped longtime industry veteran Elie Landau to fill the post of executive produ…
Broadway producer and general manager Stuart Thompson has teamed with his longtime associate David Turner to form Thompson Turner Productions, with the upcoming New York staging of London hi…
Broadway producers have teamed with Sean Hayes’ Hazy Mills Prods. to develop a new play about the Hollywood actor, composer and pianist Oscar Levant, with Hayes in mind to star. ItR…
“Hand to God,” the gleefully dark Broadway comedy about a boy and his potentially satanic hand puppet, will close in January before opening on London’s West End in Fe…
“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…
