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"The Audience" marks Helen Mirren's return to Broadway after almost 15 years, and on the play's opening night March 8, the audience at "The Audience" was chuffed indeed to have her back.
“The Audience” marks Helen Mirren’s return to Broadway after almost 15 years, and on the play’s opening night March 8, the audience at “The Audience” w…
New York’s Roundabout Theater Company celebrated Helen Mirren March 2 by reminding her, repeatedly, that she can’t sing her way out of a paper bag. “Helen Mirren can do a l…
Kevin Spacey will be presented with a special award at the 2015 Olivier Awards, the London equivalent of New York's Tonys.Spacey, while juggling film work and his starring role in "House of …
Darren Criss will return to Broadway in “Hedwig and the Angry Inch,” stepping into the title role after John Cameron Mitchell, the musical’s co-creator and its original …
Cynthia Nixon, a busy, bankable thesp who’s bagged Tony, Emmy, and Grammy Awards since appearing in her first film at age 12 and making her Broadway debut at 14, makes an assured direc…
Ivo Van Hove's revival of "A View from the Bridge" and Jonathan Kent’s staging of "Gypsy," starring Imelda Staunton, have picked up Critics Circle Theater Awards in London just ahea…
The return of co-creator and original star John Cameron Mitchell to “Hedwig and the Angry Inch” helped the Broadway musical post solid sales last week, a late-January frame…
“Whorl Inside a Loop,” the latest stage show by Dick Scanlan and Broadway fave Sherie Rene Scott, will round out the 2014-15  season at Second Stage Theater, the New Yor…
Tony Danza shows off some mean tap skills in “Hpneymoon in Vegas,” the Broadway musical that opened Jan. 15. What, you’re surprised Danza can tap? Don’t be. He’…
Broadway played a starring role in the 2015 Academy Awards nominations — just as two nominees are playing starring roles on Broadway. Both Bradley Cooper, nominated for best actor for …
Ruth Wilson is having a helluva week. First she wins a Golden Globe, and then two days later, on Jan. 13, she opens her first Broadway show, “Constellations,” with costar Jake Gy…
Broadway vets Christian Borle and Brian d’Arcy James will lead the cast of upcoming musical “Something Rotten!,” starring in the show after the two appeared in NBC’s …
Broadway musical "The Last Ship" will close later this month despite a last-ditch effort to drum up sales with an acting stint for Sting, the show's composer.
When Disney and director Rob Marshall needed a screenwriter for the movie-musical "Into the Woods," they went straight to the source: James Lapine, the book writer of the Stephen Sondheim st…
Didn’t get a chance to catch Audra McDonald’s Tony-winning (and history-making) performance as Billie Holiday in Broadway’s “Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Gri…
“One Day,” a retooled version of cult 1999 teen musical “Inappropriate,” will play New York in a new multimedia production from Big Block Entertainment — which …
Broadway favorite Laura Benanti (“Nashville,” “The Good Wife”) has signed on to star in “New York Spring Spectacular,” the new show at Radio City Music Ha…
There's a lot of history in the current Broadway production of "The Elephant Man," which opened on Dec. 7 with Bradley Cooper in the title role.First, there's the history of the play, which …
There’s a lot of history in the current Broadway production of “The Elephant Man,” which opened on Dec. 7 with Bradley Cooper in the title role. First, there’s the hi…
Rita Wilson has signed on to the cast of "Fish in the Dark," the new Broadway play written by and starring Larry David.
Liza spoiled it for everyone with her thrilling perf as Sally Bowles, the flamboyant party girl in “Cabaret.”  Although her pitiful musical talents are the least of the ser…
With the extended run of hit Broadway comedy “It’s Only a Play” necessitating the exit of some of its stars, producers have tapped theater-world favorite Katie Finneran and…
Annawadi, the vast slum concealed behind Mumbai Intl. Airport, was author Katherine Boo's home for three years. It’s doubtful that she'd recognize the place in its onstage incarnati…
At its 2014 Winter Gala, long-running show incubator New York Stage and Film celebrated one of Broadway’s most high-profile press agents, Rick Miramontez, with Spidey and tales told ou…
