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Broadway will turn out to honor the late Elaine Stritch with a starry performance next month that will include theater-industry royalty including Bernadette Peters, Patti LuPone and Hal Prin…
Although there isn’t a kitten or a puppy in sight, “Found” is so cute, it’s almost too cute.  Helmer Lee Overtree has been extremely clever in staging this quir…
Columbus Day brought a surge of long-weekend tourism business to Broadway last week, with the holiday spurring major gains all along the Street at shows including newly anointed critical dar…
The stage at Off Broadway’s Ars Nova is so long and narrow, there’s hardly room to swing a cat. So it might seem absurd to install a fully functioning hot tub as the centerpi…
The Oct. 9 opening of starry comedy “It’s Only a Play” brought a little old-fashioned glamor back to Broadway: The event was black tie, just like in the golden age, and all…
Nobody does mean-nasty-vicious like Terrence McNally, bless his black heart. The pitiless playwright has exhumed "It's Only a Play," his 1986 love-hate letter to those big babies who work an…
Amid the continuing global expansion of stage musical “Once,” the Broadway production that launched the Tony-winning legit title will shutter in January, ending its run after abo…
Marian Seldes, the actress and recent winner of the Tonys' lifetime achievement award, died at her home Oct. 6 following a long illness. The actress' brother, Timothy Seldes, announced the d…
The National Theater's stage adaptation of "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" opened on Broadway to rave reviews Oct. 5, after a well-received London debut that led to a Wes…
The National Theater's stage adaptation of "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" opened on Broadway to rave reviews Oct. 5, after a well-received London debut that led to a Wes…
Believe the buzz. The National Theater Production of “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time” is spectacular, like Cirque du Soleil with brains. Scribe Simon Stephens …
Nobody ever chose to go to the theater to watch an actor be adequate. Sadly, "adequate" sums up Lindsay Lohan's London stage debut in David Mamet's "Speed-the-Plow." The bad news, however, i…
Donald Margulies gets a big, sloppy kiss from leading lady Blythe Danner, who is effortlessly lovely and irresistibly charismatic as the queenly head of a fractious theatrical family in his …
"You will die from all this grieving." Oh no she won't. Playing the title role of Sophocles' "Electra," a mesmerizing Kristin Scott Thomas is paradoxically alive with grief. Being both simul…
Ruth Wilson, the British actress (“Luther”) who is one of the stars of upcoming Showtime series “The Affair,” will appear opposite Jake Gyllenhaal in “Constella…
The title of Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig's fascinating, flawed play about massive social change in China, "The World of Extreme Happiness," is almost beyond ironic. Nobody in this work, premie…
Random House has acquired a new biography of musical theater legend Stephen Sondheim, to be written by Variety‘s London theater critic David Benedict. Benedict will wrap up his eight-y…
London hit “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time” has begun to gain momentum at the Broadway box office, which makes for a promising sign ahead of the show’s o…
Two productions, a new revival of “Children of a Lesser God” and a Thai-inflected musical called “Waterfall,” have begun to steer themselves toward Broadway, with bot…
Broadway Worldwide, the company with ambitious plans to capture and distribute Broadway titles in surround sound and HD, has pacted with Chinese firm Sun New Light Culture Development Limite…
The Harvey Weinstein-produced musical "Finding Neverland" has found its Broadway home, nabbing the Lunt-Fontanne Theater for an April opening. The tuner, which got an unusual showcase on …
Yep, that's the real Steve Martin collaborating with roots-music queen Edie Brickell on the Old Globe premiere "Bright Star," but not the wild and crazy guy with an arrow through his head no…
“You Can’t Take It With You” declares itself in a stage direction: “This is a house where you do as you like, and no questions asked.” That license to live the …
