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Some things old and some things new dominated the Broadway box office charts last week, as “Aladdin” and “Beautiful,” two of the strongest spring openers, muscled pas…
"American Psycho," the murderous musical that had its world premiere in London last year, has lined up a Stateside debut at Off Broadway's Second Stage Theater, where the tuner will have a s…
“American Psycho,” the murderous musical that had its world premiere in London last year, has lined up a Stateside debut at Off Broadway’s Second Stage Theater, where the t…
Pulitzer-winning playwright-provocateur Bruce Norris ("Clybourne Park," "The Pain and the Itch") has proven himself an expert at depicting American middle class hypocrisy, exposing character…
In “The Long Shrift,” Robert Boswell has written James Franco the flashy leading role of a hardened ex-con named Richard Singer who, as an awkward 18-year-old high school kid, wa…
“The Qualms,” the new play by Pulitzer winner Bruce Norris (“Clybourne Park”), has locked in a New York run at Off Broadway’s Playwrights Horizons just ahead of…
Reviews were mixed and sales are downright dire. Which is why all of Broadway is wondering: When will "Holler If Ya Hear Me" throw in the towel?Not yet, according to Eric L. Gold, the Hollyw…
Reviews were mixed and sales are downright dire. Which is why all of Broadway is wondering: When will "Holler If Ya Hear Me" throw in the towel? Not yet, according to Eric L. Gold, the Ho…
New plays by Bathsheba Doran and Nick Jones, two playwrights whose TV gigs include Emmy-nominated series “Masters of Sex” and “Orange is the New Black,” have…
Watching the infamous title character slash his way through his family tree en route to the throne in Shakespeare's "Richard III" tends to be like entering a maze: You know where it's headed…
The partnership between big-league Gotham nonprofit Manhattan Theater Club and scrappy new-work developer Ars Nova will yield its first full production with "By the Water," a new play by …
Independence Day didn't set off any fireworks at the Broadway box office last week -- but at least the Rialto held steadier than the cineplex.Compared to a dreadful weekend at the movies tha…
Independence Day didn’t set off any fireworks at the Broadway box office last week — but at least the Rialto held steadier than the cineplex. Compared to a dreadful weekend at th…
Pulitzer-winning playwright Lynn Nottage (pictured above) and director George C. Wolfe (“Lucky Guy,” “Angels in America”) have signed on to a brewing Broadway musi…
After nabbing the title of America’s Favorite Dancer on “So You Think You Can Dance,” the next winner of the FOX reality competish might go out “On the Town.”…
Christmas, Thanksgiving, Memorial Day, Labor Day: A lot of holidays bring an annual sales spike at the Broadway box office. July 4 isn’t one of them. Unlike those other nationwide f…
Rehearsed in secret and only announced last week, within hours of initial verdicts being handed down in the Murdoch newspaper phone-hacking trial, "Great Britain," the National Theater's bol…
The star-driven Broadway play took its latest step last week into the big box office territory of splashy musicals, with the final frame of Bryan Cranston starrer "All the Way" breaking t…
Warren Adler’s play “The War of the Roses,” the divorce comedy based on his own 1981 novel, is gearing up for a run on Broadway, with a team of producers acquiring the r…
Mary Rodgers, the Broadway composer and children’s book author, died of heart failure June 26 in her Manhattan home. She was 83. The daughter of musical-theater legend Richard Rodge…
America Ferrera will topline Second Stage Theater’s Off Broadway production of Terrence McNally’s 1991 play “Lips Together, Teeth Apart.” Ferrera, the “Ugly Bet…
Buckle up: Lindsay Lohan is speeding toward her West End debut in "Speed-the-Plow," the 1988 Hollywood comedy by David Mamet. She'll play an ambitious Tinseltown striver in a role created on…
"The Last Ship" sets sail in Chicago on its way to a Broadway launch in October, filled with all the hope and heartache and working class nobility of a lush, lovely original score from St…
Off Broadway's New Group has lined up a slew of stars for its 20th season, setting a 2014-15 slate that includes acting stints from Holly Hunter, Bill Pullman, Jesse Eisenberg and Dianne Wie…
In the immediate wake of a recent ruling that cleared former NewsCorp exec Rebekah Brooks of all hacking charges during her tenure at News of the World, the National Theater in London has an…
