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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…
Manhattan Theater Club has tapped “The Swing of the Sea,” the new play by Richard Greenberg, for its 2014-15 season at the Gotham nonprofit’s Off Broadway venue. “…
Rose Byrne will follow up her role in Universal’s hit “Neighbors” with a gig on Broadway, joining the cast of the upcoming revival of Moss Hart’s “You Can’…
At 26 years old, the young Broadway producer Megan Savage has two Tony Awards to her name. And a day job. Savage — a member of the producing team for this year's Tony favorite "A Gentl…
It only took eight months, but "A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder" is finally inching closer to hit-show numbers. After sweating out an entire season of slow to middling sales, producer…
“Newsies,” the modestly-scaled stage musical that surprised Disney Theatrical Prods. by finding a foothold on Broadway, will end its Main Stem run Aug. 24 after several mon…
It’s no secret that “Holler If Ya Hear Me,” the Broadway musical that incorporates the songs of Tupac Shakur, is having trouble drawing crowds " just take a look at show…
Remembered for its unconventional theme, its inviting score, its polarizing effect on audiences and its brief, 91-perf run on Broadway in 1997, the cult-favorite flop "Side Show" now emerges…
Despite a clunky book, this show is on fire. But it's going to be a hard sell with traditional auds, and can the real fans spring for Broadway ticket prices?
Gerry Goffin, the lyricist whose work with songwriting partner (and wife at the time) Carole King yielded some of pop music’s most enduring hits, has died of natural causes at his L…
A star vehicle on cruise control this ain’t: Carey Mulligan's Kyra is all composure, a sense of purpose masking layers of hurt, while Bill Nighy's furiously brittle Tom blazes with sel…
Producers usually spend the opening night of a Broadway show sweating it out while they wait for reviews to come in. But the upcoming opening night of “Honeymoon in Vegas” wil…
Cherry Jones heads up a first-rate cast in “When We Were Young and Unafraid,” a provocative if loosely constructed play by Sarah Treem that looks back with pride (and a hint of h…
Rupert Grint will follow in the Broadway footsteps of fellow “Harry Potter” star Daniel Radcliffe this fall, with Grint signing on for the already starry production of Terr…
All those giddy young lovers in Shakespeare’s pastoral comedies have a regrettable tendency to blur into one another. Except, of course, for Beatrice and Benedick, that quick-witte…
Summer tourism helped tune up Broadway ticket sales last week, as Tony Awards attention prodded demand at titles including "All the Way," "A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder," "Hedwig an…
Tony-nominated Broadway musical "After Midnight" will close June 29, following months of lackluster sales that did not sufficiently improve in the wake of the Tony Awards ceremony. The Cotto…
A new solo stage show from Darrell Hammond, "The Darrell Hammond Project," has joined the 2014-15 slate at San Diego's La Jolla Playhouse, where the world premiere begins its run in February…
Andrew Rannells, who starred in Broadway’s “The Book of Mormon” before going on to TV gigs in “The New Normal” and “Girls,” will take over for Neil …
In Donald Margulies' Geffen premiere "The Country House," genuine legend Blythe Danner effortly embodies fictional legend Anna Patterson, doyenne of a handsome summer home in that bastion of…
“Buyer and Cellar,” one of the rare Off Broadway titles to prove successful enough to carve out a yearlong run and spawn a national tour, will shutter at the Barrow Street Theate…
