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Jake Gyllenhaal has booked his Broadway debut in “Constellations,” a project that will reunite him with writer Nick Payne and director Michael Longhurst of “If There Is I H…
The Tony Awards Administration Committee has decided that the authors of some revival productions will be eligible for a Tony alongside producers in the revival of a play and revival of a mu…
With the Scott Rudin-produced Broadway revival of “A Raisin in the Sun” recouping its $4.25 million investment in the wake of the production’s three Tony wins, the 2013-14 …
The compassion and concern for character in the plays of Irish master Brian Friel ("Translations," "Dancing at Lughnasa") has led him to be rated alongside the greats of Russian drama. So ex…
Bob Greenblatt was on a plane when he won a Tony. It's no secret the NBC Entertainment chairman harbors an abiding love for musical theater. His first big creative risk at the network was…
Greta Gerwig, indie pinup girl for “Frances Ha,” proves stageworthy playing a sexually needy woman in “The Village Bike.” In this dark domestic dramedy, which preemed…
“Disgraced,” the Ayad Akhtar play that won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, has lined up a fall run on Broadway with a cast that includes Josh Radnor and Gretchen Mol, while th…
Remember when "A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder" was having trouble selling tickets? That phase may have passed, at least for a while: After the notching four Tony wins Sunday night, �…
The Broadway revival of "Of Mice and Men," which has posted robust sales since it began previews earlier this spring, has recouped its $3.8 million capitalization costs in about a dozen week…
“It’s like a fairy f–kin’ tale!” declared producer Joey Parnes Sunday night, clutching the Tony Award he’d just won. It was rather ungentlemanly langua…
As the culmination of a Broadway season with no clear frontrunner, the 2014 Tony derby was a little bit like the wild west, where all bets were off and anything could happen. So in a sense, …
In an anything-goes Broadway season with no clear frontrunner, “A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder” won the top Tony for new musical after the title proved the favor…
Crack scribes Betty Comden and Adolph Green were "work-spouses" for 64 years while married to others. Speculation on how such unconventional relationships can play out feeds into the new Old…
Right now at Radio City Music Hall, it’s all falling into place. Broadway casts are rehearsing their performance numbers. Transitions are being practiced again and again. Members of th…
There’s something magnificently depraved about the vision of “Macbeth” evoked by Kenneth Branagh and Rob Ashford for the immense (55,000 sq. ft.) playing field of the Drill…
When Patti LaBelle, Gladys Knight and Fantasia Barrino take the stage during the Tony Awards ceremony Sunday night, they'll be there to showcase the new musical contender "After Midnight.…
“All the Way,” the heavyweight Tony contender with Bryan Cranston in the leading role, has recouped its $3.9 million capitalization costs after about 16 weeks on the boards, a…
Jennifer Hudson will perform a song from Harvey Weinstein’s Broadway-targeted musical version of “Finding Neverland” during the Tony Awards as part of a telecast that will …
Take a stroll through the theater district these days, and one thing is obvious: You're just as likely to come across a Hollywood name on a Broadway marquee as you are on a screen. Film and …
The audiences at “Just Jim Dale” may be turning out to see the chap who gave voice to hundreds of characters as narrator of the entire series of Harry Potter audio books. But the…
Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez, the songwriting duo who penned the tunes for Disney smash “Frozen” and won an Academy Award for song “Let It Go,” will …
Carole King is nobody's shill. And that may be why she's so good at hawking "Beautiful." AÂ Tony-nominated Broadway musical based on King's life, "Beautiful" has looked like the season's s…
Julia Stiles, last seen on the Gotham stage in the Broadway revival of “Oleanna,” will topline an Off Broadway production of Scott Organ’s play “Phoenix,” ru…
Celebs had to push their way through the food festival on West 46th Street in order to make it to the Tony Honors ceremony, which provided a bit of a warm-up for Sunday’s Tony Award…
The post-Memorial Day hangover may have deflated Broadway B.O. a bit last week, but that didn't stop some of this season's Tony nominees from playing to packed houses. Three of the four cont…
