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Two immersive Off Broadway buzzmagnets, the David Byrne-Fatboy Slim disco tuner “Here Lies Love” and Tolstoy-and-vodka musical ”Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 18…
Anna Gunn is following her “Breaking Bad” co-star Bryan Cranston to the New York stage, where she’ll star this summer in Laura Eason’s “Sex with Strangers”…
Broadway alum and “Modern Family” star Jesse Tyler Ferguson will host the 2014 Drama League Awards, the annual legit kudos from Gotham’s 99-year-old theater developme…
The organizers of the Tony Awards have tapped Rosie O’Donnell to receive the Isabelle Stevenson Award, handed out annually to a legiter who’s made a significant contribution to h…
Here are some of the ways the 1988 film “Heathers,” the blackest of high school comedies, could have ended: The school blows up. Or protagonist Veronica blows up. Or Veronica ask…
Like the cult movie to which it pays homage, “Heathers” the musical should score with all those teen misfits who fantasized about getting even with the popular kids who humiliate…
If it were possible to gauge a Broadway musical's box office prospects from a single performance alone, then Neil Patrick Harris' turn in "Hedwig and the Angry Inch" looks legendary. But we'…
Everyone has an if/then moment that leaves them wondering what might have happened if life went another way, and the opening night performance of parallel-lives Broadway musical "If/Then" ga…
In her belated return to Broadway after “Wicked,” powerhouse belter Idina Menzel is sorely misused in “If/Then.” Â ”Next to Normal” writing team Brian Y…
Chris Pine and Lauren Ambrose will spend the summer doing a little play in the Berkshires, signing on to star in Sam Shepard’s 1983 play “Fool for Love” at the Williamstown…
For director-choreographer Casey Nicholaw, Broadway's go-to guy for musical comedy ("The Book of Mormon," "Elf," "The Drowsy Chaperone"), Broadway's "Aladdin" marked the first work with Disn…
For director-choreographer Casey Nicholaw, Broadway’s go-to guy for musical comedy ("The Book of Mormon," “Elf,” “The Drowsy Chaperone”), Broadway's "Aladdin" m…
This super-costly extravaganza doesn't do justice to the movie, or to the spirit of the late Howard Ashman.
With no New York City film czar yet appointed some three months into Mayor Bill de Blasio’s  term, the local entertainment industry’s backchannel lobbying has grown increasing…
Ten world premieres, including new plays by Tom Stoppard and David Hare, and a stage stint for Ralph Fiennes spearhead the National Theater's 2014-2015 season led by outgoing a.d. Nicholas H…
Sheryl Crow's musical adaptation of "Diner" will finally have it world premiere at the Signature Theater in Arlington, Va., following a long period of development that saw a pre-Broadway com…
Nina Arianda certainly knows how to make an entrance. For her Tony Award-winning role in “Venus in Furs” — her last appearance on the New York boards — she blew o…
A historical trilogy from two of Britain's national theaters and a new stage adaptation of "All Quiet on the Western Front" are among the higher profile offerings on tap for the 2014 Edinbur…
Newcomers poured new coin into the Broadway coffers last week as previewing titles "Les Miserables," "A Raisin in the Sun" "If/Then" and "Bullets Over Broadway" helped push the Street's over…
What if David Fincher directed "Rocky"? It might look something like "Rocky" the musical. That was part of the concept, anyway, for Alex Timbers, the director of the spectacularly staged new…
Whatever your expectations going into “Rocky,” you come out rocking the technology. No mystery about where the $16.5 million capital investment went in this musical iteration…
The Broadway Channel, a producer and distributor of legit-centric video content, has partnered with PIX11, the New York CW affiliate, to produce segments and primetime specials focusing on B…
Cynthia Nixon has signed on to star opposite Ewan McGregor and Maggie Gyllenhaal in the Roundabout Theater Company’s Broadway revival of “The Real Thing,” the 1982 play in …
"Harmony" confirms Barry Manilow's musical theater chops. The pop legend invests this biotuner of the Comedian Harmonists — a real-life German male sextet, pre-WWII toasts of two conti…
If you haven't come across George Takei lately, you might be living under a digital rock. The former "Star Trek" actor has, over the past five years, morphed into one of social media's more …
