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“The Landing” is esteemed Broadway composer John Kander’s first musical since the death of his long-time collaborator, Fred Ebb, so all eyes are naturally on his new partne…
Impressively stylized choreography and punchy lighting cues ignite "G Company Blues," the opening number of lyricist-producer Tim Rice's new tuner "From Here To Eternity." Surprising though …
Nina Arianda, the actress whose last stage role scored her a Tony in “Venus in Fur,” will swing back to the stage with the Off Broadway bow of “Tales from Red Vienna”…
How refreshing " a queer coming-of-age play in which the hero(ine) is not a diva, the parents are not monsters, and people are never mean, even when they’re being cruel.   …
Writer-producer Jules Bass "Â one half of Rankin/Bass Prods., the duo behind iconic 1960s TV specials "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" and "Frosty the Snowman" "Â is pulling together a n…
Nikki M. James, a Tony winner for her perf in “The Book of Mormon,” will play fan-favorite character Eponine in the incoming Broadway revival of “Les Miserables,” par…
Married thesps Megan Mullally and Nick Offerman will topline an Off Broadway staging of “Annapurna,” the Sharr White play that rounds out the 2013-14 season from Gotham’s N…
Broadway slowed down a bit, but not by much, in the week after the Columbus Day boost, with most shows posting individual declines but few logging major ones. Helping to keep the cume aloft …
Can the Yankees hit a Broadway home run? Rialto producers are stepping up to bat with "Bronx Bombers," a new play about the Gotham baseball team that will move into Circle in the Square in J…
Rupert Holmes’ stage adaptation of John Grisham’s first novel, “A Time to Kill,” comes at a sweet moment for the author, whose belated sequel to that 1989 book, ̶…
A cutthroat clique of Hollywood high school tales is moving from the bigscreen to the stage, with "Heathers" in the midst of a short initial run in Los Angeles, "Jawbreaker" coming off a Got…
Terence Rattigan's thought-provoking play gets a sterling Broadway revival from the Old Vic and Roundabout.
Chicago, Seattle, L.A., San Francisco: They’re all on the list of go-to towns for pre-Broadway tryouts of new musicals. Now? Add Paris and Hamburg. The brewing musical version of ̶…
Meryl Streep has been tapped to receive the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center’s annual Monte Cristo award, given each year to a legit creative singled out for distinguished contribut…
Add another star-driven play to Broadway’s 2013-14 slate, with Toni Collette, Michael C. Hall, Marisa Tomei and Tracy Letts tapped to star in a Rialto staging of Will Eno’s ̶…
Autumn bounty came to Broadway last week, with major sales and attendance bumps logged at most shows on the boards and no fewer than four titles topping an impressive $1.8 million each. The …
London’s National Theater, the prominent government-subsidized legit company responsible for numerous Broadway transfers and an increasingly prominent series of HD cinemacasts, has tap…
Daryl Roth, one of the lead producers of recent Tony champ "Kinky Boots," has tapped Erica Lynn Schwartz as the new director of Daryl Roth Productions' licensing arm, DR Theatrical Licensing…
As a musical biography, “A Night With Janis Joplin” is pretty much a bust. The book by Randy Johnson, who also helmed, skims lightly over the singer’s Texas childh…
The phrase that most fully captures the National Theater's long-awaited fairytale tuner "The Light Princess," the latest production from director Marianne Elliott ("War Horse"), is "ceaseles…
CAA has tapped agent Joe Machota as the new head of the agency’s theater department, replacing longtime topper George Lane, who’ll remain on board as an agent. Move reps somethin…
Bizarre but true: For all its raucous soul sound, "The Commitments" turns out to be a reinvention of old-fashioned Mickey-and-Judy musicals. But where they "put the show on right here," this…
A decade of hits rivaling those in “Jersey Boys” and “Mamma Mia!” in terms of boomer nostalgia value is the estimable main selling point of “Beautiful "Â The …
The 2014 Tony Awards season will follow the kudos’ usual annual timeline, setting a June 8 ceremony at Radio City Music Hall following an eligibility cut-off in late April. The Tony ce…
Powered by the Broadway return of Daniel Craig, the starry revival of “Betrayal” made a boffo B.O. bow last week, vaulting into the millionaires’ club with just seven pr…
