Broadway's West Side Story and A Christmas Carol broke house records at their respective theaters last week as holiday business kept overall box office very sturdy. From the previous week, t…
Game of Thrones' Emilia Clarke is all set to torch London " in a good way " with her West End stage debut in Anya Reiss' adaptation of Anton Chekhov's The Seagull. The former Daenerys Targar…
The Crown's Claire Foy and Matt Smith will reprise their acclaimed London stage roles for a New York production of director Matthew Warchus' staging of Duncan Macmillan's play Lungs. Followi…
Well, that was fast: Director Ivo van Hove's West Side Story joined Broadway's Million Dollar Club after only six previews, grossing $1,254,440 in its first week of performances. The musical…
Returning to Broadway, Harry Connick Jr. chooses his muse wisely and well, taking the stage in an attractively modern, multi-media setting to celebrate that most sophisticated of the America…
A stage musical about pioneering Chicano rock & roller Richie Valens is in the works, with Los Lobos' Louie Pérez and David Hidalgo on board to provide original music alongside Valens' …
Frozen's Caissie Levy, The Band's Visit's John Cariani and stage veteran Chip Zien will join the previously announced Sharon D. Clarke in the upcoming Broadway revival of the Tony Kushner/Je…
EXCLUSIVE: A project to develop a biographical stage musical about 1970s singer-songwriter Harry Chapin has gotten the support of Chapin's wife Sandy and brothers Tom Chapin and Steve Chapin…
In Jagged Little Pill, a record album gets its own jukebox musical, though there's none of the Wikipedia-style rat-a-tat biographical highlights (airbrushed or otherwise) that accompanied Do…
Manhattan Theatre Club's world premiere of Richard Greenberg's The Perplexed has completed its cast with Gregg Edelman (City of Angels, Into the Woods) and Eric William Morris (King Kong, Co…
Downton Abbey's Dan Stevens and Game of Thrones' Mark Addy will head up the Broadway production of Martin McDonagh's dark comedy Hangmen, arriving at the Golden Theatre Friday, Feb. 28, for …
Jordan Fisher, who played Mark in Fox's Rent Live TV special and made his Broadway debut in Hamilton, will take over the title role of Dear Evan Hansen in January. A star of Disney's Liv and…
Tony Award-winner Beth Leavel has been cast in the pre-Broadway production of The Devil Wears Prada as tyrannical fashion editor Miranda Priestly, while Taylor Iman Jones (Broadway's Head Ov…
Broadway's Thanksgiving Weekend was a trip to bountiful, with Tina and Beetlejuice breaking house records, David Byrne joining the Million Dollar Club and total box office for the 35 product…
Stage director Marion McClinton, who staged for Broadway two of August Wilson's plays and Regina Taylor's Drowning Crow, died yesterday in St. Paul, Minn. He was 65. The New York Times repor…
A new stage musical version of the 1993 Tom Hanks comedy Sleepless in Seattle is set for a London world premiere next spring. Sleepless, a Musical Romance will begin previews March 21 at Lon…
Nederlander National Markets LLC, a stand-alone company that's part of Broadway heavyweight Nederlander Organization, and Chicago-based theater presenter Jam Theatricals have combined to cre…
Broadway box office mostly held steady last week, even as many shows might not have overmuch to cheer about during the pre-holiday week. In all, the 35 productions took in $32,015,929, down …
Annie McNamara, currently starring in Jeremy O. Harris' Slave Play on Broadway, has signed with CESD Talent Agency. In a critically lauded performance, McNamara plays Alana, a sexually frust…
John Simon, whose biting, sometimes personal New York Magazine theater reviews drew devoted readers and withering criticism of their own, died yesterday at a hospital in Valhalla, New York. …
The Tony Award-winning actress Katrina Lenk (The Band's Visit) has been cast in a recurring role in CBS' upcoming midseason drama series Tommy as a sports agent. Tommy stars Edie Falco as…
Broadway has found its Michael Jackson: Tony-nominated Ain't Too Proud star Ephraim Sykes will take the title role in the upcoming MJ The Musical, producers announced today. The musical, loa…
There's an abundance of treats offered by director Matthew Warchus' staging of A Christmas Carol " like Andrea Martin dressed as a Victorian caroler mingling with the audience at Broadway Ly…
The Grammys took a fairly expansive sweep with this morning's nominations for Best Musical Theater Album, The Motown sound, Rodgers & Hammerstein, the folk-rock music of Anaïs Mitchel…
Nickelodeon will simulcast The SpongeBob Musical: Live On Stage! across Nickelodeon, TeenNick and Nicktoons next month, Nickelodeon said today, also noting that veteran SpongeBob SquarePants…