Derrick Baskin was sick of musicals when Ain't Too Proud " The Life and Times of The Temptations arrived in his life. He'd performed on Broadway in Memphis, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spe…
Playwrights Kenneth Lonergan, Harvey Fierstein and Mart Crowley " each of whom had older works produced on Broadway this season " will be eligible for Tony Awards, the Tony administration co…
Anna Deavere Smith has been named a playwright in residence of Off Broadway's Signature Theatre's 2019-20 season, with two of her groundbreaking plays set for revival. Though Smith will not …
Tina " The Tina Turner Musical has set a Nov. 7 opening date for its Broadway production, with Adrienne Warren reprising her acclaimed London performance in the title role. Tina will begin p…
Few match-ups of this Broadway season seemed more right from the get-go than the Roundabout Theatre Company's True West, director James Macdonald's staging of Sam Shepard's 1980 play starrin…
SpongeBob starred on Broadway, so why shouldn't Scooby-Doo hit arenas? With a mix of singing, dancing, puppetry, aerial maneuvers and "interactive audience response video," the live entertai…
Wonder, the R.J. Palacio novel adapted into a 2017 feature film starring Julia Roberts and Jacob Tremblay, is now heading to Broadway. Lionsgate, Broadway producer Jill Furman and author Pal…
A Broadway crowded with new spring shows saw customers making tough choices last week, with a hefty slice of the 38 productions registering a slip in box office from the previous week. In al…
Illusionist Criss Angel is the latest performer announced for the In Residence on Broadway series. The star of A&E's Mindfreak will take the stage at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre for a five…
Who knows if Harper Lee had Oklahoma! on her mind when she came up with the fate that befalls To Kill A Mockingbird's villainous Bob Ewell, but after seeing Daniel Fish's astonishing reimagi…
With the arrival of her mighty Lear, Glenda Jackson has, in the span of a year, provided Broadway with twin portraits of once towering figures humbled by age " last year a matriarch in Three…
The life and writings of poet Maya Angelou are being developed into a one-woman stage performance with hopes for Broadway and the support of her son Guy Johnson, according to producers behin…
EXCLUSIVE: Lively McCabe Entertainment, a company that specializes in packaging and adapting iconic intellectual property into new stories for theater, film/TV, and book publishing, is teami…
Has Broadway ever looked more Hollywood? Beetlejuice and Tootsie have joined a theatrical line-up that already includes Network, Pretty Woman and King Kong, to name a few of this season's st…
EXCLUSIVE: Aaron Sorkin's To Kill A Mockingbird has smashed its own box office record, securing its place in the Broadway history books yet again with the highest weekly gross ever for an Am…
The impulse to tear down and start over, as ancient as we are, occasionally makes a bigger noise of itself than usual. World War I, that was a loud one. Sacco and Vanzetti, loud. The Sex Pis…
Off Broadway's Manhattan Theatre Club has completed casting for Donald Margulies' plan Long Lost for production this summer, Hereditary's Alex Wolff joining a roster that also includes Kelly…
A musical version of The Outsiders, based on both S.E. Hinton's groundbreaking 1967 YA novel and Francis Ford Coppola's 1983 film version that introduced a generation of young actors who wou…
Watch your backs " Lizzie Borden is heading to New York. After strong reviews in Chicago, Lizzie The Musical, a rock opera retelling of the infamous whack job, will begin Off Broadway previe…
Disney's The Princess Bride has been flirting with Broadway for years, but the ever popular tale seems to be taking another step down " or at least toward " the aisle with the putting in pla…
The New York premiere of Linda Vista, the latest work from Pulitzer and Tony winning August: Osage County playwright Tracy Letts, will begin previews Sept. 19 in a Second Stage Theater produ…
Broadway's Temptations jukebox musical Ain't Too Proud sang to the tune of $1 million-plus last week, joining the upper reaches of a generally on-key 35-show box office roster. In all, Broad…
Singer-songwriter Regina Spektor will make her debut on Broadway as part of the recently announced In Residence On Broadway series. Her five-day stand in June at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre wi…
Sutton Foster, star of TV's Younger and a two-time Tony Award winner, will co-star with Hugh Jackman in next year's Broadway revival of The Music Man, Jackman tweeted this morning. Jackman t…
Ain't Too Proud " The Life and Times of The Temptations is further proof, as if we need it, that the term "jukebox musical" just isn't fair " to jukeboxes. Feed a juke some cash and it deliv…