Lea Michele, who begins performances as Fanny Brice in Broadway's Funny Girl revival next week, says she believes much of the recent online vitriol and trolling against her is sexist, and sp…
Will Eisner's groundbreaking 1978 graphic novel A Contract With God is being developed into a stage musical featuring music by Sam Hollander, Lisa Loeb, Matisyahu, Ryan Miller and Jill Sobul…
Broadway's Cort Theatre will officially become the James Earl Jones Theatre in an official renaming and dedication ceremony on Monday, Sept. 12, the Shubert Organization announced today. The…
Most of the 21 Broadway productions on the boards last week showed some signs of summer doldrums, with 17 shows reporting drops in box office over the previous week. Still, with The Music Ma…
Laura Linney will return to Broadway this spring in a new play by Pulitzer Prize winner David Auburn (Proof). The Manhattan Theatre Club production of Summer, 1976 will reteam the writer wit…
Actor Gabriel Byrne will bring his solo show Walking with Ghosts to Broadway this Fall, with a limited engagement of the production, directed by Lonny Price, beginning performances on Oct. 1…
A new musical written by Anna Deavere Smith and featuring music from the Ella Fitzgerald songbook is currently in development. Ella: An American Miracle will receive an Aug. 25-Sept. 21 work…
Producers of the global theatrical hit Hamilton say they will donate all damages paid by Texas' Door McAllen Church for two unlicensed and lyrically altered performances to the South Texas E…
A revival of the Stephen Sondheim musical Sweeney Todd starring Josh Groban and Annaleigh Ashford could land on Broadway this Spring, with the team behind Hamilton " producer Jeffrey Seller …
Broadway box office drooped in the final, sun-baked weeks before the Fall arrivals of new shows, with the roster of productions down to 20 last week and total box office slipping 19% from th…
The Texas church that staged two performances of a highly altered and "Christianized" version of Lin-Manuel Miranda's musical Hamilton has apologized for the unauthorized productions and wil…
The upcoming Broadway production of KPOP, a new musical about the global phenomenon, will feature real-life K-pop stars BoHyung, Min and Kevin Woo in addition to the previously announced Lun…
Tonya Pinkins and Francois Battiste are among the cast announced today for the Public Theater's upcoming production of A Raisin In The Sun, Lorraine Hansberry's classic drama to be directed …
Singer-actress Maureen McGovern says she will no longer perform live concerts after being diagnosed with posterior cortical atrophy with "symptoms of Alzheimer's and/or Dementia." McGovern, …
The recently extended Broadway production of Into The Woods has announced its new cast for the additional weeks, with Stephanie J. Block taking over from Sara Bareilles as the Baker's Wife a…
The September Broadway residency of rock band Weezer has been canceled due to "low ticket sales and unbelievably high expenses," frontman Rivers Cuomo announced online last night. "I just le…
Chase Mishkin, the Broadway producer whose roster of productions scored two Tony Awards (for Dame Edna: The Royal Tour and Memphis), died July 24 at her home in Manhattan. She was 85. Her de…
Broadway's heavy hitters withstood New York's heatwave last week, with MJ, Dear Evan Hansen and Hamilton selling out and Hadestown, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Into The Woods, Moulin …
Broadway's The Kite Runner will require audiences to wear masks at Friday night performances beginning August 19, producers announced today, becoming the first Broadway production to adopt a…
EXCLUSIVE: Playwright Theresa Rebeck, who created the stage musical-themed NBC series Smash, has joined the real-life Broadway-bound musical adaptation of the 1988 film comedy Working Girl, …
Jane Lynch will depart Broadway's Funny Girl even earlier than expected, producers announced today. The former Glee actor will end her run as "Mrs. Brice" on Sunday, August 14, several weeks…
To Kill A Mockingbird, Aaron Sorkin's hit stage adaptation of the Harper Lee novel currently on a lengthy Covid-prompted hiatus, will not return to Broadway after all, and both Sorkin and di…
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Broadway will get a Western play for the first time in decades next year when High Noon, a world premiere stage adaptation by Forrest Gump scribe Eric Roth of the Stanle…
As widely expected, the smash revival of Into The Woods will extend its limited engagement at Broadway's St. James Theatre, producers announced today. Initially scheduled to close on August …
Broadway box office held steady last week, with most productions keeping pace, for better or worse, with their recent trends. In all, the 25 shows took in a total $29,531,601 for the week en…