Delivering on a vow made last June, Hamilton producer Jeffrey Seller confirmed Sunday that the Broadway production will double the number of $10 seats available via lottery for each perfo…
Give the pie a gold medal: Waitress, the musical that marked the Broadway debut of singer-songwriter Sara Bareilles, has recouped its $12 million capitalization after less than 10 months, pr…
Val Day, a former ICM Partners agent in the theatrical literary department, has been named artistic director of 59E59 Theaters, effective May 7.  The highly regarded, 3-theater o…
Mary Tyler Moore, the iconic TV figure who starred in two of the most influential television series of all time, has died. She was 80 years old and had battled diabetes for decades. “A…
An unlikely media sensation gets caught up in the Twitter-enhanced mythology that distorts his true nature as he becomes a national hero:Â Donald Trump? Evan Hansen? Both had big weeks in …
The Broadway stars came out to shine Friday afternoon at “Concert For America: Stand Up, Sing Out!” at Town Hall, the storied venue for protest and politicking. A visit from actr…
Among the achievements of the American theater over the last century, August Wilson’s work ranks comfortably with the best. Any one of the plays he wrote — one for each decade of…
Broadway’s bleak mid-winter wasn’t too bleak after all, despite an overall drop at the box office last week. Several hits still did hit-show business and a smaller roster, as …
As a swivel-hipped rock and roller, Conrad Birdie had a lot of living to do, the unknown actor Dick Gautier sang in the 1960 Broadway smash Bye Bye Birdie. At first a reluctant leading ma…
New York City has named 11 nonprofit cultural organizations as recipients of $2 million in funding to develop a more diverse workforce on the management side of the performing arts. The mone…
Martha Swope, who photographed Broadway stars and prima ballerinas onstage and in mufti during a career that began in the late 1950s and extended into the 1990s, died Thursday in New York. T…
The 71st annual Tony Awards will return to Radio City Music Hall this spring, after detour uptown to the smaller Beacon Theatre last year. CBS, which has presented the Broadway awards since …
The fever dream that is Leonard Bernstein’s Candide is born again with the reconstituted New York City Opera, along with the happy delirium that is the hallmark of Harold PrinceR…
Casually removing her bra or tying a pink ribbon into a perfect bow atop her head, Cate Blanchett makes erotic art of the inconspicuous act. That’s a neat trick and a handy gift …
January and February are the times that try Broadway producers’ souls, as tourists head home, winter twofer sales set in and weak shows are culled from the herd. The box office fell sh…
Producer Scott Rudin announced today that The Front Page recouped its entire $4.875 million capitalization during the week ending New Year’s Day. Having recouped in unde…
The marquees of Broadway theaters will be dimmed for one minute tomorrow at 7:45 P.M.in memory of Carrie Fisher, who died December 27 at age 60, and her mother, Debbie Reynolds, who died the…
Every show on the Broadway roster saw ticket sales soar during the final week of 2o16. Many of them broke their own house records while helping to lift the entire Street to an all-time…
Christmas Week is always a Santa’s bag of goodies for Broadway, even with some shows cutting back to seven performances; it’s all made up with hiked prices. Hamilton played all e…
George S, Irving, a fearless comic actor whose signature smile could turn into a smirk with the perfectly timed arch of an eyebrow, died December 26. Born George Irving Shelasky in Springfie…
Willa Kim, a two-time Tony winning costume designer who crowned chorines with longhorns and draped Duke Ellington’s hoofers in ermine and feather boas, has died in Los Angeles. She was…
David Berry, whose play The Whales Of August, about two elderly sisters living on the coast of Maine became a 1987 film vehicle for Lillian Gish and Bette Davis, died December 16 at his home…
Dick Latessa, the veteran song-and-dance man who stole hearts as Wilbur Turnblad in the original Broadway production of Hairspray, has died. His death at 87 was announced by the Broadway Lea…
Cate Blanchett sold out the first preview of The Present, the Aussie import marking the star’s Broadway (though not NYC) stage debut. And Ben Platt is looking like a freshly mint…
Looking back on a year that offered an extraordinary range of shows, from intimate (Heisenberg, Blackbird) to spectacular (Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet Of 1812), it’s the perf…