This week brings two attempts at spinning 1980s Oscar gold into stage-worthy vehicles for stars of a certain magnitude. Tomorrow’s opening will be Jason Sudeikis chancing t…
Dates and theaters have been set for Amélie, A New Musical, with Hamilton star and Tony nominee Philipa Soo in the title role. Following its 2015 world premiere at the Berkeley Rep, the sho…
What a world MacArthur “genius” Mimi Lien has created at the Imperial Theatre for Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet Of 1812. The auditorium is voluptuously draped in scarlet …
Broadway did its bit for last week’s presidential election, as many shows shifted schedules to allow a day off for voting on Tuesday, typically an early-curtain evening popular with…
Yes, it comes from London’s West End with a title that all but waves a red flag at critics. And yes, the lead producer took a similar risk with the popular but Tony-challen…
No Pay, Nudity starts with bad news for “between projects” actor and dog owner Lester Rosenthal getting terrible news, and then it gets depressing. Also, however: warm, deeply fu…
Jerry Seinfeld has added 12 Thursday performances between January and June 2017 to his Beacon Theatre residency, "Jerry Seinfeld: The Homestand." The 2017 dates are January 5, February…
The play is called Women Of A Certain Age, and we critics were invited to see it on the very evening it is set, November 8, 2016: Election Day. Although some of my colleagues were put out…
Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? playwright Edward Albee will be remembered December 6 beginning at 1 PM at the August Wilson Theatre (245 West 52nd Street), according toÂ�…
Although the Broadway community came out in force a few weeks ago for a fundraiser in support of Hillary Clinton, today’s message was non-partisan: Vote. Over the last several days,…
Great performances are rare, great ensembles even more so. One brilliant turn can salvage an otherwise mediocre evening, but when a company of actors clicks, as do the three men who make up …
A Bronx Tale, boasting more bold-face names behind the scenes than on the stage, got off to a cheery start last week on Broadway. Chazz Palminteri’s late-’80s solo show has mo…
Richard Steiner was never interested in sailing smoothly into the Cincinnati toy business his father and two uncles founded and which produced Play-Doh. A free-spirited adventurer, he was ne…
Yes, I thought long and hard about the headline above this review. But no play in recent memory has  shed more light on the crises and tribulations of America’s great retrenched wor…
Corey Hawkins (Straight Outta Compton) will join Allison Janney and John Benjamin Hickey next spring in a Broadway revival of John Guare's Six Degrees Of Separation. Hawkins will play Paul, …
John Legend, who’s increasingly using his stature as a Grammy and Oscar-winning singer and songwriter (for “Glory,” co-written with Common for the film Selma) to promote th…
Tammy Grimes, the whiskey-voiced actress who went out an ingenue and came back a star in the title role of The Unsinkable Molly Brown — and later played Dorothy Brock, a star ove…
Boasting Broadway’s highest average ticket price of $206.03, it’s no wonder Hamilton returned last week to the $2 million club, taking in $2.2 million at the Nederlander Organiza…
Idle rich do the Devil’s work in Les Liaisons Dangereuses, turning innocents and believers into pliant lovers ripe for betrayal, all for their personal amusement. Cruelty and reveng…
Producers this evening informed the cast of The Color Purple that the show, which won the 2016 Tony Award for best musical revival, will play its final performance on January 8 after 449 reg…
A skirmish over above-the-title billing in a new Broadway show’s Playbill erupted into all-out war this weekend, as the non-profit theater that developed one of the most acclaimed musi…
You undoubtedly know their names and faces: Andrew Rannells plays Lena Dunham’s’ gay confidante Elijah in HBO’s Girls. Christian Borle played the depressive composer Tom…
EXCLUSIVE: Deadline's Jeremy Gerard and Jujamcyn Theatres majority owner and president Jordan Roth talk about the state of the industry, the only stipulation being no holds barred. GERARD: D…
UPDATED, with more information throughout. Howard Davies, a highly regarded director known for his work at several of England’s most prominent theatrical venues including the Nation…
Who knew? Jake Gyllenhaal can be brooding (Brokeback Mountain), intense (Nightcrawler, Zodiac) and weird (Enemy). But who knew he could out-Mandy Patinkin Mandy Patinkin? Yet that&#…