Broadway theater marquees will be dimmed for one minute on Thursday at 6:45 PM to honor the memory of two-time Tony Award winner Peter Shaffer. The Amadeus and Equus playwright died June 6 i…
Valerie Jarrett, President Obama’s senior advisor and chair of the White House Council on Women and Girls, is slated to give the keynote this morning at the day-long “United Stat…
Broadway’s Week 3 of the new season coincided with the Belmont Stakes, the endurance test of the Triple Crown, and both ended with a pair of noses at the wire. In the horse race, Creat…
Mihaly “Michu” Meszaros, the Hungarian-born performer who segued from life with the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus to semi-fame as the sometime-star of the TV sitc…
The record 12-Tony sweep by The Producers in 2001 remained unbroken, but that hardly dimmed the enthusiasm for Sunday night’s big winner at the 70th annual Antoinette Perry Awards. …
Film and theater costume designer William Ivey Long, a multiple Tony Award winner and chairman of Tony co-presenter the American Theatre Wing, designed a ribbon that was quickly mass prod…
An anti-gun group will gather this evening outside the Beacon Theatre on New York’s Upper West Side, where the CBS broadcast of the Tony Awards begins at 8 PM, hoping to draw attention…
Responding to what is being called the worst mass slaughter in U.S. history, the shooting deaths last night of 50 patrons at a nightclub in Orlando, Florida frequented by members of the LGBT…
Today’s the day of reckoning for the 846 Tony voters: Our ballots must be received at the firm Grant Thornton LLP by 6 PM New York time. Below are the nominees in the order they appear…
Jeffrey Seller, one of the three lead producers of Hamilton, announced this week that beginning in January, certain tickets to the Broadway juggernaut will be priced at $849. Also this week …
A starry list of stage and screen vets, several with marquee-quality drawing power from roles on popular TV shows, have joined the cast of The Front Page, the Scott Rudin-mounted revival wit…
We have five senses but only rarely do we experience the gift of having them heightened to a point of ecstasy. A Broadway musical, with its controlled delirium of sight and sound, can do tha…
They paved paradise and put up a Hard Rock Hotel. A block of West 48th Street in Manhattan once known as Mecca for musicians of every stripe but especially rockers, will soon be home to New …
American Psycho, its box office comatose for weeks since opening this spring, went out with a bang last week, posting a sales boost of $180K at the Shubert Organization’s Schoenfeld Th…
Sally Field (Hello, My Name Is Doris) will play Amanda Wingfield, one of the American theater’s most resonant leading roles, in a Broadway revival next season of Tennessee WilliamsR…
UPDATE with Rudin quote: Five-time Tony winner Angela Lansbury is heading back to Broadway this season to star in a revival of Enid Bagnold’s 1955 play The Chalk Garden. This is …
Who is Laura Benanti? Who isn’t she? might be the better question: Segueing from Nashville‘s rising C&W starlet-turned-victim Sadie Stone to Supergirl’s doomed-but-wise…
Broadway actor Javier Muñoz may have just gotten the best news of the increasingly frenetic Tony Awards run-up: Hamilton conceiver-author-composer-lyricist-star Lin-Manuel Miranda is plan…
Responding to increasing reports of anti-Semitic and racist campaigns in social media aimed at journalists covering the presidential election, the Anti-Defamation League today announced the …
Although she hardly needs the publicity to promote her upcoming concert tour, Barbra Streisand will make her first appearance on the Tony Awards since the Nixon administration. CBS said toda…
Before he hit 25 Reed Birney was already a Broadway star in a hit show that wasn’t even a musical. In 1977 Albert Innaurato’s blue-collar Philly with a gay-twist comedy Gemini ha…
Cate Blanchett and company have rented a house for their Broadway debut next winter. Andrew Upton’s revisal of Anton Chekhov’s Platonov, also starring Richard Roxburgh, will begi…
Cirque Du Soleil’s first made-for-Broadway venture, Paramour, launched the 2016-2017 season last week with a post-opening boost of $219K over Week 52 (notwithstanding a slew of downbea…
Key Brand Entertainment, a global powerhouse that develops, produces and markets live theater through Broadway Across America, Group Sales Box Office and several other companies, has renamed…
When Hamilton ended its Public Theater run in the spring of 2015, there was a lot of pressure to open immediately on Broadway. After all, it was already a runaway hit, with several sold-out …