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Speakers at three of the panels at BroadwayCon — Beyond the Heights: Latinx Representation in Theatre; Fan Tan Fantastic: Asian American Representation; and Being A Critic of Color …
“I wasn’t afraid of the risk; I don’t know why, maybe I’m stupid,” Anthony Rapp said in answer to an audience member’s question about the difficult of goi…
The third annual BroadwayCon, conceived by Anthony Rapp and fashioned after ComicCon, runs this Friday to Sunday at the Jacob Javits Convention Center. Those attending really need to check o…
Phantom of the Opera opened on Broadway on January 26, 1988. A gala tonight (two days early) celebrates the 30th anniversary of the longest-running show in Broadway history. Watch the Red Ca…
Guillermo del Toro's "The Shape of Water" was nominated for 13 Oscars, just shy of the record, and Greta Gerwig became only the fifth woman in history nominated for best director, for “…
"Miles for Mary" is the Mad Ones theater troupe's spot-on, deadpan funny look at a year's worth of planning committee meetings for a local telethon at an Ohio high school. Originally present…
There was a touch of theater in the Women's March over the weekend, with protesters' signs adapting "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" from Mary Poppins to fit current events, and the retu…
Today, the first anniversary of the inauguration of Donald Trump, is Art Action Day. The day is organized by The Federation, founded last year to spread the message: Art is essential to demo…
Nas, Dave East, Lin-Manuel Miranda and Aloe Blacc perform “Wrote My Way Out” the second of the promised monthly #Hamildrop series, which replace the initially proposed second vol…
A white police officer shoots a black driver five times after pulling him over for a minor traffic violation. But things are not what they seem in "Black, White & Blue"by William Watkins…
Death is well-suited to the stage, according to a philosopher quoted in "The Undertaking," a play about death and dying written and directed by Steve Cosson, the artistic director of The Civ…
Michael Luwoye takes over the title role of Hamilton on Broadway, on the same day that Sara Bareilles, the creator of Waitress, takes on the lead role as Jenna, Peter Jöback …
The Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin has acquired the archives of Arthur Miller, from his first play "No Villain" (1936), written when Miller was at the University of Michi…
On Martin Luther King Day, many people read or listen once again to his most famous speech, from August, 1963,  I Have a Dream, But today, people are finding King’s speech bel…
Thanks to such shows as Hamilton, The Color Purple, and Allegiance, the 2015-2016 New York theater season was the most diverse on record. That is the conclusion  of the latest annual repo…
John Lithgow, a Tony winner for his very first Broadway show in 1973, has decided to devote his 24th to the reading of two old short stories, Ring Lardner's "Haircut" and "Uncle Fred Fli…
John Lithgow, a Tony winner for his very first Broadway show in 1973, has decided to devote his 24th to the reading of two old short stories, Ring Lardner's "Haircut" and "Uncle Fred Flits B…
What makes us happy? The clear if indirect answer in "Pursuit of Happiness" is a lot of laughs, since that's what the Nature Theater of Oklahoma, a notoriously inventive downtown theater com…
It’s New Year’s Eve 1969, and a dozen fans are in the balcony of the Fillmore East watching a concert by Jimi Hendrix and his electronic blues trio, Band of Gypsys, nine months b…
Rehearsals have begun for Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, which will open at the Lyric Theater on Broadway on April 22, following up on J.K. Rowling's characters 19 years after her last n…
The Prototype Festival, which showcases what it calls contemporary opera-theater and music-theater, opened its sixth season last night with an opera called "Acquanetta," inspired by a cult h…
Enda Walsh, best known in the U.S. for the Broadway musical Once, first gained fame as the playwright of a furious burst of a play he wrote in five days about two intense and inseparable …
Enda Walsh, best known in the U.S. for the Broadway musical “Once,” first gained fame as the playwright of a furious burst of a play he wrote in five days about two intense and i…
In a program note for "Mankind," a fun comedy that turns berserk about a future world in which women are extinct, its playwright and director Robert O'Hara explains that he found insp…
Broadway veterans who won Golden Globes: Rachel Brosnahan, James Franco, Allison Janney, Nicole Kidman, Martin McDonagh, Frances McDormand, Ewan McGregor, Elisabeth Moss, Benj Pasek…
