Broadway was one of the winners of the 86th Academy Awards. Bobby Lopez won the EGOT — only the 12th person in history to win an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony in competitive categories …
On this, the 30th anniversary of This is Spinal Tap, I profile Michael McKean in New York Theatre Magazine. McKean is now playing the villainous J. Edgar Hoover in the Broadway play…
In March, it's possible to attend a Broadway, Â Off-Broadway or Off-Off Broadway opening nearly every single day; many days, there are two; occasionally three! Below is a list, organized c…
Did you know 2014 Oscar nominated director Martin Scorsese directed a musical on Broadway? It was called The Act, it featured music by Kander and Ebb (Cabaret, Chicago) and it starred Liza M…
How well were you paying attention to the theater news in February? Answer these 11 questions and see.
John Steinbeck was born on February 27, 1902. He wrote Of Mice and Men, both the story and the play, which is being revived on Broadway starring James Franco, making his Broadway debu…
Here is the poster for a newly announced show on Broadway. Five-time Tony Award-winner Audra McDonald will play Billie Holiday, for a 10-week limited engagement, in Lanie Robertson's Lady Da…
Fans of Bruce Lee, the martial artist and actor who died four decades ago at age 32, are likely to be delighted at the sheer physical excitement of  ”Kung Fu,” which has opene…
Call it the Upper West Side Story: Â Lin-Manuel Miranda interviewed Rita Moreno about her Oscar-winning role in the 1961 film “West Side Story” before a screening of the film a…
Celebrated Comedian Takes on Villainous Role as J. Edgar in All the Way Wherever he goes, Michael McKean"actor, writer, comedian, … Read More →
“The Bridges of Madison County,” the new Broadway musical based on Robert James Waller’s bestselling novel about the brief affair between Francesa, Â an Italian-born Iowa…
At the end of Caryl Churchill's dazzling experimental play "Love and Information," theatergoers have spent two hours watching 15 actors portray 100-plus characters in more than 60 scenes, so…
President Obama has nominated a new head of the National Endowment of the Arts, Sky the winner of the Westminster Dog Show was cast in Kinky Boots, and Elaine Stritch has started to Tweet. Y…
Seventeen years after “Titanic: The Musical” won five Tony Awards, including Best Musical, the musical will be presented by Manhattan Concert Productions Monday, February 1…
Near the end of "Dinner With Friends," an insightful comedy that restores the word "adult" to its rightful meaning, Gabe confesses to his wife Karen that he's fallen out of love " not with h…
Can any theater define love the way so many songs do? The musical “Aida” did for Starleisha Gingrich.  ”As an African American woman dating a man who is half Irish an…
Photos of the most memorable stage kisses stories told to Playwrights Horizons Theater exists only for a moment, but it also goes back for thousands of years. Â This week, Oscar Wilde and …
Don't call him a drag queen. "I'm a celebrity tribute artist," Charles Busch says, in the role of his latest creation, Jimmy, who has lost his job at the Flamingo Hotel's Boys Will Be Girls …
"Reforms in Russia are very tragic, Â but they always end in a farce," says a character in the first play by Oscar Wilde, who, as it turns out, had plenty to say about oppression in Russia…
“…when I was seven years old, Woody Allen took me by the hand and led me into a dim, closet-like attic on the second floor of our house. He told me to lay on my stomach and play …
You almost have to admire the chutzpah of the producers of "Bronx Bombers," a dramatically inert play about the Yankees that was poorly received when it ran briefly Off-Broadway but neverthe…
Almost, Maine, returning triumphantly to New York City for the first time since it flopped here in 2006, is one of those plays that has reached such legendary status that it's a must-see for…
Win two tickets to see The Realistic Joneses, by Will Eno, which the New York Times called “a tender, funny terrific new play with the Spring’s most enticing cast” — …
Pete Seeger and Philip Seymour Hoffman both died this week, one’s life more than twice as long as the other; one the quintessential optimist, the other an unwavering pessimist; both ta…
Philip Seymour Hoffman, one of the most talented stage and screen actors of his generation, was found dead in his Greenwich Village apartment today, at the age of 46. The cause of death is a…