Review Roundup: 'Macbeth'
Alan Cumming's near-solo version of Shakespeare's Macbeth opened April 21 at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre. Originally produced by the National Theatre of Scotland and seen at last summer's Li…
Alan Cumming's near-solo version of Shakespeare's Macbeth opened April 21 at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre. Originally produced by the National Theatre of Scotland and seen at last summer's Li…
The megahit Mamma Mia! will be moving from the Winter Garden Theater to smaller Broadhurst, now the home of Lucky Guy starring Tom Hanks in a limited run. The transfer would clear the way fo…
Tom Hanks will be lighting up Broadway a little longer. Lucky Guy, the smash-hit play in which the double Oscar winner stars as tabloid columnist Mike McAlary, will extend its limited engage…
Orphans, Lyle Kessler's three-character drama, opened on April 18 at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre. Emmy winner Alec Baldwin stars as Harold, a gangster held for ransom by two orphan brother…
Jekyll & Hyde, the revival of the 1997 musical based on Robert Louis Stevenson's classic horror novel, opened on April 18 at the Marquis Theatre, starring Tony nominee and American Idol …
The Nance, the new play by Douglas Carter Beane (Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella), opened April 15 at the Lyceum Theatre. Set in 1937 New York, the Lincoln Center Theater production sta…
As the 2012-13 Broadway season approaches the finish line, the winners and losers at the box office are clearly emerging. (A Broadway season runs from June until May of the following year.) …
The Breakfast buffet will be shutting down earlier than expected. Breakfast at Tiffany's, the new Broadway adaptation of Truman Capote's classic novella about high-spirited party girl Holly …
Motown: The Musical, a jukebox retrospective chronicling the rise of the legendary R&B record label and its founder Berry Gordy, Jr., opened April 14 at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre. Gordy …
Matilda the Musical, based on Roald Dahl's 1988 children's novel about a precocious little girl overcoming neglectful parents and a monstrous headmistress, opened at the Shubert Theater on A…
Musical theater giant Andrew Lloyd Webber is planning to develop a new musical based on the 2003 film School of Rock. The comedy, written by Mike White (The Good Girl, HBO's Enlightened) and…
Mirroring the hard luck experienced by its characters, the Broadway musical Hands on a Hardbody will close at the Brooks Atkinson Theater with a final evening performance on Sat., April 13 a…
Daniel Craig will take a break from playing dashing superspy James Bond on screen to star opposite his wife, Oscar winner Rachel Weisz (The Constant Gardener) in a Broadway revival of Harold…
Movie heartthrob Orlando Bloom and Tony nominee Condola Rashad will star in a new Broadway staging of Shakespeare's timeless classic of star-crossed lovers Romeo and Juliet. The production, …
Lucky Guy by the late Nora Ephron (When Harry Met Sally, Sleepless in Seattle) opened at the Broadhurst Theater on April 1. Two-time Oscar winner Tom Hanks stars as Mike McAlary, Pulitzer Pr…
In Matilda The Musical, Gabriel Ebert and Lesli Margherita play Mr. and Mrs. Wormwood, the neglectful, TV-obsessed parents of everyone’s favorite child-genius heroine. With great z…
Ann, the solo play written by and starring Holland Taylor about the late Texas governor Ann Richards, has lengthened its Broadway term of office. The biography will now play through Sept. 1 …
Oscar-winning and Tony-nominated actor Philip Seymour Hoffman crosses once again to the other side of the footlights to direct A Family for All Occasions for the Labyrinth Theatre Company, w…
Breakfast at Tiffany's, a stage version of Truman Capote's beloved 1958 novella by award-winning playwright Richard Greenberg (Take Me Out), opened at the Cort Theatre on March 20. This vers…
Carole King joins the long list of pop icons who have become the subject of a Broadway musical. Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, which follows the life of the singer-songwriter of such cl…
Buying a ticket for a Broadway show before the opening and reviews always comes at a risk. It might be the greatest thing since The Book of Mormon" or a turkey that will have you doing the w…
Whether it’s diving into the madness of MacBeth, paying a visit to Wonderland or helping solve a decades-old murder, at a growing number of immersive theater productions around the…
Where else can a theatergoer choose between singing-and-dancing missionaries, foul-mouthed businessmen and disco-clad dancers shimmying to ABBA music? Credit the vibrant diversity to the int…
Shia LaBeouf will not be making his Broadway debut in the upcoming revival of Orphans after all. A press release stated that the 26-year-old star of such films as Transformers and Lawl…
You may know her as the outspoken cougar mom on Two and a Half Men, Peggy Peabody on The L Word, Judge Roberta Kittleson on The Practice, or"if you're of a certain age"Tom Hanks's boss on Bo…