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The Hugh Jackman-led revival has 76 trombones, 110 cornets, and took in $3.5 million in ticket sales last week, more than any show since the pandemic began.
The 75th ceremony, honoring plays and musicals staged on Broadway, resumes its traditional calendar after a few years of pandemic disruption.
A company known for audiobooks is mounting starry live productions " and recording them, too.
A new production of Stephen Sondheim's "Merrily We Roll Along" is to be staged late this year by the nonprofit New York Theater Workshop in the East Village.
Six decades after she played Scout in the film version of "To Kill a Mockingbird," Mary Badham takes on the role of a neighbor in the play's national tour.
The landmark theater will be renamed in honor of the 91-year-old actor who has made 21 Broadway appearances and won two competitive Tony Awards.
"POTUS," by Selina Fillinger, will star Julianne Hough, Vanessa Williams, Rachel Dratch, Lea DeLaria, Lilli Cooper, Suzy Nakamura and Julie White.
The new musical, by David Lindsay-Abaire and Jeanine Tesori, will star Victoria Clark as a teen girl who ages too quickly.
Long Wharf Theater, a regional nonprofit on New Haven's waterfront, is ending a long, bumpy chapter there, hoping to expand access and reduce costs.
The actress, who has played Persephone in "Hadestown" in three countries and four productions, is leaving to join a new "Macbeth" on Broadway.
The musical, which closed temporarily last month as the Omicron variant spread, had hoped to reopen in March.
The actress, known for "The Walking Dead" and "Black Panther," will headline a return to semi-normal for the annual festival, which will also present "As You Like It."
The production, which was canceled at the start of the pandemic, will try again, this time starring Alfie Allen of "Game of Thrones" fame.
Big shows did well when they returned in the fall after the long pandemic shutdown but new plays struggled, previously undisclosed industry data shows.
For the first time, digital, audio and other virtual productions will be considered for the honors, for Off and Off Off Broadway works.
Theaters were a bit more crowded, but there were fewer shows running as several closed amid the spread of the Omicron variant.
The project seeks to connect undiscovered writers with industry gatekeepers.
Audiences are enthusiastic, but casts are vulnerable, as companies travel from city to city, trying to revive a key part of the theater economy.
The trust will determine what happens to the intellectual property of the celebrated lyricist and composer, who died in November.
The Broadway production dismissed the actor James Snyder, citing unspecified concerns about his conduct after an investigation of a complaint by a castmate.
With Omicron complicating Broadway's return, Gov. Kathy Hochul proposed more assistance for commercial theater, which her budget director called "critical for the economy."
The 2007 play based on Khaled Hosseini's novel has been widely produced, including on the West End in London. It will come to Broadway in July.
Curtains are rising again after the Omicron surge caused widespread cancellations, but attendance has fallen steeply. Nine shows are closing, at least temporarily.
"Girl From the North Country," a musical using the songs of Bob Dylan, also closed, with hopes of reopening in the spring, as the surge in virus cases continues to upend the theater industry.
The musical, which uses the songs of Bob Dylan, is the latest show to close as the surge in cases caused by the Omicron variant disrupts New York theater. It hopes to come back in the spring.
