A 9/11 Parable, Resurrected in Newfoundland
Residents of Gander are treated to an early look at "Come From Away," a Broadway-bound musical about how they welcomed travelers grounded amid the Sept. 11 chaos.
Residents of Gander are treated to an early look at "Come From Away," a Broadway-bound musical about how they welcomed travelers grounded amid the Sept. 11 chaos.
The small nonprofit theater Ars Nova has accused Howard Kagan, the lead commercial producer, of violating an agreement over the show's Playbill wording.
Marsha Norman, the Pulitzer Prize-winning book writer for the musical "King Kong," has left the project.
The work, by the Pulitzer Prize winning playwright, explores the real-life story of a play that was shut down in part because it depicted a lesbian relationship.
Ms. Close is bringing the role back to Broadway for 16 weeks beginning in February at the Palace Theater.
The film star's return to Broadway in Lanford Wilson's "Burn This" has been postponed.
Andy Blankenbuehler, who has won Tonys for choreography of "In the Heights" and "Hamilton," will direct this production, slated for an April opening.
The nonprofit theater Ars Nova and the commercial producers of "Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812" are battling over the billing of the show.
The play, by John Guare, will be directed by Trip Cullman, and will be Ms. Janney's fourth Broadway show.
Mr. Lloyd Webber announced Monday that his company had hired the Broadway producer Ken Davenport to the new post of executive producer.
Theaters across the country have signed on to an initiative that makes unsold tickets available to student and professional writers.
Patti LuPone and Christine Ebersole are to star in the musical, which is to start previews on March 7 at the Nederlander Theater.
Oskar Eustis, the artistic director of the Public Theater, helped create "Hamilton." But alongside professional triumph came personal tragedy.
Jeffrey Finn, the lead producer of "An Act of God," will take on this new role for the center on Friday.
Kate Shindle will travel with the Tony-winning play while simultaneously leading Actors' Equity. It's a complicated juggling act.
Brandon and Jason Dirden discuss how their different strengths go into playing Levee, the angrily striving trumpeter in Wilson's "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom."
"The Dead, 1904" will be staged at a townhouse and will accommodate 42 people a night, at $300 each for the play, dinner and drinks.
Three rental productions, including one that was to open Thursday, will have to be relocated or canceled.
A consortium of producers said Mr. Drabinsky's production of "Sousatzka" would be staged in Toronto next year, aiming for a transfer to Broadway.
Mr. Kline, 68, is expected to take on this new role in a revival of the Noël Coward play by at the St. James Theater next year.
Mirroring similar theatrical efforts, Berkeley Rep stages an adaptation of a Sinclair Lewis novel about a vain nominee inveighing against a religious minority.
Disney is expected to hire Michael Grandage to direct the musical version of its hit film "Frozen."
The irreverent play is being embraced by artistic directors in American nonprofit professional theaters, American Theatre magazine says.
The show, which this year won the Tony Award for best new play, will close on Jan. 15.
This show, which has previously erased the lines between performers and audience in smaller venues, enters its biggest home.