ArtsBeat: Broadway's 'Les Misérables' Will Close Next September
The revival will have played more than a thousand performances in its third Broadway run.
The revival will have played more than a thousand performances in its third Broadway run.
The Tony Awards, unable to use Radio City Music Hall because of a scheduling conflict with the Rockettes, will be delayed by a week next year and then broadcast from the smaller Beacon Theat…
Increasingly, playwrights regard digital communications as essential plot elements, and try different ways of dramatizing them.
Involved with five productions this season at 91, the lyricist best known for "Fiddler on the Roof" has no intention of retiring.
Cameron Mackintosh, the storied British producer best known for bringing the megahits "Cats," "Les Misérables" and "The Phantom of the Opera" to New York, said he planned to present a reviv…
The Tony-winning actress is currently starring in "Allegiance" on Broadway.
"School of Rock" grossed $928,596 in its first eight preview performances and "The Color Purple" grossed $690,820 in its first six previews.
The issue is sharply divisive in the presidential campaign. But it's being celebrated on the nation's most prestigious stages.
Both Lin-Manuel Miranda and Leslie Odom, Jr., of "Hamilton" will be eligible for the prize as best actor in a musical.
On Monday, Disney will start an online lottery offering tickets to "The Lion King" for $30.
Patti LuPone and Christine Ebersole, will portray competing cosmetics industry executives in a new musical, "War Paint," scheduled to premiere in Chicago next summer.
The musical played nine performances, one of them a fund-raiser for the Democratic Party.
The play began previews on Oct. 21; it had been scheduled to open Nov. 19, but instead will now open Dec. 4, and "new material is going in this week," the lead producer said.
The award has roots in a settlement from The National Enquirer.
"Southern Comfort," based on the 2001 documentary of the same name, is scheduled to begin performances in February.
Among the exceptions in a tough box-office week: "Misery" and "China Doll," starring Bruce Willis and Al Pacino.
While more plays Off Broadway are being directed and written by women, the vast majority of those who are designers of sets, sound and lighting are men.
The Public Theater festival of experimental performance will run from Jan. 6-17.
The New York-based public relations and government affairs company has hired the theater publicist Rick Miramontez, and is set to hire about a dozen employees at the company he now heads.
A collaboration including the Rockefeller Foundation, the producers of "Hamilton" and a nonprofit American history institute are bringing students to the show.
Al Pacino, in a play by David Mamet, soared into Broadway box-office territory usually reserved for musicals.
The company in the East Village has long championed challenging but often also difficult new work.
The wrenching drama "Eclipsed," starring Lupita Nyong'o, will be staged on Broadway.
The play will be staged by New York Theater Workshop, a prestigious but small nonprofit that plans to present the work in a 199-seat theater for a limited run in the fall of 2016 .
The jukebox musical grossed $970,013 in its first seven performances.