Branden Jacobs-Jenkins on Winning a Pulitzer for 'Purpose'
"It's the most surreal day ever," the playwright said as he learned the news while getting ready to attend his first Met Gala.
"It's the most surreal day ever," the playwright said as he learned the news while getting ready to attend his first Met Gala.
Senior officials announced their resignations after the Trump administration withdrew grants from arts organizations around the country.
The endowment told arts organizations that it was withdrawing or canceling current grants just hours after President Trump proposed eliminating the agency in the next fiscal year.
The president's budget proposal also called for getting rid of the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Institute of Museum and Library Sciences.
The Broadway musical will play its final performance at the Nederlander Theater on May 18.
They were among the screen stars who were recognized for their work on Broadway this season as the 2025 Tony Award nominations were announced.
Sarah Paulson and Wendell Pierce will announce which performers and which productions from a crowded 2024-25 Broadway season will vie for awards.
If you are determined to see a celebrity in a popular show on a busy night, you may be out of luck, but with flexibility and persistence, you can cut some costs.
The "Sunset Boulevard" star briefly entertained the crowd when "a technical malfunction on the sound side" forced the cancellation of a matinee performance.
An acclaimed musical theater writer, he won for both his score and his book and later had a huge hit with "The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee."
From her 1930 debut as a poodle-human hybrid to a modern-day symbol of empowerment, Betty Boop has had an unusual journey to the Broadway stage. Boop-oop-a-doop!
You can always consider telling the truth, but it may not be advisable in this case.
Rudin stepped away from show business four years ago amid reports that he had bullied assistants. He says he has "a lot more self-control" now.
"Good Night, and Good Luck" grossed $3.3 million last week, breaking a record that was set earlier this month by Denzel Washington's "Othello."
Tickets for the hottest Broadway plays are now out of reach for many.
Sonia Friedman has "created her own theater studio system," balancing big properties like "Harry Potter" and "Stranger Things" with more prestige work by Stoppard and Sondheim.
Demand to see Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal play Shakespeare has set a record in a year when big stars have been driving up the prices of Broadway plays.
The deal will be scrutinized by New York's other Off Broadway theaters, which the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees has been working to unionize.
The new play, "Call Me Izzy," will begin previews in May and open in June at Studio 54.
The Roundabout Theater Company will also present Noël Coward's "Fallen Angels," starring Rose Byrne and Kelli O'Hara.
The lawsuit seeks to block a new rule that requires groups applying for grants from the National Endowment for the Arts to agree not to promote "gender ideology."
"We're not going to be a part of it while it is the Trump Kennedy Center," said its creator, Lin-Manuel Miranda.
The show, developed by Disney with a Tony-winning creative team, will have an initial production in Bristol, England in the spring of 2026.
The musical's original run was the ninth-longest in Broadway history; a six-month return engagement will start in August.
Nick Jonas, Sadie Sink and Christian Slater are among this year's unusually large cohort of stars who first appeared onstage as tweens or even younger.