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The much-delayed Houdini, first announced back in 2008, has lost its star. Hugh Jackman has long been the face of the project, but is no longer going to be making magic on the Great White Wa…
The 2014 spring Broadway season is just around the corner and there is a lot to be excited about, no matter if you are looking for raucous song and dance numbers or more subdued dramatic wor…
As 2013 draws to a close and we usher in 2014, many Broadway and Off-Broadway shows will take their final bow. Here are 10 shows to see before it’s too late. BROADWAY Big Fish Closing …
What makes for an incredible Broadway moment? It could be a show-stopping song, or a stage effect or you never saw coming. One thing's for certain, though: You know it when you see it becaus…
Bebe Neuwirth is returning to the long-running revival of Chicago as prison matron Mama Morton for a limited engagement from Jan. 14 to March 9, 2014. Neuwirth won a Tony Award for her pe…
The cast of A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder, including Tony winner Jefferson Mays, took a break in between the matinee and evening performance on Wednesday to enjoy tea an…
TV star Fran Drescher will make her Broadway debut in Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella as Madame, the wicked stepmother of the title character. She will step into the role on Feb. 4, 201…
Leighton Meester of TV's Gossip Girl will be making her Broadway debut along with James Franco and Chris O'Dowd in the upcoming revival of John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men, beginning preview…
Tony-winner Billy Porter has extended his stay in Kinky Boots, but his two Tony-nominated co-stars will soon depart the smash-hit Broadway musical. Porter, who won the Tony for Best Actor in…
Sutton won’t be the only Foster sibling on Broadway next year. Tony nominee Hunter Foster has joined the cast of the Broadway musical The Bridges of Madison County, which begins pre…
Tony and Emmy winner Tyne Daly (Gypsy, Cagney and Lacey) will star in Terrence McNally's drama Mothers and Sons, beginning previews on Feb. 23 at the John Golden Theater in advance of a Marc…
How’s this for career longevity: performer Keith Middleton has been pounding the stage as part of the cast of Off Broadway powerhouse Stomp since 1995. In addition to his involvement i…
Three-time Emmy winner Bryan Cranston (Breaking Bad) will star in All the Way, a historical drama about President Lyndon Jonhson's struggle to pass civil rights legislation. The play, …
Oscar nominee James Franco (127 Hours) and Chris O'Dowd (Bridesmaids) will make their Broadway debuts in a revival of John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men with previews beginning March 19 at the…
Two-time Tony winner Sutton Foster returns to Broadway in a revival of Violet, presented by the Roundabout Theater Company. The musical, featuring music by Jeanine Tesori (Fun Home, Caroline…
The two-play repertory of Harold Pinter's No Man's Land and Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot opened at the Cort Theatre on Nov. 24. For both plays, X-Men co-stars Patrick Stewart (Star Tre…
Ethan Hawke returns to Lincoln Center's Vivian Beaumont Theatre in a new production of Macbeth, which opened Nov. 21. Hawke stars as the title lord bent on taking the Scottish throne once he…
Jefferson Mays has the complicated task of embodying eight separate characters in the Broadway musical A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder, which opened on November 17. He is more t…
Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark will shoot its last web on Broadway in January. The $75 million comic-book musical will end its run at the Foxwoods Theater after attempting to rake in higher b…
The new musical A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder opened Nov. 17 at the Walter Kerr Theatre. Tony winner Jefferson Mays (I Am My Own Wife) and Bryce Pinkham (Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackso…
Aladdin will fly onto Broadway in just three months, and the buzz is growing. And starting right now, tickets to the show are available for purchase on NewYork.com as part of the presale, wi…
700 Sundays, Billy Crystal's autobiographical solo show, opened at the Imperial Theatre on Nov. 13 for a nine-week engagement. Combining stand-up comedy and memoir, the show traces Crystal's…
Having failed to reel in large audiences or enthusiastic reviews, Big Fish, the musical based on Daniel Wallace's novel Big Fish: A Novel of Mythic Proportions and Tim Burton's 2003 film, wi…
In a New York theater season packed with Shakespeare, Twelfth Night and Richard III playing in repertory, opened on Nov. 10 at the Belasco Theatre. Two-time Tony winner Mark Rylance (Boeing-…
Two Broadway shows have announced closing dates. A Time To Kill, the stage version of John Grisham's best-selling novel, will end its run at on Nov. 17, while First Date, the new musical abo…
