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Both new musicals grossed more than $1 million for the first time last week.
A musical based on Jonathan Lethem's novel "The Fortress of Solitude" will be part of the Public Theater's 2014-15 schedule.
The College of Charleston has been threatened with a budget cut after providing all incoming students for 2013-14 with a copy of Alison Bechdel's memoir, "Fun Home."
The experimental performance company Incubator Arts Project announced that it would close in July.
This season's new Broadway musicals are such a mixed bag that the race for the top prize is wide open for the first time in recent memory.
With the power of Daniel Radcliffe's name, Martin McDonagh's 1996 dark comedy, "The Cripple of Inishmaan," sold nearly every seat for its first two preview performances.
Annie Baker's play won the Pulitzer Prize for drama on Monday, and will open at Barrow Street Theater in the near future.
The Broadway hit "The Book of Mormon" won four awards, including best new musical, at the Olivier Awards, London's equivalent of the Tonys.
Cross-dressers shed their gray flannel suits and bond at a 1960s Catskills resort in Harvey Fierstein's new play, "Casa Valentina."
Mr. Radcliffe will soon begin performances on Broadway in "The Cripple of Inishmaan," but he spoke Monday about some other shows he'd like to do.
A new tax credit passed by the legislature is intended to persuade Broadway producers to use upstate theaters as rehearsal halls and construction shops for shows going on national tour. …
The first preview performance of "Hedwig and the Angry Inch," with Neil Patrick Harris, was a high note in a strong week for Broadway ticket sales.
While a night out at the theater used to be a staple for cultured American men, fewer shows are grabbing them these days.
"Finding Neverland," the new musical from Harvey Weinstein, will be presented in July by the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, Mass.
The company will also mount new plays by Athol Fugard and Katori Hall and works by Sam Shepard and Charles Mee.
Lin-Manuel Miranda, who set his hit Broadway musical, "In the Heights" in Washington Heights, is moving there after living in Harlem. No matter the neighborhood, his Sundays have always been…
"Fool for Love," a 1983 Sam Shepard play, will run July 24-Aug. 3 at the Williamstown Theater Festival.
Nicholas Hytner's last season as the artistic director at the London theater will also include a play by Richard Bean and star turns by Ralph Fiennes and Helen McCrory.
The event, called "Pulitzer Fest," will run April 7 to 13.
Based on Barry Levinson's 1982 film, the musical has music and lyrics by Sheryl Crow and a book by Mr. Levinson.
Ticket sales in March have proven mixed, with several new shows struggling to find a large audience.
Danai Gurira's new work, "Familiar," is one of the three new plays that Yale Rep commissioned and will produce next season.
"The Lion King" passed "Wicked" as 2013's top Broadway earner with help from a sophisticated algorithm that calibrates prices based on demand and purchasing patterns.
On Off Broadway musical, "Piece of My Heart," about the songwriter and record producer Bert Berns, is planned for this summer.
The actor Armando Riesco reflects on his run, soon ending, as the war veteran Elliot Ortiz, a role he has played on and off since 2006 in a trilogy of plays by Quiara AlegrÃa Hudes. …
