ArtsBeat: Idina Menzel Sparks Strong Start for 'If/Then'
After a burst of publicity for Ms. Menzel's performance at the Oscars, the new musical "If/Then" grossed more than $900,000 for its first seven preview performances.
After a burst of publicity for Ms. Menzel's performance at the Oscars, the new musical "If/Then" grossed more than $900,000 for its first seven preview performances.
The new musical "Hamilton," by the creator of "In the Heights," is have its world premiere at the Public Theater next winter.
A fifth Broadway revival of "Fiddler on the Roof" has been announced for the fall of 2015.
The 1,900-seat Foxwoods theater will be renamed the Lyric, and will become home to a revival of "On the Town," instead of the new musical "King Kong."
A group of producers and tour operators are proposing a New York tax credit to encourage more work in the state.
Ms. D'Amour's dark comedy "Airline Highway" and works by Conor McPherson and David Adjmi will be part of the theater's 2014-15 season.
"Aladdin" and "Les Misérables" sold well in their first week of previews, while other musicals struggled.
The season will include new plays by Mr. Norris, Samuel D. Hunter and Melissa James Gibson, as well as Robert O'Hara's "Bootycandy."
Mr. Morrison will play J.M. Barrie, the creator of Peter Pan, in Harvey Weinstein's first major theater project.
Terrence McNally revisits the evolving attitudes toward same-sex relationships in "Mothers and Sons," a sequel of sorts to "Andre's Mother."
A cast member of "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark," whose foot and leg were partly crushed during a performance, discusses his lawsuit in his first interview since the accident. &nb…
If the Broadway revival of "Annie," a financial failure, is to go on tour, it will be with a non-Equity cast and the show's 1977 director.
The five-time Tony Award winner Audra McDonald will star in the musical play "Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill."
The new Broadway musical "Bridges of Madison County" is struggling to sell tickets.
Christopher J. Hanke will take over the starring role, as Michael Urie starts a national tour.`
Neil Patrick Harris has a hectic schedule around Manhattan as he prepares for the lead role in "Hedwig and the Angry Inch" on Broadway.
The play, which marks the Broadway debut of Bryan Cranston, grossed a relatively strong $770,789 for its first performances last week.
Faced with increasing costs, nonprofit theater companies like Roundabout and the Public Theater are raising some ticket prices past the $100 mark.
Ms. Gyllenhaal dropped out of MCC Theater's production of "The Village Bike," an acclaimed British play, to focus on her role in Tom Stoppard's "The Real Thing."
"Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella" scored only modestly at the Broadway box office in its first week with Carly Rae Jepsen as Cinderella and Fran Drescher as the cruel stepmother. &nb…
Patrick Page and Reed Birney are among those in the cast of Harvey Fierstein's play, set to begin performances April 1 at Manhattan Theater Club.
She would star in Marsha Norman's play opposite Audra McDonald in the 2015-16 season.
The fellowship will award one writer-director with a stipend and a professional reading at the Drama League Theater Center in Tribeca.
Daniel Curry, who was seriously injured during a performance of "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark," has filed a lawsuit charging the producers with negligence.
The playwright David Adjmi went to federal court on Thursday to try to salvage his play "3C," which ran Off Broadway in 2012 but has been tied up by the copyright owner of the TV show "Three…