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Blair Underwood, known for his roles on TV shows like "L.A. Law" and "The Event," will be the star of a new multiracial production of "A Streetcar Named Desire."
Three years after a bitter offstage fight derailed its plans for Broadway, the new musical comedy "Nice Work If You Can Get It" is back on the drawing boards.
The creators will talk about the show and cast members will perform.
Five Broadway casting directors discuss the challenges of matching actors and shows.
Linda Lavin will appear in "The Lyons," a new Nicky Silver play at the Vineyard Theater, and will not be part of coming Broadway transfers of "Other Desert Cities" or "Follies."
The show is scheduled for a limited run but is expected to go at least through Christmas and New Year's.
The nation's theater critics, for the most part, described "Spider-Man" as improved but nowhere near good enough to justify its record-setting $70 million budget.
The opening of "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" came at last on Tuesday with the improbable reunion of Julie Taymor with Bono and the producers who ousted her.
The former director of the show was dismissed in March.
Bono and the Edge admitted they were ill-prepared for the rigors of putting Julie Taymor's vision of "Spider-Man" on Broadway.
"The Book of Mormon," a smash-hit Broadway musical made out of the unlikeliest of elements " religious themes, jokes about AIDS, and dirty lyrics " emerged as the runaway prizewinner at the …
"Book of Mormon," the favorite for best musical, is in the running for three Tonys that will be announced before the telecast begins on CBS.
A. Rey Pamatmat wins $27,000 and some housing.
Want to star as Fanny Brice? Here's your chance.
A dispute over the planned use of nonunion workers is resolved.
Interviews with voters " and a notebook's worth of meals in the theater district " ground our annual forecast of the 2011 Tony Awards.
Signature Theater Company has chosen the celebrated South African playwright Athol Fugard as the focus of its first year in its new 74,000-square-foot home, known as Signature Center.
The show will now run through June 24.
Broadway's powerful stagehands' union is planning to hoist an inflatable rat and mobilize 400 members to protest a loss of work organizing the red carpet pageantry at the awards.
After months of rewrites, new lyrics and choreography, rehearsals fo new material by day and preview performances at night, the cast and crew of "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" was relieved …
The show is aiming to open on Broadway next spring.
On Wednesday the producers of the first New York revival of "Rent," which begins performances on July 14, announced a new list of names.
The producers developing a Broadway revival of William Inge's Pulitzer Prize-winning play "Picnic," about young love and growing older in small-town Kansas, held a private reading on Monday …
The stars of "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark," Reeve Carney and Jennifer Damiano, are doing their all to sell the new version that opens next week.
"Balm in Gilead," in a Brooklyn warehouse, was the sort of theatrical hot mess, done with the blessing of Lanford Wilson's estate, that rarely happens on such a scale in New York nowadays.
