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The show opened in 2001 and will close after 5,765 performances, making it the eighth-longest-running show in Broadway history.
The Leonore Annenberg Fellowship Fund for the Performing and Visual Arts provides awards totaling $300,000.
The comedy's Broadway run has been extended through July 19.
The show, featuring the Rockettes and others, is a springtime counterweight to the theater's Christmas program.
Mr. Lane will resume performances of Terrence McNally's comedy on March 31, alongside Matthew Broderick and Stockard Channing.
"Motown: The Musical," which closes Sunday, has recouped its backers' $18 million investment.
Ms. Vogel's archive will join those of other playwrights, including Eugene O'Neill and Thornton Wilder, in the Yale Collection of American Literature.
"The 39 Steps" will return to the New York stage in April, when it is scheduled to open at the Union Square Theater.
Producers of the musical substituted a previously recorded video clip.
The Tony-winning "Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike," by Christopher Durang, will be romping across regional stages this season as the most produced play on a Top 10 list.
Boredom and irritation. A waiting train. Or deep disappointment. Ticketholders walk out of a show for varied reasons.
New evidence from an analysis of Richard III's bones suggest that he lived like a king " a wealthy one.
The Broadway musical "Rocky" will give its last performance at the Winter Garden Theater on Aug. 17, after a disappointing run.
Gillian Flynn, the author of "Gone Girl," will write a new version of "Hamlet" for Hogarth, which is presenting Shakespeare in a more modern, accessible form.
Arts in the Gardens will present music, performance art, poetry, dance and film at gardens in Brooklyn and the South Bronx.
Matthew Broderick will portray a nervous playwright in Terrence McNally's "It's Only a Play," while Nathan Lane will play his envious, backbiting friend.
The actors will star in an updated version of Terrence McNally's showbiz comedy, "It's Only a Play."
New York has a vast tolerance for marathon entertainment. But the city also has a need for speed that only cultural sprints can satisfy.
A new anthology shows how, from colonial times, Americans made Shakespeare one of their own.
Industrials musicals, which have long since disappeared, were once professional shows that featured impressive talent.
The immersive theater show "Queen of the Night" is opening on New Year's Eve at the new Diamond Horseshoe supper club within the Paramount Hotel.
On Broadway and Off Broadway, the holiday season means work and lots of it.
Rupert Murdoch's many missteps get stage treatments in Australia and Britain.
"What Are We Worth? Shakespeare, Money and Morals" was billed as a town hall discussion at the Delacorte Theater.
The Broadway experience does not typically include audience participation, but something unusual happens when Cicely Tyson performs "Blessed Assurance" in "The Trip to Bountiful." …
