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Pulitzer Prize-winning collaborators Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey have a new musical that airs tonight on the Disney Channel. The pair say their adaptation of Mary Rodgers’ 1972 novel Fre…
The musical Be More Chill has some baggage. It's about high school angst that verges on cliché, and it's a showcase for the kind of head-banging pop, in this case by composer/lyricist Joe I…
Early in his funny and poignant off-Broadway show, The New One, the comedian Mike Birbiglia expresses a low tolerance for children. "We gotta get babies off planes," he says. "We got…
INTERVIEW: The last five weeks have been busy for Jason Robert Brown, the 48-year-old composer, lyricist, arranger, orchestrator and performer. There was an acclaimed Encores! run of his 199…
REVIEW : The question at the heart of Head Over Heels is whether Elizabethan comedy and the music of the Go-Go's go together. Sadly, the answer is no. (See below for other opinions.) …
STEAMBOAT SPRINGS, COLORADO — The main event here: 502 Ford Mustangs, both late-model show cars and immaculately restored classics. The 30th-annual Rocky Mountain Mustang Roundup compe…
There’s cause for celebration in Bet Hatikva and Petah Tikva. The Band’s Visit, a drama about acceptance, missed connections and the romance and ennui of everyday life, won 10…
There’s cause for celebration in Bet Hatikvva and Petah Tikvah. The Band’s Visit, a quietly political drama about acceptance, missed connections and the romance and banality of e…
EXCLUSIVE: On Broadway, selling out isn’t a prerequisite for cleaning up. The Band’s Visit, which is considered a lock for best new musical at the Tony Awards tomorrow, has repai…
EXCLUSIVE: Conventional wisdom dictates that a new play needs an off-Broadway or out-of-town tryout before it’s Broadway-ready — unless it’s by David Mamet or stars Bette M…
EXCLUSIVE:Â Jed Bernstein, a Broadway producer and former leader of the industry’s trade association, earned $3.3 million in pay and benefits during the 27 months he ran Lincoln Cent…
The Broadway season that ended on Sunday was strong but not stellar. Overall attendance: up 4 percent to 13.8 million, according to the Broadway League. Grosses rose 17 percent, to $1.7 bill…
The New York Drama Critics’ Circle voted not to give a prize for best musical this season, implicitly endorsing The Band’s Visit‘s Tony Award ambitions and rejecting Broadw…
BEST MUSICAL SUSPENSE: There were just seven new musicals on Broadway this season, the fewest in at least a decade. Only one received “Critic’s Pick” from the New York Time…
EXCLUSIVE: Maybe Frozen isn’t critic-proof after all. Following mixed reviews and turmoil in the secondary market, Disney has been slashing prices for the musical — one of the mo…
LAST OF A SERIES: When the cast of Hamilton visited the White House on March 14, 2016, President Obama joked that the musical was the only thing he and Dick Cheney agreed on. The excursi…
SECOND IN A SERIES:Â Lin-Manuel Miranda’s hip-hop juggernaut is the first single-author show to win a Tony Award for best new musical since Jonathan Larson’s Rent, in 1996. Wit…
PART ONE OF A SERIES: Nearly three years after storming Broadway, Hamilton remains unrivaled in its moneymaking. The original production, which began previews at the Richard Rodgers Th…
Every year there’s New Year’s week, when the city is packed with tourists and some shows present nine performances, and every other week. Last week was a record for the latter. B…
EXCLUSIVE: This season, every night is kids’ night on Broadway. While theatergoers still pay up for Lin-Manuel Miranda’s historical hip-hop, Broadway’s fastest-growing onst…
EXCLUSIVE: The Frozen fractals appear to be falling into place for Disney. Reviews aren’t out until the March 22 opening of Disney Theatrical Productions’ adaptation of the 20…
Disney’s Frozen and Scott Rudin’s revival of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Carousel performed promisingly in an otherwise wet and dismal week. Frozen was a near sellout, grossi…
Jeremy Gerard has left Deadline.com, the theater critic and reporter said in an email. Gerard said his contract was not renewed and he was told that Deadline, officially called Deadline Holl…
EXCLUSIVE: A promising Broadway courtroom drama may be closing out of town. Scott Rudin and the University of the South have agreed in principle to settle the University’s lawsuit alle…
U.S. stocks aren’t the only market under pressure. Yesterday’s Super Bowl and the mid-Winter funk contributed to Broadway lowest grosses in four months. Sales last week dipped 10…
