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Heading into the holidays, the Broadway season so far has been remarkable for the breadth of its appeal and the range of subjects. Along with the usual spate of film-to-musical adaptations (…
2018 Jimmy Award-winner Andrew Barth Feldman will make his Broadway debut as Evan in “Dear Evan Hansen” this winter. Feldman, who is currently a high school junior, will take ove…
In "The New One," which has transferred to Broadway after a sold-out run off-Broadway this past summer writer and comedian Mike Birbiglia improbably begins the evening by explaining that he …
He can't sing a note. They definitely don't make tap shoes in his size. And, aside from some extremely expressive growls and roars, he doesn't exactly sizzle at delivering dialogue. And yet …
Production company Lively McCabe Entertainment has gained the rights to BMG's music publishing catalog, the fourth largest music publisher in the world. . As part of the deal, Lively McCabe,…
"Celebrity Autobiography," a comedy show in which celebrities act out the memoirs of other celebrities, is coming to Broadway for four nights over the holiday season. The show, which feature…
“Ain’t Too Proud” will bring its existing cast to Broadway. The Temptations musical, which has played several out-of-town performances, will star Derrick Baskin as Ot…
"Mean Girls," "My Fair Lady," "The Prom" and "Summer" will perform in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade this year. The parade will be broadcast nationally from 9 a.m. to noon, with the NBC …
June Squibb, an Academy Award nominee for “Nebraska,” is joining the Broadway cast of “Waitress” in the role of “Josie,” which was formerly the role of &#…
"Everything's coming apart," cries Kendra, a distraught mother who's awaiting news of her missing boy, in "American Son," an arrestingly topical drama by Christopher Demos-Brown at the Booth…
Seeing the original "Torch Song Trilogy" off-Broadway in 1982 remains an indelible theater-going memory " so much so that I approached the current Broadway transfer after the acclaimed reviv…
“Hillary and Clinton” has completed casting, with Zak Orth as campaign manager “Mark Penn” and Peter Francis James as “Barack.” Orth and James join Lau…
“To Kill a Mockingbird” will partner with the New York City Department of Education to make $10 tickets available to middle and high school students in public schools across the …
Investors of the failed "Nerds" musical are suing lead producers Carl Levin and Vicki Halmos claiming they mislead them into believing the musical had the needed funding in place. The 13 inv…
Fox has announced its cast for the live television musical of "Rent," including Jordan Fisher, Brandon Victor Dixon and Vanessa Hudgens. Fisher will play Mark Cohen, Hudgens will play Mauree…
"King Kong" has cancelled its Oct. 31 matinee to allow for "final adjustments" to the show before it opens on Nov. 8. Producers Carmen Pavlovic and Roy Furman said the performance was cancel…
Todd London has joined the staff of The Dramatists Guild of America in the new role of director of theater relations. London, who is also the co-head of MFA Playwriting at the New School, wi…
To laugh or to cry? That mostly theoretical cliché becomes a matter of actual, uncomfortable urgency as you watch the superlative Broadway revival of "The Waverly Gallery," Kenneth Lonergan…
The theater community is reaching out to support the Drama Book Shop after a rent increase has priced the store out of its current location. Lin-Manuel Miranda stopped by the store Thursday …
Producer Scott Rudin has changed the location of “King Lear,” which was previously announced to play the Golden Theatre. On Thursday, he announced that “King Lear” wi…
The Time Warner Center near Columbus Circle was evacuated Wednesday morning after a suspicious package was mailed to CNN, one of the building occupants. In response to the package, which pol…
Hollywood payroll company Cast & Crew has acquired Checks & Balances Payroll Inc., the New York-based firm that provides payroll and accounting services for many Broadway shows. The …
A man's death casts a seemingly endless shadow over a family's life in "The Ferryman," the breathtakingly good, devastating drama by Jez Butterworth that instantly kicks the Broadway season …
Patrick Daly has been hired to oversee the theater production arm of EON Productions, the British production company which makes the James Bond films. Daly has been a producer of stage to sc…
Fact: I began my career in journalism as a fact-checker at a magazine in Los Angeles. Opinion: My experience with this oft-tedious task unfortunately did little to enhance my affection for "…
