EXCLUSIVE: Broadway Brands, publisher of website Broadway News and newsletter Broadway Briefing, has signed on to present this year’s Drama Desk Awards. The 64th annual event wil…
Tech glitches, broken bones, ghosts of stage productions past and, worst of all, live television’s unfortunate and intrusive vogue for giving studio audiences far, far too much screen …
In one of the more serious obstacles to broadcast networks’ recent run of live musicals, a serious ankle injury to actor Brennin Hunt has altered Fox’s plans for its version of R…
Michael Greif knew Rent would stay in his life – his entire life – by the late 1990s. Jonathan Larson’s rock musical inspired by Puccini’s La bohème – makin…
As Sam Shepard’s True West brothers grim, Ethan Hawke and Paul Dano dig deep into the loamy earth of that macho post-hippie neo-cowboy near-masterpiece, mucking about the desert-edg…
WNET, the parent company of New York PBS stations Thirteen and WLIW21 and operator of NJTV, is launching a free, 24-hour broadcast and streaming channel dedicated to dance, film, literature,…
The Broadway-bound Magic Mike The Musical will begin teasing Boston audiences November 30, producers – including the film’s Channing Tatum and Steven Soderbergh – announced…
Audra McDonald and Michael Shannon will star in a Broadway revival this May of Terrence McNally's Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, producers announced today. The production will b…
FX will premiere its Fosse/Verdon limited series on Tuesday April 9, the network announced today. Production on the eight-episode series starring Michelle Williams as dancer/actress Gwen Ver…
The previously announced Michael Jackson stage musical has gotten a name and a pre-Broadway premiere date: The newly titled Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough will begin performances in Chica…
Furloughed federal employees have got a friend in Broadway’s Carole King musical Beautiful: Producers have announced that workers hit by President Donald Trump’s partial governme…
Broadway box office found a mid-winter groove as departing shows departed and recent openers moved beyond the comps and press seat period, leaving ticket buyers to buoy the 31-show roster wi…
A decades-old stage adaptation of To Kill a Mockingbird won’t be flying around the UK and Ireland after all. Announced in the summer, the theatrical version of Harper Lee’s novel…
EXCLUSIVE: Rocker Melissa Etheridge will provide the musical ingredients for a stage adaptation of Mystic Pizza, the 1988 MGM rom-com that launched Julia Roberts and gave an early look at a …
Christopher Demos-Brown’s Broadway play American Son is heading to Netflix. The critically-acclaimed hit will be adapted for the streaming giant. Kerry Washington, who will repri…
Michael C. Hall will star in what may be the strangest Super Bowl commercial that’s not a Super Bowl commercial: The star will appear live in a one-performance-only half-hour Broadw…
Nick Hornby’s 2007 novel Slam – which includes pro skateboarder Tony Hawk as a character – is being developed as a Broadway musical, with Hawk along for the ride as a produ…
Broadway will dim its lights for Carol Channing tomorrow night at 7:45 pm ET, The Broadway League announced today. "Carol Channing personified everything we love about American musical comed…
Refresh for updates The one-of-a-kind Carol Channing is being remembered today by friends, colleagues and the Broadway community. “She was show business and love personified,” tw…
Carol Channing, the star of Broadway classics like Hello, Dolly! who continued performing well into her 90s, has died of natural causes at her home in Rancho Mirage, CA. She was 97. B Har…
What The Constitution Means To Me, Heidi Schreck’s critically lauded Off Broadway production that landed on many best-of-2018 lists, is heading to Broadway for a 12-week limited engage…
EXCLUSIVE: Chasing Rainbows: The Road To Oz, a new Judy Garland bio-musical that got an industry presentation in New York last week, has received the rare endorsement of Garland’s daug…
Carole King surprised the Broadway audience at last night’s fifth-anniversary performance of Beautiful, the musical about her journey through the music business, performing the title s…
EXCLUSIVE: After acclaimed and sold-out runs in London and New York, current-events-based play The Jungle will have its West Coast premiere at the storied Curran Theater in San Francisco thi…
Verna Bloom, whose memorable turn as Marion Wormer in the 1979 comedy classic Animal House saw her immortalize cucumber innuendo, has died. She passed Wednesday in Bar Harbor, Maine from dem…