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NBC’s Bye Bye Birdie is saying bye-bye to 2017. The network said today that its live musical starring Jennifer Lopez that was set for December has been pushed to 2018. The news comes t…
Going public at Tony Awards time, when Broadway enjoys its highest national profile, casting directors are demanding union recognition by producers. They’ve hitched their wagons to Loc…
Director Jerry Zaks already owns four Tony Awards and one of the most eclectic careers on Broadway. He does musicals: Smokey Joe’s Café, La Cage aux Folles. He does plays: Six Degrees…
The Band’s Visit, a quietly powerful one-act musical that opened off-Broadway last December and became one of the most acclaimed shows of the season, will re-open on Broadway this fall…
“Marry the man today/And change his ways tomorrow,” Adelaide advises Sarah in Guys And Dolls. That’s not good enough for Tanya, who chooses Halloween night to tell her some…
Sara Bareilles’ stint in the title role of Waitress continues to pay dividends for the holdover from last season, which brought her a Tony nomination for the score. Last week the show …
Broadway concluded its highest-grossing season ever on Sunday, with ticket sales for the 2016-17 season totaling a record $1.45 billion, a 5.5 percent increase over 2015-16. The previous rec…
The family of Dina Merrill Hartley confirmed Tuesday morning that the actress and philanthropist, an icon of taste and sophistication in both worlds, died at home Monday in East Hampton, NY,…
The Obie Awards, founded in 1955 by the Village Voice to the nascent off-Broadway theater movement, recognized the original production of Oslo currently a contender for the best play Tony af…
A proposed revival of Edward Albee’s landmark 1962 drama Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? has renewed a long-simmering debate about freedom of expression and the frequently fuz…
Kevin Brockman, EVP Global Communications, Disney/ABC Television Group, has joined the Second Stage Theater’s Board of Directors.
Brockman has been with Disney/ABC Television Group sin…
Zosia Mamet, the lethally annoying Shoshanna late of Girls, has braved some challenging stage roles, none more so than Trish in the world premiere of Hamish Linklater’s The Whirligig, …
This afternoon’s performance will be the last chance Broadway audiences have to see Amélie, a sweetheart of a musical that left most critics, and most tickets, unmoved following its o…
Glenda Jackson, absent from the Broadway stage since 1988, will lead a revival next spring of the late Edward Albee’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play Three Tall Women. Producer Scott Rudin…
Four-time Tony nominee Michael Greif is the rare Broadway director whose art and life are inextricably knotted. Start in 1996 with the seismic event that was Rent, Jonathan Larson’s…
President Trump this morning took time out from preparations for his first foreign tour and a scheduled luncheon with network news anchors to alert the country via Twitter about the appointm…
In a hearing this morning in New York bankruptcy court, arguments were heard whether to proceed with moving from Chapter 11 to Chapter 7 (liquidation). The result: A new hearing was set for …
King Kong will take the New York stage next year, hitting the Shubert Organizations’s Broadway Theatre in the fall of 2018. Producers Global Creatures and Roy Furman announced the b…
The New York Theatre Workshop, led by James Nicola, ranks very high among those irreplaceable off-Broadway institutions that, to use Donald Trump’s famed expression, prime the pump del…
On Broadway’s Minskoff Theatre stage, where The Lion King roars eight times a week, Disney arm ESPN launched its upfront presentation to advertisers with a mix of gallows humor and …
Hollywood responded en masse today to President Trump's threat to eliminate federal funding of the arts and humanities. In a letter sent to Congress, the MPAA and numerous other groups ̵…
Her name was Saartjie (Sarah) Baartman, but in the years of her fame she was called the “Venus Hottentot,” much like Joseph Merrick who, some decades later, would become famous a…
Showing just a 3 percent rise across the board, the Broadway box office could be seen as sluggish in the wake of the Tony nominations announced two weeks back. But the vaunted “Tony bu…
Shape-shifting seamlessly from his Saturday Night Live alter-ego as pouty President Trump to Boy Scouts-loving Secretary of State designee Rex Tillerson, Alec Baldwin led an all-star cast Th…
Hardly stopping to catch its breath after announcing the live telecast in December of A Christmas Story, Fox announced today that it’s made a deal to present Rent, the 1996 groundbreak…
