Heating up further the NBC/Fox rivalry for telecasting live Broadway musicals, Fox and Warner Horizon Unscripted Television announced today that they will present A Christmas Story, the Tony…
EXCLUSIVE: The latest venture in re-selling pricey Broadway ducats promises – here’s a shocker – to lower prices, not raise them. As long as you fit a certain pr…
After struggling for two days with complex definitions of “defamation,” “tortious interference” and conflicting testimony about a Broadway investor who turned out not…
Downton Abbey and Ragtime star Elizabeth McGovern will return to Broadway this fall, 27 years after playing Ophelia to Stephen Lang’s Hamlet. She’ll star in Time and the Conways,…
Alec Baldwin and Whoopi Goldberg lent more than star power to Tuesday’s announcement of plans for a 2-year celebration of Leonard Bernstein’s 100th birthday. Events beginning thi…
Director Sam Gold’s tradition-busting Broadway revival of Tennessee Williams’ The Glass Menagerie will close May 21, producers Scott Rudin and Lincoln Center Theater said Tuesday…
Rodgers and Hammerstein knew that audiences liked being taken to exotic places (the South Pacific, Thailand, Austria, Oklahoma!) and these days Broadway is looking like a map of the wo…
Oslo and The Band’s Visit, which won the big awards at off-Broadway’s Lucille Lortel Awards last night, pulled off the same feat this evening as the New York Drama Critics Cir…
The Middle East dominated Sunday night’s Lucille Lortel Awards, as Lincoln Center Theater’s original off-Broadway production of Oslo, and the Atlantic Theater Company’s pro…
Ed Sherin, an Emmy winner who executive produced more than 160 Law & Order episodes, directed three dozen and acted in and/or directed more than 20 Broadway shows during his six-decad…
I’m sure I’m not alone in remembering my junior high school history class about Admiral Perry and the “opening” of Japan. We know that Perry and his ships arrived …
EXCLUSIVE: Deadline theater critic Jeremy Gerard and Jujamcyn Theatres president Jordan Roth discuss the hottest topics on the Rialto, the only precondition being: no holds…
EXCLUSIVE: The 2017 Yale Drama Series Prize has been awarded to Jacqueline Goldfinger for her play Bottle Fly. The work was chosen by London-based playwright Nicholas Wright (A Huma…
Whimsy took a shellacking with this week’s Tony nominations announcement. Two new musicals based on iconic film comedies –Â Amélie and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory –…
The Broadway stand of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child will open next April 22 at the Ambassador Theatre Group’s Lyric Theatre, producers Sonia Friedman, Colin Callender and Harry Pot…
Mary Beth Peil has only one number all to herself in Anastasia, but it’s a killer, and almost certainly what earned her a second Tony Award nomination 32 years after the first one. …
Denée Benton, hailed as Broadway’s new “It” girl, has signed with WME on the heels of landing a Tony nomination for her Broadway debut in Natasha, Pierre & The Great C…
Blame Canada: Come From Away, a long-aborning musical about the Newfoundland town that hosted some 7,000 travelers diverted there when U.S. airspace was closed in the aftermath of the 9/11 t…
The Tony nominators spread the joy to 25 of 37 eligible shows this morning, giving multiple nods to box office smashes that included the shoo-ins –Â Bette Midler in Hello, Dolly!, ch…
Come From Away, Dear Evan Hansen, Groundhog Day and Natasha Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812 will compete for the Best Musical Tony Awards, while A Doll’s House, Part 2, Oslo, Inde…
Nominations for the 2017 Tony Awards are being announced today on CBS This Morning, beginning at approximately 8:30 AMÂ ET. This is the moment producers have been losing sleep over for day…
With all shows off and running (or, in some cases, just off) by last week’s cutoff for Tony Awards nominations, to be announced tomorrow morning at 8:30 ET, Broadway attendance cooled …
The Tony Awards Administration Committee said today that, based on the recommendation by the American Theatre Critics Association, the Dallas Theater Center will receive the 2017 Regio…
EXCLUSIVE: One of the coming season’s most hotly anticipated projects – a collaboration among composer John Kander, director-choreographer Susan Stroman and writer David Thompson…
Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker, book author and all-around agent provocateur Michael Moore will make his Broadway debut this summer with The Terms Of My Surrender, a solo show to be sta…