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Not since Terrence McNally’s It’s Only Play stunned the Fabulous Invalid cult with blockbuster sales has a Broadway revival sprung to life as The Front Page is doing thi…
With his intense eyes, dimpled chin and thatch of hair, Simon McBurney has a chameleonic look that shifts imperceptibly from innocent to sinister, enchanted to terrified, that will be famili…
Proving it’s possible to have not just two but three acts in the business there’s no business like, Canadian impresario Garth Drabinsky announced today that he’s coming bac…
Two-time Tony winner Kevin Kline will return to Broadway after a decade-long absence to star in Present Laughter, the Noel Coward comedy that will open a limited engagement April 5 at the St…
CBS said today that it will air the 71st annual Tony Awards on June 11 from the Waldorf-Astoria Grand Ballroom. Broadway’s trophy show will be live at 8 PM in the East and delayed in t…
Confirming reports earlier this week, Disney Theatrical Productions this morning said that Tony- and Olivier Award-winning director Michael Grandage and Tony- and Olivier Award-winning sc…
Six shows in previews bulked up the new Broadway season and all of them drew audience interest across a wide range of genres, from seasonal songfest (Holiday Inn) to modern classic (Th…
Disney Theatrical Productions declined this morning to confirm a report that Tony winner Michael Grandage (Red, Frost/Nixon) has been handed the reins to its Broadway adaptation of the block…
Indie distributor Abramorama just launched Ron Howard’s Beatles doc The Beatles: Eight Days A Week — The Touring Years. Heading into the New York Film Fest season, the company ha…
EXCLUSIVE: She plays Marisa on Disney Channel's K.C. Undercover, and now Veronica Dunne will make her Broadway debut as femme fatale Roxie Hart in the record-breaking revival of Chicago f…
Angela Lansbury revealed this morning that she won’t be returning to Broadway next season after all. The five-time Tony winner said in June that she would head a revival of Enid Bagnol…
Pianos, heard but unseen, play central roles in family-centered dramas by distinctive American writers getting world premieres with crystalline, luminous productions. Richard Nel…
Broadway mourned the death last week of Edward Albee and will salute the playwright by dimming the marquee lights on Wednesday at 7:45 PM for one minute. Albee’s Broadway legacy …
EXCLUSIVE: As the song goes — “World, take me back!” Bette Midler is returning to Broadway in a musical revival, and any doubts about the Divine diva’s drawing power …
EXCLUSIVE: Film and stage producer Scott Rudin is nothing if not a gambler — he has no fewer than three major productions in the Broadway season just getting underway. Now one of his r…
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Edward Albee, the Pulitzer-winning playwright behind some of the most important and groundbreaking works of American theater and whose …
EXCLUSIVE: Dan Gordon’s stage adaptation of the five-Oscar-winning 1983 weeper and the Larry McMurtry novel that spawned it will make its U.S. debut starting October 29 at the adventur…
Something Rotten!, a broad musical comedy that combined a Shakespeare-era story with a contemporary sensibility that appealed to some theatergoers but left others, including some critics, co…
Come From Away, a new musical set in the Newfoundland town of Gander on the morning of September 11, 2001, has been booked into the Shubert Organization’s Gerald Schoenfeld Theater, fo…
Sony Pictures Entertainment today named Lia Vollack to the top post at newly formed Columbia Live Stage, SPE’s new theatrical productions division. The move comes on the heels of We…
EXCLUSIVE: In February, Frank Langella will pick up the Jason Robards Award for Excellence in Theatre and not long after, if things proceed according to plan, he will be donning linger…
Jack Hofsiss, an expert in human frailty who in 1979 became the youngest director to win the Tony Award for his staging of The Elephant Man and later helmed the Jill Clayburgh film I’m…
It didn’t take long to find the next tenant of the August Wilson Theatre, where Jersey Boys will close January 15. Groundhog Day, which opened recently at London’s Old Vic to lau…
Lewis Black up close isn’t nearly as deranged as those who know him only from his guest rants on The Daily Show might have supposed. We were used to seeing him at a desk, suit rumpl…
Jeanine Tesoro and Lisa Kron’s Fun Home was something of a miracle, a small stall in the noisy Broadway bazaar selling intimacy, feeling and a coming-of-age tale on a scale that seldom…
