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“The Play That Goes Wrong” will close on August 26 after playing 585 regular performances and 27 preview performances. After closing, the play will launch a national tour beginni…
The Shubert Organization and producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron have teamed up to bring a musical adaptation of “Some Like it Hot” to Broadway. The musical will feature a score…
The Lincoln Center’s production of “My Fair Lady” is going on tour. Produced by Nederlander Presentations Inc., the tour will launch in fall 2019, with cities and casting t…
“Mean Girls” is going on tour. The Broadway musical announced Friday that it will launch a national tour in the fall of 2019. Dates, cities and the cast have yet to be announced.…
Clubby and tradition-bound as Skull and Bones, Broadway has made worthy strides toward sunlight in recent years as conventions of sex and race finally began to crumble. But you'd hardly know…
Scott Rudin’s production company, Rudinplay, and the estate of Nelle Harper Lee have settled litigation that threatened the future of the Broadway play “To Kill a Mockingbird.…
Jez Butterworth’s “The Ferryman” has announced principal casting for its Broadway run, bringing over many of its same cast members from London. The show, which is a transfe…
"Superhero," a new musical with music and lyrics by Tom Kitt, will have its world premiere in winter 2019 at Second Stage Theater's Off Broadway home. The musical, which is written by John L…
Despite working more than 60 years on Broadway, Chita Rivera never thought she would receive a lifetime achievement Tony Award, much less one alongside Andrew Lloyd Webber. "It kind of makes…
‘Children of a Lesser God’ will close on May 27 after having played 23 preview performances and 54 regular performances. This news comes after the play only received one Tony nom…
The Theatre World Awards has named its 2018 honorees. The honorees, who are being recognized for an “outstanding Broadway or Off Broadway debut,” include Tony Award nominees N…
The case of "To Kill A Mockingbird" will officially be adjudicated in New York. A U.S. District Judge in Alabama ruled Monday that while his court had jurisdiction over a lawsuit between the…
“Beautiful” has a new Carole King. Melissa Benoist, who currently stars as the title character in the TV show “Supergirl,” will take on the role beginning June 7 thro…
Show-Score is updating how reviews appear on its site and providing new data on its members to producers. The site, which assigns scores to Broadway and off Broadway shows based on reviews f…
The Tony Award categories for sound design are back with a boom. Eleven sound designers of plays and musicals were nominated for Tony Awards this season, five years after the categories had …
Director Bartlett Sher has not changed the ending of "My Fair Lady." Rather he says he has "interpreted" the ending in a manner that Bernard Shaw, who wrote the source material the musical i…
Immediately following the Tony Award nominations, Broadway producers sprang into action. With brief pauses for celebration Tuesday, producers and the marketing teams behind their shows were …
“SpongeBob SquarePants” and “Mean Girls” both topped the Tony nominations list with 12 nominations each. Katharine McPhee and Leslie Odom, Jr. announced the Ton…
The Tony Awards is adding even more competition to the night " fantasy football-style Tony predictions. Audience Rewards has teamed up with the Tony Awards to launch an interactive game, the…
An Alabama court will decide whether the case involving the upcoming Broadway play "To Kill a Mockingbird" will be adjudicated in Alabama or in New York. That was the determination made by M…
Manhattan Theater Club is bringing the play "Ink" to Broadway as part of its 2018-2019 season. "Ink," written by James Graham and directed by Rupert Goold, the artistic director of the Almei…
Director George C. Wolfe does not typically do revivals, but when presented with the opportunity to work with Denzel Washington on "The Iceman Cometh" he felt inspired. "I like to do new wor…
Each competitive category of the Tony Awards will include five nominees if there at least nine eligible candidates, the Tony Awards Administration Committee announced Friday. That determinat…
When Denzel Washington, who plays the salesman Hickey in the shatteringly good Broadway revival of "The Iceman Cometh," unleashes his dazzling smile, it's fair to conclude that he could sell…
“Carousel” and “SpongeBob SquarePants” topped the list of Drama Desk nominations Thursday. The Drama Desk Awards honor shows and artists on Broadway, off Broadway and…
