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Scott Rudin is bringing Kenneth Lonergan’s play “The Waverly Gallery” to Broadway next season. The revival will star Elaine May, Lucas Hedges and Michael Cera, in his third…
"Come From Away" will begin its North American tour at Seattle's 5th Avenue Theatre in October 2018. The show will play 60 cities overall, including stops in Canada, in cities such as Vancou…
"Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" broke the record for highest weekly gross for a play, bringing in $2.14 million last week. That amount, brought in across eight preview performances, best…
Janet McTeer will star in the world premiere of "Bernhardt/Hamlet" on Broadway this September as part of Roundabout Theatre Company's 2018-2019 season. The play written by Theresa Rebeck was…
Does it make me a mean girl if I say that "Mean Girls," the new Broadway musical based on " well, duh! " is, like, tbh, just OK? Sorry. My mean. But that's kind of my job. As with many new B…
Producer Bill Weiner has acquired the theatrical stage rights to "Empire Records," with plans to turn it into a Broadway musical. The musical will be written by Carol Heikkinen, who wrote th…
Theatre Communications Group has appointed Gordon Lane as its chief technology officer. Lane comes to TCG, the national organization for American theater, from Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zo…
“Jesus Christ Superstar” will launch a North American tour of the Regent Park Open Air Theatre production in fall 2019. Produced by Stephen Gabriel, the tour comes after a West E…
StubHub, the resale ticket company that recently announced a partnership with Roundabout Theatre Company, announced Sukhinder Singh Cassidy will be its new president and senior vice presiden…
"KPOP" is the most-nominated show of the Lucille Lortel awards, with nine nominations announced Wednesday, including Outstanding Musical. Following "KPOP," "Bella: An American Tale" and "Mar…
Karen Olivo, Aaron Tveit and Danny Burstein will star in the world premiere of "Moulin Rouge! The Musical" at the Emerson Colonial Theatre. Additional casting includes Sahr Ngaujah, Tam …
Joseph Meli was sentenced to six-and-a-half years in prison Tuesday after he pleaded guilty to charges of defrauding 130 investors in a proposed ticket resale scheme that included popular Br…
Roundabout Theatre Company has teamed up with StubHub as its official secondary ticketing partner. The partnership, which the companies are calling “the first of its kind,” will …
As Broadway welcomes more first-time theatergoers, Mike Rafael is trying to figure out how to get them to come back a second time. Rafael, an independent sales and ticketing analyst and owne…
The Lucille Lortel Awards have changed the nomination announcement date to April 4 from the previously announced date of April 3. Rachel Bay Jones and Steven Pasquale will announce the nomin…
Unless you have a raging fever, an ice bath wouldn't seem like a particularly pleasurable experience. And yet "Three Tall Women," Edward Albee's late-career masterpiece being revived on Broa…
The musical adaptation of “Beetlejuice” will have its world premiere at the National Theatre in Washington, D.C. this October, the production announced Wednesday. “Beetleju…
If only what happened in Budapest stayed in Budapest. I have nothing in particular against the city, really. I quite enjoyed my one visit there many years ago. There was a nice castle, I thi…
Playwrights Welcome has broadened its free ticketing initiative for playwrights to include 100 theaters across the country. The Playwrights Welcome initiative, created by Samuel French with …
Stephanie J. Block will star as Cher in the Broadway-bound musical “The Cher Show,” the show’s press team confirmed Tuesday. “The Cher Show” is playing a pre-Br…
Life is never simple. Nor is trying to figure out what kind of lives we aspire to lead. Even if we can decide what it is we want to become, how to achieve that outcome remains an ongoing puz…
Ken Davenport and Kurt Deutsch are developing a new musical based on the characters in the “Vacation” franchise. Deutsch and Davenport announced Monday that they had optioned the…
“Farinelli and the King” has recouped its capitalization costs following a limited run on Broadway, the show’s producers announced Monday. The play, which began previews at…
"The world only spins forward," says Prior Walter, ravaged with AIDS but still enduring, in the culminating speech of "Angels in America," Tony Kushner's majestic drama about our country and…
Actors' Equity Association announced the formation of a committee Friday to prevent sexual harassment in theater. The committee is meant to come up with strategies to end harassment and bull…
