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A blockchain startup is coming to Broadway in the hopes of developing deeper relationships with ticket buyers. True Tickets, a Boston-based startup that launched in 2017, is partnering w…
"David Byrne's American Utopia" has extended its Broadway run through Feb. 16. The show, which opened at the Hudson Theatre on Oct. 20, was originally scheduled to end its run on Jan. 19. St…
Jane Alexander and James Cromwell will join the cast of "Grand Horizons" on Broadway. Alexander, a Tony and Emmy Award winner and four time Oscar nominee for films including "Kramer vs. …
Becky Gulsvig will take over the role of Beverley in "Come From Away," the production confirmed Tuesday.  Gulsvig, who played the role on the national tour, begins with the Broadway c…
Zachary Noah Piser is joining the Broadway company of "Dear Evan Hansen" as the Evan alternate. Piser, who played Evan in the Toronto production of the musical, will play his first perfo…
"The Who's Tommy" is returning to Broadway. Directed by Des McAnuff, the original director of the rock opera, the revival plans to come to Broadway in 2021. This is the first Broadway re…
A newly configured tour of "Aladdin" will launch in fall 2021, Disney Theatrical Productions said Monday. The new North American tour will add more cities and venues, which previously ha…
"Company" has announced additional cast members for the Broadway run this spring. Joining Katrina Lenk, playing Bobbie, and Patti LuPone as Joanne, are Matt Doyle as Jamie (known as Amy in t…
Jamie Lloyd did not grow up seeing theater. But, as the British director of "Betrayal" reflects on his childhood living on the southern coast of England, he sees the foundations of a lif…
"We're on a road to nowhere," David Byrne sings in the final encore of his Broadway concert, "American Utopia," at the Hudson Theatre. Can we get an encore of that encore, please? While …
"Moulin Rouge!" will debut on the West End in 2021. The musical, which opened on Broadway on July 25, will play London's Piccadilly Theatre in March 2021. This adds on to the already announc…
Pop quiz question: Can you name a single writer darker than Dostoevsky? The options are few, but I hereby nominate Adam Rapp, the playwright and novelist whose vision is so unrelievedly grim…
Matt Upshaw, currently a managing director at Serino Coyne, has been appointed chief executive of the ad agency. He takes over the post from Angelo Desimini, who has held the role since …
After five years with the production, Jenn Colella will play her final performance in "Come From Away" on Nov. 10. Playing the role of Captain Beverly Bass, among others, Colella is an origi…
The Broadway cast of the "SpongeBob Squarepants" musical will reunite for a filmed version of the musical to air on Nickelodeon. The filmed performance, which will be performed in front of a…
You think your dad (or mom) is a deadbeat? Consider the plight of the young characters in "The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical," a thoroughly endearing family-friendly musical at …
"Lempicka," a new musical about the life of artist Tamara de Lempicka, will play the La Jolla Playhouse this spring. The musical, which premiered at the Williamstown Theatre Festival in 2018…
Actors' Equity members have voted to approve a new production contract with the Broadway League, the actors' union said Wednesday. The two groups had reached a tentative agreement on the…
"Mrs. Doubtfire" is coming to Broadway this season. The musical, based on the Twentieth Century Fox film, will play the Stephen Sondheim Theatre beginning March 9, 2020, with an opening nigh…
As Serafina Delle Rose, a grieving Italian-American widow struggling to open herself to life again in Tennessee Williams's "The Rose Tattoo," Marisa Tomei bares just about all, emotionally s…
Maria Dizzia, a Tony Award nominee for "The Next Room, In the Next Room (or the Vibrator Play)," will star in the first two stops of the "What the Constitution Means to Me" tour. Dizzia will…
"To Kill a Mockingbird" has once more broken its box office record, reaching a gross of $2.24 million for the week ended Oct. 13. This is the ninth time the production has broken its own…
Several Broadway theaters will dim their lights Wednesday in memory of actor Diahann Carroll. Carroll, a Tony Award winner and star of television shows "Julia" and "Dynasty," passed away on …
Disney Theatrical's revival of "Beauty and the Beast" will be an international production, according to a source familiar with the matter. This production will be a retooled version of t…
"The Play That Goes Wrong" is continuing its national tour into the 2019-2020 season. The tour will play more than 35 new cities, starting in Sioux Falls, SD on Oct. 18. The tour will also i…