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Samuel Baum's "The Engagement Party" and Duncan Macmillan and Jonny Donahoe's "Every Brilliant Thing," featuring Daniel K. Isaac, will launch a new season of shows at Los Angeles's Geffen Pl…
Jordan Fisher savors those 7 p.m. showtimes. It's not that there's a huge difference on the nights that Broadway's revival of "Sweeney Todd" starts at 8 p.m. But the extra hour of freedom af…
Today's audiences are unlikely to know the name Oscar Levant, the once-famed pianist, composer, comedian and actor at the center of Doug Wright's new Broadway play "Good Night, Oscar." Despi…
Here is my favorite thing about Suzie Miller's Olivier Award-winning one-woman play "Prima Facie," opening at Broadway's Golden Theater tonight: About halfway through, it begins to rain, har…
Comes a time when even Neil Young is going to set foot on a stage again after the pandemic, and the recently gig-shy legend turned in his first substantial live performance in almost four ye…
With another seven premium theaters set to open in India by this coming December and negotiations ongoing with new partners in Europe, Asia and Latin America, ICE Theaters will hit the groun…
Hidden behind two passcode-protected doors in a nondescript office complex just outside of La Rochelle, France, sits the Bunker " ICE Theaters' state-of-the-art, highly protected facility wh…
Australian satirist Barry Humphries, known for his onstage and TV drag persona Edna Everage and for his character Sir Les Patterson, has died. He was 89. The BBC reported that Humphries had …
Roasting nice white liberals is a time-honored theatrical pastime. Trim away the artifice of their smug posturing and they're predictably stuffed with a medley of ignorance, hypocrisy and na…
London's West End smash hit "Death Drop" is headed across the pond. The killer comedy drag show, starring some of the most famous drag queens, is coming to New York this summer. "Death Drop,…
Sadler's Wells associate artist Kate Prince's acclaimed dance theatre production, "Message In A Bottle," set to the music of 17-time Grammy winner Sting, has been filmed for cinema release i…
The only thing America loves more than watching work imported from Great Britain is when that same British work goes wildly off the rails. What is "The Great British Bake Off" without toppli…
Todd Haimes, a major force of New York theater who rescued the Roundabout Theater Company and developed it into one of the country's premier nonprofit theaters, died Wednesday in New York Ci…
No one could have predicted that the year's biggest Broadway hit would be about corn. But the new musical comedy "Shucked," which opened in April, has become the surprise delight of the seas…
With the new production of her comedy "The Thanksgiving Play," Larissa FastHorse has become the first known Native American female playwright on Broadway. Now she can cross it off her to-do …
Jake Gyllenhaal is determined to star in another Broadway musical. "There are so many musicals I love so deeply," Gyllenhaal, who starred in a revival of "Sunday in the Park With George" wit…
After 35 years " and a string of $3 million weeks at the box office fueled by the last-minute frenzy of "phans" " the 13,981th and final Broadway performance of "The Phantom of the Opera" wa…
Good news! She's dead. Director Jon M. Chu has revealed the first look at Cynthia Erivo as Elphaba and Ariana Grande as Glinda in the movie version of "Wicked." "You weren't told the whole s…
A veteran of stage and screen, Tony winner Jane Krakowski returns to "Schmigadoon!" In the second season of Apple TV+'s musical series, Krakowski plays Bobbie, a trial lawyer who sings and d…
In Aaron Sorkin's revised script for Lincoln Center Theater's new Broadway production of "Camelot," the magic is missing " in more ways than one. The declared aim of the stage, TV and film w…
The all-star cast for Netflix's adaptation of August Wilson's "The Piano Lesson" has been revealed. Oscar winner Samuel L. Jackson and John David Washington will star in the feature film, re…
Ask Cameron Mackintosh if "The Phantom of the Opera" will be back, and he doesn't play coy. "Of course it will return," he says. "All the great musicals do." But the British mega-producer, w…
New York stages are rarely without some version of Shakespeare's mopey Danish prince, tormented by fatal family drama. But none has ever been quite like the protagonist of "Fat Ham," Juicy, …
Ariana DeBose is back to do "the thing" as the host of this year's Tony Awards. It's the second time the actor is serving as emcee for Broadway's biggest night, which is taking place on Sund…
On Tuesday night, Jeremy Renner walked his first red carpet since his near-fatal snow plow accident. The "Avengers" actor was on hand at the premiere of "Rennervations," his new Disney+ real…