The inaugural Nuart Festival has been set for Oct. 21-30 to celebrate the reopening of the Nuart Theatre following its renovation. The 10-day fest will open with Oscar-winner Sam Mendes' "Em…
Part of the instant appeal of "Friends" was that, from the get-go, the relationships between the members of the gang who hung out in the apartments above Central Perk felt not just likeable …
Variety has announced the lineup for its annual Business of Broadway breakfast presented by City National Bank in New York on Oct. 17. Samuel L. Jackson and LaTanya Richardson Jackson will j…
What gives life value and makes it worth our daily toil? What does it mean to need another person, and what do we owe each other? It is a testament to the brilliant craft of Martyna Majok's …
In a radical departure from his usual intellectually esoteric style, Tom Stoppard's new play is an intensely personal family drama. "Leopoldstadt," which takes its name from the Jewish quart…
Billy Eichner didn't just write, produce and star in "Bros" " he also sings in it. The rom-com, in theaters now, follows the courtship between Bobby (Eichner) and the hunky lawyer Aaron (Luk…
Heatseeking actor Arian Moayed has joined the cast of "House of Spoils," a new psychological thriller starring Oscar nominee Ariana DeBose and "Euphoria" actor Barbie Ferreira. Moayed is a b…
There is an opera of "The Crucible." Written by Robert Ward, it won the 1962 Pulitzer Prize. But this is not the opera… or is it? Lyndsey Turner's grandiloquent National Theatre production…
Danny Boyle is set to direct a dance adaptation of 1999 sci-fi blockbuster "The Matrix." Titled "Free Your Mind," the Warner Bros. Theater Ventures-licensed project is set to debut next Octo…
Madison Wells Live, the stage entertainment division of Gigi Pritzker's Madison Wells Media ("The Eyes of Tammy Faye"), has emerged from theater's lockdown phase with a lineup of brewing the…
Broadway hasn't been the same since the pandemic. Just consider "The Phantom of the Opera." The recent closing announcement of the landmark long-runner underscored just how unpredictable the…
After a bunch of peppy up-tempo numbers, you just know there is going to be at least one ballad somewhere in "The Griswolds' Broadway Vacation," the new musical with Broadway aspirations pre…
For the actor Gregg Mozgala, his Broadway debut in "Cost of Living" isn't just a step forward for him " it's a step forward for all of Broadway. Listen to this week's "Stagecraft" podc…
San Diego's The Old Globe has announced an extension of Aditya Chopra's "Come Fall in Love " The DDLJ Musical" due to popular demand. The Broadway-bound production has been extended for one …
Jonathan Spector's 2018 comedy "Eureka Day" first attracted attention in productions in Berkeley and Brooklyn. But in its sharp U.K. premiere starring Helen Hunt, this often very funny satir…
British-Sri Lankan actor Nimmi Harasgama has returned to the U.K. stage after nearly a decade with "Silence," a co-production between Donmar Warehouse and Tara Theatre. Harasgama, who was a …
It's midnight on a hot July Thursday at the David Kempinski hotel in Tel Aviv and Mathew Rosengart is in the lobby poring over a legal brief. A litigator-cum-shareholder at Greenberg Traurig…
Daniel Evans and Tamara Harvey will be the co-artistic directors of the U.K.'s Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC), the Bard-centric troupe based in Stratford-Upon-Avon, from June 2023. Gregory …
"Beetlejuice" is closing on Broadway in January, ending its unconventional, fan-fueled run on the Great White Way. It will play its final show at the Marquis Theater on Jan. 8, 2023. But fea…
THEATER "Peaky Blinders" is getting a theatrical adaptation with "Peaky Blinders: The Redemption of Thomas Shelby." "Peaky Blinders" creator Steven Knight has written the theatrical dance sh…
SPOILER ALERT: Do not read unless you have watched "The Barbarian," playing in theaters now. Actor Matthew Patrick Davis was flying blind when he signed on to play the monstrous Mother in 20…
As with so many western films, Bollywood has taken a beloved smash and turned it into a stage musical. Aditya Chopra's "Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge" opened in 1995 and is still playing in a…
For Shoba Narayan, the Indian American lead of Aditya Chopra's "Come Fall In Love " The DDLJ Musical," the Broadway-bound production is a dream come true. Chopra's U.S. stage musical reimagi…
Few theater performances are as indelible as the original Broadway production of "Into the Woods," which raised a generation of theater fans through a legendary American Playhouse recording …
In 1958, an unknown actor spoke just one line from the stage of the Cort Theatre on Broadway: "Mrs. Roosevelt, supper is served." Then, a 27-year old James Earl Jones could barely make…