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In a Broadway season filled with star turns and individual standouts, maybe the biggest breakout performance came from … ensemble casts. From the queens of "Six" to the Thoughts of "A Stra…
Andrew Garfield, Bowen Yang and Jennifer Hudson are among the stars set to celebrate Broadway's biggest night. The three actors have been announced as presenters for the 2022 Tony Awards. In…
Playwright Paula Vogel won a Pulitzer Prize for her 25-year-old play "How I Learned to Drive," which has been seen in productions around the world and is now on Broadway in a staging nominat…
"Dear Evan Hansen" won't be playing on Broadway "for forever." The show, about a socially awkward high schooler who tells a spiraling lie, is ending its run in September, five years after wi…
Elmo, Cookie Monster, Grover and more are New York City bound. Rockefeller Productions and Sesame Workshop are teaming for "Sesame Street: The Musical," a new Off-Broadway stage production a…
After the Great Recession of '08 " not to mention anxiety about the current economy " will a Reagan-era comedy about insider trading and the glory of greed get the same laughs? Can it sing, …
When the Tony-winning musical "1776" debuted on Broadway in 1969, it celebrated America's ideals on the eve of its Bicentennial. Half a century later, a radical makeover brings critique fron…
On Eighth Avenue in Midtown Manhattan, right next to a Chik-fil-A, is Spyscape " a two-floor, futuristic-looking museum/interactive experience space that gives spycraft lovers a close-up loo…
It's June 2022, and Michael R. Jackson has a lot to be proud of. His musical "A Strange Loop" leads the Broadway awards-season race with 11 Tony nominations and stands poised to net the top …
"Almost Famous" is almost ready for Broadway. The specific New York theater has yet to be announced, but opening dates for the musical adaptation of the Cameron Crowe film were revealed by t…
The highly-anticipated sequel to the 1986 "Top Gun" movie has taken off around the world, bringing a new audience as well as fans of the original into movie theaters. "Top Gun: Maverick" ope…
Not even the pandemic was going to stop "Music Man" Tony Award nominee Hugh Jackman from mastering the tap and dance routine for the show's Broadway revival. Jackman kept training with chore…
With a cast headed by Amy Adams making her West End debut, you'd be forgiven for imagining the latest production of Tennessee Williams' play "The Glass Menagerie" might be everything you'd e…
In June 2020, Tony-nominated actor Danielle Brooks and her fellow award-winning artists Amber Iman and Jocelyn Bioh launched the Instagram account "Black Women on Broadway," a platform to ce…
Arthur Miller's classic play "Death of a Salesman" is returning to Broadway this fall. Wendell Pierce and Sharon D Clarke will reprise their roles as Willy and Linda Loman in the revival, wh…
Jesse Williams is coming to the end of his debut Broadway gig " but he's already betting it'll be the first of many stage engagements for him. Listen to this week's "Stagecraft" podcas…
As viewers gear up for the final seasons of "Stranger Things," "Stranger Sings! The Parody Musical" is launching new productions this fall in London and Australia. It will also mount an Off-…
When someone who has made a four-decade career out of being funny decides to take a step back from what made them famous, there's always that potentially nagging sense of self-doubt that can…
A star-studded production of "Into the Woods" is heading to Broadway. Following its buzzy, sold-out run at New York City Center, Encore's rendition of "Into the Woods" is transferring to the…
Douglas Carter Beane, the Tony Award-nominated playwright behind "The Nance" and "The Little Dog Laughed," has signed with Verve for representation in all areas. Beane is one of the most pro…
Gala on the Green, the Public Theater's annual benefit held Tuesday night steps from the Delacorte Theater in New York's Central Park, is the best spot in town for a breezy evening spent as …
Matt Doyle still can't believe what's been happening to him lately. A New York City theater actor for about 16 years, he's now a first-time Tony nominee for his work as Jamie in director Mar…
"What are you staring at? Have you never seen a murderer up close before?" Ever since her startlingly assured 2007 debut "Free Outgoing," shrewd playwright Anupama Chandrasekhar has calmly b…
Amazon and MGM may have completed their $8.5 billion merger in March, but don't expect to see "Three Thousand Years of Longing," the fantastical love story from director George Miller, strea…
It is hard to watch the brutalization of women on screen, especially when you know it is a re-creation of an actual crime. But it is harder still " rightly, valuably so " if you've been made…
