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We'll have to wait a while longer for Timothée Chalamet's West End debut. "4000 Miles," the play that was to be headlined by the "Dune" star, has been canceled at the Old Vic two years afte…
"West Side Story" star and Oscar winner Ariana DeBose will host this year's Tony Awards, the organization announced Wednesday. The actor, singer and dancer played Anita in Steven Spielberg's…
The trick of stage acting comes in playing the same thing every night as if it were happening for the first time, right there in front of the audience's eyes. But once-controversial American…
Debra Messing has only been in the Broadway play "Birthday Candles" since March, but in some ways, she feels more deeply connected to her character Ernestine than she felt to the leading rol…
Patrons of London's renowned subway system, the Underground, are used to seeing ubiquitous posters for the West End as they travel, but few can make heads or tails of an untitled poster feat…
Several actors were in shock after the abrupt termination of Andrew Lloyd Webber's stage musical "Cinderella" at London's West End and performing arts workers' union Equity is seeking compen…
A bare set. Actors making stew on stage. An abundance of hand-held fog machines. Vague contemporary setting and costumes. A generally spooky atmosphere. Put all the ingredients together and …
Director Sam Gold's Broadway production of "Macbeth," which stars Daniel Craig and Ruth Negga, was already a tall order for its cast, who had only four weeks of rehearsal before previews beg…
For more than 20 years, Harry Lennix " an actor best known for his roles in TV shows and film such as "The Blacklist," "Dollhouse" and "Justice League" " has been an advisor for the Chicago-…
I am woman, hear me roar " with laughter, at "POTUS: or, Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive," playwright Selina Fillinger's delicious feminist farce about th…
Sometimes being nice has its rewards. Take Buddy Young Jr., the bitter, self-centered, self-destructive comedian from the 1992 flop film "Mr. Saturday Night," which Billy Crystal starred in,…
When openly gay "Bridgerton" star Golda Rosheuvel "who plays the wigtastic gossip-loving Queen Charlotte on the Netflix series " was starting her acting career, she was told by a lesbian dir…
Executive producer and composer Joe Hisaishi and the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) are readying a stage adaptation of Hayao Miyazaki's beloved 1988 Studio Ghibli film "My Neighbor Totoro."…
Subjectivity is conditional. We can only understand our own points of view in relation to the differences that separate us. If art often intends to complete the circle ("look at how these ot…
Something's happening in Oz. Jon M. Chu announced on social media that his upcoming adaptation of the musical "Wicked" will be split into two films. Universal Pictures will release the first…
Thornton Wilder's allegorical play "The Skin of Our Teeth" is bizarre, abstract and convoluted; it's not to be taken seriously. Or so Sabina (Gabby Beans) tells the audience at Lincoln Cente…
The bar at the August Wilson Theater, a lounge the theater's owner Jordan Roth opened last year, was quiet after the curtain fell over Broadway's first revival of "Funny Girl." Save the chat…
On September 15, 1976, Ntozake Shange's "for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf" opened at the Booth Theatre, forever reshaping the form and feel of America…
"You ever feel like there's someone watching from the shadows?" asks Beanie Feldstein's Fanny Brice, as haunting apparitions from the Ziegfeld star's past waft in and out in a kind of "Fanny…
The 75th Annual Tony Awards are extending the eligibility period of the season by several days and pushing back the nominations announcement date, the awards body announced Friday. Previousl…
In the theatrical annals of wild and wicked stage plays, there are black comedies, blacker comedies, and blacker-than-the-dead-of-night comedies like "Hangmen." Â Prolific playwright Marti…
After two years of delays, setbacks and an unending pandemic, Adam Lucas witnessed a resurrection. The 19-year-old New Jersey resident joined hundreds of screaming fans at the Marquis Theatr…
Ntozake Shange's iridescent choreopoem "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/ When the Rainbow Is Enuf" is the story of Black women and their often-disregarded human experiences. Wh…
A musical comedy based on the classic film "Some Like It Hot" will premiere on Broadway in the fall of 2022. The show, which was originally scheduled to open in Chicago last year before tran…
Outside New York City's Ambassador Theatre, the name on everybody's lips isn't Roxie. It's Pamela Anderson, the former "Baywatch" star who is making her Broadway debut in "Chicago" as Roxie …