When the pandemic hit, there were many aspects of the performing arts that adopted a livestream model, of course, as a necessity and a stopgap until normal life " and normal live " could res…
"Mrs. Doubtfire," a new stage musical adaptation of the 1993 comedy starring Robin Williams, has canceled its Sunday performances this week due to overnight detection of positive COVID test …
Sasson Gabai was not always sure about the musical "The Band's Visit," now playing at the Dolby Theater. In fact, "I thought it was a really crazy idea," he says. But little did the Israeli …
Patti LuPone took her seat on the stage of the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre and readied herself, drenched in jewels and a flowing fur coat, for "The Ladies Who Lunch," the famous Act II showsto…
Like all historical plays, James Graham's latest, now playing at the Young Vic in London, is as much about the time in which it's written as the time depicted. His version of the 2015 docume…
Half a century has passed since Stephen Sondheim and George Furth first dazzled Broadway with "Company," their tartly astute 1970 musical about a single Manhattanite dogged by coupled friend…
"Freestyle Love Supreme" will rap its way through the U.S.A. Following a limited run on Broadway, the improv comedy hip-hop show is embarking on a nationwide tour with stops in Seattle, Bost…
BroadwayHD, a streaming service based around live theater, will exclusively show "Snapshots: A Musical Scrapbook" starting this month. The show is from Broadway and film composer, Stephen Sc…
At a moment of the highest possible tension, a character shoots a puppet. What makes that not just exciting, but truly extraordinary, is that you feel the entire audience shudder. "We're not…
Equity, the U.K. trade union for performing arts workers, has called on theater venues and producers to enforce mask-wearing among audience members. The request is in light of a surge in the…
The cast of the new Broadway revival of "Company" was in the middle of a two-show Friday on Thanksgiving weekend when they heard the news that the musical's legendary composer, Stephen Sondh…
Few stars shone as brightly as Sidney Poitier. In films like "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" and "In the Heat of the Night," Poitier turned in powerful performances that electrified audiences…
Award-winning songwriters Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, the duo behind "La La Land" and "Dear Evan Hansen" have launched an immersive 30-day musical theatre songwriting class on the creative l…
A face smothered in banana cream has already sprung out from behind a refrigerator door. A silicone breast plate has been scorched over a stovetop. A man dressed like Margaret Thatcher on he…
George Clooney's "The Tender Bar," set in the working-class neighborhood of Manhasset, Long Island, spans 15 years starting in 1973. In the film, which bows Dec. 17 in theaters, young JR Mag…
Antony Sher, the South Africa born theater actor known for his Shakespearean roles, has died of cancer. He was 72. The news was revealed by the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) on Friday. She…
Bestseller though it is " 10 million copies and counting " it's fair to say that "Life of Pi," the extraordinary story of a shipwrecked 17-year-old who did (or maybe didn't) spend 227 days a…
For audience members checking in at the final dress rehearsal of NBC's "Annie Live!" on Dec. 1, there was an additional stop along the usual security gauntlet. Between the airport-style meta…
Stephen Sondheim reinvented the American musical by creating something deeper, darker, richer and more artistically daring. In "Company,"Â "Sweeney Todd" and "Into the Woods," he pushed th…
Three days after the death of Stephen Sondheim and 60 years after its first film debut, "West Side Story," Stephen Spielberg's expansive remake of the classic movie musical, premiered in New…
On Nov. 23 in New York City, Broadway, welcoming its newest play, hosted a television reunion. "Clyde's," a new play by two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Lynn Nottage starring Emmy-winner Uzo A…
Theaters in London's West End are getting ready to honor the memory of the late composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim, who passed away at the age of 91 on Friday. The theaters will dim thei…
Virgil Abloh, founder of the fashion company Off-White and menswear artistic director at Louis Vuitton, died on Sunday following a two-year private battle with cardiac angiosarcoma, a "rare,…
On Sunday in New York City, the Broadway community gathered to honor, mourn, and celebrate the late composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim, who passed away at the age of 91 on Friday. On the…
Geoffrey Johnson, the casting director for "Cats" and "Les Miserables," died Friday in New York City at the age of 91, Variety has confirmed. The cause was respiratory failure. In a ca…