"Chicago," the long-running revival of the classic musical about greed and corruption, canceled its Saturday performance on Broadway after two people who work at the Ambassador Theatre teste…
For Christine Baranski and a generation of musical theater stars, Stephen Sondheim, the legendary Broadway composer who died on Friday at 91, was nothing less than a father figure, a musical…
The show must go on. That's what Broadway's latest production of Stephen Sondheim's "Company" did Friday night at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theater, but not before director Marianne Elliott paid…
In his 91-year life, prolific composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim crafted some of Broadway's most iconic tunes. From "West Side Story" to "Into the Woods," his music has stood the test of…
Stephen Sondheim was hailed as one of the most influential and innovative voices in history of American musical theater by friends and fans following the composer's death Friday at the age o…
Stephen Sondheim, the dominant voice in American musical theater in the second half of the 20th century and the composer with the most Tony Awards, has died. He was 91. His shows, from the c…
Actor Corey Hawkins is incredibly grateful to know Denzel Washington, his legendary co-star in "The Tragedy of Macbeth." "I love that I get to walk in his footsteps, but I know I can never f…
The U.S. touring production of "Jesus Christ Superstar" has suspended James D. Beeks from its ensemble after the musical theater performer was arrested on charges related to the Jan. 6 attac…
"RuPaul's Drag Race" finalist Rosé will star in "Fowl Play, a new musical comedy about the story of two queer theater writers who are commissioned to write an apology for a fried chicken co…
Variety has been bestowing its 10 Brits to Watch since 2013. Honorees include writers, actors, singers and other creatives working in all forms of media. Previous honorees include Harry Styl…
On Thursday, British photographer Rankin " whose subjects have included The Rolling Stones, Daniel Craig, David Bowie, Queen Elizabeth II, Jamie Foxx and Madonna " launches his latest projec…
A sandwich has always been a kind of vehicle, ingredients riding between sliced bread. Lynn Nottage improbably turns the lunchtime staple into the storytelling engine of "Clyde's," her decep…
August Wilson is well remembered for remarking that Black theater is alive, vibrant, vital and unfunded " that commerce and a common racism had long held American theater hostage to a medioc…
Uzo Aduba does not play a great white shark in Lynn Nottage's new Broadway comedy "Clyde's" " but her role in the show does make her think, somewhat surprisingly, of "Jaws." Listen to this w…
The Broadway Podcast Network has announced "The Great Broadway Game Show Competition," a new musical theater game show premiering Nov. 22. Hosted by creator Todd Graff and Andrew Lippa, "The…
Oscar-winning actor Eddie Redmayne has said that playing a trans character in "The Danish Girl" was a "mistake." Based on true events, Redmayne played one of the first people in the world wh…
If Tom Hanks is America's Dad, then Will Smith is the cool big brother. Smith has received some of the best reviews of his career for his performance as Serena and Venus Williams' father in …
A white Rolls-Royce pulled up to the stage door of the Longacre Theatre on Broadway, and Jeanna de Waal and Roe Hartrampf, the Princess and Prince of Wales in "Diana, The Musical," emerged f…
Alice Childress' timely play "Trouble in Mind" is finally getting its Broadway debut " after a 65-year wait. The late playwright's first full-length work, about discrimination and imbalanced…
"Paradise Square," an ambitious new musical heading to Broadway in March, is a fictionalized historical take on the Five Points area of Manhattan and the social forces leading up to the viol…
Is it possible that Lady Di might have loved "Diana, The Musical"? We're talking about the princess who surprised Covent Garden with a duet to Billy Idol's "Uptown Girl," a brash and unsettl…
Director John Doyle's electrifying staging of "Assassins," Stephen Sondheim's macabre masterpiece about our national infatuation with fame and our appetite for violence, is a revival to die …
Aaron Sorkin's "Being the Ricardos" took over Westwood Village on Saturday night as both press and SAG-AFTRA members lined the streets around the Bruin Theater, keen to get their eyes on Nic…
If the team of Ghanaian-American playwright Jocelyn Bioh ("School Girls; or, the African Mean Girls Play") and Kenyan-born director Saheem Ali brings nothing else to the stages of New York C…
The 2022 U.K. theater season promises to be a bumper one with new works from Stephen Beresford, Anupama Chandrasekhar, David Eldridge and Alecky Blythe among the highlights. Three-time Olivi…