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Producers Isaac Robert Hurwitz and Seth A. Goldstein are teaming up to launch Hugo Six, a transmedia production company that will focus on Broadway content and talent. Co-founded by Hurwitz …
While it's a pretty small problem in the context of the larger challenges presented by the return of live music, how a performer addresses the pandemic during a performance is no small matte…
"I'm in this world but I'm not," the middle-aged woman confesses to an unseen interviewer in Lucas Hnath's "Dana H.," a mesmerizing solo show of theatrical shamanism that is receiving its Br…
Composer Harry Gregson-Williams, costume designer Janty Yates and cinematographer Dariusz Wolski are part of the team Ridley Scott rallies to make a "Ridley Scott" film. Whether they come on…
Noah Reid, best known for causing David Rose to fall madly in love on "Schitt's Creek," has joined the cast of "The Minutes," a new play by Tracy Letts that was in previews in March 2020 whe…
Welcome to America, all ye wretched immigrants from impoverished foreign lands. Watch closely and learn as the three Lehman brothers from Bavaria " Henry the brainy head, Emanuel the powerfu…
The title character of "The Tragedy of Macbeth" is unequivocal: "If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well it was done quickly." Director Yaël Farber begs to differ. She takes one …
"Invincible: The Musical," a Broadway-targeted show from rockers Pat Benatar and Neil Giraldo based on "Romeo and Juliet," will have an invite-only industry presentation at the Bourbon Ro…
Taylor Bradley has been named publicist for the Tennessee Williams and New Orleans Literary Festival, Louisiana's largest literary and theatrical festival. The fest, now in its 36th year, ha…
On Wednesday evening in New York City, Anna Wintour, Huma Abiden, Joel Gray, Don Lemon, Phylicia Rashad, Kenny Leon and a host of New York theater luminaries filed into the Golden Theatre on…
A hope for the future arrives in the final moments of "Thoughts of a Colored Man," a dutiful and expansive cataloguing of its title subject by Keenan Scott II. "I can't wait for the day when…
Broadway is back and so is New York's residential real estate market. The sector (those properties priced at $4 million-plus) is on pace for a record 2021 with the number of signed contracts…
The new book "Get Back," which is comprised of transcriptions of conversations during the making of the "Let It Be" album and film, put the lie to the idea that the Beatles were getting a bi…
Andrew Lloyd Webber has made no secret of his distain for Hollywood's movie adaptation of his long-running musical "Cats." Though the cinematic version offered up the rarity of A-list talent…
The Circle in the Square Theatre " a Broadway house that last opened a revival of Rodgers and Hammerstein's "Oklahoma!" " transformed on Sunday in the ebullient and nourishing setting of a B…
After a devastating industry-wide shutdown, Broadway has finally reopened with performances of beloved shows like "Hamilton," "Wicked" and new plays and musicals such as "Six," "Lackawanna B…
The fan-favorite Broadway veteran Norm Lewis is doing something he's never done before: starring on Broadway in a play. After a career marked by many of the great roles in musical theater ("…
Everyone knows more than they let on at the top of "Is This a Room," a taut and pulse-prickling docudrama conceived and directed by Tina Satter. That includes audiences who are likely famili…
"Chicken & Biscuits" is a feast of a production, and there is enough sustenance and libation for the entire family. Zhailon Levingston, who at 27-years-old becomes the youngest Black dir…
Here's a treat: a restorative evening of Ruben Santiago-Hudson's loving recollections of growing up in an upstate New York boarding house run by a life force known as Nanny. When Nanny made …
Gabriella Slade fuses pop and Tudor influences in crafting the costumes of "Six," which recently opened on Broadway at the Brooks Atkinson Theater. A modern twist on the lives of the six wiv…
Ralph Fiennes will lead the cast in the world premiere of David Hare's "Straight Line Crazy," to be directed by Nicholas Hytner at London's The Bridge theater. Fiennes stars as Robert Moses,…
The all-powerful family firm has assets aplenty, but its troubled future is being massively fought over with everyone plotting over the next generation. No, not the upcoming third season of …
Eighteen months after theaters around the country shut down, Jerry Zaks is back doing exactly what he was the moment things went dark: rehearsing his next big Broadway comedy. One of the ind…
It's not an exaggeration to say Beanie Feldstein has been preparing her entire life to play Fanny Brice. For her third birthday, she requested a "Funny Girl"-themed party and seized the spot…