What do the Bride, Jackie Brown, Django, Mia Wallace, Hans Landa, Cottonmouth, Stuntman Mike McKay, Mr. Pink, Charles Manson and the Gimp all have in common? For one thing, that they're all …
As the Tony Awards return for the first time in more than two years, CBS and White Cherry Entertainment's Ricky Kirshner and Glenn Weiss faced a challenging task: How to hand out awards, cel…
Through a new initiative from the New York's Office of Nightlife, restaurant workers, performers, and hospitality business operators can receive mental health support as the COVID-19 pandemi…
A Tony predictions story? In this climate? Yes, the Tony Awards are happening Sunday, although you might not know it. Publicity has been hampered by the confusing roll-out of the plan for th…
With all the uncertainty around Broadway right now, one thing's for sure: The Tony Awards this year will be unlike any other. The 2021 ceremony comes just as Broadway has begun its recove…
Just for Laughs is partnering with Moontower Comedy Festival to launch Moontower Just for Laughs Austin, scheduled to take place April 2022 in Texas. The event is produced by Paramount Theat…
Initial casting is being revealed for the Pasadena Playhouse's production of the Go-Go's-scored musical comedy "Head Over Heels," opening in a reconfigured, immersive setting within the stor…
Five years and one pandemic lockdown after "Dear Evan Hansen" opened to acclaim on Broadway, the popular musical is finally ready to shine on the big screen. Given the prolonged period of so…
Melvin Van Peebles, the influential filmmaker behind "Sweet Sweetback's Baadassss Song," and father of director and actor Mario Van Peebles, has died. He was 89. "Sweet Sweetback" was a grou…
The claim to theatrical fame of the Long Island hamlet of Yaphank has thus far rested with PG Wodehouse, who included the town in his lyrics for Jerome Kern's satirical hymn to the simple li…
Jane Powell, who starred as an angelically visaged young actress in a number of MGM musicals including "Royal Wedding" and "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers" during the 1940s and '50s, has di…
"I don't want to take live theater for granted ever again, do you?" That was Lin-Manuel Miranda, in a brief curtain speech welcoming back the first Broadway audience at "Hamilton" since the …
Broadway is back " and it's looking to make some changes to how it used to operate. Listen to this week's "Stagecraft" podcast below: With producers, creators, advocates and executives…
In recent decades, numerous musical have arrived in London with outsized production values swamping the material, leading critics to wish for time machines so that they can fast-forward to t…
Whether or not you say his name three times, Beetlejuice is returning to Broadway. The musical, based on Tim Burton's 1988 film about a pesky poltergeist, was presumed to be leaving the Grea…
"Dear Evan Hansen" costume designer Sekinah Brown is grateful to actor Ben Platt for keeping the memorable blue-striped polo shirt from the Broadway musical. Platt, who played the titular ro…
"Love Actually? The Unauthorized Musical Parody," a sendup of the beloved Richard Curtis rom-com classic, will return to the stage. The Off-Broadway production, which is produced by Right An…
Transgender actors and advocates for greater trans inclusion on Broadway gathered in the heart of Manhattan's theater district on Monday. Called the Trans March on Broadway, the event was or…
When Namir Smallwood took the stage for the first preview of his first show on Broadway, the audience gave him and his "Pass Over" co-star Jon Michael Hill a thunderous standing ovation. The…
Broadway took its next step toward reopening Thursday night, carefully and deliberately on the backs of two shows telling stories of fear and resilience. "Hadestown," the 2019 Tony-winning b…
Is the quite splendid "Operation Mincemeat" ridiculously clever or cleverly ridiculous? Both. Making a song-n-dance show out of a real-life, stiff-upper-lip, British World War II intelligenc…
Curtains up on a new name for Tamsen Fadal's nationally syndicated Broadway program. "Broadway Profiles With Tamsen Fadal" will be re-titled "The Broadway Show With Tamsen Fadal." The rebran…
TKTS, the premier destination for discount Broadway tickets, will reopen this fall after being shuttered for more than a year due to the pandemic. Its return, set for Sept. 15 at 3 p.m., mar…
From "Aladdin" in Mexico City to "Frozen" in London to "The Lion King" in Tokyo " not to mention "Lion King" and "Aladdin" on Broadway " Disney Theatrical Productions is in the midst of open…
When Audra McDonald was nine, she was offered to play "the little Black servant girl" in a production of William Gibson's "The Miracle Worker." McDonald desperately wanted the part, but her …