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Looks like the hotly anticipated new musical “Shuffle Along” has a lot of spring in its step — judging, at least, from its robust numbers at the Broadway box office in its …
J. J. Abrams, Joss Whedon, Jodie Foster, Alfonso Cuaron, Idina Menzel and Francis Ford Coppola are among the names signed up to participate in the Tribeca Talks series of public discussions …
Jane Krakowski will tell you that Broadway’s a little bit like childbirth. “It’s a lot more work than I remember it!” she cracked after the March 17 opening night per…
The Roundabout Theater Company’s enchanting Broadway revival of “She Loves Me” is so charming, you kind of wish it would follow you home. The show is a special triumph for …
Warner Bros. Theater Ventures has locked in the Broadway plans for its musical “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,” with Jack O’Brien (“Hairspray,” “The C…
Tony winner Patina Miller (“Pippin”) and Tony nominee Andrew Rannells (“The Book of Mormon”) will announce the 2016 Tony Awards nominations, set for May 3 at the Diam…
Kenneth Branagh proves a born farceur in Sean Foley's adaptation of Francis Veber's classic French farce “The Painkiller.” As an anonymous hitman who holes up in a hotel room …
Laura Benanti would rather be singing "Vanilla Ice Cream" than starring on "Supergirl." After five years of focusing on TV ("Supergirl," "Nashville," "Nurse Jackie"), the fan-favorite actres…
Lin-Manuel Miranda, creator and star of the Broadway hit “Hamilton,” visited Washington this week, generating viral buzz as he performed a freestyle rap with President Obama …
Can a musical have a half-life? "Miss Atomic Bomb" does, and it's not quite long enough. Set against Nevada's nuclear tests of the 1950s — specifically, the beauty pageants set up in t…
The enduringly popular musical “Wicked” has hit $1 billion at the Broadway box office, 12½ years after it opened in 2003 and snowballed into a global megasmash. The show ha…
The creation of any work of art is tricky. If everything meshes, it’s magic. But if one key element is off, it’s just an interesting experiment. This week marks the 60th annivers…
Country music superstar Strings McCrane is trying to get real — but in Kenneth Lonergan’s funny, beguiling but overwritten new play "Hold On To Me Darling," reality isn’t o…
Spring really started to heat things up at the Broadway box office last week, with the seasonal influx of city visitors driving a spike in sales — especially at the biggest names most …
It must have seemed like a good idea to adapt “Southern Comfort,” the 2000 film documentary by Kate Davis, into a folk and bluegrass musical. But good ideas don’t always pa…
Having fun shouldn’t be as exhausting as director Alex Timbers makes it out to be in his overly antic production of “The Robber Bridegroom” at the Roundabout Theater Compan…
Forest Whitaker is blessed with an air of warmth and decency that shines through in film roles like the one he played in "The Butler.” Michael Grandage, for lauded his stagings of &…
Jack F. Lee (born John Francis Lee), musical director of both stage and screen, died March 2 in his home at the age of 86. Lee was one of Broadway's leading conductors and musical directo…
The much-lauded revival of “Gypsy,” starring Imelda Staunton, and the West End production of American Tony winner “Kinky Boots” led the pack of nominations for London…
Back in 1996, Drew Hodges and the New York-based company he founded, SpotCo, were the brash upstarts in the insular world of Broadway marketing. Twenty years later, he has put together a boo…
It’s official: Derek Hough will be taking over Gene Kelly’s old role in Broadway’s “Singin’ in the Rain.” Producer Harvey Weinstein made the announcement …
Sometimes the most powerful fights are the ones we have in our own minds — a fact vividly depicted on stage in “The Royale,” a riveting play by Marco Ramirez (“Dar…
“Nerds,” the long-aborning and much-delayed musical comedy about the rivalry of Bill Gates and Steve Jobs, has hit another roadblock, cancelling a Broadway opening that had been …
It’s rare for an instant A-lister like Lupita Nyong’o to return to the stage just as her movie career is kicking into high gear. But that’s what Nyong’o did, starring…
Longtime Broadway favorite Barbara Cook will bring an evening of songs and stories to Off Broadway this spring in “Barbara Cook: Then and Now,” a new production conceived by J…
