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Jamie Lloyd is not the first director to cast black actors as Jean Genet's murderous maids. In doing so, he directly contravenes the playwright's advice. Genet warned against flattening a sl…
Broadway got a few intimations of its annual spring crush last week, as two notable titles — “Eclipsed” starring Lupita Nyong’o and the Steve Martin-Edie Brickell mus…
It never fails. The minute you sit down to compose a Requiem Mass, Mom and Dad get on your case and perfect strangers show up on the lawn to keep a death watch. That’s the peculiar …
Lincoln Center Theater has come aboard the Broadway revival of “Falsettos,” with the New York nonprofit theater company joining Jujamcyn Theaters to present the show at the Walte…
The new play by “Eclipsed” writer and “Walking Dead” star Danai Gurira, “Familiar,” is indeed on common turf — in the bosom of a loving family that …
Broadway megahit “Hamilton” is heading to the White House next week, where the show’s creators and cast will test out plans for the production’s robust educational in…
“Hughie,” the Broadway play starring Forest Whitaker that opened last week, has posted a closing notice for the end of the month, abbreviating its run after weeks of very slow sa…
In the days leading up to Forest Whitaker's Broadway debut in “Hughie,” people were nervous. Gossip columns picked up on rumors that Whitaker couldn't remember his lines during p…
The Broadway box office showed signs of growth last week — if only in baby steps — as sales began their spring recovery from the deepest depths of winter. It’s around this …
Rachel Weisz will lead the cast of a new production of David Hare’s play “Plenty,” set for a run during the 2016-17 season at Off Broadway’s Public Theater. David …
A contentious family grappling with a matriarch's dementia over the Christmas holiday might not seem an obvious template for humor, but in "Dot," playwright Colman Domingo sees the absurdity…
Calling all disco queens. Get out your best polyester frock and fluff up your fro — it’s party time on the Barracuda, the casino riverboat bound for destruction in “Disaste…
Mia Michaels, the choreographer best known for her work on “So You Can Think You Can Dance,” has taken the reins of the new live production featuring the Rockettes, a summer s…
The following is an edited version of Marilyn Stasio’s Off Broadway review of “Eclipsed,” including new additions addressing the Broadway transfer that opened March 6. When…
Chances are you’ve never heard of Hazel Ellis. And why should you? The Irish actress-playwright only wrote two plays, and after her second, “Women Without Men,” was produce…
Was it love " or was it statutory rape? That’s the loaded question at the heart of Scottish playwright David Harrower’s profoundly unsettling drama, “Blackbird,” whic…
ROME —Â Did Roman emperor Nero get a bad rap? "Divo Nerone," a rock opera with international ambitions being staged in the real Roman Forum by multiple Oscar-winning production desig…
We’re still seven weeks away from the Tony nominations on May 3, but this year’s competition is already a horse race. “Hamilton,” which opened all the way back in …
“Hamilton” creator Lin-Manuel Miranda is in talks to co-star with Emily Blunt in Disney’s “Mary Poppins” sequel. Miranda is in talks to play Jack, a lamplighter…
George C. Wolfe, the director-writer at the helm of the upcoming, starry Broadway musical “Shuffle Along,” will be honored by the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center with the 201…
Chicago swooned over an earlier production of “Smokefall,” a work written by playwright-screenwriter Noah Haidle (“Stand Up Guys”) and pristinely directed at Off B…
Momentum Pictures has acquired the North American distribution rights to the coming of age drama-comedy “Hard Sell,” starring Kristin Chenoweth, Katrina Bowden and Skyler Gisondo…
With fewer tourists in town to pack into big-name musical crowdpleasers, plays got a little room to breath at the Broadway box office last week as nonmusical titles, including well-received …
“Nice Fish” is both the title and the punchline of the deliriously funny existential ruminations that Mark Rylance (currently up for an acting Oscar for “Bridge of Spies…
Although 2015 was a record box office year, exhibitor stocks closed well below where they started. Attendance was the third lowest since 1995, having peaked in 2002. Consolidation around few…
