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The formula for a family-reunion play goes like this: Multiple generations of a clan get together for a holiday, air their dirty laundry at dinner, start fighting over dessert and at t…
Brad Pitt’s Plan B and Cross Creek Pictures are teaming with writer Tony Kushner to develop medical research drama “He Wanted the Moon.” The project is a co-production with…
NBC’s latest live musical “Hairspray Live” will premiere on Wednesday, Dec. 7, the network announced today. Much of the original stage production’s creative team from…
Stockard Channing has landed the lead role in NBC comedy pilot “Me &Â Mean Margaret,” Variety has learned. The pilot is described as an unlikely buddy comedy that follows a…
Actor-turned-director Joe Mantello is among New York's most regularly employed stage directors, but even so, things are unusually busy for him this spring. His critically lauded staging of S…
Sandy Duncan has made a hasty exit from Broadway musical “Finding Neverland,” with its producers — led by Harvey Weinstein — battling rumors that she quit with a stat…
We know “a Sam Shepard actor” when we see one. He’s lean and weather-beaten and never far from a bottle. A mean look in his eye suggests he might be dangerous, or maybe jus…
Director Robert Icke has become the great hope of British theater. The 29-year-old has a rare talent for tapping into a text's driving forces. He staged "1984" not as a possible future, but …
Character actor Robert Beecher, builder of the Horseshoe Stage Theatre, died of natural causes on February 12 in Burbank, Calif. He was 91. Beecher was typically cast as "heavies" " gangster…
After taking a bruising the previous week, the Broadway box office bounced back in a big way last week — thanks to valentines and presidents. Valentine’s Day always bring a sp…
It’s not a stretch to imagine a musical version of "A Bronx Tale.” The 1993 film adaptation of Chazz Palminteri’s autobiographical one-man play — about growing up in …
“Come from Away,” the musical that earned enthusiastic reviews in an initial co-production at La Jolla Playhouse and Seattle Repertory Theater, has mapped out a road to Broadway,…
Matthew Perry’s playwriting debut “The End of Longing” opened on the West End last night — and many London critics weren’t kind. The play, in which Perry also s…
It’s a common belief that analyzing what’s funny is not particularly funny. Mike Birbiglia proves the exception to the rule in his new solo show at Off Broadway's Lynn Redgrave T…
In the run-up to "The End of Longing," the West End play written by and starring Matthew Perry, the actor-playwright let slip that he can't remember filming three seasons of "Friends," such …
Four attractive urban professionals cross paths, flirt, make love, wrestle with racial issues and talk their way in and out of romantic relationships without quite committing themselves. Sou…
Theater names Audra McDonald and Harold Prince are among the inaugural class of inductees at Lincoln Center’s new performing arts-focused hall of fame, Legends at Lincoln Center. Ja…
Ash Wednesday, the Christian calendar's annual reminder of life's transitory nature, seems a provocative choice for unveiling "An Act of God" at the Ahmanson. But if offense was intended, no…
The New York theater scene is halfway to a “Dawson’s Creek” reunion. Thirteen years after the WB teen drama called it quits, Michelle Williams, who played Dawson’s ne…
Danai Gurira doesn't need a sword to be formidable. Take away the dreadlocks and the katana of Michonne, the fan-favorite character she plays on "The Walking Dead," and Gurira proves brainy,…
Fiercely committed to broadening the international reach of African artists and the African story, “The Walking Dead” actress and “Eclipsed” playwright Danai Gurira p…
The stage musical adaptation of Disney animated megahit “Frozen” is targeting a Broadway opening in spring 2018, following an out-of-town trying in the summer of 2017, with ex…
Aaron Sorkin will write a new stage adaptation of “To Kill a Mockingbird” for a Broadway run during the 2017-18 season. Bartlett Sher has signed on to direct the show, produced b…
The brewing Jimmy Buffett musical doesn’t have a title yet, but it’s got a plot, plus dates for a world premiere production at San Diego’s La Jolla Playhouse in the late sp…
Over the years, January has been a month for Fox to shine, and that was again the case this year. Surprisingly upbeat numbers for Sunday musical “Grease Live,” combined with winn…
