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How cruel, to make comparisons with a legendary star! How unkind! How unfair! Well, tough luck, because here it comes: the new leading lady of “Dames at Sea” is no Bernadette Pet…
At the risk of mixing franchises, "Star Wars" looks destined to be the hammer Disney wields to synergistically bolster fortunes across its far-flung empire during the build-up to its l…
Fox’s “Rocky Horror Picture Show” has invited Laverne Cox to come up to its lab. The “Orange is the New Black” actress has been cast as the sexually ambiguous f…
Every year Chicago theater heats up as the weather begins to cool, but this autumn has quickly turned especially hot with high quality work, most all of it original. The likes of David R…
The Manhattan Theater Club presumably commissioned “Ripcord” from playwright David Lindsay-Abaire to give their faithful subscription audience a subject dear to their own hearts.…
“Bright Star,” the bluegrass musical by Steve Martin and Edie Brickell, has locked in its Broadway details, setting a March opening with a cast headed by Carmen Cusack, who origi…
Michael Stevens, the longtime writer-producer of the annual Kennedy Center Honors, has died. He was 48. The Directors Guild of America announced Stevens’ death on its website Tuesday. …
Lupita Nyong’o will take her passion project “Eclipsed” all the way to Broadway, with the play — written by Danai Gurira, the playwright who is also a star of “…
Netflix is planning a return trip to Stars Hollow. The digital channel is developing a revival of the much-loved Warner Bros. series “Gilmore Girls” with creator Amy Sherman-Pall…
In a Broadway box office frame when many musicals saw shrinkage following a long-weekend holiday, plays stood out as the shows gaining momentum, with productions including “King Charle…
Jim Dooley, a composer and songwriter who works regularly in TV, has acquired the musical theater rights to “Witch’s Night Out,” a 1978 animated special that starred the…
Daniel Craig will go from Bond to Iago next fall when he stars opposite David Oyelowo in an Off Broadway production of “Othello,” to be directed by Tony winner Sam Gold. Craig, w…
Larry David surprised the “Saturday Night Live” audience during the show’s cold open when he spoofed presidential candidate Bernie Sanders in a mock Democratic debate oppos…
Barbara Meek, a veteran member of the Trinity Square Repertory Company in Providence, R.I., and an actress on television, died unexpectedly in Providence on October 3, 2015. She was 81. Meek…
Matthew Broderick is becoming as much a fixture on Broadway as the TKTS booth. After nine months in starry smash "It's Only a Play" last season, he's back this fall in dog comedy "Sylvia," t…
Forty-five years since "Love Story" turned moviegoers into weepy messes and "Love means never having to say you're sorry" became an international catchphrase, the stars of the movie, Ryan O'…
You'd think audiences would be over "Annie." The 2014 Sony update, which starred Quvenzhane Wallis and Will Smith, flopped, and a lackluster 2012 revival on Broadway got panned by critics an…
It can safely be said that the Roundabout Theater Company’s Broadway revival of Harold Pinter’s “Old Times,” starring Clive Owen, Eve Best and Kelly Reilly, opened Oc…
The Roundabout Theater Company’s Broadway revival of "Old Times" can’t possibly miss. Â Harold Pinter’s three-handed battle for sexual dominance, first performed on Broad…
Bob Saget has signed on to join the cast of Broadway play “Hand to God,” stepping for the Tony-nominated comedy’s final months before the show ends it runs in January. Sage…
With two new plays joining the Broadway fray — including Keira Knightley making her Broadway debut in “Therese Raquin” — overall sales ticked upward following a week …
A perfect storm of factors, from the pope to the United Nations to the end of Broadway week, combined to hold back Broadway box office, pushing down both sales and attendance. The vast major…
Things got physical at the Oct. 8 opening night of Manhattan Theater Club's revival of Sam Shepard's 1983 play "Fool for Love." Shepard's assault-and-battery story about tormented lovers Edd…
John Krasinski will make his stage debut at the Public Theater this spring in “Dry Powder,” a new play to be staged by “Hamilton” director Thomas Kail. Krasinsk…
Robert O’Hara’s cruelly funny new play, “Barbecue,” shrewdly turns the formula for the American domestic comedy on its head, forcing uneasy thoughts about the facile …
