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Jeff Daniels and Michelle Williams will star in a Broadway staging of “Blackbird,” the David Harrower play to be directed by Joe Mantello (“Wicked”). Scott Rudin, the…
Love hurts — quite literally, in the Manhattan Theater Club's highly physicalized revival of Sam Shepard’s 1983 play “Fool for Love.” The production originat…
The Araca Group, the Broadway producer and merchandising firm, has launched a new division, Araca Media & Entertainment, to develop and manage Broadway-inspired entertainment properties …
It’s true what they say about bona fide stars like Cicely Tyson and James Earl Jones — they could indeed hold us spellbound simply by reading the New York telephone book. Not…
Playwright Danai Gurira — also the actress best known as Michonne on “The Walking Dead” — delivers politics with a passion in “Eclipsed,” a searing drama …
The brewing Broadway musical version of “Soul Train” has found its conductor, and it’s Anthony Zuiker, the creator of the “CSI” franchise. TV procedural maven Z…
Looks like the rhythm has already gotcha, Broadway — at least to judge from the first week of sales at “On Your Feet!,” the bio-musical about Gloria Estefan and Emili…
Mobile ticketing app TodayTix is moving west, with the company expanding into the San Francisco Bay area after setting up home bases in New York and in London. With San Francisco launching n…
John Doyle, the Broadway director who’s staging the upcoming revival of “The Color Purple” and who won a Tony Award for his production of “Sweeney Todd,” has be…
The Force was strong at Monday’s American Theatre Wing Gala at New York City’s Plaza Hotel. “Star Wars” creator George Lucas and Samuel L. Jackson took the s…
“Bridget Jones’s Baby” has a delivery date. The sequel to the romantic comedy hit will land in theaters on September 16, 2016, where it will face off against Sony and Scree…
The horror classic “Halloween” is coming to more than 220 movie theaters around America for one night leading into Halloween weekend, 37 years after the low-budget tale of teenag…
Chicago Shakespeare Theater's spectacle-oriented production of "The Tempest," seen in prior versions at American Repertory Theater and a couple of other regionals, achieves what many staging…
The musical adaptation of “American Psycho,” starring Benjamin Walker as murderous protagonist Patrick Bateman, has locked in its Broadway home, nabbing the Gerald Schoenfeld The…
There are plenty of frightened faces but not a single scare in "Ghost Theater," another dud from horror-meister Hideo Nakata ("The Ring," "Dark Water"), whose helming and production standard…
Too bad Pope Francis couldn't have capped his U.S. visit with the revival of "The Sound of Music" at the Ahmanson Theater. The Holy Father would surely have been impressed, not just by the r…
"The Wars of the Roses" was a landmark production back in 1963 — one for the history books. Compressing the three parts of "Henry VI" and "Richard III" into a streamlined trilogy, and …
“Hamilton” creator Lin-Manuel Miranda, experimental puppeteer Basil Twist and set designer Mimi Lien are among the names on the list of 2015 MacArthur Foundation Fellows, each…
The Old Vic has a new head in Matthew Warchus (“Matilda,” “God of Carnage”), and he's already gone one better than his predecessor. Where Kevin Spacey started his ten…
Frederick M. Winship, longtime theater reviewer for UPI, died peacefully in his New York City apartment on September 3. No cause of death was given. He was 90 and was writing a review of a p…
San Francisco’s Curran Theater, the 1,650-seat venue that has hosted Broadway tryouts for shows including “Wicked” and “Beautiful,” will get an extensive ren…
How's this for irony? In the middle of the Swinging Sixties, Great Britain abolished hanging. On Nov. 9, 1965, it stopped swinging. Great news for progressives; less so for Harry Wade, the n…
There isn't another play quite like "Pomona." Alistair McDowall is one of a batch of young British writers chucking dramatic form up against the wall. His debut, "Brilliant Adventures," p…
At century's end, director-choreographer Susan Stroman and librettist John Weidman developed three stories-in-dance to preexisting recordings, and the resulting show,"Contact," glided away w…
In the final week on the boards, the Broadway revival of “Hedwig and the Angry Inch” went out with a bang — especially compared to the rest of the Street, where a lot of in…
