Will these ill-mannered audience members never learn? During a Wednesday night performance of Shows for Days at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater, Patti LuPone confiscated an audience member's p…
Because you can never have enough James Bond, Agent 007 will soon make an unlikely leap from the big-screen to to the stage, according to Playbill. Exec producer Merry Saltzman " the daughte…
Misty Copeland's big year is about to get bigger: Time 100 cover girl and the American Ballet Theater's first black principal will make her Broadway debut in On the Town in a special two-wee…
The mood was ecstatic last night for the first of three concert performances of Little Shop of Horrors, the nearly perfect 1982 musical that's the centerpiece of this summer's "Encores! Off-…
Last week, Universal announced that Bombshell " the musical contained within Smash " was going into development to become an actual musical following the success of its one-night-only c…
Douglas Carter Beane sure knows how to write for his stars. In 1997, As Bees in Honey Drown perfectly showcased the talents of J. Smith-Cameron, just as, more recently, The Little Dog Laughe…
Variety reports that The O.C., Fox's teen drama that bred a cult fan base in the mid-2000s, is receiving the musical treatment (no, not the Turkish version, though that was fun). The plot is…
The Harry Potter play that J.K. Rowling was producing has its destination and title. Called Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, the prequel project will debut in 2016 at the Palace Theatre on…
A New Brain, the killer musical about a songwriter facing a life-threatening brain condition, could only have been written by William Finn. For one thing, it's highly autobiographical. When …
Bombshell is becoming a real-life Smash. Universal announced Monday that due to the overwhelming response from the one-night only Bombshell benefit concert earlier in June, it is going to de…
The only previous work the young playwright Joshua Harmon mentions in his current program bio is Bad Jews, a big hit for the Roundabout in 2012 and 2013. That terrific comedy, tight and…
"There are aspects of the play we kindly ask you not to reveal in your review of Gloria." So read the email from the press agents for Branden Jacobs-Jenkins's new shocker at the Vineyard.…
According to The Hollywood Reporter, David Simon and frequent collaborator George Pelecanos are hard at work developing The Deuce, a show about the porn theaters and peep shows of Times Squa…
The weather, that diva, is often a co-star at the Delacorte Theater, but rarely so aptly as at a recent preview performance of The Tempest, when the air seemed pregnant and thunderstorms wer…
Earlier this year, Russell Crowe had the gall (ignorance?) to suggest that actresses like Meryl Streep and Helen Mirren would "give you 10,000 examples and arguments as to why [complaint…
Before a word is spoken in Bruce Norris's new play The Qualms, now at Playwrights Horizons, audiences hear the sound of nervous laughter onstage. It might as well have been my own, beca…
On Thursday, all of David Letterman's Late Show episodes and clips disappeared from YouTube and CBS.com, as BuzzFeed noted. Letterman made his late-night farewell on May 20, and soon after, …
Rajiv Joseph's Guards at the Taj, at the Atlantic, concerns itself with the overwhelming power of beauty; naturally, it is brutal to an almost nauseating degree. Is it unfair to the audience…
Remember all those uncomfortable feelings you had after watching Disney's Robin Hood and realizing you were crushing on an an animated fox? Be prepared to feel them again: The studio just re…
At some point in their writing lives, most playwrights turn from the world they can never finally fathom to one they already know too well. Recent New York seasons have brought us both fond …
It's actually surprising Seinfeld never had an episode in which Jerry finds a second George (played by Larry David, or Jason Alexander in a mustache), and the Georges first love each other b…
After winning her Tony Award on Sunday, Helen Mirren strode into the press room carrying a cocktail, which she handed to a staffer before navigating the steps to the stage, muttering, "Stair…
Time moves slowly in Tonyland; from one year to the next you can pretty much expect the same turnout of stars, the same proportion of gold to cheese. In that regard, the 2015 edition did not…
It's the first time hosting the Tonys for the pixie team of Kristin Chenoweth and Alan Cumming. And here at Vulture, we also have a new duo liveblogging for the first time: Jesse Green, New …
Who took home all the hardware from Broadway's biggest night? Well, Helen Mirren won big for her turn as Queen Elizabeth II in The Audience (all hail, Helen), and Ruthie Ann Miles nabbed a k…