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Daniel Aukin’s lauded production, featuring new songs by Will Butler of Arcade Fire, transfers to Broadway with its gifted ensemble of actor-musicians intact.
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 12:00AMMonday, March 18, 2024
Sam Gold directs the Broadway revival in a new adaptation by Amy Herzog, who penned last year’s scorching update of the Norwegian dramatist’s ‘A Doll’s House.’
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 10:00PMFriday, February 16, 2024
The Emmy-winning 'Succession' star steps into all 26 roles in Kip Williams' lauded Sydney Theatre Company production on London's West End, with rumored plans in the air for a Broadway run to…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 12:22PMThursday, December 27, 2018
The Hollywood Reporter looks ahead to the busy pipeline of productions opening from January through summer, on Broadway and off.
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 12:14PMSunday, December 16, 2018
Angels and executioners, a pop Shakespeare rom-com and a brooding Bob Dylan tone poem, a Northern Irish pastoral and a deep dive into American foundational law were among the year's stage hi…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 10:55AMSunday, October 21, 2018
Buoyed by multiple awards from London, Sam Mendes' production of the boisterous new Jez Butterworth play set in Northern Ireland during the Troubles hits Broadway with Paddy Considine and La…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 09:27PMThursday, October 4, 2018
Set during the 2008 Democratic primaries, the play about the complex workings of a marriage reunites Metcalf with producer Scott Rudin and playwright Lucas Hnath, whose 'A Doll's House, Part…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 12:46PMThursday, July 12, 2018
The Belgian avant-garde theater-maker will collaborate with modern dance choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker on the first major American revival to depart radically from the original Je…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 12:31PMTuesday, July 10, 2018
Gender-blind Shakespeare, an Elizabethan frolic set to 1980s girl pop, a giant gorilla, a young Rupert Murdoch, triple Cher and a wealth of new plays to counter last season's shortage are on…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 11:21AMThursday, April 12, 2018
Joshua Henry and Tony winner Jessie Mueller head the cast of this stirring revival of the classic 1945 Rodgers & Hammerstein musical, also featuring celebrated lyric soprano Renee Fleming.
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 08:49PMSunday, April 8, 2018
'Hamilton' scored seven wins, while top prizes went also to 'The Ferryman,' 'Angels in America' and 'Follies,' with Bryan Cranston, Sam Mendes, Shirley Henderson and Laura Donnelly among hon…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 06:55PMMonday, April 2, 2018
John Legend, Sara Bareilles, 'Hamilton' veteran Brandon Victor Dixon and Alice Cooper headline NBC's Easter Sunday special, performing the 1971 rock opera by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice.
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 12:23AMThursday, March 29, 2018
Glenda Jackson, Laurie Metcalf and Alison Pill star in Edward Albee's biting expressionistic drama in which a woman nearing death reflects back on her life choices and the experiences that f…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 08:25PMMonday, March 26, 2018
Chris Evans makes his Broadway debut alongside Michael Cera, Brian Tyree Henry and Bel Powley in Oscar winner Kenneth Lonergan's examination of moral conflict built around a murder investiga…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 09:03PMSunday, March 25, 2018
Andrew Garfield stars as 20th-century prophet Prior Walter with Nathan Lane as closeted political fixer Roy M. Cohn in Tony Kushner's masterwork, transferring to Broadway after garnering wil…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 11:29PMThursday, March 22, 2018
The top-grossing animated film of all time comes to Broadway as a new Disney musical fairy tale about a queen in icy self-exile and the loving sister who sets out to melt her heart and thaw …
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 11:11PMMonday, March 12, 2018
Jessica Hecht plays an administrator intent on diversifying the student body at a New England prep school until progressive values conspire to derail her son’s Ivy League path in Joshua Ha…
SOURCE: edit.hollywoodreporter.com at 09:43PMMonday, February 26, 2018
The Emmy-winning 'Orphan Black' lead will make her New York stage debut in the off-Broadway production this summer.
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 01:23PMMonday, February 12, 2018
Based on the Victorian children's novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett, the show premiered on Broadway in 1991 and ran for more than 700 performances, winning three Tony Awards.
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 02:25PMThe versatile stage trouper was one of only a handful of performers to have been nominated in all four possible acting categories — lead and featured — for plays and musicals.
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 12:13PMThe revered Broadway musical theater veteran will step into the iconic role of Dolly Gallagher Levi, kicking off the blockbuster production's first national tour in Cleveland in the fall.
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 12:11PMFriday, February 9, 2018
An award-winning hit in London, Sam Mendes' production will wrap its West End run in May before a fall transfer to New York's Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre.
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 04:15PM'Heart of Rock and Roll' builds an original story around the hits of the band that helped define the MTV era of the 1980s and early '90s, generating 19 Billboard top 10 singles.
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 04:14PMThursday, February 8, 2018
'Heart of Rock and Roll' will build an original story around the hits of the band that helped define the MTV era of the 1980s and early '90s, generating 19 Billboard top 10 singles.
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 04:08PMTuesday, February 6, 2018
The single-character play's initial run at Chicago's Goodman Theatre was cut short on opening night last year when the actor suffered a mild heart attack.
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 04:35PMMonday, February 5, 2018
Martin McDonagh finds cruel imbalance in the scales of justice in this savage black comedy starring Mark Addy as a British executioner who keeps a noose handy even after capital punishment i…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 09:04PMWednesday, January 3, 2018
Major revivals, surefire blockbusters, new musicals from the co-creators of 'In the Heights' and 'Hedwig and the Angry Inch,' and star turns from Glenda Jackson, Denzel Washington, Andrew Ga…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 06:53PMTuesday, January 2, 2018
Lin-Manuel Miranda's unstoppable smash led the charge, with newer hits like 'Hello, Dolly!,' 'Dear Evan Hansen,' 'Come From Away' and 'Springsteen on Broadway' joining perennials to pump gro…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 06:44PMSaturday, December 23, 2017
THR spotlights some of the fresh faces who turned heads on the Great White Way this year.
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 12:38PMMonday, December 18, 2017
Newcomer Andy Walken plays 9-year-old Ralphie Parker in Fox's latest live musical, based on the 1983 MGM holiday favorite and also featuring Maya Rudolph, Matthew Broderick and Jane Krakowsk…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 06:19AMSunday, December 17, 2017
Mark Rylance stars in his wife Claire van Kampen's play with music as the 18th-century Spanish monarch whose chronic melancholia could be soothed only by the heavenly singing of the celebrat…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 07:52PMWednesday, December 13, 2017
THR's chief theater critic glances back over a year of stage highlights including bold new American plays, stellar productions of vintage musicals, and Bruce Springsteen, up close and person…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 12:56PMMonday, December 4, 2017
Nickelodeon brings its long-running underwater toon franchise to Broadway with this eye-popping, psychotropic (geddit?) musical fantasia about friendship and community, directed by Tina Land…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 07:50PMSunday, December 3, 2017
The plight of real-world communities struck by natural disasters adds a powerful emotional charge to Michael Arden's immersive revival of this captivating 1990 musical fairy tale by Lynn Ahr…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 08:12PMThursday, November 30, 2017
Uma Thurman plays a seductive liberal socialite in Trump's Washington, using her wiles to bolster her marriage and her husband's career in this updated play by 'House of Cards' creator Beau …
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 11:20PMAmy Schumer, Keegan-Michael Key, Laura Benanti and Jeremy Shamos square off in Steve Martin's absurdist comedy about the collision of the id and the super-ego in the treacherous marital cosm…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 06:30AMWednesday, November 29, 2017
The star's Jan. 14 farewell performance caps a historic run that has shattered house records at the Shubert Theatre eight times, most recently nudging $2.5 million during Thanksgiving week.
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 01:00PMMonday, November 20, 2017
A high school girls' soccer team warms up to face the large and small challenges of adult life in Sarah DeLappe's debut play, a 2017 Pulitzer finalist.
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 09:11PMThursday, November 9, 2017
Katrina Lenk and Tony Shalhoub share a quasi-romantic connection in the desert in this Middle Eastern musical by David Yazbek and Itamar Moses, based on the 2007 Israeli film.
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 09:12PMThursday, November 2, 2017
Steven Pasquale plays a Junk Bond King in Pulitzer-winning 'Disgraced' author Ayad Akhtar's drama about the white-collar crimes behind the high-yield bonds and leveraged buyouts of the 1980s.
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 09:19PM