Friday, April 26, 2024
Thursday, April 25, 2024
Wednesday, April 24, 2024
Cole Escola’s madcap comedy about the former first lady Mary Todd Lincoln will begin performances in June.
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Commercial Off Broadway, a long-dormant sector of the city’s theater economy, is having a banner season. But can it last?
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Proposed legislation would allocate $1 billion annually for an industry coping with rising expenses and smaller audiences.
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Bernadette Peters and Lea Salonga will star in Sondheim’s “Old Friends” in Manhattan Theater Club’s Broadway season, which also includes “Eureka Day.”
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Audiences are flocking to shows with Jeremy Strong, Sarah Snook and other alums of the acclaimed HBO series.
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After nine years in the role, she has decided not to seek re-election in May. Her departure comes amid significant turnover in the theater industry.
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The revival, birthed in London, is a radically reimagined version of the 1993 Andrew Lloyd Webber musical based on a 1950 Billy Wilder film.
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Tuesday, March 19, 2024
The production will make its transfer unusually fast, with an opening set for April 24, just 29 days after it wraps up a sold-out run at the Park Avenue Armory.
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A performance of a new production of Ibsen’s “An Enemy of the People” was interrupted by protesters who shouted “no theater on a dead planet.”
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Thursday, February 29, 2024
The long-running parody show, which has been staged in New York and on tour, will open this summer at the Hayes Theater.
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“A Wonderful World,” featuring Armstrong’s songs, is set to begin previews at Studio 54 in October after previous runs in Miami, New Orleans and Chicago.
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The streamer is co-producing a play about Putin’s Russia from the creator of “The Crown” while also developing a screen adaptation.
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The company said that it was leaving its space in a former bank in Times Square after 25 years because the rent was too high and the lease had unfavorable terms.
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Monday, February 19, 2024
How the Broadway star simultaneously mastered leading roles in “Once Upon a Mattress” and “Sweeney Todd.”
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The Delacorte is being renovated, so this summer will instead bring a mobile production and then a filmed play to outdoor sites in the city’s five boroughs.
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The playwright Lucas Hnath has been making magic with the sound of speech. Now he’s directing a play by Mona Pirnot, his wife, in which a computer speaks her words.
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Sunday, February 4, 2024
Wednesday, January 31, 2024
Onstage and off, she was celebrated as a pathbreaking triple-threat who left a huge legacy in musical theater and dance.
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There was no formal celebration for the newest honorees. Instead, the American Theater Wing presented cash grants to sustain their work.
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Wednesday, January 17, 2024
Written by David Adjmi and featuring songs by Will Butler, the drama follows five musicians making an album in the 1970s.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:32PMWritten by David Adjmi and featuring songs by Will Butler, the drama follows five musicians making an album in the early 1970s.
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The musical, which Manilow wrote with Bruce Sussman, is about a German singing ensemble that collided with the rising Nazi regime.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:24PM“I thought this could be my swan song, in terms of the angry-young-man thing,” said the actor of his rocky run of “Danny and the Deep Blue Sea.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:42PMThe latest adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic novel will feature Jeremy Jordan (“Newsies”) as Jay Gatsby and Eva Noblezada (“Hadestown”) as Daisy Buchanan.
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Roundabout Theater Company, the biggest nonprofit on Broadway, said it would produce the three shows next season.
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Friday, January 5, 2024
The Tony winner for best musical, about a high school girl with a rare genetic disorder and a criminally dysfunctional family, will begin a national tour in September.
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The musicals of Stephen Sondheim often struggled at the box office during his lifetime, but since his death several have become huge hits on Broadway.
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David Landay, an author of the 1982 stage musical, reworked a kidnapping scene for a 2021 production. Now he’s suing the estates of his coauthors for the right to keep going.
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The small theaters that help make the city a theater capital are cutting back as they struggle to recover from the pandemic.
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The musical, now midway through a sold-out Off Broadway run at the Public Theater, will transfer to the Shubert Theater in March.
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A show about the televangelist, with songs by Elton John and Jake Shears, had a run in London last year and plans to open in New York next season.
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