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After conquering the beach, "Baywatch" luminary Pamela Anderson will now try to dominate Broadway. Anderson will portray Roxie Hart, the morally flexible antiheroine at the heart of "Chicago…
Patti LuPone tested positive for COVID-19 on Saturday. The theater legend will sit out her ongoing role in the current Broadway revival of Stephen Sondheim's "Company" while she recovers fro…
"Kimberly Akimbo," one of the hottest tickets of the theatrical season will transfer to Broadway this fall following an acclaimed run at the Atlantic Theatre Company. The musical about a New…
Martin McDonagh's "Hangmen," an early casualty of the COVID-19 pandemic, will at long last have its Broadway premiere. The show will begin performances Friday, April 8 and open Thursday, Apr…
Edie Brickell has penned "38 Minutes," a new musical about her personal experience living through the 2018 false alarm nuclear missile alert that shook Hawaii. The title is a reference to th…
James Snyder, the star of "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child," has been fired from the hit Broadway play in the wake of a cast member complaint about the actor's conduct. The producers of th…
Audible Inc. will produce a return engagement of The Public Theater's "Coal Country," a drama based on a real-life West Virginia mining tragedy that was forced to close its original run earl…
The holiday season was supposed to be a celebratory time for New York City's theater and live events industries, marking a period of revival after months of setbacks and closures related to …
TodayTix Group has acquired Goldstar, a live events ticketing platform that operates in 60 cities across the country. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, but it comes as TodayTix…
The producers of "Mrs. Doubtfire" will suspend performances of the musical until March 14 as the show struggles to find a way to survive during a resurgence of COVID-19 that has imperiled Br…
"The Music Man" will cancel performances through Jan. 1 after Hugh Jackman tested positive for COVID-19. The revival of Meredith Wilson's classic musical is one of the hottest tickets on Bro…
Broadway is losing another show. "Ain't Too Proud " The Life and Times of the Temptations," the jukebox musical about the influential vocal group behind "My Girl" and "Ain't Too Proud to Beg…
On Monday, Sony Pictures Entertainment hosted a raucous premiere for "Spider-Man: No Way Home," a superhero adventure widely expected to generate a new COVID-era record opening weekend. The …
BroadwayHD, a streaming service based around live theater, will exclusively show "Snapshots: A Musical Scrapbook" starting this month. The show is from Broadway and film composer, Stephen Sc…
Few stars shone as brightly as Sidney Poitier. In films like "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" and "In the Heat of the Night," Poitier turned in powerful performances that electrified audiences…
Geoffrey Johnson, the casting director for "Cats" and "Les Miserables," died Friday in New York City at the age of 91, Variety has confirmed. The cause was respiratory failure. In a ca…
"Chicago," the long-running revival of the classic musical about greed and corruption, canceled its Saturday performance on Broadway after two people who work at the Ambassador Theatre teste…
The U.S. touring production of "Jesus Christ Superstar" has suspended James D. Beeks from its ensemble after the musical theater performer was arrested on charges related to the Jan. 6 attac…
"RuPaul's Drag Race" finalist Rosé will star in "Fowl Play, a new musical comedy about the story of two queer theater writers who are commissioned to write an apology for a fried chicken co…
Thirty years ago, Billy Crystal brought the story of Buddy Young Jr., a stand-up comic whose talent can't outrun his self-destructive tendencies, to the big screen with "Mr. Saturday Night."…
Mentalist Jason Suran will start an in-person residence this month at the Fifty Hotel & Suites by Affinia. Dubbed "One in a Million: An Evening of Extraordinary Events," the show will be…
"Karen Dalton," a play with music written by Evan Enderle, will receive an industry reading on Thursday, November 4, 2021 at 3:00 p.m. at The Flea's Siggy Theater. The show centers on Bob Dy…
Audra McDonald, the undisputed queen of live theater, will return to Broadway in "Ohio State Murders," a new play by Adrienne Kennedy. The show, which will look at the destructiveness and co…
James McAvoy will tread the boards in Brooklyn. The Brooklyn Academy of Music unveiled new dates on Friday for Jamie Lloyd's Olivier-winning revival of "Cyrano de Bergerac," which was origin…
Producers Isaac Robert Hurwitz and Seth A. Goldstein are teaming up to launch Hugo Six, a transmedia production company that will focus on Broadway content and talent. Co-founded by Hurwitz …
