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Last week’s Broadway box office saw the trends established on the prior week’s sales chart hold true one more time, with a quartet of spring titles still camped out in the millio…
The Broadway revival of "Orphans" becomes the latest Tony contender to post a closing notice, with the Alec Baldwin topliner now set to shutter later this month. Like “The Testament of…
Billy Crudup and Gotham legit vet Shuler Hensley have been tapped to join Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart in "No Man's Land" and "Waiting for Godot," the Harold Pinter-Samuel Beckett double…
The Signature Theater Company's much-lauded revival of August Wilson's "The Piano Lesson" scored with four Lucille Lortel Awards at Off Broadway’s annual kudofest. The Playwrights Hori…
The New York Critics Drama Circle weighed in with its picks of the 2012-13 season, naming Christopher Durang's "Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike" top play and "Matilda" top musical. Both …
With the legit producing landscape and the nation's network of nonprofit theaters evolving in major ways over the years, the 37-year-old Humana Festival of New American Plays may not occupy …
Some years, the Tony nominations are announced and Broadway shows fall like dominoes. But this year, two days after the nominations, the news is good: Tom Hanks starrer "Lucky Guy," nominate…
Ink on the Tony nominations is barely dry and already one show has called it quits: Sales-challenged "The Testament of Mary" will shutter May 5 after a short run. It's common for struggling …
The nominations for the 2013 Tony Awards shaped up into a title bout between two strong-selling and well-reviewed new tuners, with “Kinky Boots” notching a whopping 13 noms and &…
Playwright and activist Larry Kramer will be receive the annual Isabelle Stevenson Award as part of the 2013 Tony Awards June 9. The laurel, named after the former prexy of Tony co-presenter…
The spring season on Broadway already looks to have yielded a bumper crop of B.O. earners, with no fewer that four recent openers breaking the $1 million mark and landing in the Top 10 last …
Score one for the underdog: Short-lived Broadway musical "Hands on a Hardbody" led the Broadway pack of nominations for the Drama Desk Awards, with the tuner racking up nine nods and tying w…
The musical version of “Rocky” looks to K.O. Broadway next spring, confirming a U.S. opening in March 2014 at the Winter Garden Theater. Following a well-received world preem las…
Marianne Elliott's National Theater production of "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" swept the boards at this year's Olivier Awards with seven wins, equaling last year's rec…
The Broadway revival of “Pippin” opened April 25 at the Music Box Theater after a world premiere earlier this year at the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, Mass. The follo…
"Without Walls" at the La Jolla Playhouse; A festival of about a dozen site-specific works, including a new piece about sea monsters staged on the beach by puppeteer Basil Twist.
Call it experiential; call it immersive; call it event theater. The work itself is often impossible to describe.
Variety honored New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Katherine Oliver, the Commissioner of the Mayor's Office of Media and Entertainment, at an afternoon cocktail event in Gotham April …
It isn’t the least bit funny, the mean treatment an old lady receives from her selfish family in “The Trip to Bountiful.” But that hasn’t dissuaded helmer Mi…
Legit play licensing orgs Samuel French and Daryl Roth Theatrical Licensing have teamed up for an initiative called "30 Years of Charles Busch "Â A Celebration," a national push that aims …
Veteran legiters William Craver and Peter Lawrence, nonprofit org Career Transition for Dancers and North Carolina's long-running historical drama "The Lost Colony" are set to receive the 20…
Those crazy people at the Public really know how to have fun. “Here Lies Love,” an exuberant musical inspired by the life of Imelda Marcos and set to the pounding disco beat of a…
Amid the annual onslaught of legit season announcements, the Public Theater's 2013-14 slate stands out "Â not so much for what's unexpected on the lineup, but for its array of projects tha…
The five shows to open on Broadway this week have all gotten an awards-season boost to contribute to their opening-night media spotlight, with the Drama League naming a wide-ranging slate of…
When Michael Bloomberg became the mayor of New York on Jan. 1, 2002, he took the reins of a city still reeling from the devastating aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks just four months earlier.
