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Those high-school girls who laughed themselves silly at Tina Fey's 2004 movie “Mean Girls” are now old enough to take their own teenaged daughters to this bouncy musical adaptati…
Off Broadway Korean-pop musical “KPOP” topped the nominations for the 2018 Lucille Lortel Awards, snagging nine nominations for the annual awards for Off Broadway fare. “KP…
Aaron Tveit and Karen Olivo will headline the new musical adaptation of “Moulin Rouge,” the stage adaptation of the 2001 Baz Luhrmann film. Tveit, a Broadway fan-favorite whose s…
“I didn't want to be weaving baskets and lamenting about the oxen.” That’s the actress Billie Piper talking about “Yerma” on the latest episode of Stagecraft, V…
Big Broadway and TV names will come together later this month for “Broadway With Love: A Benefit Concert for Parkland, USA,” produced to raise funds in the aftermath of the Parkl…
In the theater industry, "secondary market" used to be dirty words, conjuring images of price-gouging brokers and risky, potentially fraudulent transactions on a street corner. But not anymo…
Passover and Easter week gave the Broadway box office plenty to celebrate, with the holidays — and the academic spring breaks that are often timed to them — driving up sales by a…
Not everyone watched NBC’s “Jesus Christ Superstar Live” on TV: More than 1,300 people made up the live audience that cheered on the show from the bleachers. Here’s w…
Watching Glenda Jackson in theatrical flight is like looking straight into the sun. Her expressive face registers her thoughts while guarding her feelings. But it's the voice that really thr…
"Angels in America" has cast a long shadow: Tony Kushner's fantastical dramatization of the AIDS crisis has long seemed near definitive. But over six acts and seven hours at London’s Y…
The moment Samantha Barks smiles and sings near the beginning of this musical adaptation of the film "Pretty Woman," we know things are going to be OK. The sense that this show — n…
Warner Bros. Theatre Ventures’ brewing musical adaptation of “Beetlejuice” has mapped out its road to Broadway, locking in a world premiere run at the National Theatre in W…
There are lots of characters in the Off Broadway thriller “Harry Clarke.” But they’re all played by Billy Crudup — who gets lonely up there sometimes. “It gets …
"Manchester By the Sea" didn't come out of nowhere. The aching compassion for humanity in that 2016 Oscar winner is second nature to Kenneth Lonergan, going back at least to 2001, when Playw…
Harry Potter only just apparated onto Broadway, and he’s already making magic. “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child” played its first six previews and levitated all the way u…
The National Theater production of Tony Kushner's phenomenal 1993 epic work doesn't feel like a historical artifact that won the Pulitzer Prize, two Tony Awards, an Olivier Award, an Emmy, a…
When we meet him in the attractive person of Billy Crudup, the title character of the Off Broadway play “Harry Clarke” is casually dressed and sitting on a wooden deckchair, drin…
“Frozen” may have just opened on Broadway, but the Oscar-winning creatives of both the movie and the stage musical aren’t done with each other yet. They’re hard at…
As Princess Elsa says in this snowy, showy stage adaptation of the popular Disney movie, "I'm not as cold as I seem." Credit the thawing trend in Broadway's "Frozen" to the lovable character…
It's nothing if not timely: Francis Turnly's epic international mystery "The Great Wave" takes us into the soul of North Korea. A tale of two sisters " best of times, worst of times " this N…
Superfans and hate-watchers, take note: You may not have seen the last of “Smash.” So says Robert Greenblatt, chairman of NBC Entertainment, on the latest episode of Stagecraft, …
Ethan Hawke and Paul Dano will star next winter in a new Broadway production of “True West,” with the two actors playing the volatile brothers at the center of Sam Shepard’…
“Mean Girls” is looking pretty nice for Broadway: The new musical — powered by the involvement of the film’s screenwriter Tina Fey — raked in well over $1 milli…
Parrotheads, be warned that there aren't enough parrots in this show. (Can somebody do something about that?)Â Otherwise, the hedonistic spirit of Buffett's feel-good "gulf and western" m…
The upcoming Broadway adaptation of “To Kill a Mockingbird” — with a buzzy creative team that includes writer Aaron Sorkin and star Jeff Daniels — has been hit with a…
