The dresses had a little more color, but the National Board of Review’s 2018 Awards gala — honoring Meryl Streep, Tom Hanks, Greta Gerwig, Jordan Peele and “The Post,”…
The playwright Stephen Adly Guirgis may have a Pulitzer Prize under his belt, but his latest honor — the Residency One retrospective season at Off Broadway’s Signature Theater &#…
In Playwrights Horizons’ “Mankind,” playwright-director Robert O'Hara envisions a future society when women have vanished from the face of the earth and men must shoulder t…
The Broadway box office fell more than 35% in the wake of the Christmas-New Year’s boom — but really, it could have been worse. Sales have always fallen off a cliff in the first …
Ben Vereen, the Tony Award-winning actor who starred in musicals including “Pippin” and “Jesus Christ Superstar,” has issued an apology following allegations of sexua…
Four women have accused Albert Schultz, the artistic director of Toronto’s Soulpepper Theatre Company, of sexual harassment and assault in four separate civil lawsuits, according to a …
A pack of ultra-hot shows, combined with the rising prominence and price tags of premium seats, will push the Broadway box office to a new calendar-year record of more than $1.6 billion in 2…
Remember when a $2 million week was a big deal at the Broadway box office? That not-so-long-ago time is looking a little quaint these days, when “Hamilton” stands poised to break…
The Broadway box office has a new high-water mark: $1,150, the top premium price for a ticket to “Hamilton” during the high-demand week between Christmas and New Year’s. Th…
“Hamilton” is going to be just fine here in London. In the Broadway smash’s first outing beyond American soil, there's a lot riding on the West End transfer of Lin-Manuel M…
“The Jungle” does everything theater does best, and more. It takes us to places we would never otherwise go, brings us face to face with people we wouldn't ordinarily encounter, …
Blair Brown is back on Broadway for the first time in more than 15 years. But “The Parisian Woman,” the new D.C.-set play by “House of Cards” creator Beau Willimon, c…
Rachel Bloom, the Golden Globe-winning star of CW series “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend,” has the book and songs for a full-length stage musical sitting in her drawer. “It's basicall…
“Summer,” the bio-musical about Donna Summer now playing its world premiere run at the La Jolla Playhouse, has locked in a Broadway plan that will see the production move in to N…
With a spate of mega-selling shows like “Hamilton,” “Hello, Dolly!” and “Springsteen on Broadway” now running, the Broadway box office is easily outpacing…
There’s not much to Claire van Kampen's simplistic script for “Farinelli and the King,” the play now running on Broadway after premiering at Shakespeare’s Globe in Lo…
How ironic that "Pinocchio" should be a bit lifeless. With Disney handing over the keys to a cherished classic for the first time, "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" director John Tiffany h…
Pack your bags, people — the apocalypse is coming. This warning comes to you courtesy of Lucy Kirkwood, whose cautionary disaster drama, "The Children," scared the wits out of audience…
I call this my Magpie List for 2017, because like the magpie, I love pretty, shiny things that delight the eye — and if they also warm the heart, so much the better. "The Band's…
“Star Wars: The Last Jedi” actor Adam Driver will return to Broadway in 2019, starring in a new production of the Lanford Wilson play “Burn This” to be directed by Mi…
Stories speak volumes in the playwright Anne Washburn's work. In "Mr. Burns, a Post-Electric Play," she submitted an episode of “The Simpsons” to 70 years of hand-me-down distort…
Chrissy Metz, the “This Is Us” star who’s currently up for a trophy at the Golden Globes, will lead the cast of a new production of Neil LaBute play “Fat Pig,̶…
“Death Becomes Her” is becoming a musical, with Universal Theatrical Group developing a stage adaptation of the 1992 Robert Zemeckis film and Broadway favorite Kristin Chenoweth …
John Leguizamo learned a lot in order to prepare for his new Broadway solo outing, “Latin History for Morons.” But his biggest takeaway? “I am a true ghetto nerd, is the re…
Broadway’s got the beat: “Head Over Heels,” the musical that takes it score from the catalog of the band The Go-Go’s, has mapped out its road to New York, with a San …