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The Broadway musical “School of Rock” has turned a profit, with producers of the show announcing the recoupment of its capitalization cost of $15 million. The Andrew Lloyd Webber…
After six seasons on “Downton Abbey,” Elizabeth McGovern will head back to Broadway in “Time and the Conways,” a revival of the 1937 J.B. Priestley play to be produce…
Despite the mishap that saw this year’s Oscar ceremony end with the temporary announcement of the incorrect best picture winner, Michael De Luca, one of the producers of the 2017 Acade…
The Broadway revival of “The Glass Menagerie,” with a cast led by Sally Field, has thrown in the towel earlier than initially expected, with the production, which had been schedu…
The Tony-nominated Broadway play “Oslo” made it a hat-trick, winning the award for best play from the New York Drama Critics Circle after snagging the same honor from the Lort…
With Tony nominations dropping early last week to add a jolt of awards-season buzz to the Broadway box office, plays were the biggest beneficiaries in an overall steady week as both “O…
Mark Rylance, the Oscar and Tony-winning actor who has been much employed in Stephen Spielberg’s recent films, will return to Broadway later this year in “Farinelli and the King,…
“In & Of Itself,” the solo show starring illusionist Derek DelGaudio and backed by a team of Hollywood veterans that includes Neil Patrick Harris, has proven successful enoug…
The megaselling revival of “Hello, Dolly!” and the sleeper success “Come From Away” walked away with five awards each from the Outer Critics Circle Awards, underscori…
“Oslo,” the play by J.T. Rogers that’s currently in the running for seven Tony Awards including best play, topped the 2017 Lucille Lortel Awards, snagging four trophies inc…
Better on angels than it is on America, Marianne Elliott's grand revival of “Angels in America” brings Tony Kushner's sprawling fantasia back to London’s National Theater 2…
Director John Doyle is such a wizard, he could probably stage a show on a postage stamp. The stage at Classic Stage Company is larger than that — as reconfigured for this Off Broadway …
In the first sign of fallout from the recent announcement of the Tony nominations, producers of the Broadway musical “Amelie” have decided to throw in the towel, posting a closin…
Disney Theatrical Production's stage version of Frozen is also due to open in spring 2018
Jez Butterworth tapped into England's green and pleasant land in “Jerusalem,” summoning ancient feet and pagan spirits to the stage. “The Ferryman,” his first major p…
“Harry Potter and the Cursed Child,” the West End smash that extends the uber-popular “Harry Potter” franchise to the stage, has officially made a date with Broadway,…
Glenn Close's return to Broadway in “Sunset Boulevard” was one of the tentpoles of the theater season: A big star earning big raves in a big-selling show that has grossed more th…
Here are two nuggets of conventional Broadway wisdom: The new play is dying. And when it’s not, the Brits usually steal the spotlight. But this year’s Tony nominations for new pl…
With a crowded field of contenders and no clear frontrunner, Broadway’s busy 2016-17 season was packed with potential for the Tony nominations. But with so much competition for so few …
“Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812” jumped to the head of the pack of the 2017 Tony nominations, taking the lead with an even dozen noms ahead of “Hello, Dolly!,&…
Dallas Theater Center will take home the 2017 Regional Theater Tony Award, with its leadership due to receive the trophy during the 71st Annual Tony Awards. The Tonys hand out its annual reg…
The overall Broadway box office slowed last week, but some of the Street’s newer shows picked up — among them “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” and “Groundhog…
With his new show, “The Terms of My Surrender,” Michael Moore is taking his fight against Donald Trump to the Broadway stage. After he announced the production, he spoke with …
Michael Moore is taking aim at Donald Trump from a Broadway stage, bringing his solo show, “Michael Moore on Broadway: The Terms of My Surrender” to the Belasco Theater. Michael …
Mr. White, Mr. Orange, Mr. Blonde, Mr. Pink, Mr. Brown: They all reunited for the 25th anniversary retrospective screening of “Reservoir Dogs” at the Tribeca Film Festival Apr…