Audra McDonald is not only the winningest actress in Broadway history (with six Tony Awards and counting), she’s also a vocal activist and a new mom. A Variety Power of Women New York …
“Indecent,” the production created by playwright Paula Vogel and director Rebecca Taichman, opened April 18, 2017, at Broadway’s Cort Theater after an Off Broadway run last…
Good Friday, Easter, the first night of Passover and spring break for New York City public schools all fell during the same week last week, and it added up to a huge boom at the Broadway box…
Kevin Spacey has signed on to host the 2017 Tony Awards — thereby answering a major outstanding question about the upcoming awards ceremony, which this year has waited until late in th…
You’re not imagining it: The Broadway musical “Groundhog Day” really has been unusually accident-prone. Following a couple of days of doubt, Andy Karl performed in the prod…
Once you get involved in "Indecent," "Indecent" doesn’t let you go. Just ask its cast and creative team. The production’s complete ensemble of seven actors (along with two com…
As musical theater performers go, you couldn’t ask for a more personable fellow than Andy Karl. His high-energy athleticism kept “Rocky” on its toes. And his comic chops ea…
Disney Theatrical Prods. has lined up the principal casting for its Broadway-bound musical adaptation of “Frozen,” with Caissie Levy and Patti Murin on board to play the sisters …
A new Broadway production of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s 1945 musical “Carousel” has lined up a spring 2018 opening, in a production backed by Scott Rudin and Roy Furman and …
The April 15 matinee of the previewing Broadway musical “Groundhog Day” has been cancelled after Andy Karl, the lead actor in the production, injured himself during the second ac…
Following a well-received Off Broadway run last year, the Lincoln Center Theater production of J.T. Rogers’ play “Oslo” opened April 13 at Broadway’s Vivian Beaumont …
When "Oslo" opened Off Broadway in the middle of July, it sounded like the opposite of summer popcorn fare. The latest play by J.T. Rogers was a meaty evening, a thinking theatergoer’s…
Broadway names Sherie Rene Scott and Micah Stock and “The Blacklist” cast member Amir Arison have signed on to join Arian Moayed in the upcoming Off Broadway production of “…
Brendon Urie, the lead member of rock band Panic! At The Disco, has signed on for a summer run in the Broadway musical “Kinky Boots,” playing Charlie, the young man who takes ove…
Last week was a busy one at the Broadway box office, with three shows opening, two more beginning previews and a couple — “The Play That Goes Wrong” and “WaitressR…
Current Broadway play “Sweat” has scored playwright Lynn Nottage her second Pulitzer Prize for Drama, with the award this year going to a show that has proven a timely look at…
New York State’s newly approved budget, passed by the state senate nine days after the April 1 start of the fiscal year, includes a three-year extension of the Film Production Tax C…
Forget the Triwizard Tournament and the Hogwarts House Cup, Harry Potter has arguably won an ever bigger prize. The West End production of "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child,” due on B…
Modern classics don't come along very often. “Consent” is, without a shadow of a doubt, just that: an intricately constructed philosophical drama that does for love, law and lang…
Hillary Clinton is a Broadway regular these days — but it felt particularly symbolic to see her at the opening night of the musical “War Paint,” the musical about two trail…
“War Paint” is a musical about Catherine Zuber’s fabulous costumes and magnificent hats, as modeled by the great Patti LuPone as Helena Rubenstein and her Highness, Christi…
The Tony Awards Administration Committee emerged from the Broadway season’s third eligibility meeting with new rulings on a small batch of shows, including productions with high-profil…
A married, middle-aged man falls in love with a goat. Edward Albee's set-up might be simple, but it's perfectly positioned " silly and shocking and, at its best, achingly sad. “The Goa…
Can there be a romantic relationship between two gay men of different generations: one who grew up in the shadows, witnessing struggles, pain and hidden pleasures; the other growing up in th…
Whatever would we do without Kevin Kline? In an age of lesser stars, he’s a bona fide matinee idol of the ideal age and with the urbane sensibility to do justice to sophisticated scrib…