Sadie Thompson, that naughty lady of Pago-Pago, has had the struggle over her soul dramatized innumerable times on stage and screen since Somerset Maugham created her in his 1921 short story…
Oscar Isaac, the “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” actor who will next be seen on the bigscreen as the titular baddie in “X-Men: Apocalypse,” will play Hamlet in a 2017 …
Dame Judi Dench is now the winningest performer in the history of the Olivier Awards, the London equivalent of the Tony Awards. The actress picked up her eighth Olivier during an April 3 cer…
There’s bound to be head-scratching over Ivo van Hove’s peculiar Broadway production of “The Crucible,” Arthur Miller’s towering 1953 drama about the infamous 1…
A trio of Broadway veterans will head up the cast of the upcoming Broadway revival of “Falsettos,” with Christian Borle, Andrew Rannells and Stephanie J. Block on board to pla…
Mobile gaming and musical theater: Two great tastes that taste great together? That's the premise of "Peter Panic!," a new videogame in which let's-put-on-a-show dreams are achieved with …
“An Act of God,” the stage comedy that had a successful limited run on Broadway last year with Jim Parsons, will be back in New York come May, with Sean Hayes now filling t…
Nathan Lane and John Slattery will lead the starry cast of an upcoming Broadway revival of “The Front Page,” opening in New York in the fall with Scott Rudin producing. John Good…
BroadwayHD, the stage-centric subscription and on-demand service that launched last year, will take its latest step on the challenging path toward establishing itself as a Netflix for Broadw…
With the Easter holiday prodding the overall Broadway box office to rise again, the new musical “Waitress” had a hearty debut, averaging a whopping $140,000 per performance in…
The Broadway musical “Bright Star” had a couple of unannounced cast members for its opening night performance March 24: Steve Martin and Edie Brickell, who wrote the show, and jo…
A little bit of bluegrass music is quite enough of a good thing, so it’s just bad luck that “Bright Star,” a new musical by Steve Martin and Edie Brickell based on their 20…
John Legend has signed on to co-produce an Off Broadway production of “Turn Me Loose,” a new play about comedian and civil rights activist Dick Gregory, in a staging that will st…
Producers of of the Carole King musical “Beautiful” are targeting Broadway with a new musical adaptation of Audrey Hepburn film “Roman Holiday,” featuring Cole Porter…
What language are these people speaking, anyway? The equity traders in Sarah Burgess’ frighteningly funny play, “Dry Powder,” converse in the private jargon of the finan…
“The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time,” the Tony-winning play that has carved out an unusually long run for itself on Broadway, has posted its closing notice, with p…
Looks like the hotly anticipated new musical “Shuffle Along” has a lot of spring in its step — judging, at least, from its robust numbers at the Broadway box office in its …
J. J. Abrams, Joss Whedon, Jodie Foster, Alfonso Cuaron, Idina Menzel and Francis Ford Coppola are among the names signed up to participate in the Tribeca Talks series of public discussions …
Jane Krakowski will tell you that Broadway’s a little bit like childbirth. “It’s a lot more work than I remember it!” she cracked after the March 17 opening night per…
The Roundabout Theater Company’s enchanting Broadway revival of “She Loves Me” is so charming, you kind of wish it would follow you home. The show is a special triumph for …
Kenneth Branagh proves a born farceur in Sean Foley's adaptation of Francis Veber's classic French farce “The Painkiller.” As an anonymous hitman who holes up in a hotel room …
Tony winner Patina Miller (“Pippin”) and Tony nominee Andrew Rannells (“The Book of Mormon”) will announce the 2016 Tony Awards nominations, set for May 3 at the Diam…
Warner Bros. Theater Ventures has locked in the Broadway plans for its musical “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,” with Jack O’Brien (“Hairspray,” “The C…
Laura Benanti would rather be singing "Vanilla Ice Cream" than starring on "Supergirl." After five years of focusing on TV ("Supergirl," "Nashville," "Nurse Jackie"), the fan-favorite actres…
Can a musical have a half-life? "Miss Atomic Bomb" does, and it's not quite long enough. Set against Nevada's nuclear tests of the 1950s — specifically, the beauty pageants set up in t…