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"Gigi," the Broadway musical starring Vanessa Hudgens, will shutter June 21 after its middling sales didn't sufficiently improve following a recent Tony Awards appearance. The show earned…
The show-within-the-show became the show on June 8, when the cast of NBC series “Smash” reunited to present a song-and-dance concert version of “Bombshell,” the music…
By the reckoning of many Broadway observers, the 2015 Tony Awards had a script and largely stuck to it. A lot of wins had been predicted by pundits — as was the case with sure thing…
Off Broadway hit "Hamilton" and Tony contender "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" topped the 2015 Drama Desk Awards, with "Hamilton" taking seven awards including the title …
With the opening of Broadway comedy “An Act of God,” Jim Parsons joins the venerable pantheon of actors who have taken on the almighty role of, well, The Almighty. “It̵…
Producers decide to combine visitors' two fave things to do in Gotham: see the sights and a show.
"I resent this levity, sir." So says besuited neatnik John Simm as Gibbs, who has just been accused of plotting to murder his boss. That his line and plight are met with raucous laughter is …
Raised in the East End and trained on Saville Row, fashion designer Alexander McQueen was an icon of creative London in an era when Cool Britannia ruled the waves. James Phillips' soulless b…
Timed to mark Arthur Miller's centenary, "Death of a Salesman" proves grimly pertinent in austerity Britain. High school students are taught to see Willy Loman as a man chasing the Americ…
Despite a distinguished career spanning half a century, the celebrated 82-year-old South African playwright, Athol Fugard, still thinks of himself as an “outsider artist.” That p…
Tony contender "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" led the Outer Critics Circle Awards, taking five statues including the honor for Broadway play. Broadway musical "An Americ…
Broadway musical “Doctor Zhivago” will close at the end of the week, following the show’s shutout from the  2015 Tony nominations. “Zhivago,” which earned…
Broadway comedy “Living on Love” will make a quick exit, with producers announcing they’ll close the show Sunday after the production failed to secure a spot on the list of…
The Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment and the Theatrical Teamsters Local 817 have partnered to award three “Made in NY” grants to support community-based orga…
Theater union Actors' Equity Association has taken the latest step in its controversial bid to restructure the employment arrangement for actors working in Los Angeles theaters of 99 seats o…
What’s better than a standing ovation at the end of a Broadway show? A standing ovation halfway through the first act. Just ask the cast of musical comedy “Something Rotten.̶…
Bradley Cooper, Helen Mirren, Jake Gyllenhaal, Ewan McGregor, Elisabeth Moss and Bill Nighy are all in competition -- in the same category -- for the 2015 Drama League Awards.Â
Distributors Abramorama and The Orchard have teamed up to release "Lucky Stiff," a movie musical starring a slew of Broadway talent, this summer. Broadway regular Christopher Ashley ("Memphi…
Bradley Cooper, Helen Mirren, Jake Gyllenhaal, Ewan McGregor, Elisabeth Moss and Bill Nighy are all in competition — in the same category — for the 2015 Drama League Awards. For …
When Harvey Weinstein throws a Broadway opening, Hollywood shows up. There was Bryan Cranston, sporting a mustache and a full head of hair, chatting at intermission. Helen Mirren and Taylor …
“It Shoulda Been You” is awfully funny. That’s strange, because there’s nothing especially clever about this musical comedy by Brian Hargrove (book & lyrics) and …
Now that legendary New York restaurant Tavern on the Green is open again, it's back in the business of Broadway opening night parties. "Gigi," which opened April 8, made the most of the laby…
Now that legendary New York restaurant Tavern on the Green is open again, it’s back in the business of Broadway opening night parties. “Gigi,” which opened April 8, made th…
Prudish American audiences can relax. There’s nothing to offend their tender sensibilities in this antiseptic version of “Gigi,” Lerner and Loewe’s enchanting 1958 fi…
God may have created the heavens and the earth and all living things -- but the Devil surely created Tyrone, the filthy-minded, foul-mouthed sock puppet that has audiences howling at "Hand t…
