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When “The Trip to Bountiful” wrapped up its 48-performance run at the Ahmanson Theater Nov. 2, it cemented its place as one of the top-selling non-musical productions ever at …
Sarah Ruhl’s new play, “The Oldest Boy,” is extremely imaginative and hypnotically beautiful, but the plot is a puzzler.  An American woman, the wife of a Tibetan man…
Hugh Jackman made it rain at the Broadway box office last week, as the initial performances of his topliner “The River” yielded the kind of numbers that’d be encouraging…
Suzan-Lori Parks’ ambitious play cycle about the historical journey of African-Americans from the years of slavery to the present day gets off to a strong start in “Father Comes …
The 1982 play “The Real Thing” has a reputation for being the accessible one in playwright Tom Stoppard’s brainy canon. But take it from the cast — including Ewan McG…
Roundabout rounded up name players for this revival of “The Real Thing,” Tom Stoppard’s meditation on the vagaries of love and the elusive nature of reality. Ewan McGregor …
When the North American tour of Disney Theatrical Prods.’ stage musical “Newsies” opens in Philadelphia tonight, it’ll have something its Broadway audience didn’…
Digital ticketer and promoter Goldstar today launched an Android counterpart to its iOS app — but the headturning news lies in the company’s supporting facts and figures…
Charting the career of Ray Davies and the Kinks at their peak, "Sunny Afternoon" is a jukebox musical in the mold of Buddy Holly bio-tuner "Buddy." Trouble is, no one dies at the end. And th…
“It Shoulda Been You,” a new musical comedy directed by Tony winning actor (and “Frasier” alum) David Hyde Pierce, has lined up a Broadway run this spring with a cast…
Both “American Horror Story: Freak Show” and the Broadway musical “Side Show” take place in the same circus world of human marvels and oddities. But you’d never…
Ralph Cramden and Ed Norton will belt out the big notes when "The Honeymooners," the new musical based on the hit 1950s TV series, premieres at the Goodspeed Opera House in East Haddam, Conn…
Broadway musical "The Last Ship" is full of Sting's music, but the opening night crowd got something most audiences don't: Sting himself singing it.
The Broadway revival of "A Delicate Balance" got off to a stellar start last week, as a cast that includes Glenn Close -- appearing in her first Main Stem gig in 20 years -- pushed the play …
The Broadway revival of “A Delicate Balance” got off to a stellar start last week, as a cast that includes Glenn Close — appearing in her first Main Stem gig in…
Broadway musical “The Last Ship” is full of Sting’s music, but the opening night crowd got something most audiences don’t: Sting himself singing it. The musician took…
Sting lives up to his nickname, “the King of Pain,” with “The Last Ship.” Melancholy tones of sorrow and regret saturate this highly personal and intensely felt music…
Nathan Lane has done plenty of TV and film, but he's a Broadway baby. This season, he'll star in Eugene O'Neill classic "The Iceman Cometh," as well raucous comedy "It's Only a Play" (by fre…
Playwright Ayad Akhtar has seen his Pulitzer Prize winning play “Disgraced” open in productions around the country and around the world. But the show’s opening on Broadway …
It always makes Broadway look good to have a Pulitzer Prize-winning drama on the boards. “Disgraced” won the 2013 prize for scribe Ayad Akhtar and fits the bill for an intellectu…
Craig Zadan and Neil Meron have set a legit production and development pact with the Shubert Organization. Deal covers the pair’s work on original plays and musicals, as well as reviva…
Keira Knightley will make her Broadway debut in "Therese Raquin," toplining a fall 2015 production from the Roundabout Theater Company.Knightley will play the title character in Helen Edmund…
Keira Knightley will make her Broadway debut in "Therese Raquin," toplining a fall 2015 production from the Roundabout Theater Company. Knightley will play the title character in Helen Edmun…
The musical timeline of “The Fortress of Solitude” is mid-1960s to late 1980s. But the theme of this blood-pumping, heart-thumping show — the indestructible links that bind…