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As the culmination of a Broadway season with no clear frontrunner, the 2014 Tony derby was a little bit like the wild west, where all bets were off and anything could happen. So in a sense, …
In an anything-goes Broadway season with no clear frontrunner, “A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder” won the top Tony for new musical after the title proved the favor…
Crack scribes Betty Comden and Adolph Green were "work-spouses" for 64 years while married to others. Speculation on how such unconventional relationships can play out feeds into the new Old…
Right now at Radio City Music Hall, it’s all falling into place. Broadway casts are rehearsing their performance numbers. Transitions are being practiced again and again. Members of th…
There’s something magnificently depraved about the vision of “Macbeth” evoked by Kenneth Branagh and Rob Ashford for the immense (55,000 sq. ft.) playing field of the Drill…
When Patti LaBelle, Gladys Knight and Fantasia Barrino take the stage during the Tony Awards ceremony Sunday night, they'll be there to showcase the new musical contender "After Midnight.…
“All the Way,” the heavyweight Tony contender with Bryan Cranston in the leading role, has recouped its $3.9 million capitalization costs after about 16 weeks on the boards, a…
Jennifer Hudson will perform a song from Harvey Weinstein’s Broadway-targeted musical version of “Finding Neverland” during the Tony Awards as part of a telecast that will …
Take a stroll through the theater district these days, and one thing is obvious: You're just as likely to come across a Hollywood name on a Broadway marquee as you are on a screen. Film and …
The audiences at “Just Jim Dale” may be turning out to see the chap who gave voice to hundreds of characters as narrator of the entire series of Harry Potter audio books. But the…
Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez, the songwriting duo who penned the tunes for Disney smash “Frozen” and won an Academy Award for song “Let It Go,” will …
Carole King is nobody's shill. And that may be why she's so good at hawking "Beautiful." AÂ Tony-nominated Broadway musical based on King's life, "Beautiful" has looked like the season's s…
Julia Stiles, last seen on the Gotham stage in the Broadway revival of “Oleanna,” will topline an Off Broadway production of Scott Organ’s play “Phoenix,” ru…
Celebs had to push their way through the food festival on West 46th Street in order to make it to the Tony Honors ceremony, which provided a bit of a warm-up for Sunday’s Tony Award…
The post-Memorial Day hangover may have deflated Broadway B.O. a bit last week, but that didn't stop some of this season's Tony nominees from playing to packed houses. Three of the four cont…
Matching the increasingly international reach of Broadway fare, the 2014 Tony Awards ceremony will be broadcast live in more than 30 countries around the world. With a starry cast of present…
Broadway musical “A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder” got in one last awards-season kill before the Tonys, slaying its competitors at the 2014 Drama Desk Awards and eme…
Broadway generated nearly $12 billion in spending for the New York City economy during the 2012-13 season, according to a new report from the Broadway League, with a direct spending subto…
Tally up the packleading 10 Tony nominations for "A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder," and the Broadway musical looks like the clear favorite of the season. But add up some of the oth…
As Off Broadway’s 2014-15 season continues to shape up, Second Stage Theater adds to the mix with two productions including a world premiere by Neil LaBute, “The Way We Get By.&#…
New plays by Pulitzer and Tony winner Doug Wright (“I Am My Own Wife,” “Grey Gardens”) and Broadway alum Rajiv Joseph (“Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo”) …
A Shakespeare-inspired show by Rufus Wainwright and Robert Wilson, a Dutch production of “Angels in America”  and a new music-theater work from “Glass Menagerie”…
Broadway musicals “The Lion King” and “Wicked” came within spitting distance of earning $100 million each during the 2013-14 season, which, with the final numbers …
Howard Ashman may have died in 1991, but he left a musical theater legacy that endures across film and theater — stretching all the way into this year's Tony's race. With composer Alan…
Spend enough time with Bryan Cranston and he'll show you the imaginary dial he uses to visualize how someone — anyone, including you — lives life. "I came up with this gauge 15, …
