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Sometimes a new Broadway musical makes a social media push with Twitter and Facebook and Instagram — and sometimes it does it with a real-world, hand-delivered bottle of poison. Well, …
For a play that needs to go through at least one more draft, “American Hero” is more provocative and entertaining than you’d expect. Set in a generic sandwich shop in an an…
Cameron Mackintosh, the U.K. stage producer behind global megahits including "The Phantom of the Opera" and "Les Miserables," has pacted to purchase the West End's Victoria Palace and the Am…
What do want from a musical… the music? If so, Cameron Mackintosh's hotly anticipated revival of "Miss Saigon" is home free. In the title role, Eva Noblezada makes an astonishing stage…
Annette Bening has booked a role opposite John Lithgow in the Public Theater’s Shakespeare in the Park production of “King Lear,” starting performances in July. Bening w…
“On Your Feet!,” the brewing musical about the lives and careers of Gloria Estefan and Emilio Estefan, has mapped out a conga-line to Broadway, with producers of the tuner pla…
Producing and general management firm Martian Entertainment and production company All the Way Around have launched Stage + Screen Digital Studio, a new post-production and editing …
Is “Fun Home” the first Tony contender of the 2014-15 Broadway season? The Lisa Kron-Jeanine Tesori musical has notched a slew of prominent legit kudos in advance of its plannedÃ…
Take three generations of a cheerfully squabbling family, put them into a spy drama, fill with lust, love and lies, whip everything along as a comedy and what have you got? "Donkey Heart." P…
Broadway musical “The Bridges of Madison County,” currently nominated for four Tony Awards, posted its highest B.O. numbers ever last week in the final stretch before the show…
In Nicky Silver’s previous play, “The Lyons,” which originated at the Vineyard under the direction of Mark Brokaw, Linda Lavin played a mother who ruins her children’…
With the theater awards race heating up on the way to Tony Awards, the annual round of New York legit awards has begun to highlights favorites — including musical "A Gentleman's …
The 2014-15 season on Broadway is shaping up to be just as starry as the current one, with Glenn Close now confirmed for a fall opening in a Rialto revival of “A Delicate Balance”…
Kristin Chenoweth and Peter Gallagher are set to make their Broadway returns in “On the Twentieth Century,” the 1978 musical that New York’s Roundabout Theater Company will…
It's no secret Ryan Murphy assembled a wide pool of recognizable names for HBO's movie adaptation of "The Normal Heart." Possibly the most surprising among those names? Jason Blum, the produ…
Univision, ESPN, "Godzilla": All of the above tried to take a bite out of Broadway last week, but Main Stem box office fought them off. Upfronts, the TV industry's annual sales pitch to adve…
The Outer Critics Circle gave a thumbs-up to Tony nomination packleader "A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder," handing the musical four kudos including top tuner in the race for the or…
Stars are called stars because they shine brighter than anyone else. Every time Chazz Palminteri sashays into "Unorganized Crime" as Gotham mob scion Sal Sicuso, cool and sardonic, seething …
Samuel D. Hunter is one playwright who legitimately deserves to be called eccentric. In “The Whale,” which picked up some prestigious awards last season, the central character is…
Big demand, small theater: Hugh Jackman’s next Broadway gig, “The River,” has lined up its venue and dates, setting a November opening at the 776-seat Circle in the Squa…
It's a case of too many favorites " or not enough. Even now that the 2013-14 Tony nominations are set, the race for Broadway's biggest awards remains wide open. Voters find themselves facing…
CAA has signed Broadway director Jack O’Brien, the prolific helmer whose Tony-winning Main Stem work ranges from razzledazzle tuner “Hairspray” to Shakespeare’s ̶…
“Hedwig and the Angry Inch” topliner Neil Patrick Harris, “Cabaret” choreographer and co-director Rob Marshall,  “Aladdin” genie James Monroe Igleha…
Bryan Cranston, Chris O’Dowd, Zachary Levi and Sophie Okonedo are among the dozen performers to score this year’s Theater World Awards, the annual kudo that honors thesps making …
Two gripping political dramas in the same season? How positively civilized. Bryan Cranston’s rip-roaring portrayal of LBJ in “All the Way” epitomizes Washington power polit…
