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Like the cult movie to which it pays homage, “Heathers” the musical should score with all those teen misfits who fantasized about getting even with the popular kids who humiliate…
If it were possible to gauge a Broadway musical's box office prospects from a single performance alone, then Neil Patrick Harris' turn in "Hedwig and the Angry Inch" looks legendary. But we'…
Everyone has an if/then moment that leaves them wondering what might have happened if life went another way, and the opening night performance of parallel-lives Broadway musical "If/Then" ga…
In her belated return to Broadway after “Wicked,” powerhouse belter Idina Menzel is sorely misused in “If/Then.” Â ”Next to Normal” writing team Brian Y…
Chris Pine and Lauren Ambrose will spend the summer doing a little play in the Berkshires, signing on to star in Sam Shepard’s 1983 play “Fool for Love” at the Williamstown…
For director-choreographer Casey Nicholaw, Broadway's go-to guy for musical comedy ("The Book of Mormon," "Elf," "The Drowsy Chaperone"), Broadway's "Aladdin" marked the first work with Disn…
For director-choreographer Casey Nicholaw, Broadway’s go-to guy for musical comedy ("The Book of Mormon," “Elf,” “The Drowsy Chaperone”), Broadway's "Aladdin" m…
This super-costly extravaganza doesn't do justice to the movie, or to the spirit of the late Howard Ashman.
With no New York City film czar yet appointed some three months into Mayor Bill de Blasio’s  term, the local entertainment industry’s backchannel lobbying has grown increasing…
Ten world premieres, including new plays by Tom Stoppard and David Hare, and a stage stint for Ralph Fiennes spearhead the National Theater's 2014-2015 season led by outgoing a.d. Nicholas H…
Sheryl Crow's musical adaptation of "Diner" will finally have it world premiere at the Signature Theater in Arlington, Va., following a long period of development that saw a pre-Broadway com…
Nina Arianda certainly knows how to make an entrance. For her Tony Award-winning role in “Venus in Furs” — her last appearance on the New York boards — she blew o…
A historical trilogy from two of Britain's national theaters and a new stage adaptation of "All Quiet on the Western Front" are among the higher profile offerings on tap for the 2014 Edinbur…
Newcomers poured new coin into the Broadway coffers last week as previewing titles "Les Miserables," "A Raisin in the Sun" "If/Then" and "Bullets Over Broadway" helped push the Street's over…
What if David Fincher directed "Rocky"? It might look something like "Rocky" the musical. That was part of the concept, anyway, for Alex Timbers, the director of the spectacularly staged new…
Whatever your expectations going into “Rocky,” you come out rocking the technology. No mystery about where the $16.5 million capital investment went in this musical iteration…
The Broadway Channel, a producer and distributor of legit-centric video content, has partnered with PIX11, the New York CW affiliate, to produce segments and primetime specials focusing on B…
Cynthia Nixon has signed on to star opposite Ewan McGregor and Maggie Gyllenhaal in the Roundabout Theater Company’s Broadway revival of “The Real Thing,” the 1982 play in …
"Harmony" confirms Barry Manilow's musical theater chops. The pop legend invests this biotuner of the Comedian Harmonists — a real-life German male sextet, pre-WWII toasts of two conti…
If you haven't come across George Takei lately, you might be living under a digital rock. The former "Star Trek" actor has, over the past five years, morphed into one of social media's more …
Blythe Danner and scribes Donald Margulies and David Auburn have lined up world premieres as part of the Manhattan Theater Club’s 2014-15 season, a lineup that sees the Gotham nonpr…
Meet Tyrone, the dirty-minded, foul-mouthed sock puppet who steals the show in “Hand to God,” Robert Askins’ pitch-black comedy about a teenage boy (a sensational perf from…
The Drama Desk has tapped Laura Benanti, the Broadway fave (“Gypsy”) whose TV credits include “Go On” and “The Sound of Music Live,” to host the org’…
The movie adaptation may be a nonstarter, but John Kennedy Toole’s novel “A Confederacy of Dunces” has taken its first steps toward the stage as producers announced a legit…
Idina Menzel and Denzel Washington flexed their box office muscle on Broadway last week, as Menzel topliner "If/Then" and Washington starrer "A Raisin in the Sun" each posted impressive tall…
