Commercial producers aren't just commercial anymore. At least not all of them " not since the divide between the commercial theater industry and the not-for-profit legit sector has crumbled …
The 2014 Tribeca Film Festival has filled out its 2014 feature slate with a starry Spotlight section as well as midnight and special screenings, a group that taken together includes a new mo…
"Wolf Hall" and "Bring Up the Bodies," the Royal Shakespeare Company's hit staging of Hilary Mantel's Booker-winning novels, has lined up a commercial West End run that will open at the Aldw…
It was a best-selling novel and a profitable film, but Iris Rainer Dart's tear-jerker, "Beaches," struggles to find a footing as a compelling musical in its premiere at Arlington, Va.'s Sign…
“Elliot:Â A Soldier’s Fugue” began the cycle of plays by Quiara Alegria Hudes about a young Marine’s re-entry into the land of the living after a soul-destroying t…
"Les Miserables" stormed back to Broadway and "Aladdin" made a little box office magic of its own last week, with the two big-name tuners beginning previews in a seven-day frame that saw ove…
John Travolta memorably mangled Idina Menzel’s name during the Oscars on March 3 and that may have been rough for Menzel right before she belted out the hit tune from Disney’s &#…
"Old-fashioned" is most often a derogatory term, but it can also mean traditionally well-crafted. That's definitely the case with "Versailles," Peter Gill's highly articulate, leisurely yet …
"Tuck Everlasting," the tuner that had been targeting a Broadway run during the 2013-14 season before getting detoured, and the world preem of the musical adaptation of "Bull Durham" are amo…
A new musical adaptation of “Made in Dagenham,” the 2010 British indie that starred recent Oscar nominee Sally Hawkins, will premiere at the Adelphi Theater on the West End this …
Commercial and not-for-profit theatres can't do without each other, but hooking up can be as problematic as it is profitable
A movie helps a Broadway show. But will the film version of "Les Miserables" give a leg up to the new Main Stem revival of the title that inspired it? Beginning previews March 1, "Les Misera…
Who says a matinee has to be on a Wednesday afternoon? Well, Broadway does, and has for years. But later this spring, a concerted push to institute a Thursday matinee option will bring the M…
The Broadway-aimed revival of “Can-Can” and the world premiere of the musical version of 1998 Cinderella redux “Ever After” are among the titles on the 2014-15 slate …
Diane Ladd and Eden Brolin have been tapped to topline “I Dream Too Much,” an indie feature to be exec produced by Richard Linklater. Danielle Brooks (“Orange is the New Bl…
Most movies are regenerated on stage for one reason alone: No matter how unwieldy the material, familiarity breeds box-office contentment. But there's a solidly theatrical reasoning behind s…
Ask anyone in the theater industry with a horse in the awards-season race, and they’ll tell you that the Tony category for best musical — or any of the four major awards for over…
Tony favorite Audra McDonald will topline “Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill” in a last-minute addition to Broadway’s 2013-14 slate, confirming an expected move t…
Looks like “Kung Fu,” David Henry Hwang’s reverential homage to Bruce Lee, should have been a musical after all. Cole Horibe, Taekwondo Olympic medalist (and finalist o…
Is "Rocky" a Broadway box office contender? Too soon to tell, but sales for the large-scale new musical's initial string of previews suggest audiences are at least showing a steady curiosity…
At its fiercest, Ayad Akhtar's "The Who & the What" bares some of the same teeth as his riveting, 2013 Pulitzer-copping "Disgraced." Both explore Pakistani-American tensions arising from…
With Broadway’s spring season barely begun, is it too soon to start worrying about the Tony races? Well, yes. But that hasn’t stopped legiters from forecasting an awards-season c…
Everybody knows that playwrights shouldn’t direct their own plays. But composers might also think twice about doing their own orchestrations. In an intimate house, Jason Robert…
Yankees play “Bronx Bombers” has struck out at the Broadway box office, with dismal sales prompting producers to post a closing notice for the end of this week. The play, a fanta…
Vanessa Williams, the “Ugly Betty” star who is also a Broadway vet, will be the next guest star to have a stint in “After Midnight,” the Cotton Club-era revue that wa…