With the producer of the stage version of “King Kong” talking up an impending Broadway opening during an interview on Australian radio, the New York run of the big-budget, Aus…
Shirley MacLaine and Christopher Plummer topliner “Elsa and Fred,” a remake of the 2008 Argentinian/Spanish hit, will open the 31st annual Miami Intl. Film Festival, a ten day ev…
Isn’t it just a bit ironic that “Stop Hitting Yourself,” the Rude Mechs’ pointed (if only fitfully funny) satire of American materialism, should be playing in the gra…
Last week's blizzard blew a chill wind over the Broadway box office, further softening up sales in a month that is often one of the Main Stem's cruelest. The severe stormfront, dumping some …
Kristin Davis is poised to appear in the West End stage adaptation of "Fatal Attraction," with the actress lining up a role in the thriller as the wife of the man who is trapped in an affair…
Leaving aside Kurosawa's Japanese epic "Ran” and "A Thousand Acres," the 1997 adaptation of novelist Jane Smiley's relocation of Shakespeare to Iowa, there hasn't been a successful …
“Outside Mullingar,” the new John Patrick Shanley play that opened Jan. 23 on Broadway, may be Debra Messsing‘s Main Stem debut. But it’s not the first time she’…
This winter, nothing scares Broadway producers like the Super Bowl. January and February are always tough months for the Main Stem, hammered by the slump that hits when holiday tourists go h…
The stage musical adaptation of Disney’s 1996 animated pic “The Hunchback of Notre Dame,” which premiered in Germany in 1999 but never made it Stateside, will have its Amer…
It may not be as dramatic as “Doubt” or as funny as “Moonstruck,” but John Patrick Shanley has not written a more beautiful or loving play than “Outside Mulling…
Looks like Hugh Jackman has some competition on Broadway next season: Producer James L. Nederlander has confirmed that Bradley Cooper will star in “The Elephant Man” this fall al…
A new digital venture is betting old-school Broadway is the key to a lucrative new-media audience. Stage 17, launching a public beta next month ahead of a wider rollout later in the spring, …
David Gordon Green, Amber Heard and a co-founder of South by Southwest are among the honorees lined up to receive trophies at the Austin Film Society's 2014 Texas Film Awards. The kudos sing…
For a while there, it was starting to look as if concerts on Broadway were the new star-driven play revivals: A go-to option for producers looking for one of the Main Stem’s safer fina…
Behind-the-music tale "Beautiful" is subtitled "The Carole King Musical," but it could have been something else. Or nothing at all.
F. Murray Abraham and outgoing “Cinderella” star Laura Osnes are among the lead thesps in Martha Clarke’s new Off Broadway production of “The Threepenny Opera,”…
Although a little slow in the early going, "The Legend of Miss George McBride" — the new play by Matthew Lopez, whose title "The Whipping Man" was one of the most-produced plays in the…
The Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend and a couple of newer shows gaining momentum combined to help perk Broadway up a bit in a winter month when the Rialto box office is usually at its…
When Hugh Jackman hits Broadway next season in Jez Butterworth's play "The River," it'll mark his fourth stint on the Gotham boards in a dozen years. His return not only underscores his rema…
When former German international soccer player and sometime English league player Thomas Hitzelsperger came out earlier this month it made headlines not just in the U.K. but around the world…
New York's Unsung Musicals Co. has lined up its 2014 season, including a world premiere of "Up in Arms!," a new musical incorporating material by Frank Loesser and TV scribe Arnold Auerbach,…
So rare is a show that can run fundamentally unaltered for 26 years, bringing in global audiences galore, that this touring production of still-going Broadway megahit "The Phantom of the Ope…
Given Frank Langella’s rock-solid stage background, it should come as no surprise that the old lion makes a formidable monarch in “King Lear.” Under Angus Jackson’…
Enthralled as we are to our digital gadgetry, you’d think we’d identify with the heroine of “Machinal,” Sophie Treadwell’s 1928 Expressionistic melodrama (inspi…
Roundabout Theater has locked in two more more titles for its 2014-15 season, skedding a new Broadway production of Michael Frayn’s farce “Noises Off” in winter 2015 and lo…