Jeanine Tesori has a lot to celebrate this holiday season. The composer of musicals including "Thoroughly Modern Millie" and "Caroline, or Change" will follow up the popular and critical suc…
A team of four Broadway publicists will join agency Polk and Co. in the wake of the shuttering of the Hartman Group, the firm led by one of the Rialto’s veteran press agents. The quart…
The Goodman Theater’s much-lauded 2012 staging of Eugene O’Neill’s “The Iceman Cometh” has locked in a New York run that will play the Brooklyn Academy of Music…
A switchup in top brass at Film Society of Lincoln Center is now complete, with Rose Kuo, who has been the org's executive director since 2010, announcing she will step down. Her exit comes …
Making enthralling theater out of one of Shakespeare's best-known titles is one thing. It's an achievement of an altogether higher order to take the austerely forbidding "Coriolanus" —…
Broadway sales slipped last week, but not by much, as tourism declined a bit in preparation for the deluge that traditionally hits the Main Stem over the weeks of Christmas and New Year's. S…
Since soullessness is the essence of Patrick Bateman, the anti-hero of Bret Easton Ellis's notoriously savage fantasia on 80s greed "American Psycho," you could argue that an all-style and n…
The final pieces of Broadway's spring puzzle are falling into place as one more play, "The Velocity of Autumn," accelerates into the Booth Theater to start performances there in April. But t…
The musical version of dark teen comedy “Heathers” has locked in its Off Broadway run, setting a timeline that will see the tuner begin performances this spring at New World Stag…
“Nothing to Hide,” the Off Broadway magic show directed by Neil Patrick Harris, has recouped its $400,000 capitalization in eight weeks, according to producers. That $400,000 pri…
Linda Lavin will reunite with playwright Nicky Silver, helmer Mark Brokaw and Off Broadway’s Vineyard Theater to star in “Too Much Sun,” the new Silver play set to open at …
“Clever” is the word for Madeleine George’s bright idea of writing a play about those go-to guys named Watson with the solution to every scientific mystery from AI to corru…
Billy Crystal’s solo show ” 700 Sundays” may not have made the most money at the Broadway box office last week compared to other shows, but it sure is efficient about the w…
The Broadway revival of “Cinderella” has tapped Fran Drescher to play the wicked stepmother in the Rodgers and Hammerstein tuner, with the actress set to step into the role in th…
One of the most resonant shocks of the powerful stage version of cult Swedish movie "Let the Right One In" is one of the simplest: the bringing up of the house-lights at the start of the int…
Seriously, kids — Burt Bacharach? Millennial age actor-musician-songwriter Kyle Riabko developed an almighty crush on this composer of an earlier fuddy-duddy generation, and “…
Maybe credit the overlap of Sondheim's rise to prominence with the flourishing of the television age. But whatever the explanation, the filmmakers discovered they had a wealth of resources t…
The producers and creatives behind the upcoming Broadway musical adaptation of “Bullets Over Broadway” have finalized their choice for the show-stealing role of Helen Sinclair, c…
Is Uncle Benjamin still alive? Are Marian and Adam back together?  Has Richard gone over to the dark side and become a Republican? And is everyone agreed that this country has…
"I speak to thee plain soldier. If thou canst love me for this, take me!" No wonder Jessie Buckley's grave, beautifully controlled Princess Katherine reacts like a rabbit trapped in the head…
The sublime talents of soprano Idina Menzel are showcased to the hilt in "If/Then," an impressive new tuner by Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey that gives new meaning to the term "book-heavy musica…
Broadway publicist Michael Hartman, a 20-year veteran of the industry, will shutter the Hartman Group, the agency he founded in 2009, at the end of the year, ankling the legit world entirely…
Broadway feasted on record box office totals last week as shows ranging from “Kinky Boots” to “Twelfth Night/Richard III” broke house records and “Pippin”…
Broadway’s spring lineup of plays continues to fall into place as Tyne Daly starrer “Mothers and Sons,” the latest outing to join a crowded slate, claims the Golden Thea…
Angela Lansbury will reprise her Tony-winning turn as dotty psychic Madame Arcati in Noel Coward's "Blithe Spirit" on the West End this spring. Lansbury first appeared in the comedy in the 2…