Broadway types really know how to get into the Christmas spirit. To wit, look no further than "Carols for a Cure." The enthusiasm of Main Stem casts has helped sustain 15 years of wassailing…
If the eyes of Broadway producers light up at the mention of the word "Thanksgiving," it's not because they like turkey so much. It's because every year the Main Stem rings in big-money sale…
The Bryan Cranston-toplined production of “All the Way,” in which the “Breaking Bad” thesp will make his Broadway debut in the bio-play about Lyndon B. Johnson, has s…
James Franco’s long-gestating Broadway bow in “Of Mice and Men” has at last set a theater and dates, with the thesp starring opposite Chris O’Dowd in a production set…
Broadway had a single new addition to the lineup last week, and even if box office for "Beautiful" wasn't quite gorgeous, it was still a promising start for a tuner that looks to tap the sam…
Trying to figure out a Pinter play is like pounding nails in your skull.  Trying to figure out a Beckett play is like using a drill.  But holding forth in a death-defying reperto…
TV creative Amy Sherman-Palladino is getting behind her “Bunheads” star, Sutton Foster, to join New York nonprofit Roundabout Theater Company and a team of commercial producers o…
The play's not quite the thing in helmer Jack O'Brien's high-concept revival, a showcase for spectacular visual and acoustic effects.
As underscored by the recent movement on a couple of projects " including a developing stage version of "The Princess Bride" and a play adaptation of "Shakespeare in Love" gearing up for a 2…
Amanda Peet's play about the wretched (and lightly disguised) family of Bernie Madoff may not realize its ambitions, but it's not half bad in the hands of a superb cast led by Blythe Danner …
Denver Center Theater Company has set the majority of its slate for its 9th annual Colorado New Play Summit with a 2014 roster of readings that includes “Benediction,” the third …
Here's a sentence you never thought you'd read: The two hot tickets on Broadway last week were William Shakespeare and classical boy-band Il Divo. It seems unlikely enough that the Bard, muc…
Bill Condon has reworked "Side Show," the 1997 tuner succes d'estime "Â translation, floppo with cult status "Â into a handsome production that will follow its bow at the La Jolla Playho…
How very daring " a witty musical about a serial killer that Stephen Sondheim didn’t write.  Fashioned from the ingeniously absurd plot of the novel that inspired the classic…
London's thriving not-for-profit houses again nudged out commercial competish to dominate the 59th Evening Standard Theater Awards at a glamorous ceremony held at the Savoy Hotel Nov. 17 and…
Mix two parts Tarantino with two parts Pinter and one part Mamet "Â for violence, actor-friendly dialogue and punch, respectively "Â and serve in 1950s gangland London. That's "Mojo," th…
Disney Theatrical Prods. keeps loading more onto its plate, setting the creative team and West End theater for the upcoming premiere of its co-production of “Shakespeare in Love”…
Broadway veteran Tom Viertel has been tapped to run the Commercial Theater Institute, the training program for commercial theater producers run by the Theater Development Fund (TDF) and the …
Nearly ten years after his last Broadway stint, Billy Crystal’s status as a box office powerhouse remains undiminished: His solo outing “700 Sundays” raked in more than $1 …
Disney Theatrical Prods. has embarked on a stage adaptation of “The Princess Bride” in a deal shepherded by Alan Horn. With no creative team yet attached, it’s not yet been…
When your Broadway show is actually two plays, which one do you do for the official opening performance? You do 'em both, which is what they did for the Mark Rylance-led stagings of Shakespe…
What sounds like a gimmick "Â a troupe of Shakespearean actors getting into costume and makeup in full view of the audience "Â turns out to be a stroke of genius when executed by the all…
"Big Fish," the Broadway musical adaptation of the 2003 Tim Burton movie and the novel that inspired it, has thrown in the towel, posting a closing notice for Dec. 29.
Bill Condon makes his stage debut at the helm of the La Jolla Playhouse's revival of cult musical "Side Show," and everything you need to know about it can be summed up in just a few words: …
You oughta know: Alanis Morissette is developing her 1995 album “Jagged Little Pill” for the stage, with a targeted timeline that would see a workshop production of the piece bow…