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Rupert Holmes’ stage adaptation of John Grisham’s first novel, “A Time to Kill,” comes at a sweet moment for the author, whose belated sequel to that 1989 book, ̶…
A cutthroat clique of Hollywood high school tales is moving from the bigscreen to the stage, with "Heathers" in the midst of a short initial run in Los Angeles, "Jawbreaker" coming off a Got…
Terence Rattigan's thought-provoking play gets a sterling Broadway revival from the Old Vic and Roundabout.
Chicago, Seattle, L.A., San Francisco: They’re all on the list of go-to towns for pre-Broadway tryouts of new musicals. Now? Add Paris and Hamburg. The brewing musical version of ̶…
Meryl Streep has been tapped to receive the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center’s annual Monte Cristo award, given each year to a legit creative singled out for distinguished contribut…
Add another star-driven play to Broadway’s 2013-14 slate, with Toni Collette, Michael C. Hall, Marisa Tomei and Tracy Letts tapped to star in a Rialto staging of Will Eno’s ̶…
Autumn bounty came to Broadway last week, with major sales and attendance bumps logged at most shows on the boards and no fewer than four titles topping an impressive $1.8 million each. The …
London’s National Theater, the prominent government-subsidized legit company responsible for numerous Broadway transfers and an increasingly prominent series of HD cinemacasts, has tap…
Daryl Roth, one of the lead producers of recent Tony champ "Kinky Boots," has tapped Erica Lynn Schwartz as the new director of Daryl Roth Productions' licensing arm, DR Theatrical Licensing…
As a musical biography, “A Night With Janis Joplin” is pretty much a bust. The book by Randy Johnson, who also helmed, skims lightly over the singer’s Texas childh…
The phrase that most fully captures the National Theater's long-awaited fairytale tuner "The Light Princess," the latest production from director Marianne Elliott ("War Horse"), is "ceaseles…
CAA has tapped agent Joe Machota as the new head of the agency’s theater department, replacing longtime topper George Lane, who’ll remain on board as an agent. Move reps somethin…
Bizarre but true: For all its raucous soul sound, "The Commitments" turns out to be a reinvention of old-fashioned Mickey-and-Judy musicals. But where they "put the show on right here," this…
A decade of hits rivaling those in “Jersey Boys” and “Mamma Mia!” in terms of boomer nostalgia value is the estimable main selling point of “Beautiful "Â The …
The 2014 Tony Awards season will follow the kudos’ usual annual timeline, setting a June 8 ceremony at Radio City Music Hall following an eligibility cut-off in late April. The Tony ce…
Powered by the Broadway return of Daniel Craig, the starry revival of “Betrayal” made a boffo B.O. bow last week, vaulting into the millionaires’ club with just seven pr…
Broadway musical “Big Fish” is all about fathers and children and tall tales, so it was hard not to talk about all those things at the show’s opening night party at Roselan…
With Bryan Cranston following up “Breaking Bad” with a Broadway bow and Matt Smith moving from “Doctor Who” to the “American Psycho” musical in London, th…
A show that speaks to anyone pining for a studiously heart-warming musical about the efforts of a dying man to justify a lifetime of lousy parenting to his alienated son.
Broadway musical “Kinky Boots” has become the first of the 2012-13 season’s tuner successes to recoup its capitalization costs, according to producers " and the show&…
Producers and creatives have aimed to mold the show into a framework that will attract adventurous music types to explore jazz-age standards and dip a toe into Broadway waters.
The third annual legit-focused Gotham symposium, TEDxBroadway, has locked in its 2014 date, with speakers including helmer Diane Paulus, actor Lea DeLaria and Metropolitan Museum of Art exec…
Tribeca Film, the distributor loosely affiliated with the Tribeca Film Festival, has snagged U.S. rights to Neil LaBute’s “Some Velvet Morning” for a theatrical and digital…
Holiday entertainment just got a new stage tuner. "Holiday Inn," based in the 1942 Paramount movie musical centering on a country inn that's only open on major holidays, will have its stage …
Spurred by largely stellar reviews in the wake of its Sept. 26 opening, the Broadway revival of "The Glass Menagerie" posted the largest individual jump of the week at the Broadway box offic…
