Dear Evan Hansen, the Tony-winning best musical about a nervy lie that turns a shy boy into a social media hero, continued to be the Street’s dominant new show last week, ringing up $1…
If your question is, “Who’s better in Hello, Dolly! – Bette Midler or Donna Murphy?” you’ll have to look elsewhere for an answer. It’s not a contest. Midl…
News about the departure of Hawaii Five-OÂ co-stars Daniel Dae Kim and Grace Park found its way to New York Saturday night. Korean-born playwright and actor Ins Choi scored bigtime with hi…
Writers are warned never to give away the ending of a movie or play. But beginnings are fair game. this is how Paul Dooley opens his one-man show, Movie Dad: ‘I am a character acto…
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts president Deborah Spar has rejected a request, supported by a number of well-known artists and scholars, to cancel upcoming performances by a troupe un…
Cirque du Soleil and Blue Man Group –Â creative ensembles that grew from local fame as offbeat entertainment alternatives into multicultural franchises –Â announced a merger …
Broadway went to the beach with New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie over what for many was the Independence Day weekend, as patrons stayed away in droves following the previous week’s banne…
Three-quarters of the Tony-nominated cast of A Doll’s House, Part 2 bids farewell on July 23, including Laurie Metcalf, who won her first Tony last month playing Lucas Hnath’s up…
Less then a week after bringing home five Doras – that’s the Canadian version of the Tony Award – an immigrant troupe called Soulpepper begins a monthlong stand off Times S…
Is there ever a time when heartbreak and loss go out of “style”? Marvin’s Room opened over Christmas in 1991 at Playwrights Horizons in New York (it was originally produced…
Paula Vogel’s Indecent continues to look like the Broadway turnaround story of the season, as ticket sales increase daily in the aftermath of a six-week reprieve beyond the posted June…
Tensions between newsroom employees and The New York Times masthead kicked into higher gear Thursday morning with the announcement of a brief work slowdown this afternoon at 3 PM local time.…
Using words including “betrayal,” “humiliating” and “covfefe” and suggesting that management had compared them to “dogs urinating on fire hydrants,&…
EXCLUSIVE: Heartbreak Hotel, a new musical that follows Elvis Presley’s career from unknown singer to charts-busting star, will tryout this summer at the Ogunquit Playhouse, a venerabl…
Tony and Oscar winner Mercedes Ruehl has signed on for Second Stage Theatre’s fall revival of Harvey Fierstein’s landmark dramedy Torch Song. Michael Urie will star as looking…
Glenn Close finally did say goodbye as her Sunset Boulevard revival ended on a high note, while the formerly struggling Indecent jumped over a quarter-million dollars in the wake of a last-m…
Elvis Presley’s 1974 minor hit “My Boy” might serve as the alternative title for The Colonel, a film bio of the King’s Svengali-like manager, Colonel Tom Parker. The …
It’s rare enough to experience the shiver of revelation that comes in the first few minutes of a great show; rarer still to be blasted above the ordinary the second time around. That&#…
Actor Richard Topol stepped forward last night on the stage of Broadway’s Cort Theatre at the end of Indecent to share some news with the audience. A few hours earlier, producer Dar…
UPDATES with more information below. Gabe Pressman, a son of the Bronx whose tenacity and style reflected the city he covered as New York’s best-known television reporter and commentat…
It’s entirely possible that producers Scott Rudin and Sonia Friedman – who’ve brought Robert Icke and Duncan Macmillan’s frequently harrowing adaptation of George Orw…
Actors’ Equity Association today named Come From Away, A Doll's House, Part 2 and Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812 as co-recipients of the union’s Extraordinary Exce…
Smarting over protests during the Tony Awards season on behalf of casting directors seeking union recognition, Broadway theater owners and producers have fired back with threats of legal act…
EXCLUSIVE: Here’s a first look at Hello Again, the film adaptation by Tom Gustafson (Mariachi Gringo) of composer-lyricist Michael John LaChiusa's acclaimed 1994 musical. A new riff on…
The multi-talented stars of The Band’s Visit, several of whom also play their own instruments, have re-upped for the Broadway transfer this fall, including leads Tony Shalhoub and Katr…