"Will it move?" If you're in the theater business, you know what that question is about. When a new show opens anywhere outside the Broadway theater district, whether it's SoHo or San Diego,…
Characters and songs collide in Conor McPherson s ode to Dylan and the Depression.
Richard Bean’s new play provides a kind of tear-inducing laughter that is in short supply on Broadway.
Every Broadway season boasts a show or two that promises big-screen thrills delivered on record-busting budgets. Back in 1987, the Shubert Organization swallowed the cost of structural reinf…
With her life s work, Mazzie s gift to theatergoers and colleagues alike was happiness in its purest state.
As he accepted the fifth, and most important, Creative Emmy award for "Jesus Christ Superstar" last Sunday, executive producer Neil Meron said, "This is for Craig. Craig Zadan's mission was …
A short run of this revelatory 1983 musical marks a homecoming of a show that has entered theater history.
There s not a shred of originality in this repurposing of the 1990 film.
This musical is so full of cheesiness and clichés that anyone who buys a ticket will come to regret it.
As the Best Musical continues to soar, Sasson Gabay brings a different take to the role of Tewfiq.
Kwame Kwei-Armah and Shaina Taub s musicalized adaptation is a celebration that brings all five boroughs of New York together.
Rarely has the phrase "900-pound gorilla" seemed as apt as the dilemma facing Broadway producers and creatives this season " especially those who are adapting iconic films from the past for …
Good intentions and terrific songs don’t add up to a good rock musical.
With cameras amplifying grotesque images onto a large screen, The Damned is as unsettling onstage as it was on film.
"There's no profit like nonprofit!" was a cherished mantra of the late Shubert Organization chairman Gerald Schoenfeld. Long before his passing in 2008, Schoenfeld understood that the commer…
Joshua Harmon’s humorous new play takes on the superficiality of beauty, fashion and resistance to aging.
Carey Mulligan captivates her audience in Dennis Kelly’s seductive ensnarement of a play.
Ruben Santiago-Hudson needs no gimmicks or modern update to bring a hard-hitting Othello to Central Park.
Some praise is due the 850-plus Tony voters, a group more maligned than any industry group outside of the Golden Globes. They violate Tony rules by voting in categories in which they haven't…
The Tony Awards on Sunday are sure to paint a happy face on the Broadway season that just concluded with record high ticket sales of $1.7 billion and branded shows that will look to viewers …
All creative competitions are ridiculous, and in that respect, the Tony Awards are no different from the Oscars, the Grammys and the seasonal art auctions at Sotheby's. With our votes or bid…
Channel surfing a few nights ago, I alighted on PBS and had the unexpected thrill of hearing a familiar tune that wasn't from the Peter, Paul and Mary or Temptations catalogs. The song was "…
Clubby and tradition-bound as Skull and Bones, Broadway has made worthy strides toward sunlight in recent years as conventions of sex and race finally began to crumble. But you'd hardly know…
Jan Maxwell, a supremely gifted comic actress whose five Tony Award nominations included two in the same season, died today of cancer, her son, William Maxwell-Lunny. She was 61. Maxwell was…
Stephen Colbert is doing it. Why not Jordan Roth? Just as Colbert and Chris Licht unleashed Our Cartoon President on Showtime, Broadway theater owner and producer (and regular Deadline pundi…