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What an impressive, heart-stopping Broadway debut from the young British star of Netflix's "Heartstopper."
Delia Ephron's play starring Julianna Margulies and Peter Gallagher wants to be a moving romantic comedy, but it's sluggish and awkward.
Andrew Lloyd Webber's "Sunset Boulevard," which opened Sunday night at the St. James Theatre, is Broadway's most exhilarating show in years
What a joy it is to see "Something Rotten" transformed into something terrific. The caffeinated comedy, which played New York back in 2015, is the marquee musical of the Stratford Festiv…
The playwright and producers of "Stereophonic," this year's Tony Award winner for Best Play, and its landlord the Shubert Organization are being sued by writers Steven Stiefel and Ken Cailla…
Director Kenny Leon's staging of "Our Town" is among the most uninvolving and anemic our critic has ever seen.
Ken Page, the formidable Broadway actor and voice of Oogie Boogie in the film "The Nightmare Before Christmas," has died.
The tiresome Broadway play "McNeal," starring Robert Downey Jr. at Lincoln Center, is about every windbag's favorite topic " AI.
No, the former Pussycat Doll didn't get into a fist fight in Shubert Alley " she's the star of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Broadway musical "Sunset Boulevard," which started previews last weekend.…
Gavin Creel, the Tony Award-winning star of Broadway musicals such as "Hello, Dolly!" and "Hair," died Monday in Manhattan, his partner confirmed. He was 48.
At the Broadhurst Theatre, where Jez Butterworth's new play "The Hills of California" opened on Sunday night, lives Laura Donnelly's stern and captivating Veronica Webb.
A show and a star have aligned. Mary Rodgers' 1959 musical comedy has found Sutton Foster.
Look out 'cause here it comes. Disney Theatrical Group announced that a new stage musical of "The Greatest Showman" is in development at their D23 fan convention in Anaheim, Calif., on F…
Max Wolf Friedlich's spicy drama is a collision of all of those essays and studies you've read about that age group's unique tendencies " especially their desire to get paid by doing "meanin…
Something I would have never guessed five years ago: One of Broadway's hottest shows is a rip-roaring comedy about Mary Todd Lincoln, the wife of Abraham Lincoln.
The preposterously enjoyable non-musical play does the impossible "thanks to the irrepressible comic genius of playwright and actor Cole Escola.
The behind-closed-doors scenes pitting the Speaker of the House against the upstart New York congresswoman are more like Disney's Hall of Presidents " reverential and robotic " than Capitol …
The hottest show in town is… "Cats"? Nobody's said that since around 1984.
The iconic Broadway venue that's played host to such luminaries as Judy Garland, Liza Minnelli and Bette Midler was dramatically lifted 30 feet.
"No more Carlyle! No more Carlyle!," shouted Billy Porter.Â
They weren't outsiders on Sunday night. In a neck-and-neck race, the fantastic new musical "The Outsiders" ultimately took home the coveted Best Musical trophy at the Tony Awards, honoring t…
It's not just the humidity that has Midtown Manhattan sweating bullets -- it's the Tony Awards.
If you thought Broadway was Hollywood's classier cousin, you thought wrong.
With a score as lush and transportive as this one, bigger is definitely better.
Like a fly caught in a web, Tom Holland -- known best for playing Spider-Man in the MCU -- is trapped in a woeful West End production of "Romeo & Juliet."
