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Not a single change book writer Bekah Brunstetter has made improves the simple story's effectiveness. In most cases, the alterations dull its punch and turn it into a wispy memory play. A me…
John Patrick Shanley wrote an immaculate work that can stand up to even adequate productions like the one starring Amy Ryan and Liev Schreiber that opened Thursday on Broadway.
Director Sam Pinkleton stages this fabulously overdramatic display with both scrappiness and sheen.
Liane Plane, who died a month ago at age 92, adored being in the vibrant picture nonetheless.
She really was all that jazz.
Chita Rivera, the dazzling Broadway star who originated roles in the musicals "Chicago," "West Side Story" and "Kiss of the Spider Woman" died Tuesday, her daughter Lisa Mordente said in a s…
The worst bar sales on Broadway have got to be at Studio 54, where "Days of Wine and Roses" opened Sunday night.
She's ditching Waystar Royco for the Great White Way. Sarah Snook, the "Succession" star who won the Emmy Award for best actress in a drama series on Monday night, plans to make her Broadway…
Get ready, Mr. DeMille. The London revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical "Sunset Boulevard," starring Nicole Scherzinger, will arrive on Broadway later this year, a spokesman for the prod…
Message to Netflix: Stick to the flicks. "Stranger Things: The First Shadow," the streamer's freshman attempt at a stage play is a huge, insufferable embarrassment. Mega-fans of the TV serie…
"How To Dance In Ohio," the new musical that opened Sunday night at the Belasco Theatre, marks a laudable first for Broadway: A show about autistic persons who are actually played by actors …
It's when the singing stops that this show with its sights set on Broadway is no longer on fire.
Never hilarious, the revival stalls out at pleasant. Spamalot, laugh a little.
Steve Carell, the Academy Award nominee who played Michael Scott on NBC's "The Office," will make his Broadway debut this spring in the play "Uncle Vanya," Lincoln Center Theater announced o…
While "Harmony" is about a sextet of singers whose voices blend like milk and coffee, its elements do not similarly fuse into a cohesive and satisfying musical.
This major moment for Stephen Sondheim's musicals is not limited to New York, where the late composer's "Merrily We Roll Along," "Sweeney Todd" and final show "Here We Are" are all playing a…
"Stranger Things: The First Shadow" begins performances this month in London.
Theresa Rebeck's new play,"I Need That," is a drama about someone's mess, but it needn't be so messy.
It was always wishful thinking to believe that Stephen Sondheim's final musical, which was tinkered with for almost a decade before the composer died in 2021, would hold a candle to his fine…
Some will view the striking changes to Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical "Sunset Boulevard," and by extension Billy Wilder's classic 1950 film it's based on, as trampling on what was divine.Â
Andrew Rannells and Josh Gad, that match made in "Mormon," are back together and hamming it up again on Broadway. It's swell to see them twelve years later, like old friends from college who…
Like most people do, the three New York friends at the center of the musical "Merrily We Roll Along" get more cynical, jaded, greedy and stubborn with age. Or, as book writer George Furth su…
She's still got it.
The late Broadway musical legend's upcoming "Here We Are" is the biggest mystery of the theater season.
Like a doomed teen in Amity.