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Inclusive casting and a new take on the plant with an appetite for humans make Pasadena Playhouse's "Little Shop of Horrors" a theatrical feast.
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Japanese director Satoshi Miyagi brings his visually stunning production of 'Antigone' to New York City's Park Avenue Armory.
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New York Theatre Workshop presents two of Nigerian-American playwright Mfoniso Udofia plays.
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"The Green Room," an Off-Broadway musical playing at the American Theatre of Actors, can't find its footing in song or style.
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Kristin Chenoweth's new album, "For the Girls," releases today. The Emmy and Tony Award-winner chats with The Broadway Blog.
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BroadwayHD's fall lineup includes spooky theatrical favorites such as "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street," "Jekyll & Hyde," "The Toxic Avenger," and more.
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Theresa Rebeck's "Bernhardt/Hamlet" explores one of the world's greatest actresses taking on a legendary role but, ironically, is too dependent on the words of men to tell an ostensibly fema…
Gingold Theatrical Group's reductionist staging of "Caesar and Cleopatra" strips so much that little intellectual, dramatic, or comic clarity shines forth in George Bernard Shaw's provocativ…
Today marks the 31st anniversary since the death of legendary choreographer and director Bob Fosse. The Broadway Blog shares some of our favorite Fosse moments.
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British comedian Luisa Omielan takes on patriarchal religion, cancer and more in her one-woman show, "God Is a Woman" playing through Oct. 6 at SoHo Playhouse.
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MCC Theater announced this week a $1 million gift to enhance and support the development and production of new musicals
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Famed Japanese director Satoshi Miyagi creates a new version of this fabled mythology that looks at "Antigone" through the prism of Japanese culture.
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Based on a true story, told in her own words and reconstructed for the stage, "Dana H." offers a harrowing portrayal of a woman's kidnapping survival.
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'Derren Brown: Secret' (Photo: Matthew Murphy) By Matthew Wexler "I'm not a sheep or a follower," suggested psychological manipulator Darren Brown to the audience during…
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Jaclyn Backhaus' new play "Wives" jumps through history and past patriarchal clichés in a sweeping comedy that puts women's voices front and center.
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Set amid the friction of post cultural revolution China, Lauren Yee's "The Great Leap" delivers a cultural collide of identity and politics through the game of basketball.
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In 'American Moor,' a black actor responds to the demands of a white director presuming to better understand Shakespeare's iconic black character, Othello.
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TEDxBroadway returns to tackle one central question posed to academics, economists, entrepreneurs, scientists and theater professionals.
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Stage and screen star Jeremy Jordan joins The New York Pops at Carnegie Hall, featuring songs from "Waitress," "Les Misérables" and more.
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Film and stage actor Rupert Everett ("My Best Friend's Wedding") returns to Broadway opposite Laurie Metcalf in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"
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The American Songbook Associaton honors legendary lyricist Sheldon Harnick at its annual gala on Monday, September 16.
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Tony nominated Ramin Karimloo has released a new studio album, featuring his interpretations of songs from stage and screen.
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Director Jamie Lloyd's stunning London revival of "Betrayal," Harold Pinter's bristling story of deception told backward, arrives on Broadway.
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Gerard Alessandrini returns with the next incarnation of his hit Broadway spoofs, "Forbidden Broadway: The Next Generation."
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Jazz hands can't save the mostly not-funny Chicago production of "Trump in Space," which imagines what happens after 400 years of the current administration.
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