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The meta-musical, which won the Tony Award this year and the Pulitzer Prize in 2020, announced it would close on Jan. 15.
The actor Sean Hayes is planning to come to Broadway next spring in "Good Night, Oscar," written by Doug Wright. But another playwright, David Adjmi, is not pleased with the way his earlier …
"The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window," a rarely revived play by Lorraine Hansberry, will be presented at BAM starting in February.
The first African American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize in drama has four shows this season. "If you can hear the world singing, it's your job to write it down," she said.
The Canadian actress Petrina Bromley has been in the cast during the show's surprise hit run on Broadway. It resonated because "it's about kindness," she says.
The musical, which was known simply as "Cinderella" during a previous run in London, is a new adaptation of the classic fairy tale.
An annual survey, suspended during the pandemic, resumes and finds theaters nationally doing fewer shows and torn between escapism and ambition.
The Majestic Theater has housed "The Phantom of the Opera," which Prince directed, for the entire 35 years of its run.
The comedic storyteller, who previously brought a solo show to Broadway in 2018, has a new act for a new age.
The show had a bumpy, boisterous run, and will now begin a tour.
"Good Night, Oscar," by Doug Wright, explores the life of a pianist who became famous as a witty guest and host of midcentury radio and television shows.
Hints: They both reached for the gun. I'm working on my roar! Everyone deserves the chance to fly. Have fun in hell!
In an interview, the storied British producer said that weakening box office and rising production costs led to the decision to end the longest run in Broadway history.
The theatergoing audience has been slow to return after the pandemic lockdown, and the show hasn't been selling well enough to defray its running costs.
For the musical's Hamburg premiere, a team wrestled with language and cultural differences to bring the story alive for a new audience.
A direct transfer of words was never going to work for such a complex show. So the team involved got creative.
'White Girl in Danger,' a soap opera satire by Michael R. Jackson, will be staged in New York next spring by Second Stage and Vineyard theaters.
The show's producers have decided not to recast after stars Hugh Jackman and Sutton Foster finish runs of slightly more than a year in the show.
Michael S. Rosenberg, the managing director of the McCarter Theater Center, will succeed Arlene Shuler as the City Center president and chief executive.
Jefferson Mays will bring his adaptation of the Charles Dickens classic to the Nederlander Theater starting in November.
Groban, playing the title character, will be joined by Annaleigh Ashford in a production scheduled to open in March at the Lunt-Fontanne.
"Summer, 1976," about a friendship between two women in Ohio, will open next spring at the Samuel J. Friedman Theater.
In the West, wildfires are stopping shows. Extreme heat has led to cancellations in the South. And changing weather patterns are hobbling performances in the Northeast.
The artistic director of Rattlestick Playwrights Theater is making an unusual career change after preparing the company for a major renovation.
The hit play, closed since January, was expected to reopen on Broadway this fall.
