Broadway's 'Music Man' Revival Will End Run on Jan. 1
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.
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.
The stage musical, adapted from a 1992 film, will close Labor Day weekend after five months at the Nederlander Theater.
The new musical was an unsuccessful comeback attempt by the storied producer Garth H. Drabinsky.
The play, by Jordan E. Cooper, is a biting comedy set in an America that offers to relocate Black citizens to Africa.
The play, by Anthony McCarten, will be presented this fall by the Manhattan Theater Club, following a run earlier this year at the Young Vic in London.
The jukebox musical, which is already running in London, features songs by the Swedish writer and producer Max Martin, including "Since U Been Gone" and " … Baby One More Time."
"American Buffalo," at Circle in the Square, is sticking with masking till it closes, July 10, citing the "proximity of the audience to the actors" and "the staging in the round."
Despite picking up 5 prizes at this month's Tony Awards, the Sondheim-blessed revival was facing a tough summer at the box office.
The Huntington Theater Company is staging a play based on the seminal J. Anthony Lukas book, reconsidering the legacy of the busing crisis.
Most theaters stopped requiring proof of vaccination this spring. Now they are going "mask optional."
The 20th anniversary Broadway revival will be directed by Kenny Leon. Previews begin in September at the John Golden Theater.
"The Lehman Trilogy" won best play, "Company" won best musical revival and "Take Me Out" won best revival of a play at the 75th Tony Awards.
The ceremony returns to Radio City Music Hall on Sunday night.
We surveyed voters ahead of this year's ceremony on Sunday. They are strikingly split in the races for leading musical performers.
A white teaching artist at the theater organization says it discriminated against white people. The nonprofit declined to comment.
The Broadway ensemble member turned Oscar winner vows that the ceremony will celebrate the often unsung actors who have stepped in so often during the pandemic.
Horne, a renowned singer and activist, will be the first Black woman to have a theater named after her once the Brooks Atkinson is renamed.