'King Lear' Revival Will Close Early on Broadway
Despite having Glenda Jackson in the title role, the production was largely overlooked during awards season and attendance has been dropping.
Despite having Glenda Jackson in the title role, the production was largely overlooked during awards season and attendance has been dropping.
A key factor: the rising popularity of New York City as a tourist destination.
The play, by Adam Rapp, is about a professor, a student, and a terrible diagnosis. It is scheduled to begin performances in September and to open in October.
Cher! Rodgers & Hammerstein! The Temptations! Plus a giddy prom-goer and a very anxious actress " and only here.
The annual awards ceremony, which celebrates theater beyond Broadway, also gave a prize to Quincy Tyler Bernstine for sustained excellence of performance.
The Roundabout Theater Company production, directed by Trip Cullman, will begin previews in September and open in October.
The pop artist is retooling his "American Utopia" show for a 15-week run from October to January.
Nominated for 10 Tony Awards, the Lerner and Loewe musical will begin a national tour and may play London.
How does she stay so still? Is that scene really live? And how tall is that guy, anyway? We dig deep into the burning questions about this year's Tony-nominated shows.
The Roundabout Theater Company revival is a coproduction with the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, Mass., which will stage the show next May.
There were sour notes for "To Kill a Mockingbird" and "The Cher Show," but "Gary" and "Ink" enjoyed surprising affection.
Among the 34 shows eligible for Tonys this season are adaptations of the films "Tootsie" and "Network."
With a deeper dive into early American history, a gigantic exhibition based on the musical "Hamilton" opens in Chicago.
The play, adapted from the novel by Elizabeth Strout, was previously presented at the Bridge Theater in London.
Terrence McNally, Rosemary Harris, and Harold Wheeler will receive lifetime achievement awards.
The playwright Lynn Nottage and the director-choreographer Christopher Wheeldon remain committed to the show, even after a damning documentary.
The two monologues, which the actors performed last winter Off Broadway at the Public Theater, were written by Simon Stephens and Nick Payne.
This treasured San Francisco staple is renowned as much for its spectacularly sculptural headgear as its content.
Rachel Chavkin is back on Broadway with another eye-popping, folk-fueled musical unlike anything else commercial theater has to offer.
Mr. Corden, a musical theater enthusiast who won a Tony Award himself in 2012, will preside over the award ceremony on June 9 at Radio City Music Hall.
Artistic directors, the faces of local theater and tastemakers in their communities, have long been white men who have held the posts for many years. That's changing.
The play "Nassim," which never features the same actor twice, reminded the acclaimed writer and performer of the power of listening.
The Tony-winning actor will play Harold Hill in a revival that includes members of the creative team behind the recent production of "Hello, Dolly!"
"Once Upon a One More Time," a musical comedy featuring 23 songs from the pop star's catalog, explores an alternative arc for some classic princesses.
The A.R.T., one of the nation's leading regional theaters, is currently housed at Harvard in Cambridge, across the Charles River from its planned new home.