The producers of Sing Street are in talks to transfer their musical to the Shubert Organization's Lyceum Theatre this spring, in time to qualify for Tony Award nominations. The adaptatio…
Stephen Sondheim and Andrew Lloyd Webber were among the collaborators and friends who spoke about the legendary director and producer Hal Prince at his memorial today at the Majestic Theatre…
The world is in crisis. Jagged Little Pill is on it. Gun violence? "Fear has no place in our schools," an onstage placard reads. Climate change? Name-checked in another sign. Rape? The m…
The last week of July 2019 was business as usual for Harry Potter and the Cursed Child on Broadway. Sales rose less than 2 percent to $1.4 million, according to data from the Broadway…
John Simon, the theater, movie and music critic who died last night at 94, took erudition to another level. Never mind that English was his fifth language " after German, Hungarian, French a…
Tootsie , the Broadway musical adapted from the 1982 movie about a struggling actor whose career takes off when he plays a woman, will close on Jan. 5, the production announced tonight. C…
EXCLUSIVE: For the first time in more than four years, Broadway's biggest blockbuster is opening its doors to bus tours, schools from out of town and other groups. Beginning on Monday, Hamil…
André Bishop, head of Lincoln Center Theater, earned pay and benefits valued at $1 million in 2017. It's likely the biggest one-year compensation for a New York nonprofit theater leader. To…
EXCLUSIVE: The Public Theater has earned tens of millions of dollars for its role developing Hamilton " and is spending as little of it as possible on two ambitious projects. The vener…
The Broadway League and Actors' Equity Association reached a tentative pact that will raise the weekly minimum for Broadway actors 3.5 percent to $2,168. The current Production contract, wit…
After an acclaimed run at New York Theatre Workshop, Jeremy O. Harris' Slave Play begins previews on Tuesday at the John Golden Theatre. I spoke to lead producer Greg Nobile of Seavie…
CAMBRIDGE, MASS " Six, Â the pop-concert musical featuring the wives of Henry VIII cracking wise and woeful about their tragic destinies, is an inventive and exuberant take on 16th-century…
EXCLUSIVE: Scott Rudin knows the territory " the Broadway territory, that is. Visiting River City with Hugh Jackman in Rudin's upcoming revival of The Music Man  won't come cheap. A year …
Christie's auction house said it will offer three original drawings by the legendary  Broadway portraitist Al Hirschfeld that were owned by Terry Allen Kramer, the prolific Broadway produ…
EXCLUSIVE: Tickets for Broadway's Belle Époque hit have gone from pricey to pricier. Moulin Rouge!  grossed $2.1 million last week, little changed from the previous seven days. The ad…
Ben Sprecher, who spent six years in court trying to clear his name following the pre-opening collapse of Rebecca the Musical, Â was accused in a Federal complaint of possessing and distri…
Jeremy Gerard, Frank Rich and Jesse Green published valuable reminiscences of Hal Prince, the prolific and hugely successful and influential producer and director who died yesterday, at 91. …
Three decades after The Phantom first dropped his chandelier in New York and Jean Valjean took up pursuit here, along comes another Paris-based musical spectacle and prospective blockbuster.…
Alan Fox's Safe Space at Bay Street Theater is a provocative exploration of academic freedom in our call-out culture " and a three-character cage match to control the narrative during a …
The Prom, Â the $13.5 musical comedy that developed a cult following but not a mass audience since opening in November, will close on Aug. 11. It's the first musical to announce its closur…
Did he really just say that? And sing that? Scott Rudin, Tyler Perry, Disney, critics, and the composer-lyricist-librettist Michael R. Jackson himself are among those skewered and s…
EXCLUSIVE: With investors to repay and resellers on the prowl, the producers of Hadestown  increased ticket prices by as much as 47 percent, coinciding with the show's best musical win…
Hadestown's strong sales and its Tony Award for Best Musical may advance the cause of female theater artists more effectively than any speech advocating for industry inclusiveness. The in…
EXCLUSIVE: In a competitive Tony Awards contest, can producers who vote for their own show make a difference? I obtained a list of voters in the 2017-18 season " which I'm told is largely cu…
EXCLUSIVE: Broadway's oddest and most enduring financing-scandal-turned-courtroom-drama has closed. After six years, 471 legal filings, one trial and another that had been on tap, Rebecca…