This past week in theatre, classic movie musicals get the stage treatment with another Hollywood favorite following in the footsteps of last season's An American in Paris and Gigi.
While the number of shows on offer climbed to 38 — with fans flocking to the first performances of Fiddler on the Roof — box office dollars were down across Broadway.
This week, the critics take on Bruce Willis' Broadway debut, Miss Saigon will migrate to the U.S., Avenue Q hits a new kind of milestone, and David Bowie's Off-Broadway musical L…
With a million-dollar budget, the David Bowie/Enda Walsh co-creation Lazarus began performances Wednesday night and has already extended its run due to successful ticket sal…
Film star Mark Strong returns to the stage after a 12-year hiatus. We take him to the setting of Arthur Miller's A View from the Bridge in Red Hook, where we learn …
The new revival of The Color Purple commanded crowds right out of the gate, and School of Rock — The Musical wasn't far behind.
This week, two Broadway productions opened, one got pushed back, and the Tony Awards Administration Committee met for the first time. What were the rulings on the hit musical Hamilton, and w…
Michael Leonard, who composed the music for a number of short-lived Broadway musicals, died Oct. 31 at his home in Manhattan. He was 84.
Don Gregory, a theatre producer whose métier was solo shows starring famous actors, died Nov. 5 in his home in Boca Raton, FL. He was 80.
Broadway bounced back last week. After a week that saw declines in box office and attendance at most shows, much of the news was sunny this last seven-day period, with all but a few show…
King Charles III, Mike Bartlett’s new British play that imagines what would happen if Prince Charles became King of England—something Charles himself has probably been mu…
It was a time of losses on Broadway last week. Overall box office fell from $27,391,967 to $22,819,827, a big drop, perhaps to be blamed on New Yorkers being occupied with watching the New Y…
Tim Pigott-Smith had watched Prince Charles grow up before his very eyes, so he felt prepared to embody the man onstage. Learn the one thing he forgot — and that emiss…
The Roundabout Theatre Company’s production of Stephen Karam's new comedy-drama The Humans, about a fraught family gathering during Thanksgiving, opened Oct. 25 at the Laur…
The Roundabout Theatre Company’s production of Stephen Karam's new comedy-drama The Humans, about a fraught family gathering during Thanksgiving, opened Oct. 25 at the Laur…
Barbara Vann, an early figure in the burgeoning Off Off-Broadway scene in the early 1960s, who helped found two important avant-garde troupes, died Aug. 26 following a brief illness.…
Leon Bibb, an actor and folksinger who performed on Broadway and was a prominent performer during the Civil Rights era, died Oct. 23 in Vancouver, Canada. He was 93.
Two starry new shows began previews on Broadway last week, and they did what starry shows often do: sell well. Given how the combination of actor Al Pacino and playwright David Mamet did whe…
"Best friends" or "bromance" may not be the first word that comes to mind when pondering the artists Al Pacino and David Mamet. But that's exactly what seems to have …
The Public Theater has got its next Broadway show. The New York premiere of Eclipsed, starring Oscar winner Lupita Nyong'o ("12 Years a Slave") is moving to Broadway.&…
The new James Earl Jones and Cicely Tyson revival of The Gin Game opened last week to good reviews and that arguably shows in the play’s attendance numbers. The show was nearly sol…
Veterans James Earl Jones and Cicely Tyson returned to Broadway this week, playing two residents at a retirement home in a new Broadway revival of D.L. Coburn's Pulitzer Prize-winnin…
The Broadway season presents famous people gracing the stage, both in person and in character. How do casting directors find the actors who can portray living, breathing legends? Playbill.co…
Many Broadway shows have recouped their monetary investments and been billed as a hit… But, what makes productions like Hamilton graduate to the standard of "cultural phenome…
Broadway added three new shows to the boards last week, the British import King Charles III, the Gloria Estefan jukebox musical On Your Feet!, and the George Takei-inspired musical about…