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Broadway will dim its lights in memory of Angela Lansbury, who died on Oct. 11, just five days shy of her 97th birthday. The Broadway League's committee of theater owners will dim its marque…
The Broadway premiere of "Cost of Living" has received a one-week extension. Martyna Majok's Pulitzer Prize-winning play will now run through Nov. 6 at Manhattan Theatre Club's Samuel J. Fri…
Once again, the new musical "MJ" broke the house record at the Neil Simon Theatre, indicating a strong overall week at Broadway's box office. For the week ending Oct. 9, the 25 productions p…
The upcoming Broadway-premiere staging of the play "Between Riverside and Crazy" will be simulcast during its final two weeks. Second Stage Theatre announced on Oct. 11 that performances fro…
The Tony Award-winning new musical "A Strange Loop" will play its final performance on Jan. 15, 2023. At the time of closing, the 2020 Pulitzer Prize-winning musical will have played 13 prev…
Complete casting is set for the Broadway production of the new musical "& Juliet." The principal cast will include Lorna Courtney as Juliet, Melanie La Barrie as Nurse, Ben Jackson Walke…
For over 73 years, "Death of a Salesman" has gotten away with its foreboding title. Ironically, no play in the theater canon better asserts its characters' aliveness. Sure, Willy Loman's dem…
For LaTanya Richardson Jackson and Samuel L. Jackson, the current Broadway revival of "The Piano Lesson" is a family affair. The couple, who have been married for more than 41 years, are pla…
Complete casting for the upcoming Broadway production of "Ain't No Mo'" has been announced. Joining the previously announced playwright Jordan E. Cooper as Peaches will be many cast members …
Men are shouting. Representatives from the same state are divided. Everyone is named John. It must be a Congressional debate. The Tony-winning "1776" first premiered on Broadway nearly 200 y…
Mark Linn-Baker will join the company of "The Music Man" in the role of Mayor Shinn beginning on Oct. 25. Baker will succeed Jefferson Mays, who is departing the production on Oct. 23 to bri…
As more productions get underway with the start of the fall season, Broadway's box office continues to experience an increasing disparity between the most well-attended and least-attended sh…
Somewhere in Bayonne, New Jersey, a middle-aged truck driver pines to care for his estranged wife, a woman he's loved "the fuck outta" for "two decades and a year almost." A car accident mis…
"Bad Cinderella," a new musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber, is set to open on Broadway in 2023. Lloyd Webber made the announcement on the morning of Oct. 3 at the Imperial Theatre, where preview…
At a certain point in "Leopoldstadt," I stopped trying to figure out who everyone was. Tom Stoppard's newest play begins in 1899 Vienna, during a Jewish family's holiday celebration. There a…
Rain couldn't stop Broadway from shining this weekend. The Curtain Up Broadway Festival returned for a second year, filling Times Square with the sounds of cheering fans as they watched live…
Angelica Ross grew up doing musical theater and was convinced that would be her path forward. But, as she tells Paul Wontorek in the latest episode of "The Broadway Show with Tamsen Fadal," …
One Shubert Alley, the Broadway merchandise shop which recently announced a closing date of Oct. 2, will now reopen under the Araca Group's merchandise division. The store, located between t…
Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS has awarded a $250,000 grant to help the people of Puerto Rico following Hurricane Fiona. The emergency grant, made possible in part due to the fundraising …
"MJ the Musical" will share its opening number live on TikTok on Sept. 29, producers announced Wednesday. TikTok users can log into the video app at 6:45 p.m. for behind-the-scenes content b…
An original Broadway cast recording of "A Beautiful Noise, The Neil Diamond Musical" will be released via Universal Music Enterprises (UMe) on Nov. 2. The album's streaming release will coin…
Ryoko Yonekura has withdrawn from her upcoming limited engagement as Roxie Hart in Broadway's "Chicago." Yonekura had previously been announced to return to the musical for 16 performances i…
Throughout Lear deBessonet's "Into the Woods," there is always room for play. In the veteran director's new Broadway production, the musical's words and lyrics take center stage. There are n…
A handful of shows that will soon be shuttering saw jumps at the box office last week, leading to an overall increase in earnings. For the week ending Sept. 25, the 24 Broadway productions r…
New and returning cast members have been announced for "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" at the Lyric Theatre. On Nov. 15, Joel Meyers will assume the role of Albus Potter, with Erik C. Pe…
