A smash hit Off Broadway, this wildly entertaining show will need all the help it can get to attract mainstream audiences, though the late addition of producers Jay-Z and Will and Jada Pinke…
"Brighton," which opened Sunday night ("Bound" will follow in a few weeks), won't fully satisfy the director's fans in that he has imposed no new spin on Simon's nostalgic comedy-drama. But …
This tale of a white DJ in the 1950s desperately enamored of "race music" and a black singer whom he helps rise to stardom comes as an out-of-left-field-surprise: an original musical, not ba…
Doug Hughes' crack staging appears frenetic at first, but by the final curtain, you'll realize that Hughes commands his thespian troops with the precision of a military strategist.
Despite its excesses, "Drinking" is terrific fun, sort of like reading dozens of outrageous tabloid-newspaper stories in one sitting while their subject gets to respond to them.
This is an uncommonly coherent production, free of gimmicks and transmitting the play's themes with true clarity.
Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman, meanwhile, will compose the music; both worked on the big screen treatment of "Hairspray."
Daniel Craig and Hugh Jackman provide a textbook lesson in how movie-star charisma can elevate mediocre material in "A Steady Rain," this fall's hottest Broadway ticket.
Shares of Marvel Entertainment soared more than 25 percent in premarket trade after Walt Disney Co announced it will acquire the company and its library of characters including Spider-Man, I…