"Shucked," a musical comedy featuring songs by Grammy winners Brandy Clark and Shane McAnally, will open on Broadway in the spring. The show will play at the Nederlander Theatre with preview…
Mike Birbiglia's solo play "The Old Man and the Pool" opened at the Vivian Beaumont Theater on Broadway on Nov. 13, 2022. The following is Peter Debruge's review of the same production when …
The prospect of dying by age 16 hardly seems like obvious fodder for musical comedy. But "Kimberly Akimbo," transferring to Broadway after an acclaimed run at the Atlantic Theater Company, i…
There are plenty of in-person and virtual commemorations from Broadway and beyond planned to celebrate and honor veterans. One of the highlights is Nov. 10's NYC Marine Corps Birthday Gala, …
Even with an Academy Award and six Emmys on his mantel, Aaron Sorkin was intimidated by the idea of a bringing "To Kill a Mockingbird" to the stage. Harper Lee's 1960 novel remains a beloved…
Documentary filmmaker Ryan White calls his latest project, "Good Night Oppy,"(in theaters now and streaming on Amazon Prime Video on November 23) his "COVID baby" because this was the one pr…
In the 25 years since "The Lion King" opened on Broadway, the show has traveled all over the world and played to more than 110 million people. But there's one thing that often doesn't transl…
"Glee" co-creator Ryan Murphy thinks the Emmy-winning Fox musical series stayed on the air longer than it should have. During an interview on the "And That's What You REALLY Missed" podca…
In a collaboration that feels very stuck in 2020, AMC Theaters and Zoom will join forces to allow audience members to video chat from the comfort of their local multiplex. Beginning sometime…
Hugh Jackman isn't leaving River City just yet. "The Music Man" is extending its Broadway run and will now play its "positively final performance" on Jan. 15, 2023. The hit musical was set t…
It's rare for sequels to make a big splash on the awards circuit; only two have ever won best picture " "The Godfather II" and "Lord of the Rings: Return of the King." But director Rian John…
In 2021 with America barely emerging from the pandemic, Louis Faranda and his team struggled to get comedians and clubs to commit to the New York Comedy Festival. This year, however, people …
Oscar winner Cameron Crowe made his official Broadway debut Thursday with the opening night of "Almost Famous," the musical adaptation of his 2000 film, at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre. The…
Writer-director Cameron Crowe's Oscar-winning screenplay about a teen rock journalist's coming-of-age in the '70s, "Almost Famous," lands pretty much intact in Broadway's latest pedestrian f…
Who better to tell your story than … you? Gabriel Byrne won kudos for his intimate memoir "Walking with Ghosts," which he subsequently adapted into this heartfelt solo show now playing…
You can take anything and write a song about it. Whether it needs singing about is another question entirely. On the evidence of multitudes of recent musicals, it's one too few creative team…
Kate Berlant's critically acclaimed one-woman show, "Kate," will return to New York City's Connelly Theater for an eight-week "encore" run, from Dec. 19, 2022, to Feb. 10, 2023. "Kate" premi…
Samuel L. Jackson is back on Broadway for the first time in a decade in "The Piano Lesson," the new production of the August Wilson play directed by Jackson's wife, LaTanya Richardson Jackso…
Nathan Lane, Danny Burstein and Zoë Wanamaker will return to Broadway for "Pictures From Home," a new play about manhood, fatherhood and hidden truths. "Pictures From Home" is based on th…
Making "Armageddon Time" proved both a gift and weirdly traumatizing for director James Gray, who revisited his old New York City stomping grounds for the Focus Features release arriving in …
"Life of Pi" is rowing to Broadway in the new year. A stage version of Yann Martel's bestselling adventure novel, which also inspired the Oscar-winning movie by director Ang Lee, is beginnin…
Musician Carly Simon has lost both of her sisters, Lucy and Joanna, to cancer one day apart from each other. Lucy, known throughout her life and career as a composer on Broadway, died of met…
Through the second act of "A Little Life," the titanic Ivo van Hove-directed play that premiered at the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Howard Gilman Opera House on Oct. 20, the protagonist lite…
It is a testament to the acuity of Suzan-Lori Parks' imagination and powers of perception that "Topdog/Underdog" feels as vital and electric today as it did 20 years ago. The first Broadway …
Broadway producer Garth Drabinsky is suing Actors' Equity for $50 million, accusing the theater union of defamation after he was placed on its "Do Not Work" list following his tumultuous pro…