The Royal Shakespeare Company doesn't usually sell out an entire run before opening, especially with a new play. But then, it has never had the audacity to stage one of the world's most belo…
Charm, a sadly rare theatrical quality, is scarcely a fashionable theatrical virtue, but it's nonetheless valuable. And, to audiences' evident delight, it's there in spades in director Danie…
Three-time Tony winner Patti LuPone isn't leaving Broadway. Despite her recent move to give up her Actor's Equity card, which fans took as a sign of her impending retirement, she says she's …
Jesse Williams and the company of "Take Me Out" are especially grateful to the plumbing on Broadway. Without hot water flowing through the pipes at the Schonfeld Theatre, the infamous locker…
Disney has confirmed that it will release "Black Panther: Wakanda Forever" in theaters in France on Nov. 9 in spite of the country's strict windowing regulations. The company previously deci…
Theater veteran Tovah Feldshuh has performed in 10 Broadway shows over the last five decades, garnering acclaim and Tony Awards love for "Yentl" and "Golda's Balcony," among others. But ther…
The new musical "Kimberly Akimbo" has already beguiled New York critics. Now it has to win over Broadway audiences. Based on David Lindsay-Abaire's 2001 play of the same name, "Kimber…
Samuel L. Jackson had his marching orders. So when actor John David Washington approached him for tips about playing Boy Willie, a role Jackson originated in the 1987 production of August Wi…
Every family has a skeleton or two in its closet. The starry new Broadway revival of August Wilson's Pulitzer Prize-winning play "The Piano Lesson" has a whole houseful of ghosts. Director L…
Each year, Variety compiles a list of Broadway stars on the rise. This year, Variety fill fete this round-up of stage actors, directors and writers at its Business of Broadway Breakfast pres…
At Carolines on Broadway, the legendary comedy club in Times Square, taking the main stage can be a death-Âdefying propoÂsition " and not just because the audience, likely several drin…
Michael R. Jackson is, in a word, dazzling. His Broadway musical, "A Strange Loop," is a breakthrough masterpiece whose plot I won't describe here because it's so inventive that my summary w…
Lea Michele and I met 17 years ago, at the audition that led us to playing opposite each other in "Spring Awakening." I was from the farmlands of Lancaster, Penn., and Lea was this tough kid…
The Tony-winning Broadway revival of "Take Me Out" returns this fall, and Jesse Williams is back with it. In Richard Greenberg's 2002 play, the "Grey's Anatomy" actor plays a biracial baseba…
"Death of a Salesman" actor Wendell Pierce, "The Piano Lesson" director LaTanya Richardson Jackson and "Till" star John Douglas Thompson are among the honorees set for the inaugural Salute t…
How is a Pulitzer Prize-winning play like a Marvel superhero? Ask Suzan-Lori Parks, the acclaimed writer whose 2001 outing "Topdog/Underdog" was her first show to arrive on Broadway after sh…
"A Strange Loop," creator Michael R. Jackson's meta comedy-drama, which won the Tony for best musical, is closing on Broadway in 2023. It will play its final performance on Jan. 15 at the Ly…
Take two, and not a moment too soon. Lea Michele steps into one of Broadway's most iconic roles, which in her mind " or at least the mind of Rachel Berry, the character she played in TV's "G…
John Fithian, the top lobbyist for the exhibition industry, will retire as the CEO of the National Association of Theatre Owners on May 1, 2023. The group said it has already begun a search …
In the new Broadway revival of "Death of a Salesman," Wendell Pierce's powerhouse performance firmly identifies Willy Loman as a tragic hero for these modern times. It's a searing portrait o…
The Astory-produced "Extraordinary Attorney Woo" claimed the 'Best Content Award' Saturday at the fourth edition of the Asian Contents Awards in Busan. The hit show's lead actress, Park Eun-…
The opening moments of this exuberant, thought-provoking and radical revival of "1776" makes it clear who was missing from John Trumbull's famous painting of the signers of the Declaration o…
The inaugural Nuart Festival has been set for Oct. 21-30 to celebrate the reopening of the Nuart Theatre following its renovation. The 10-day fest will open with Oscar-winner Sam Mendes' "Em…
Part of the instant appeal of "Friends" was that, from the get-go, the relationships between the members of the gang who hung out in the apartments above Central Perk felt not just likeable …
Variety has announced the lineup for its annual Business of Broadway breakfast presented by City National Bank in New York on Oct. 17. Samuel L. Jackson and LaTanya Richardson Jackson will j…