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The Tony Awards Administration Committee has announced the four recipients of the 2019 Tony Honors for Excellence in the Theatre. The honorary Tony Awards will be given to Broadway Inspirati…
TheatreWorks Silicon Valley will receive the 2019 Regional Theatre Tony Award. The Equity/LORT theater was founded in 1970 and produces eight shows annually, in addition to workshopping and …
"Oklahoma!" will extend through January 2020, producer Eva Price announced Monday. The revival was originally slated for a limited engagement ending on Sept. 1 at the Circle in the Square Th…
The Tony Awards Administration Committee made its final eligibility determinations Friday ahead of next week's nominations. In the fourth and final meeting of the season, the committee discu…
Judith Light will receive the 2019 Isabelle Stevenson Award from the Tony Awards committee. The Isabelle Stevenson Award is given out by the Tony Awards to a member of the theater community …
Designer David Rockwell is hoping to bring the behind-the-scenes players of the Broadway industry to the forefront with his design for the upcoming Olio hotel. Rockwell Group is designing th…
"To Kill a Mockingbird" has recouped its entire investment, producer Scott Rudin announced Friday morning. The play was capitalized for up to $7.5 million, according to documents filed with …
For a musical jubilantly proclaiming that its overriding theme is death, "Beetlejuice" has a surprisingly lively spring in its step. As is well known by now, popular movies never die; they a…
The revival of "Oklahoma!" led the Drama Desk list with 12 nominations Thursday. "Tootsie" and "Rags Parkland Sings the Songs of the Future" followed, with 11 and nine nominations respective…
Playwright Terrence McNally, actor Rosemary Harris and orchestrator and composer Harold Wheeler will be the recipients of this year's lifetime achievement awards from the Tony Awards. The…
"People like stories," says Rupert Murdoch " a fictional Rupert Murdoch, that is " just before the lights dim on the last scene of "Ink," James Graham's play about the media magnate's early …
The familiar rap on flawed Broadway musicals usually goes something like this: "Well, the score is great…but the book has problems." Enter "Tootsie," red sequins ablaze, a new musical adap…
"Hadestown" led the Outer Critics Circle nominations Tuesday, with 12 nominations. The Broadway musical was followed by "Tootsie" with 10 nominations and the Broadway revival of "Oklahoma!" …
Manhattan Theatre Club's "Ink" has announced a second extension ahead of opening on Wednesday. "Ink," at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, will now play an extra week to run through June 23. T…
There must be something in the cultural moment because two major and starry revivals of Arthur Miller's "All My Sons" are opening this week. On Broadway, Roundabout's production is helmed by…
Mel Brooks is coming to Broadway for two nights in June as part of the "In Residence on Broadway" series. Brooks will star in an unscripted show, entitled "Mel Brooks on Broadway," featuring…
Charles Randolph-Wright's play "Blue," is coming to Broadway under the direction of Phylicia Rashad. The play will come to Broadway in spring 2020 at a theater to be announced. Produced by B…
Following the news of a Netflix adaptation, "The Prom" has announced it will also be adapted into a young adult novel. Saundra Mitchell, an author of young adult novels , has written the ada…
There are no guarantees of success when attempting to stage ambitious new work. If one were seeking proof that the theater can be a fickle muse and that past accomplishment is no insurance a…
Hillary: Likable or not? Likable enough? And if not, why not? Those much-discussed questions, asked and answered ad nauseam over the course of her two terms as a presidential wife, and her t…
Jake Gyllenhaal and Tom Sturridge will reprise their roles in "Sea Wall/A Life," as the plays transfer to Broadway's Hudson Theatre this summer. The two plays, which are distinct, but includ…
The road to hell is paved with heavenly music in "Hadestown," the exuberant, exhilarating new musical that stands tall among a season of mostly (so far) lackluster Broadway competition. A re…
Ryan Murphy will bring a film adaptation of "The Boys in the Band" to Netflix, the television producer announced Wednesday. The film will be an adaptation of the Mart Crowley play, of which …
The Drama League announced its 2019 nominees Wednesday, which include off-Broadway and Broadway productions. In addition to category-specific awards, the Drama League, made up of industry pr…
Sean Cercone, president of Playscripts Inc., has purchased Broadway Licensing, an imprint of the Playscripts company. With the backing of The Antelope Group, a private live-entertainment inv…
