The success of Tony-winning London hit "One Man, Two Guvnors" has made Richard Bean a bankable playwright: His factory-set 1999 debut "Toast" popped up on the London fringe last year and now…
"I feel like I have enough work now that, if I died, my 'in memorium' reel would be impressive," joked Judd Apatow as he took to the stage of the Film Society of Lincoln Center Monday night …
Penn and Teller appeared on Broadway last week — and made big money appear with them, as their new show muscled up into the Top 10 during a summer week that saw post-holiday s…
Over the past 14 years, you could catch Penn & Teller live in Vegas, all over television, including on their Showtime series “Penn & Teller: Bulls—!,” and even on a…
"Cheers" and "The West Wing" actor Roger Rees, who won a Tony for “The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickelby,” has died at the age of 71. The New York Times’ Scott Helle…
Cell phones in Broadway theaters: What are people thinking? Now we know, sort of, thanks to a publicity-stunt press conference during which one cell phone offender — the guy who tried …
Aaron Tveit has been cast as head T Bird Danny Zuko in Fox’s musical version of “Grease,” it is the word. The Paramount Television production is based on the original music…
Deaf West Theater’s well-received production of Tony-winning musical “Spring Awakening” has set the dates for a Broadway run, snapping up the Brooks Atkinson Theater for an…
The Fourth of July holiday threw a wrench into the Broadway box office last week, prompting declines at almost every single production but for a few exceptions — including, notably, &#…
The National Alliance for Musical Theater has set the slate for its 2015 Festival of New Musicals, the annual showcase of new work that attracts commercial and regional stage producers from …
After making history as the American Ballet Theatre’s first African-American female principal dancer, Misty Copeland is headed to Broadway for another career milestone. Copeland will m…
Faye Garrit is an immediately recognizable William Inge woman: anxious, unmoored and yearning for something more, whether it be finding a purpose in her superficial life or just making it wi…
Hal Holbrook is best known for portraying Mark Twain for more than 60 years, but he’s also taken roles of considerable risk for their time, like a gay father in the 1972 TV movie &#…
Jake Gyllenhaal may be the Hollywood star of the Encores! staged concert reading of “Little Shop of Horrors,” but he’s not taking the last bow. He’s giving that to El…
IFC Films will release Elisabeth Moss’ psychological thriller “Queen of Earth” starting Aug. 26 in New York, followed by a national rollout. “Queen of Earth,…
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded 41 organizations in its New York Theater Program with grants totaling $4.1 million. Ranging from $10,000 to $160,000, the grants will be use…
Departing artistic director Dominic Dromgoole bids farewell to the main stage of Shakespeare's Globe with a "Measure for Measure" that demonstrates exactly why he'll be missed. All the crowd…
Harvey Fierstein is a playwright and an actor who has won Tonys for his works "Torch Song Trilogy" and "La Cage aux Folles." His show "Kinky Boots" is currently playing on Broadway. When I w…
Lisa Kron just won two Tonys for "Fun Home," for best book of a musical and, along with Jeanine Tesori, for best original score. Do you feel that "Fun Home" couldn't have had the success …
Hell is spending a weekend with the three irritating Stockton sisters who strut and fret in Melissa Ross’s busy but fruitless family drama, “Of Good Stock.” Director (and M…
Broadway musical “It Shoulda Been You,” which has struggled at the box office since it began performances in March, has called it quits, posting a closing notice for early August…
The upcoming Broadway revival of “Fiddler on the Roof,” directed and designed by the team behind the current Tony-winning production of “The King and I,” has cast two…
Darren Criss melted hearts in the audience at Broadway’s St. James Theater when he auctioned off a serenade as part of Monday night’s Voices for the Voiceless fundraiser benefitt…
Another play about the coming of age of an artistically inclined boy? Bor-ring. Douglas Carter Beane tries to minimize the ho-hum factor in “Shows for Days,” his own entry …
All hail the queen: “The Audience,” the Broadway show that recently won Helen Mirren a Tony for her return to the role of the Queen of England, packed a walloping box office punc…