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Suffs, the Shaina Taub musical about the suffragist movement that had a sold-out, extended run Off Broadway last year, will move to Broadway this spring, with former Secretary of State Hilla…
Merrily We Roll Along, the Sondheim revival starring Daniel Radcliffe, Jonathan Groff and Lindsay Mendez, cemented its place among Broadway's top earners during its opening week, grossing $1…
EXCLUSIVE: Following sold-out and critically lauded runs in London's West End and at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, the Olivier Award-nominated play My Son's A Queer (But What Can You Do?) s…
Joanna Merlin, whose acting career stretched from Broadway (she was the original Tzeitel in Fiddler On The Roof), film (she played the dance teacher Miss Berg in Alan Parker's 1980 film Fame…
Shirley Jo Finney, a theater director and the star of Wilma (1977), has died. She was 74. The Fountain Theatre announced Finney's October 10 death on social media writing in an Instagram pos…
Preview performances for Broadway's I Need That starring Danny DeVito begin tonight, and already the limited engagement has been extended by a week. Roundabout Theatre Company said the exten…
Shucked, the pun-filled, corn-fed comedy that surprised critics (favorably) and early on seemed destined to become a sleeper hit, will plays its final performance at Broadway's Nederlander T…
Broadway's critically acclaimed Purlie Victorious: A Non-Confederate Romp Through the Cotton Patch starring Leslie Odom, Jr. has extended its limited engagement by four weeks, with closing n…
When Gutenberg! The Musical! debuted Off Broadway 17 years ago, critics wondered whether it was ready for Broadway. Perhaps they should have asked whether Broadway was ready for Gutenberg! A…
Steven Lutvak, the composer and co-lyricist of the hit Tony-winning 2013 Broadway musical comedy A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder, died October 9. He was 64. His death was confirmed by…
EXCLUSIVE: Jesse Eisenberg and Kenneth Lonergan will be among the playwrights contributing new works for this year's 23rd Annual The 24 Hour Plays On Broadway, the one-night-only benefit eve…
Troubled musicals, like troubled friendships, can often seem like defeats lying in wait, sponging up every last second of loving care, effort and good intention. So Maria Friedman's smartly …
Eight-time Grammy winner Gloria Estefan is writing the music and lyrics for an original stage musical called Five Notes about Paraguay's Recycled Orchestra of Cateura, the singer announced t…
EXCLUSIVE: Scott Bakula will return to the New York stage this winter in an Off Broadway, world premiere production of the new musical The Connector, conceived and directed by Daisy Prince w…
American Idol winner Nick Fradiani will take over the role of Neil Diamond this month from the departing Will Swenson in Broadway's bio-musical A Beautiful Noise, The Neil Diamond Musical, p…
The 2024 Tony Awards will broadcast live Sunday, June 16, on CBS from the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. The event will be the first Tony ceremony in the Up…
Broadway's starry Merrily We Roll Along revival had another strong run of previews last week, grossing a hefty $1,471,644 and setting another house record at the Hudson Theatre. The Stephen …
EXCLUSIVE: Amplify Pictures, the the independent content studio behind HBO's surfing series 100 Foot Wave, is diving deeper into live stage productions, signing on as a co-producer of Broadw…
EXCLUSIVE: F. Murray Abraham, Here Lies Love's Melody Butiu, and Kimberly Akimbo's Nina White have joined the cast of workshop presentations of The Queen of Versailles starring Kristin Cheno…
Some Like It Hot, the well-reviewed musical stage adaptation of the classic 1959 film comedy and winner of four 2023 Tony Awards, will play its final performance at Broadway's Shubert Theatr…
There's no question that Melissa Etheridge is an inviting performer, whether she's beckoning through her window or simply asking us to enjoy some of the great rock singing ever " and, yes, a…
Will Swenson will play his final performance as Neil Diamond in Broadway's A Beautiful Noise, The Neil Diamond Musical on Sunday, Oct. 29, producers announced today. A replacement for the st…
Thomas Schumacher's longtime reign atop the business operations of Disney Theatrical Group saw the division become a major player on Broadway and in the nation's regional theaters, with such…
Long before Slave Play, decades before Ain't No Mo, there was Purlie Victorious, the Ossie Davis comedy masterwork that, like those descendant plays, fused broad comedy, satirical minstrelsy…
Jasmine Amy Rogers, who recently finished a run as the scene-stealing "Gretchen Wieners" in the national tour of Mean Girls, has been cast in the title role of the pre-Broadway world premier…