"Swept Away," a musical about four men stranded at sea, had a landlocked genesis. John Logan, the show's Oscar-nominated and Tony-winning writer, started teasing out the idea for the musical…
"Slumdog Millionaire," the Oscar-winning film about a young man from an impoverished background who competes on India's version of "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?," could be headed for the s…
"Sleep No More,"  the immersive experience that revolutionized the theater scene, has announced its  final performance. The influential, site-specific show will close follo…
"Back to the Future: The Musical," a pricey stage adaptation of the beloved sci-fi adventure, is packing up the DeLorean. The production will have its final Broadway performance on Sunday, J…
"I'm smaller in real life," Laura Donnelly tells me after I admit that I didn't recognize her, standing pensively by the entrance to the midtown bar where we're meeting, scanning the room. I…
Playwright and actor Ryan O'Connor has written a modern, unapologetically queer take on Nöel Coward's classic comedy "Hay Fever." Entitled "The Cowards: A Marvelously Queer New Comedy," the…
The Tony Awards will return to Radio City Music Hall for the show's 78th edition. It's the first time that the annual celebration of the best of Broadway has been held at the Midtown Manhatt…
Nicole Scherzinger sounds like a kid desperately clinging to those last fleeting moments of summer break before school starts. She's calling from an airport in Portugal, having recently wrap…
A frosty start to the summer movie season was devastating for AMC Theatres, the world's biggest exhibitor. The theater chain's quarterly earnings were severely impacted by a lack of blockbus…
Elizabeth Lail, Zane Phillips and Nic Ashe are set to star in the off Broadway premiere of "Pretty Perfect Lives," a look at sexual exploration, internet addiction and the danger…
Jen Namoff, a prominent talent manager and Tony Award-winning producer, will join the New York office of Artists First. She is known for managing a deep roster of entertainment talent at her…
Peter Friedman, the star of "Job," takes his time getting to the theater each day. Sometimes he'll board a local train from his home on the Upper West Side instead of the express that gets h…
Betty Buckley, the Tony-winning and Grammy-nominated actor and singer, has signed with Sugar23. Best known for her performances in on stage, particularly for her soaring rendition of "Memory…
Willkommen, bienvenue Adam Lambert and Auli'i Cravalho. There's a new act at the Kit Kat Club. Lambert, a Grammy nominee and "American Idol" breakout, and Cravalho, the star of the movie ada…
Is it a musical? Is it a roller derby? Is it a game-show? When the roller-skating phenomenon that is "Starlight Express" opened in London in 1984 it was all of those and more, as evidenced b…
Regardless of one's political allegiance, it's almost universally agreed that in recent years political expediency rather than truth has been, literally, the governing principle behind speec…
Nick Jonas and Adrienne Warren will team up for the first-ever Broadway production of Jason Robert Brown's "The Last Five Years." The musical, a look at the flowering and dissolution of a…
Actor and singer Skylar Astin will help theater lovers celebrate Broadway's biggest night. The "Pitch Perfect" star has been tapped to host the American Express "Broadway Fanfare" Tony Award…
TodayTix Group has acquired Arthouse, a full-service digital advertising agency. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, but the companies said that Arthouse will operate independent…
By the end of every performance, "The Outsiders" cast is caked in grime and dust. That's a consequence of the Broadway musical's sandy stage, which finds the actors who bring the the gritty …
Movie theaters can't sell tickets if they don't have a lot of new blockbusters to advertise on their marquees. And the actors and writers strikes that ground Hollywood to a standstill in 202…
"Lempicka," a musical about Art Deco painter Tamara de Lempicka, will play its final Broadway performance on Sunday, May 19. The show has struggled to draw crowds since opening on April 1…
For more than half a century, "Cabaret" " the iconic American musical set in Nazi Germany " has been produced, revived and revived again. This story, which touches on sex work, abortion and …
"No extraneous commotion," Jordan Fein, the associate director of "Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club," beseeches the small army of construction crew members who are drilling, hammering and carryin…
Maya Boyd will take over the title role in Broadway's "& Juliet." She joins the cast directly from the company of "Merrily We Roll Along," where she made her Broadway debut earlier th…