Why Are So Many Celebrities Co-Producing On Broadway?
Barack Obama, Kim Kardashian and Bowen Yang have all signed on as co-producers of Broadway shows. Our theater reporter Michael Paulson explains why.
Barack Obama, Kim Kardashian and Bowen Yang have all signed on as co-producers of Broadway shows. Our theater reporter Michael Paulson explains why.
The long-running musical, one of Broadway’s biggest hits, will be closed through at least May 17 after an electrical fire in its lighting booth.
The first batch of nominees included best new musical: “The Lost Boys,” “Titaníque,” “Schmigadoon!” and “Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York)” were selected.
The prize board called the playwright Bess Wohl’s work “a striking blend of comedy and sincerity.”
The New York Fire Department said there was “substantial damage” to a room containing lighting equipment at the Eugene O’Neill Theater in Manhattan.
A buzzy revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s hit 1970s musical will transfer to New York next spring, but without its signature outdoor scene.
The Manhattan Theater Club production will bring the actress back to the stage next spring, four years after her last Broadway production.
The latest trend on Broadway is celebrity co-producing: A-listers who now have credits as backers of plays and musicals.
Roundabout Theater Company, one of the four nonprofits with Broadway houses, plans three Broadway shows next season.
The actor-comedian said he will return to Broadway this fall with a new solo show called "860," named for the address of his destroyed family home.
Songs by the pop singer-songwriter are part of the Broadway shows "& Juliet" and "Moulin Rouge! The Musical."
The actress, a star of "Gone Girl" and "Saltburn," will play a judge whose personal experience as the mother of a son tests her courtroom approach to justice.
Broadway Across America will not be prosecuted after acknowledging it signed a noncompete agreement with another presenter, the agency said.
The rapper was rushed to the hospital midway through a performance of "Moulin Rouge! The Musical" on Tuesday. She is expected to miss shows on Wednesday.
Starting in May, Hargitay will make her Broadway debut in "Every Brilliant Thing," an elastic play that shape shifts to fit a distinctly different star.
For half the price of a great seat at a Broadway show, you can see "Paddington" in the West End (if you can find a ticket) and snack on a marmalade sandwich.
A week before opening night, tensions spilled over offstage, with the show's producing team temporarily prohibiting Stephen Adly Guirgis from entering the theater.
The lawsuit objected to a "BIPOC night" program at Playwrights Horizons, an Off Broadway nonprofit.
"School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play," written by Jocelyn Bioh and directed by Whitney White, will start performances in September.
The actress will make her Broadway debut in a role that, she said, "feels like a badge of honor."
Skyrocketing budgets and falling profitability have driven a new form of offshoring, with U.S. producers staging shows across the Atlantic.
For eight weeks this spring, the popular rapper will be featured as a nightclub impresario in "Moulin Rouge! The Musical."
The Marvel alumni Tom Hiddleston and Hayley Atwell will star in Jamie Lloyd's mischievous take on "Much Ado About Nothing."
The Tony winner returns to the stage in "Every Brilliant Thing," an interactive monologue with a message of hope "that might be vital for somebody to hear."
The musical, called "Galileo," will star Raúl Esparza, and is scheduled to open in December at the Shubert Theater.