82 stories by "Patrick Hipes"
Katharine McPhee has been set to make her Broadway debut in April when she takes over the lead role of Jenna in Waitress, the Tony-nominated musical based on the movie from Adrienne Shelley …
The Rose, the 1979 Fox film that scored four Oscar nominations including Best Actress Bette Midler, is eyeing Broadway. Gail Berman’s The Jackal Group said today it will produce a Broa…
Two days after Michael Moore’s Broadway show The Terms Of My Surrender took its final bow, Moore said today he isn’t done yet — he plans to take it on the road in 2018. …
War Paint, the Broadway musical that stars Patti LuPone and Christine Ebersole who were both nominated for Tonys this year, has set a December 30, 2017 closing date at the Nederlander Theatr…
Groundhog Day, the Broadway musical based on the stellar 1993 romantic comedy starring Bill Murray, is ending its Broadway run on Sunday, September 17, producers said today. It will have pla…
Joshua Jackson is moving to Broadway with Children Of A Lesser God, the first Main Stem revival of the Tony Award-winning Mark Medoff play since its 1980 premiere. Jackson, co-star and fello…
Cats, whose original run was one of the longest in Broadway history, now will see its revival come to an end. Producers of the show confirmed today the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical will play …
JJ Abrams was on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon last night to help promote the Broadway-bound comedy The Play That Goes Wrong, which was a hit on London’s West End (it wo…
Andrew Lloyd Webber's Broadway musical Sunset Boulevard starring Glenn Close is extending its run an additional four weeks, producers Paul Blake and Mike Bosner said today. The revival’…
The Casting Society of America gathered tonight to honor casting in film, TV and theater at the 32nd annual Artios Awards. The conventional wisdom of the 2017 Oscars is undisturbed as the ye…
Burn This, the Broadway revival of the Landford Wilson play that was to be a starring vehicle for Jake Gyllenhaal and the first production in the refurbished Hudson Theatre after five decade…
Two-time Tony winner Kevin Kline will return to Broadway after a decade-long absence to star in Present Laughter, the Noel Coward comedy that will open a limited engagement April 5 at the St…
Danny DeVito is joining what is turning out to be a monster cast for The Price, the Roundabout Theater Company revival of the 1968 Arthur Miller drama that is in the works for a winter bow. …
Alex Timbers has exited as director of Frozen, the in-the-works musical based on the wildly successful Disney animated movie. The move comes after an Actors Equity casting notice posted yest…
After a video from Hamilton creator-star Lin-Manuel Miranda who apologized for not being able to attend, the Broadway smash’s Tony-winning Daveed Diggs and executive producer David Hor…
Garry Marshall’s 1984 film The Flamingo Kid is getting the Broadway treatment. The Matt Dillon-starring coming-of-age film set at a swanky beach club on Long Island in the early ’…
James M. Nederlander Sr., whose Broadway real estate holdings include nine Main Stem houses that made his Nederlander Organization the largest family-owned theater business, died Monday in S…
Jake Gyllenhall will return to the Broadway stage to star in the revival of Landford Wilson’s play Burn This, a production set to begin performances in February 2017 that will mark the…
Box office for Week 7 of the Broadway season, which featured the final performance of Hamilton creator Lin-Manuel Miranda and others in the original cast, was down again compared with last w…
John McMartin, the longtime Broadway staple and film and TV charactor actor who was part of the original cast of Stephen Sondheim’s Follies and starred in Sweet Charity on both the sta…
David Henry Hwang has been elected chair of the American Theatre Wing, the organization that created and oversees the Tony Awards. Hwang, the playwright who won the Tony in 1988 for M.…
Anastasia, the stage musical inspired by the 1997 Fox animated movie, will move to Broadway for an April 24 opening at the Shuberts’ Broadhurst Theatre. The production will be expanded…
Fun Home, which won the Tony Award for Best Musical in 2015, will mount its final performance on Broadway on September 10, producers said today. That will make it 26 preview and 582 regular …
The performances have been set for the 70th annual Tony Awards on Sunday at the Beacon Theater, with all 10 musicals nominated in the Best Musical and Best Revival of a Musical scheduled to …
The Humans won the Best Play award and Shuffle Along took the top musical prize at the 61st Drama Desk Awards, which were unveiled last night at The Town Hall with Michael Urie serving as ho…
