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Tony Award-winning producers Hal Luftig, Cathy Dantchik and Kevin Connor are teaming up to launch Halcyon Theatricals, a new producing and consulting theatrical company. The Halcyon team has…
President Donald Trump, after affixing his name to Washington, D.C.'s Kennedy Center and prompting multiple artists to cancel engagements at the famed arts center, said he has decided that t…
Kevin Couch, a veteran live entertainment exec and musician, was announced as the head of artistic programming at the newly rechristened Trump Kennedy Center on Jan. 16. Less than two weeks …
Back in the fall of 2019, on the night of the first performance of "& Juliet" in Manchester, England, director Luke Sheppard was sweating. "Nobody had bought a ticket," he recalls.…
Stephanie Hsu, Juliette Lewis, Rachel Dratch and Michaela Jaé Rodriguez have joined the cast of "The Rocky Horror Show." The upcoming Broadway revival, which will be directed by Tony Award …
The 2026 Tony Awards will take place June 7. The 79th edition of Broadway's biggest night of the year will return to Radio City Music Hall and will be broadcast live on both coasts on the CB…
Lesley Manville is thrilled to be making her Broadway debut in "Oedipus," but there are a few quirks of New York theatergoing she could do without. For starters, there's the applause that gr…
Adrien Brody and Tessa Thompson will make their Broadway debuts in "The Fear of 13," a searing play about a wrongly convinced death row prisoner. "The Fear of 13" tells the true story of Nic…
Thirty years after it initially debuted in London, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tracy Letts' "Bug" is finally getting its Broadway bow. Directed by Obie Award winner David Cormer, the d…
Ambassador Richard Grenell, the Trump-appointed president of the Kennedy Center, said the organization will seek $1 million in damages from noted jazz musician Chuck Redd after Redd abruptly…
Imani Smith, a former child actor who starred in "The Lion King" on Broadway, was found dead on Dec. 21, according to a press release from Middlesex County, N.J., Prosecutor Yolanda Ciccone …
The Kennedy Center, which first opened its doors more than 50 years ago, on Friday got a new addition: Donald Trump's name, which is being added above the name of John F. Kennedy on the buil…
The Kennedy Center is being renamed the "Trump-Kennedy Center," after President Donald Trump ousted the previous Democratic board members and management team and installed himself as chairma…
Simu Liu is moving from the MCU to a very wacky White House. The on-screen superhero, best known for his starring role in Marvel's "Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings," will make his …
"Titanique," a campy Off Broadway hit, will open on Broadway in the spring. The show is a low-fi musical parody of James Cameron's disaster epic "Titanic" that uses Céline Dion's music to r…
"Little Bear Ridge Road," an acclaimed drama with Laurie Metcalf that marked Scott Rudin's first Broadway production since controversy erupted over his alleged bullying behavior, will close …
Variety won 20 first-place trophies Sunday night at the 18th annual National Arts and Entertainment Journalism Awards, up from the 14 the publication scored in last year's competition. Varie…
It was a heck of an opening gambit: In its first week on Broadway, the new revival of "Chess" earned more than $1.2 million from just four sold-out performances. A few weeks later, the show,…
Theater industry veteran Sean Cercone is launching The Licensing House, a boutique theatrical licensing imprint that will provide representation for plays and musicals. Cercone is the founde…
Nathan Lane and Laurie Metcalf will return to Broadway in the Arthur Miller classic "Death of a Salesman." A revival of the acclaimed play will run for 14 weeks at the Winter Garden Theatre,…
"Is this bear an endangered species?" asks Tarinn Callender as the hapless helper of Victoria Hamilton-Barritt's (very) arch-villainess Millicent Price. With growling glee as insanely delici…
Playwright and screenwriter Tom Stoppard, a four-time Tony winner for his plays "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead," "Travesties," "The Real Thing" and "The Coast of Utopia" and an Oscar…
What a long, strange bubble ride it's been. But the work of songwriter Stephen Schwartz on "Wicked" " the property he first discovered as a source novel and has led into Broadway and dual fi…
Kristin Chenoweth took to Instagram Wednesday night to share her thoughts on the recent cancellation of her musical "The Queen of Versailles" and to thank her fans for supporting the show. "…
Kristin Chenoweth's "The Queen of Versailles" has already set its final Broadway performance, less than two weeks after opening. The production disclosed Monday evening that its final bow at…