“We couldn’t allow things to just trundle along,” Andrew Lloyd Webber says. “We had to make a big change.” He’s drumming his fingers on the dining room table of his Upper West Side apartment as he r…

Grammy winner Kid Harpoon will create original music for the upcoming Broadway revival of “Art.” The Tony Award-winning show — about three friends who debate the merits of a ridiculously expensive paintin…

House Republicans are ready to do some rebranding. On Thursday, GOP members of the House Appropriations Committee voted to rename the Opera House at the John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts after Melania…

Scott Rudin is returning to Broadway after allegations of abusive behavior derailed the producer’s career. Rudin and Barry Diller will produce Samuel D. Hunter’s new play “Little Bear Ridge Road,” which…

Richard Greenberg, the Tony Award-winning writer of “Take Me Out,” has died. He was 67 years old. Greenberg’s death was announced on social media by collaborators and colleagues such as Denis O’Hare and…

Amber Heard, Brandon Flynn and Lío Mehiel have joined the ensemble cast of the world premiere production of Jeremy O. Harris’ “Spirit of the People.” Directed by Katina Medina Mora, “Spirit of the Peop…

Broadway’s brights stars came out in force on Sunday for the 78th Tony Awards. There was plenty to celebrate for the theater business, which seems to have recaptured its stride after a long and painful post-p…

On the Tony Awards red carpet, James Monroe Iglehart, Renée Elise Goldsberry, Christopher Jackson and other Broadway artists and stars weighed in on the fallout surrounding Patti LuPone’s controversial New Y…

When Michael Arden heard the pitch for “Maybe Happy Ending,” a love story about two robots who bond over being discarded by their owners, he thought — pass. But after reading the script and listening to t…

Patti LuPone has apologized for comments she made about Audra McDonald and “Hell’s Kitchen” star Kecia Lewis in a recent New Yorker interview. “For as long as I have worked in theatre, I have spoken my…

Broadway performers and theater professionals are calling on the producers of the Tony Awards to disinvite Patti LuPone from the show after the theater legend made controversial remarks about Audra McDonald and…

The original cast of “Hamilton” will be back in the room where it happens. That’s right, Lin-Manuel Miranda and his ensemble of revolutionaries will reunite for a special performance at the 78th Tony Awar…

Concord has acquired Broadway Licensing Global. As part of the deal, BLG’s family of imprints — Broadway Licensing, Dramatists Play Service, Playscripts and Stage Rights — will now become part of Concord …

“Rolling Thunder” will make its U.S. premiere for a limited engagement this summer at off-Broadway’s New World Stages. Performances of the show, which is described as “part rock concert, part documentar…

“I probably should try to eat a little more,” David Hyde Pierce tells the waiter who just tried to clear his plate of scrambled eggs. We’re having breakfast in a diner on the Upper West Side. It’s the m…

Lily Rabe has been doing something she rarely does when she acts in a play or a film. She’s reaching out to urge her friends and family to head to Lincoln Center, where she’s delivering a masterclass in gri…

David Mamet will release “Henry Johnson,” a prison drama that marks his first film in over a decade, this spring. Production wrapped recently on the film, which stars Shia LaBeouf and is an adaptation of Ma…

“Ava: The Secret Conversations” will have its New York premiere this summer at New York City Center, Stage I, following an acclaimed run at the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles. The show was written by and s…

For more than a century, B&B Theatres has brought movies — from “Casablanca” and “Psycho” to “The Dark Knight” and “Barbie” — to audiences across the South and the Midwest. The family-ow…

James Taylor’s hits are inspiring a new stage musical called “Fire and Rain.” The singer and songwriter has lined up some major talent in the effort. Tracy Letts, the Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning…

Growing up, Dana Ledoux Miller’s mother would take her and her brother to matinees of films like “The Little Mermaid,” “Aladdin” and “Beauty and the Beast.” After, she’d wear out her tapeplayer,…

It was only supposed to run for a few weeks at a small experimental space upstairs at London’s Royal Court Theatre. But somehow, 50 years after “The Rocky Horror Show” first debuted, it is still attracti…

“Wicked,” “Moana 2” and holiday hits like “Mufasa: The Lion King” lifted quarterly earnings at AMC Entertainment. Revenues at the world’s largest movie chain hit $1.3 billion, up more than 15% fro…

After five months on tour, “A Beautiful Noise: The Neil Diamond Musical” has recouped its investment. The national tour kicked off last year in Providence, where it had the most successful tour launch in th…

“Heathers the Musical” is returning to New York after an extended run in London and throughout the United Kingdom. The show will play a limited engagement through Sept. 28 at New World Stages, producers Bil…

Holiday blockbusters like “Mufasa: The Lion King” and “Gladiator II” and a re-release of Christopher Nolan’s “Interstellar” helped lift profits and revenues at Imax during its fourth quarter. Reve…

Cynthia Erivo, fresh off the box office success of “Wicked,” will command center stage on Broadway’s biggest night as host of the 78th Tony Awards. She takes over as emcee from Ariana DeBose, who hosted t…

President Trump said Wednesday that he’d been “unanimously” elected to lead the board of the Kennedy Center, completing his takeover of the Washington, D.C. cultural center. The move, which the president …

When Jeremy O. Harris was tapped to help reinvigorate the Williamstown Theatre Festival, he didn’t just think about traditional showcases for plays and musicals. “The American festivals that work the best a…

Tituss Burgess is about to don Mary Todd Lincoln’s bouncy curls and voluminous gowns. The “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt” star will take over the lead role in Broadway’s “Oh, Mary!” after Betty Gilpin l…

“44,” a humorous musical about Barack Obama’s presidency, has announced its complete casting ahead of its production at the Kirk Douglas Theatre. The show, which is produced by Monica Saunders-Weinberg (H…

Tommy Dorfman will star in New York Theatre Workshop’s upcoming production of “Becoming Eve.” The show was written by Emil Weinstein (“A League of Their Own”) and is based on the memoir by Abby Chava …

From thrillers like “Babygirl” and “Love Lies Bleeding” to genre-bending horror flicks like “The Substance” to inspirational sports dramas like “The Fire Inside,” women directed some of last yea…

Jennifer Lopez keeps having to remind Judy Robles that she deserves all the attention she’s been getting as the pair promote “Unstoppable.” The inspirational sports drama has been earning awards buzz, and…

Disney’s “Mufasa: The Lion King” is reigning over the holiday box office. The family film, which is a prequel to “The Lion King” (both the 1994 animated classic and the less canonical 2019 photorealis…

Mark O’Meara, a Virginia-based movie theater owner, wonders and worries constantly about what exactly his customers will buy tickets to see on any given weekend. It’s not that people have fallen out of love…

The Southampton Playhouse, a historic cinema that is being revitalized into a state-of-the-art movie theater, announced its leadership team on Tuesday. Maria A. Ruiz Botsacos, a top executive at Film at Lincoln…

“Swept Away,” a musical that mixed together a shipwreck, cannibalism and the music of the Avett Brothers, hoped to defy conventional wisdom about what constitutes a Broadway hit. Instead it announced Thurs…

Gavin Creel, the Tony Award-winning star of “Hello Dolly!” and “Hair” who died in September at the age of 48, was celebrated Monday as a passionate artist and activist in an emotional memorial service f…

“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 during a hike…

“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 stage. Tony…

“Sleep No More,”  the immersive experience that revolutionized the theater scene, has announced its  final performance. The influential, site-specific show will close following the matinee performance…

“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, January 5, 2025. …

“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. Indeed, the…

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 show is…

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 Manhattan venue since 2…

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 wrapped up a beach vac…

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 blockbusters, with studi…

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 dangers of turning life into c…

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 firm Namoff & C…

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 him there faste…

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” in Andrew Lloy…

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 adaptation of �…

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 by its 18-year ru…

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 speeches from Britain…

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 romantic relati…

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 Awards simulcas…

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 independently. The company’s …

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 coming-of-ag…

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 2023 left studios w…

“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 14. Last week, for …

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 a complex fe…

“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 carrying planks of …

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 this year whil…

Maia Novi’s “Invasive Species” has announced an Off-Broadway limited engagement at The Vineyard’s Dimson Theater. The production will reunite the cast and creative team from the dark comedy’s 2023 wor…

Christopher Durang, a Tony Award-winning playwright who specialized in a particular form of brainy and absurdist comedy, has died. He was 75. The cause was complications from a form of dementia known as logopen…

With his victory on Monday at the Critics’ Circle Theatre awards, Andrew Scott has made history. The British performer, recognized as best actor for his one-man West End show, “Vanya,” previously was name…

A star-studded revival of “Merrily We Roll Along” has managed to accomplish something that eluded the ill-fated original production of the Stephen Sondheim musical. Turn a profit. The show’s producers ann…

Musical theater artist and historian Ben West is writing a new book, “The American Musical: Evolution of an Art Form.” The book will be released by Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, o…

Sean Cercone has stepped down as head of Broadway Licensing Global. It’s unclear why he left the company that he acquired in 2019. Broadway Licensing Global has announced who will lead the company on an inte…

Things kicked off with Alicia Keys singing the galvanic ode to the five boroughs, “Empire State of Mind,” and ended with Pete Townshend rocking out to “Pinball Wizard.” Those performances were the type …

Four whalers are set adrift after a violent storm sinks their ship. Lost at sea, exposed to the elements and on the brink of starvation, the men must make horrifying decisions in their struggle to survive. Cann…

Like much better dressed students, Ethan Hawke, Cate Blanchett, Claire Danes, Holland Taylor and Sarita Choudhury filed into the basement theater at the Museum of Modern Art on Tuesday to honor an acting legend…

Tyne Daly will leave the upcoming revival of John Patrick Shanley’s “Doubt” after she was “unexpectedly hospitalized” on Friday. She will be replaced by Amy Ryan, the Oscar-nominated star of “Gone B…

A stage adaptation of “Purple Rain” will have its world premiere in Minneapolis. The location makes sense because Prince, the musical superstar behind the cult classic film and mega-selling album, was born …

Tom Holland is hanging up the spandex and taking on Shakespeare’s most famous doomed lover. That’s right, the “Spider-Man: No Way Home” star will play Romeo this summer in London’s West End. The produ…

It happens after almost every show.  As “Days of Wine and Roses” stars Kelli O’Hara and Brian d’Arcy James are leaving the theater they will invariably run into an audience member with a personal conne…

Michael Stuhlbarg will play billionaire Boris Berezovsky, the Russian oligarch who bolstered and then broke with Vladimir Putin, in a new Broadway production of “Patriots.” The show, which was written by P…

Douglas Lyons, the writer of “Chicken and Biscuits,” is adapting “Big River” as a film. The show, which features music influenced by country and gospel, is based on Mark Twain’s “The Adventures …

“Danny and the Deep Blue Sea,” a buzzy revival of one of John Patrick Shanley’s early plays, has recouped its initial investment. The show features Aubrey Plaza of “White Lotus” and “Parks and Rec�…