Thursday, May 31, 2018
Melody Herzfeld, a survivor of the school shooting in Florida, will be given an excellence in theater education award from the Tonys and Carnegie Mellon University.
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The live telecast version of the musical will follow “Jesus Christ Superstar,” which aired in April and starred John Legend and Sara Bareilles.
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The French actress will star in a play by Florian Zeller on a roster that also includes a musical based on “The Secret Life of Bees.”
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Young Jean Lee’s “Straight White Men,” the first Broadway production of a play by an Asian-American female playwright, will start the season in June.
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Sunday, April 29, 2018
When the rock musical opened on Broadway in April 1968, our critic called it the first “in some time to have the authentic voice of today.”
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The teen drama’s musical episode, which airs Wednesday, is part of a tradition of television shows dipping into musical theater.
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“The Remains of the Day” will have its debut in Northampton, England, in February, and “White Teeth” will take its first bow in London in October.
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“The Waverly Gallery” will feature Michael Cera and Lucas Hedges along with Ms. May, who has not appeared on Broadway in more than 50 years.
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Works by Anna Deavere Smith, Martyna Majok, Heidi Schreck, Jeremy O. Harris and Madeleine George are slated to run.
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The Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Ayad Akhtar chose Ms. Nanako Winkler’s play “God Said This” from more than 1,600 submissions.
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Roundabout Theater Company announced Tuesday that its new production of “True West” will begin previews in December at the American Airlines Theater.
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Monday, February 26, 2018
Three plays about contemporary America will be staged during the 2018-19 season, including a double bill of Samuel D. Hunter’s “Lewiston” and “Clarkston.”
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The revival of Harvey Fierstein’s multipart play about the life of a drag performer will open at the Helen Hayes Theater in November.
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The production, created by Richard Curtis and John Doyle, will feature new songs by the composer and some of his most well-known.
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The Off Broadway theater will present works by Craig Lucas and Halley Feiffer, as well as the first major New York showings for Larissa FastHorse and Tori Sampson.
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Matthew Broderick, Mary-Louise Parker and Tavi Gevinson will appear this summer in plays by Douglas Carter Beane, Adam Rapp and Carson McCullers.
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Ms. Perlman will assume Ms. O’Donnell’s part in the New Group production of David Rabe’s “Good for Otto.”
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For the first time, a production from Public Works, the Public Theater’s participatory theater program, will be part of the free summer shows in Central Park.
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Thursday, January 18, 2018
The Curran Theater in San Francisco will host “Head Over Heels” from April 10 to May 6 to start off the theater’s first full season after being renovated.
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Tuesday, January 2, 2018
Thursday, December 28, 2017
The 32 plays and musicals currently on Broadway brought in $35,796,213 between Dec. 18 and Dec. 24, almost $5 million more than last year.
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Her new play “P____ Sludge,” which won the 2017 Relentless Award, tells the story of a woman who menstruates crude oil.
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Artists who died this year left behind gripping scenes, profound turns of phrase, unforgettable melodies and plenty of laughter. We pay tribute to a few of the most notable — through their…
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The actress Marin Ireland and the lawyer Norman Siegel announced a six-month pilot project to offer the confidential service to the theater community.
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The nonprofit theater in TriBeCa will offer three world premieres in its coming season, starting with a new play by Steph Del Rosso on Jan. 22.
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“A Tribute to Barbara Cook” will honor her life and work with a night of songs, stories and speeches on Dec. 18. Ms. Cook died this year at age 89.
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Two theaters pulled plays from their schedules after The New York Times reported the accusations of nine women.
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