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In a wide-ranging conversation a few days before Page finished Lear, he discussed everything from reaching this career high at the age of 60, what he hopes for the future of King Lear, how S…
SOURCE: Entertainment Weekly at 11:26AMTuesday, February 25, 2020
Stand up, your father’s passing.
Soon, Greg Kinnear will be that father — the patriarchal figure at the heart of Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, one Atticus Finch. On Tuesday, prod…
SOURCE: Entertainment Weekly at 05:36PMAs best explained in her EW Digital Cover story, actor and writer Danai Gurira has had a unique career in entertainment spanning more than her iconic turn as Michonne on The Walking Dead. Th…
SOURCE: Entertainment Weekly at 04:00PMMonday, February 24, 2020
Must-see shows, must-believe revivals, and major stars — this spring, New York’s stages have them all. From rollicking royals to some welcome Company, here are six seasonal trends worth…
SOURCE: Entertainment Weekly at 09:00AMFriday, February 21, 2020
Sophia Anne Caruso will no longer count herself among the strange and unusual.
The actress, who originated the role of Lydia Deetz in Broadway’s Beetlejuice, has abruptly exited the produ…
SOURCE: Entertainment Weekly at 04:51PMThursday, February 20, 2020
How do you solve a problem like a remake? Play it too faithfully and you’re just doing karaoke, or community theater; stray too far and you risk losing the thread of the original text — …
SOURCE: Entertainment Weekly at 08:00PMThe Inheritance‘s Broadway run will soon reach its (Howards) end.
The two-part, seven-hour drama will close on Broadway March 15, its producers announced Thursday. The show opened in New Y…
SOURCE: Entertainment Weekly at 07:30PMWhen director Rebecca Taichman saw Sing Street when it debuted on screens in 2016, she wrote her agent while the credits were still rolling, tears streaming down her face, to see if the sta…
SOURCE: Entertainment Weekly at 03:30PMTuesday, February 18, 2020
Broadway actress Zoe Caldwell, who won four Tony Awards over the course of her decades-long career, died Feb. 16 from complications due to Parkinson’s disease. She was 86. Her son Charlie …
SOURCE: Entertainment Weekly at 10:43PMMonday, February 17, 2020
David Byrne’s American Utopia is going to keep burning down the house.
The musician’s acclaimed show will be returning to Broadway this fall, its producers revealed on Sunday. American …
SOURCE: Entertainment Weekly at 12:40AMFriday, February 14, 2020
Here’s a treat for Dear Evan Hansen fans, Jordan Fisher fans, and anyone who’s Team John Ambrose after watching To All the Boys: P.S. I Still Love You. If you fall into all three categor…
SOURCE: Entertainment Weekly at 01:06PMDrag superstar BenDeLaCreme is ready to propose… that you show some love on her biggest solo tour to date.
EW can exclusively reveal that the RuPaul’s Drag Race icon and performing artis…
SOURCE: Entertainment Weekly at 11:00AMThursday, February 13, 2020
Jason Alexander is about to go to war.
The award-winning actor is attached to direct a Broadway-bound adaptation of The War of the Roses. The play is based on the original novel by Warren …
SOURCE: Entertainment Weekly at 04:03PMMonday, February 10, 2020
If a director of Hamlet wants to signal to a contemporary audience that “something is rotten in the State,” she could hardly find a more efficient shorthand than to evoke the Trump famil…
SOURCE: Entertainment Weekly at 10:00PMWednesday, February 5, 2020
There’s a new florist sprouting on Skid Row!
On Wednesday, producers of the critically-acclaimed Off Broadway revival of Little Shop of Horrors announced that Jeremy Jordan (Newsies, Supe…
SOURCE: Entertainment Weekly at 11:25AMMonday, February 3, 2020
Heads are turning in the casino and lobby of the Las Vegas Flamingo as six drag queens — Asia O’Hara, Vanessa Vanjie Mateo, Derrick Barry, Naomi Smalls, Kameron Michaels, and Yvie Oddly …
SOURCE: Entertainment Weekly at 03:48PMHamilton has legions of fans across the world, but not all of them got to see Lin-Manuel Miranda‘s game-changing musical with the acclaimed original cast. But next year, they will all get …
SOURCE: Entertainment Weekly at 12:26PMSaturday, February 1, 2020
Spike Lee is setting his sights on Broadway.
The Oscar-winning filmmaker has officially signed on to direct a movie version of David Byrne’s American Utopia. It was announced on Friday tha…
SOURCE: Entertainment Weekly at 04:53PMThursday, January 30, 2020
Lucy Barton is a woman of many lives. A writer reeling from a traumatic childhood, she emerged in Elizabeth Strout’s Booker Prize-nominated 2016 novel My Name Is Lucy Barton. In 2018, Rona…
SOURCE: Entertainment Weekly at 08:30AMTuesday, January 28, 2020
Whether you’re broke, happy, poor, kind, or whatever else it comes down to, you can still watch the cast of Broadway’s Jagged Little Pill musical perform on Monday night’s episode of L…
SOURCE: Entertainment Weekly at 11:06AMMonday, January 27, 2020
Congratulations: You’ve hit the RuPaul’s Drag Race jackpot.
EW has a musical sneak peek at the Emmy-winning reality TV franchise’s first Las Vegas residency with the exclusive reveal o…
SOURCE: Entertainment Weekly at 08:00AMSaturday, January 25, 2020
Part of the propulsion for Julie Taymor to tell the life story of feminist icon Gloria Steinem on screen — in her new film The Glorias — was personal. The two women met more than a decad…
SOURCE: Entertainment Weekly at 05:02PMFor centuries, women’s pain has been deemed the only narrative worthy of storytelling. Whether in gonzo revenge fantasy or prestige drama, if we’re not suffering, it’s not worthy of se…
SOURCE: Entertainment Weekly at 03:20PMFriday, January 24, 2020
There was an old woman all skin and bones… Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh…
So began my favorite song in music class throughout elementary school. The song ends with a loud “Boo!” meant to scare …
SOURCE: Entertainment Weekly at 09:46AMThursday, January 23, 2020
Mean Girls has been a movie and a musical. Now it’s going to be both.
Tina Fey and the producers of the Broadway production announced Thursday that they’ll be returning to North Shore H…
SOURCE: Entertainment Weekly at 03:33PMWednesday, January 22, 2020
The Karate Kid has been to Japan (in the sequel), China (in the remake), and YouTube (in the TV series). Now, Daniel-san is heading for the stage.
Screenwriter Robert Mark Kamen, who penned …
SOURCE: Entertainment Weekly at 12:00PMTuesday, January 21, 2020
Meet Broadway’s newest star: Euphegenia Doubtfire!
The character at the center of Robin Williams’ beloved 1993 comedy Mrs. Doubtfire is making her way from the big screen to the Great Wh…
SOURCE: Entertainment Weekly at 04:21PMThursday, January 16, 2020
The words “dinner theater” usually conjure up images of linen-covered tables, black-tie-wearing waiters, and productions of classic fare like Hello, Dolly! or Showboat.
But a new immersi…
SOURCE: Entertainment Weekly at 06:25PMWednesday, January 15, 2020
Although it is a one-woman show, there are several very fine storytellers at work in My Name Is Lucy Barton, a new play based on the 2016 Elizabeth Strout novel of the same name. At least…
SOURCE: Entertainment Weekly at 10:00PM5,6,7…podcast?
Musical theater has always made superb use of aural formats, with original Broadway cast albums filling the gap for theater-goers who can’t shuffle off to the Great White …
SOURCE: Entertainment Weekly at 09:00AMFriday, January 10, 2020
Katy Keene may dream of seeing herself on a runway, but first she’s headed to Broadway — BroadwayCon, to be exact.
EW can exclusively announce the highly anticipated new addition to the …
SOURCE: Entertainment Weekly at 10:00AM