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Drama Book Shop Sets a Fresh Start in a New Locale
NEW YORK — The Drama Book Shop has a new home.
'Harry Potter and the Cursed Child' Loses Steam on Broadway
NEW YORK — Harry Potter could use a little more magic.
Secret From 'Slave Play' Creator: Surprise Show in Brooklyn
NEW YORK — Jeremy O. Harris, the provocative playwright behind Broadway’s “Slave Play,” has been keeping a secret.
New Curator of Old Musicals
NEW YORK — Lear deBessonet, a theater director who grew up in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, didn’t see a professional production of a musical until she was 17, when her school choir, on a trip to New York, got seats to “Rent” and “Les Misérables.”
Wendell Pierce: 'I Still Have Fear, But Now I Have Courage'
Wendell Pierce is having a very good year.
Michael Friedman Died in 2017. Now 9 Albums of His Work Are Coming.
Michael Friedman, a theatrical songwriter who died in 2017 at just 41, left behind a chorus of grieving friends and family. He also left a lot of music.
After 35 Years at Playwrights Horizons, He's Ready to Seek New Ones
NEW YORK — Tim Sanford arrived at Playwrights Horizons as an intern in 1984. He’s been there ever since.
Michael Jackson Musical Is to Open on Broadway Next Summer
The biomusical about Michael Jackson will open on Broadway next summer, his estate said Thursday.
Jonathan Groff Is a Seymour at Heart
NEW YORK — Jonathan Groff, now starring as a hapless flower shop clerk in an off-Broadway revival of “Little Shop of Horrors,” has a tiny confession to make.
Is Broadway Ready for 'Slave Play'?
NEW YORK — The first day of rehearsal on Broadway usually goes like this: Circle up. Make introductions. Offer thanks, express optimism, maybe crack a joke. Clear the room of onlookers, and off you go.
Harry Potter Brought Him to Broadway. Now His Work is Everywhere.
LONDON — Jack Thorne has no shortage of ways to characterize his own eccentricity. “I’m a slightly deranged adult.” “I’m not very good with other people.” “I’m mental.”
Who Calls the Shots on Broadway? She Does
NEW YORK — After the talk of taxi ads and touring, what to do about scalpers and what’s up with the cast recording and how much will the investors be repaid, the conversation turned, improbably, to artificial flowers.
He Once Shilled for 'Shogun.' Then 'Hamilton' Came Along.
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Faye Dunaway Is Dropped From Broadway-Bound Play
Faye Dunaway, the Oscar-winning actress whose reputation has long been dogged by suggestions that she is difficult to work with, has been fired by the producers of a one-woman show that had been planning to come to Broadway this season.Jonathan Groff to Lead Off-Broadway 'Little Shop of Horrors'
NEW YORK — Jonathan Groff has never been in a production of “Little Shop of Horrors.” Unless, that is, you count the hours in the kitchen of his childhood home, belting out “Skid Row.”
'The Great Society' Coming to Broadway
NEW YORK — As soon as the Tony-winning “All the Way” closed on Broadway, the playwright, Robert Schenkkan, turned his attention to the sequel.Jack Viertel stepping down at encores! After 20 years as leader
Now, after 20 years at the helm of the Encores! program at City Center, Viertel is stepping down.
Blackout darkens broadway, but songs brighten sidewalk scenes
NEW YORK — Nightly at Broadway’s Walter Kerr Theater, Hades, the king of an industrial underworld, boasts of his “power chords and power lines” before bellowing, as the lights flash, “I conduct the Electric City!”
'be more chill' to end broadway run in August
Social media got “Be More Chill” to Broadway. But it couldn’t keep it there.
'The Minutes,' by Tracy Letts, is coming to Broadway
NEW YORK — Tracy Letts is a Pulitzer Prize winning playwright (“August: Osage County”) and a Tony Award winning actor (“Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf”).
