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Forbidden Broadway on Broadway, the updated iteration of the long-running Off Broadway musical-comedy review, is postponing its scheduled summer Broadway debut at the Hayes Theatre due to what producers say is an “enormously crowded” landscape. "We made the difficult decision today to postpone the…

April on Broadway, to mangle a phrase from a showtune classic, is bustin’ out all over with no fewer than 14 new plays and musicals set to open before the April 25 Tony Award eligibility cutoff date. So crowded are the final weeks of the 2023-24 theater season that three days each will see the openings of…

Mary Jane, the Amy Herzog play starring Rachel McAdams in her Broadway debut, has been given a two-week extension by producer Manhattan Theatre Club. The play, which opened to excellent reviews Tuesday, will now run through Sunday, June 16, at MTC's Samuel J. Friedman Theatre. Directed by Anne…

The sold-out, twice-extended Off Broadway comedy Oh, Mary! will transfer to Broadway this summer, producers announced today. Written by and starring Cole Escola and directed by Sam Pinkleton, the play will begin previews at Broadway’s Lyceum Theatre on June 26 ahead of a July 11 opening night. The…

Following two sold-out limited seasons at London's Barbican, the Royal Shakespeare Company's acclaimed stage version of Hayao Miyazaki's Studio Ghibli classic My Neighbour Totoro will transfer to the West End early in 2025. The show broke box office records during both its inaugural 15-week term in…

A very busy Broadway held its own last week, with 36 productions pulling in a combined $34,650,614, a good 10% increase over last year at this time. About 92% of all available seats were occupied, with total attendance of 299,107 about 15% greater year-over-year. Related…

Stereophonic, David Adjmi’s Broadway play about a ’70s Fleetwood Mac-type group, has announced a six-week extension following a slew of rave reviews. Initially set to close July 7, the play, directed by Daniel Aukin and starring Will Brill, Juliana Canfield, Eli Gelb, Tom Pecinka, Sarah Pidgeon…

UPDATED with latest: The Oscars, strike-delayed Writers Guild Awards and the 2023-24 awards season are history, and it’s time to look at what’s ahead trophy show-wise. Here is a list of awards shows, events and the like ahead as we cruise into Emmy season and look ahead to Cannes, the fall film…

Wicked director Jon M. Chu will make his Broadway directorial debut with a new stage adaptation of his 2018 hit film Crazy Rich Asians, producers announced today. The new musical, still in development, will feature a book by Leah Nanako Winkler, music by Helen Park and lyrics by Amanda Green & Tat…

Broadway’s spring newcomers continued pulling in the city’s tastemakers, tourists and the merely curious last week, with overall box office down about 10% from the previous week but most new shows filling at least 90% of their seats. Topping the newcomers was Cabaret with Eddie Redmayne as the…

Carrie Robbins, whose more than 30 years as a Broadway costume designer saw her involvement in 1972’s Grease, for which she contributed the production’s signature poodle skirts, and the nuns’ habits of 1983’s Agnes of God, died following a brief illness with Covid on Friday, April 12, at Mt. Sinai…

Roundabout Theatre Company has announced the dates for its 2024-25 season, with David Henry Hwang’s Yellow Face starring Daniel Dae Kim kicking off the company’s Broadway line-up with an October 1 opening night. The previously announced Broadway productions also include English by Sanaz Toossi…