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Sixty-four years late and right on time, Alice Childress’ wise and stirring backstage comedy-drama Trouble in Mind is making its long-in-coming Broadway debut tonight, and to describe the play as prescient would be an understatement. Uncanny rings truer. With a star turn by LaChanze that takes a strong place in a…

WME has inked stage director, playwright, screenwriter and librettist James Lapine in all areas. Lapine wrote the book for and directed Stephen Sondheim's Sunday in the Park with George, Into the Woods, Passion, and the multi-media revue Sondheim on Sondheim. He also directed Merrily We Roll Along, as part of Encores…

Broadway’s total weekly box office of $25,565,641 was up last week by about 12% over the previous week, with new re-arrival of a slimmed-down, one-part Harry Potter and the Cursed Child joining the roster. For the week ending Nov. 14, the 31 Broadway productions drew a combined total attendance of 214,681, up about…

The first Broadway revival of Ntozake Shange's groundbreaking for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf will begin preview performances at the Booth Theatre on Friday, March 4, 2022, with the opening night set for Thursday, March 24, producers announced today. Casting for the production…

How do these Trevors make it look so easy? Each one – Trevor: The Musical, and its lead character Trevor: The Boy – carries a burden that could sink a more fragile theatrical creation, doom a less buoyant performance. But these Trevors persevere, and through sheer pluck, likability and smarts win over anything and…

Billy Crystal is returning to Broadway and revisiting one of his most popular film roles: Mr. Saturday Night, a new musical based on the 1992 movie will begin performances at the Nederlander Theatre next spring. Crystal will play Buddy Young Jr., the veteran comedian looking for a comeback. Crystal portrayed the…

The Broadway production Chicken & Biscuits has canceled its next three performances, starting tonight, due to breakthrough cases of Covid. “Through our regular testing process and protocols, breakthrough COVID-19 cases have been detected within the company of Chicken & Biscuits,” producers said in a statement. “As the…

UPDATE Nov. 10, with slightly revised figures Broadway box office was up about 16% last week, with three new productions joining the playing roster and all 30 of the shows taking in a combined $22,854,595. The figure, which represents box office grosses for the week ending Nov. 7, indicates an expected rebound from…

Last week, a Twitter meme gave New York theater its best tickle in ages: With news that the brilliant, unconventional and decidedly non-parade-like plays Is This A Room and Dana H. had been given a two-week reprieve from early closing – a reprieve that would extend their runs to the end of November – a tweeter named…

Broadway will continue to require vaccinations for audience members, performers, backstage crew, and theater staff, for all performances through February 28, 2022, the Broadway League has announced. The League, a trade organization representing theater owners and producers, had previously set the mandate through the…

Laura Osnes, who received a Tony Award nomination for her performance as Bonnie Parker in the 2011 Broadway musical Bonnie & Clyde, has been replaced by West End actor Frances Mayli McCann in London’s nearly sold-out upcoming Bonnie & Clyde In Concert event that was intended to reteam Osnes with her original Clyde…

Alley Mills will be reunited with her The Wonder Years husband Dan Lauria in the new Off Broadway production of Paul Osborn's classic stage comedy Morning's At Seven, a reteaming that comes as Mills replaces the recently injured Judith Ivey. Mills, who stars on CBS’ The Bold and the Beautiful, joins Lauria and other Mo…