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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…

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…

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…

The critically-acclaimed hit Broadway revival of An Enemy of the People has announced a one-week extension at Circle in the Square Theatre. The Ibsen revival will now play through Sunday, June 23, rather than the previously announced June 16. Producers said today the extension is due to popular…

The Broadway premiere of Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends starring Bernadette Peters and Lea Salonga will begin previews March 25, 2025, in a Manhattan Theatre Club production at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre. Devised by Cameron Mackintosh, with musical staging and choreography Matthew Bourne and…

Tom Holland's above-the-title appearance in Romeo & Juliet will transfer to Broadway, according to an insider quoted in the UK press. The Spider-man star's return to London's West End stage (where he starred in Billy Elliot The Musical as a boy) has seen tickets for the show at the Duke of York's…

EXCLUSIVE: Judy Craymer would just love it if Barbie filmmaker Greta Gerwig could just make herself available to complete the Mamma Mia! movie trilogy. "Hey, Greta, if you're free to do anymore projects…" jokes Craymer, the driving force that has kept the “Money, Money, Money” pouring into the box…

Actors’ Equity President Kate Shindle has announced that she will not seek re-election when her nine-year tenure ends May 23. Shindle, who revealed the news in an interview with The New York Times, said she will remain active in the labor movement but intends to focus on resuming her acting career…

Christopher Durang, one of American’s most acclaimed and accomplished playwrights whose works like Beyond Therapy, Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For You and the Tony-winning Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike were as incisive as they were absurdly comic, died Tuesday night at his home in Bucks…