The La-Z-Boy-style brown leather recliner that’s a focal point of Bill Irwin’s The Imaginary Invalid opening tonight on Broadway doesn’t really mesh with the eye-popping 17th Century French frills and finery that suggest a stage invasion of brilliantly plumed vainglorious peacocks, but no matter…

EXCLUSIVE: Prominent members of the scientific community Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson, Bill Nye and Dr. Mae Jemison have joined Broadway’s upcoming Galileo musical as co-producers, the show’s lead producers announced today. "Galileo's story reminds us that scientific discovery begins with the courage…

Tom Hanks and Kelli O’Hara are Broadway-bound in a Fall 2027 production of This World of Tomorrow, a new play written by Hanks and James Glossman. The strictly limited engagement will be directed by Tony Award winner Kenny Leon at a Shubert theater to be announced. The announcement was…

Billy Crystal’s career, from his catch-a-rising-star stand-up days of the 1970s, his groundbreaking role as TV’s first regular-cast gay character on the sitcom Soap and through his years as both a director and top Hollywood actor and what many consider the greatest host in Oscar history, gets a fine…

A raft of recent arrivals are among the strongest performers on this week’s Broadway box office chart, with Other Desert Cities, A Few Good Men and Wanted filling venues, while some long-runners did well with performers of note bolstering sales. Among the latter was Just In Time, with Jeremy…

Broadway contributed $21 billion to the New York City economy during the 2024-2025 season, supporting 114,600 full-time equivalent jobs and generating $979 million in taxes for the city, even as production costs have soared over the past six years. Those figures come from the Broadway League’s…

Warriors, the upcoming Lin-Manuel Miranda Broadway musical based on the 1979 film and the Sol Yurick novel, will feature a cast including, among others, Casey Likes (Back to the Future, Almost Famous), Amber Gray (The Rocky Horror Show, Hadestown) and Jasmine Cephas Jones (TV’s Lanterns), and will…

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar winner Tilda Swinton will make her New York stage debut this winter in an Off Broadway revival of Manfred Karge's Man to Man at the Lucille Lortel Theatre. Previews for the limited eight-week engagement begin February 21, 2027, with an official opening night set for February 28…

UPDATE, Mon. Oct. 19, with additional cancelation: Downstate, the controversial new play by Bruce Norris directed by Joe Mantello, has again bumped its first Broadway preview date due to an illness within the company: The play will now have its first performance at the Booth Theatre on Thursday…

It’s hard to imagine any secrets or hints of repressed trauma surviving long in the glare of Palm Springs sunshine that keeps things bright in the airy, open-floor, large windowed home of the moneyed family at the center of Jon Robin Baitz’ Other Desert Cities, but survive those secrets do, at least…

Betty McGuire, the Broadway actress who also appeared on the ABC sitcom Growing Pains, has died. She was 100. On Sunday, McGuire’s rep confirmed that the actress died of natural causes on Thursday, Oct. 8 at the Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital in Woodland Hills. Born…

EXCLUSIVE: J.K. Rowling’s agent Neil Blair has claimed that a trans rights protest at a gala performance of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child put people at risk. During an event celebrating a shortened version of the West End stage show at the Palace Theatre on Thursday night, a number of…