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Ralph Fiennes will lead the cast as New York City power broker Robert Moses in the world premiere of David Hare's Straight Line Crazy at London’s The Bridge theater this spring. Nicholas Hytner will directed. Straight Line Crazy, beginning performances March 16, 2022, opening March 23 and running through June 18, will…

The Broadway revival of David Mamet's American Buffalo starring Laurence Fishburne, Sam Rockwell and Darren Criss – postponed from 2020 due to the Covid shutdown – will open at Circle in the Square Theatre on Wednesday, April 14, 2022, two years to the day after its original target. Previews for the strictly limited…

Ruben Santiago-Hudson summons a world of ghosts, or at least as many as will fill a couple boarding houses and a lifetime of gratitude, in his affectionate Lackawanna Blues, the one-man autobiographical tour through a childhood made golden by the presence of a strong and loving guardian angel. Written, directed and…

UPDATED with Kennedy Center statement: With the Tony-winning Hadestown set to make its Washington D.C. debut at the Kennedy Center next week, stagehands at the celebrated venue have authorized a strike vote over what it calls “draconian” wage cuts, job eliminations and other proposed workplace changes. In a vote…

Jane Lynch, Ramin Karimloo and Jared Grimes will join the previously announced Beanie Feldstein  in the upcoming Broadway revival of Funny Girl, the Michael Mayer-directed production set to begin previews at the August Wilson Theatre this spring. "I grew up to the Broadway cast album of Funny Girl,” said the five-time…

UPDATED with CTG response: Playwright Jeremy O. Harris said Tuesday that he intends to pull his Tony-nominated Slave Play from the upcoming lineup at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles due to the theater company’s dearth of scheduled productions by female playwrights – a scarcity acknowledged by the management of…

John Legend’s smooth-as-silk Tony-night performance with the cast of Ain’t Too Proud – The Life and Times of the Temptations should have tipped us off: The multiple-Grammy winner, along with his partners Mike Jackson and Ty Stiklorius in Get Lifted Film Co., have joined the producing team of the hit Broadway…

Thoughts of a Colored Man, the new Broadway play by Keenan Scott II and directed by Steve Broadnax III, is moving up its official Broadway opening by more than two weeks, with the new opening date now on Wednesday, October 13. The play at Broadway's Golden Theatre had previously been set to open Oct. 31. No reason was…

Pal Joey, the notoriously tricky Rodgers and Hart musical with a score as lovely as its lead characters are thorny, is heading back to Broadway next year in a newly revised version to be co-directed by Tony Goldwyn and Savion Glover. Casting hasn’t been announced, but the revised Pal Joey will arrive during the…

Gallows humor – and after the last 18 months, can there be any other kind? – is in exuberant form at Broadway’s Brooks Atkinson Theatre, where the terrific new musical Six just had its long-in-coming opening night. Originally set to open on March 12, 2020 – Covid had other plans – Six and its sextet of singing…

With Seth Rudetsky resuming his Off Broadway solo show and also returning this Sunday to his acclaimed series of livestream special-guest concerts, one is tempted to begin an article like this by playing on the ubiquitous “Broadway’s Back!” slogan. But “Rudetsky’s Back!” doesn’t work. He never really went away. During…

Jodie Comer is set to make her UK stage debut in the premiere of Suzie Miller's play Prima Facie. The Killing Eve star will play Tessa in this one-person play, a young, brilliant barrister who loves to win and has worked her way up from working class origins to be at the top of her game, prosecuting, cross-examining…