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There are days when the success of the most Tony-nominated play of all time and its leading lady comes down to a gossip session with her co-star, a facial steam, and a poorly microwaved serving of Kraft Mac and Cheese. When the curtains go up at New York’s John Golden …

In “Find a Way,” a number at the beginning of act one of the Tony-nominated musical Suffs, Alice Paul (played by Suffs composer/lyricist Shaina Taub), mulls over the logistics of planning the 1913 Women’s Suffrage Procession, the first major activist march on Washington, D.C. “How will we do it when …

Folk-rock band the Avett Brothers have announced that their musical, Swept Away, will be headed to Broadway this fall. The musical, set in 1888, follows four sailers, including two brothers, who are struck by a violent storm that tanks their ship near the coast by New Bedford, Massachusetts. It centers …

Before the backdrop of a magmatic cavern stand three adventurers: a warrior, a mage, and a trickster who, with a roll of the dice, are preparing to defeat a tentacled chthonic beast. Across the stage, the Dungeon Master smirks as he cues up the visuals that will soon appear on …

George Clooney is set to make his Broadway debut in a stage adaptation of his 2005 film Good Night, and Good Luck about broadcast journalist Edward R. Murrow. The actor will star as Murrow and the play is slated to premiere on Broadway next spring. Clooney wrote the play alongside …

Ingrid Michaelson is used to people crying when they talk to her about The Notebook. Earlier this year, she tells me on Zoom, her piano in the background, she did an interview about her work on the Broadway musical adaptation of the beloved 2004 film, based on the novel by …

Inside Broadway’s James Earl Jones Theatre on a recent afternoon, Huey Lewis has some actual good news. Checking his texts, he learns that Martin Short will be attending the opening of The Heart of Rock and Roll, the rom-com musical based around songs from his catalog. Also on the list …

Broadway audiences will be making noise for Sufjan Stevens‘ Illinoise when the play arrives for its limited engagement beginning in April. The musical — based on Stevens’ 2005 concept album Illinois — will run for 16 weeks under director and choreographer Justin Peck, who crafted its story with Jackie Sibblies …

Three months after Stranger Things: The First Shadow opened in London, the stage play based on the hit Netflix series is already plotting its move to Broadway. According to Broadway World, casting notices for the Broadway run of the acclaimed play have already been posted, with an estimated opening date …

I t’s a chilly Sunday nightin Manhattan’s West Village and somehow the hottest ticket in town involves a sexually repressed Abraham Lincoln, hoop skirts, and comedian Cole Escola in a wildly convincing nineteenth-century wig. There’s a line down the block outside the Lucille Lortel Theatre, and inside, the energy builds …