The Second City, named for its Chicago location, opens an outpost in New York
The sketch comedy and improv group, The Second City, is famously named for its location: Chicago. An...
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Chita Rivera, Broadway's 'First Great Triple Threat,' dies at 91
Chita Rivera, who appeared in more than 20 Broadway musicals over six decades has died, according to...
'Days of Wine and Roses,' a film about love and addiction, is now a spirited musical
Sometimes, the most intriguing musicals come from the most unlikely sources. A new Broadway show, ba...
'How to Dance in Ohio' is a Broadway musical starring 7 autistic actors
Even before the action of the Broadway musical How to Dance in Ohio starts, its seven autistic actor...
An early boy band was world famous — until the Nazis took over
Long before there were The Backstreet Boys or BTS, there was a boy band called the Comedian Harmonis...
The task? Finish Stephen Sondheim's last musical. No pressure.
When the great American musical theater composer Stephen Sondheim appeared on The Late Show with Ste...
A Jim Crow satire returns to Broadway after 62 years — and it's a romp, not a relic
The first revival of Ossie Davis' satire on the Jim Crow south, Purlie Victorious: A Romp Through th...
How 'Back to the Future: The Musical' created a DeLorean that flies
After a recent matinee of Back to the Future: The Musical, dozens of families poured out onto Broadw...
You can immerse yourself — literally — in this Broadway show
On Thursday, a new $22 million musical opens on Broadway and it may be a bigger risk than most. Here...
Broadway lyricist Sheldon Harnick, who wrote 'Fiddler on the Roof,' dies at 99
One of the last masters of Broadway's Golden Age, Tony- and Pulitzer Prize-winning lyricist Sheldon ...
British star Glenda Jackson has died at age 87
Glenda Jackson has died at the age of 87, after a brief illness, according to her agent, Lionel Larn...
We ask 3 Broadway photographers: How do you turn a live show into a still image?
Theater is, by its nature, evanescent; every performance is different, based on the chemistry of the...
After years of ever-shrinking orchestras, some Broadway musicals are going big
Even as a controversy has erupted on Broadway over the use of pre-recorded music in the upcoming Dav...
Tony Awards have gendered actor categories — where do nonbinary people fit?
Most theater, film and television awards feature gendered performance categories, but in recent year...
'Phantom of the Opera' takes a final Broadway bow after 13,981 performances
On Sunday night, April 16, the curtain will fall on the longest-running show in Broadway history. Th...
As 'Sweeney Todd' returns to Broadway, 4 Sweeneys dish about the difficult role
Stephen Sondheim's 1979 masterpiece, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, is back on Broa...
A rarely revived Lorraine Hansberry play is here — and it's messy but powerful
After playwright Lorraine Hansberry rocketed to stardom in 1959 with A Raisin in the Sun, she follow...
Look out, Nets rivals! Octogenarian Mr. Whammy is coming for you
For every sports team, there are fans and there are super fans. For the Brooklyn Nets, that's Mr. Wh...
Here are nine NYC shows we can't wait to see this spring
The rule of thumb, for decades, is that only one-in-four commercial Broadway productions makes its m...