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EXCLUSIVE: Following a Tony season in which it collected 28 nominations and a number of notable wins, UTA has upped Patrick Herold and Rachel Viola to co-heads of its theater practice. Based in the agency’s New York office, the pair will oversee day-to-day operations of the department and report to…

The Steppenwolf Theatre Company production of Purpose, written by Tony Award-winner Branden Jacobs-Jenkins (Appropriate, The Comeuppance), and directed by two-time Tony Award-winner Phylicia Rashad (Skeleton Crew, A Raisin in the Sun), is heading to Broadway in spring 2025. The production marks Rashad’s…

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…

Carol Burnett is alive and well and not starring in the latest Broadway revival of Once Upon a Mattress, the fractured fairy tale musical opening tonight that laid the foundation for the funny lady’s towering comic career way back in ’59. Fortunately for Broadway audiences, the contemporary stage has its…

Kieran Culkin, Bob Odenkirk and Bill Burr will hit the Broadway stage next year in a revival of David Mamet's Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning play Glengarry Glen Ross. Set for a spring 2025 opening, Glengarry Glen Ross will mark a return to Broadway for Culkin (This Is Our Youth, 2014) but…

EXCLUSIVE: Ghost Of John McCain, the new, upcoming Off Broadway musical satire that finds the late Senator in a very, very strange heaven, has found its cast for characters that include McCain, Donald Trump, Donald Trump’s brain and the just-added Kamala Harris. An example: Luke Kolbe Mannikus, a…

Oh, Mary!, a sleeper hit if ever there was one, and The Outsiders, a musical so popular that more than 200 people bought tickets last week knowing they wouldn’t get an actual seat, are continuing what can only be described as blazing hot summers. Consider Oh, Mary!, writer/actor Cole Escola’s campy…

The hit London play Stranger Things: The First Shadow is coming to work its magic on Broadway: Producers Netflix and Sonia Friedman Productions announced today the production will begin previews at the Marquis Theatre on Friday, March 28, 2025 and officially open Tuesday, April 22, 2025. Directed by…

A new musical inspired, in part, by the Higgs boson and the discovery of the so-called God Particle is heading to Broadway, with David Henry Hwang and Suffs director Leigh Silverman as part of the creative team. The musical Particle Fever is in the early stage of development. A production timeline…

EXCLUSIVE: Calvin Leon Smith, who appeared in the Tony-nominated comedy Fat Ham, will return to Broadway this fall when he takes over the role of Cabaret‘s Clifford Bradshaw from Ato Blankson-Wood. Smith will be part of a replacement cast that includes Adam Lambert as Emcee and Auli'i Cravalho as…

The subscription-based nonprofit Manhattan Theatre Club has joined producers of the previously announced Broadway production of Jez Butterworth’s The Hills Of California and will offer the play to subscribers as part of MTC’s 2024-25 season. Producers Sonia Friedman Productions, No Guarantees…

Bill & Ted are planning another excellent adventure: Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter will star in a Broadway production of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot in fall 2025, with Jamie Lloyd directing. Reeves will play Estragon to Winter’s Vladimir in a new production that will play at an ATG theater to…