
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins is lined up to write the book, and Lileana Blain-Cruz will direct.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:24AM[SHARE]The Tony winner for best musical, about a high school girl with a rare genetic disorder and a criminally dysfunctional family, will begin a national tour in September.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:32PM[SHARE]The musicals of Stephen Sondheim often struggled at the box office during his lifetime, but since his death several have become huge hits on Broadway.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:32AM[SHARE]David Landay, an author of the 1982 stage musical, reworked a kidnapping scene for a 2021 production. Now he's suing the estates of his coauthors for the right to keep going.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:32PM[SHARE]The small theaters that help make the city a theater capital are cutting back as they struggle to recover from the pandemic.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:18AM[SHARE]The musical, now midway through a sold-out Off Broadway run at the Public Theater, will transfer to the Shubert Theater in March.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:42PM[SHARE]A show about the televangelist, with songs by Elton John and Jake Shears, had a run in London last year and plans to open in New York next season.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:32AM[SHARE]The production, a new translation by Heidi Schreck, will also star Alison Pill, William Jackson Harper, Alfred Molina and Anika Noni Rose.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:06AM[SHARE]"The Heart of Rock and Roll" is a romantic comedy featuring songs by the chart-topping 1980s band.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:12AM[SHARE]Rachel Chavkin of "Hadestown" will direct the show, which had developmental productions in Massachusetts and California.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:07AM[SHARE]A new production, directed by Kenny Leon, will feature a diverse cast and will aim to speak to contemporary America.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:03AM[SHARE]An acclaimed revival of the musical plans to open in March at the Nederlander Theater.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:13AM[SHARE]Heidi Schreck's play will have at least 16 productions around the country; last season's most-produced play, "Clyde's," came in second.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:43PM[SHARE]The musical, about early-20th-century efforts to win the right to vote for women, will open in April at the Music Box Theater.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:13AM[SHARE]The show said Thursday that it would play a final performance at the Nederlander Theater on Jan. 14, but did not rule out continuing elsewhere.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:19PM[SHARE]"Hell's Kitchen," a musical inspired by the singer-songwriter's teenage years in New York, is set to open Off Broadway.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:25AM[SHARE]Thomas Schumacher is relinquishing his role overseeing the division's business operations.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:19AM[SHARE]Starting with the next academic year, the drama school will eliminate an "unrealistic burden" for graduate acting students.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:13AM[SHARE]How hotshot directors are reimagining "Cats," "Evita," "Jesus Christ Superstar" and "Sunset Boulevard."
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:13AM[SHARE]Sondheim said days before his death in 2021 that he did not know when it would be finished, but the musical, now called "Here We Are," begins performances Thursday.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:13AM[SHARE]The position is one of the few nonunion segments of the theater industry's work force.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:19PM[SHARE]His pending departure, in 2025, means that there are job openings for the top artistic positions at three of the four nonprofits operating Broadway theaters.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:19AM[SHARE]The nonprofit, a singular institution in New York's theatrical ecosystem, has presented acclaimed works like "Between Riverside and Crazy" and "Next to Normal."
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:19AM[SHARE]The Congresswoman was asked to leave after being accused of being loud and recording the show at a moment when many theaters are debating how to deal with raucous audience behavior.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:49PM[SHARE]Kelli O'Hara and Brian d'Arcy James will reprise the roles they played Off Broadway earlier this year.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:07AM[SHARE]The prominent Los Angeles nonprofit chose the playwright to oversee its artistic programming at a time of crisis for American theaters.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:04PM[SHARE]The show, with a group of circus artists as part of the cast, is adapted from Sara Gruen's best-selling novel.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:37AM[SHARE]The theme "No Place Like Home" will drive shows and festivals in both large cities and rural locales of this country on July 27, 2024.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:13AM[SHARE]The play, by Amy Herzog, is about a mother caring for a chronically ill child.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:33PM[SHARE]"Mother Play," set in the 1960s, will feature Lange as a mother raising two children, played by Jim Parsons and Celia Keenan-Bolger.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:33PM[SHARE]The subscription model, in which theatergoers buy a season's worth of shows at a time, had long been waning, but it fell off a cliff during the pandemic.
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