Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles. One news app.

The Latest Breaking News from Broadway

Broadway review: Martin McDonagh’s ‘Hangmen’ is a terrifying thriller that says things few dare even to whisper

NEW YORK — Mostly taking place in grim prisons, the last executions in the United Kingdom were by hanging. They lasted until a final suspension of the practice in 1965 (yes, as recently as that), thus ending the career of professional hangmen like Alfred Pierrepont, who is said to have…

Tribune News Service

Robert Morse: Tony-winning comic and Mad Men actor

As well as being a Broadway sensation, Morse delighted TV viewers as the eccentric advertising executive Bert Cooper on ‘Mad Men’

The Independent UK

Tony Awards delay nominations due to ‘challenges Broadway has faced in recent weeks’

NEW YORK — The show must go on — with minor scheduling changes.

Tribune News Service

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

‘For Colored Girls,’ a masterwork, gets a chance to reach a new generation

NEW YORK — For those of us of a certain age, it’s hard to imagine Ntozake Shange first wrote the lines “Somebody/ anybody sing a black girl’s song” nearly half a century ago, and made it to Broadway.

Tribune News Service

Robert Morse, Tony Award-winning actor, dies at 90

More recently, Morse played the autocratic and eccentric leader of an advertising agency in “Mad Men,” AMC’s hit drama that debuted in 2007.

Chicago Sun-Times

Mad Men star Robert Morse dies aged 90

The Broadway actor who played Bertram Cooper in hit show has died at the age of 90, his son confirmed

Evening Standard

Robert Morse, two-time Tony-winning actor, dies at 90

Actor Robert Morse, who won a Tony Award as a hilariously brash corporate climber in “How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying” and a second one a generation later as the brilliant, troubled Truman Capote in “Tru,” has died

The Independent UK

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Robert Morse: Mad Men actor and Broadway star dies aged 90

Actor played Bert Cooper in the Sixties-set advertising agency drama

The Independent UK

Robert Morse, star of Mad Men and Broadway, dies aged 90

The actor is best known for playing Bert Cooper in the hit drama, and twice won Tony awards for stage roles

The Guardian - UK

Broadway review: Sex abuse drama ‘How I Learned to Drive’ is as unsettling now as it was when it broke ground 25 years ago

NEW YORK — When Paula Vogel’s “How I Learned to Drive” opened in 1997 with Mary-Louise Parker in the lead role, the depiction of sexual abuse on stage was close to nonexistent. This long running off-Broadway play, which charts the systematic abuse of a young woman by her uncle, explained,…

Tribune News Service

Broadway review: Tracy Letts’ intense drama ‘The Minutes’ turns small town democracy into a war zone

NEW YORK — When I first saw Tracy Letts’ “The Minutes” in 2017 in Chicago, director Anna D. Shapiro’s sizzling Steppenwolf Theatre production felt like a takedown of Donald Trump’s triumphalist America, too engaged in self-promotion to confront the unsavory aspects of its own origin story.

Tribune News Service

Beanie Feldstein, Jane Lynch bond backstage at 'Funny Girl'

For her third birthday party, Beanie Feldstein was asked what she wanted as its theme

The Independent UK

Broadway review: ‘American Buffalo’ revival is highly entertaining, but does not travel into David Mamet’s emotional core

NEW YORK — David Mamet — the confounding, outspoken playwright that artistic progressives are dying to cancel — wrote “American Buffalo” in 1975, when he was just 27 years old.

Tribune News Service

The Minutes review – Tracy Letts delivers a biting American allegory

The playwright also stars in his latest Broadway production, a dark-hued drama about a town council meeting

The Guardian - US

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

Tribune News Service

Broadway extends mask mandates through May 31, some theaters will ditch vaccine requirement after April

NEW YORK — Mask requirements at Broadway shows will not exit stage left just yet, but some theaters will cut vaccination mandates by the end of this month.

Sports Illustrated

NYC’s 42nd and Broadway Renamed ‘Jackie Robinson Way’

The city commemorated his breaking Major League Baseball’s color barrier in a big way.

The Independent UK

Broadway theaters extend mask mandate through May 31

Broadway theatergoers will have to keep their masks up through at least May 31, the Broadway League said Friday

The Independent UK

Playwright Noah Haidle blows out his 'Birthday Candles'

Playwright Noah Haidle’s Broadway debut is all about time and yet none was on his side as the pandemic closed in

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

The Guardian - US

American Buffalo review – David Mamet returns to Broadway with a thud

Circle on the Square Theatre, New YorkLaurence Fishburne and Sam Rockwell bring star power to this umpteenth revival but there’s a staleness they struggle to overcome

Tribune News Service

Broadway review: Chilly, confusing ‘Little Prince’ forgot to unpack its heart

NEW YORK — In his allegorical 1943 French novella “The Little Prince,” Antoine de Saint-Exupery wrote, “One sees clearly only with the heart.” So why, one might reasonably ask, is the new family-oriented show at the Broadway Theatre such a cold and removed affair?

Tribune News Service

Broadway goes green with free Earth Day 2022 concert in Times Square featuring stars from ‘Hamilton,’ ‘The Lion King’ and ‘Phantom of the Opera’

NEW YORK — The Great White Way is going green.

Evening Standard

Amara Okereke interview: We’re going to have a black Eliza Doolittle in the West End - it’s phenomenal

Bartlett Sher’s Broadway smash revival of My Fair Lady is coming to London - star Amara Okereke explains why Eliza Doolittle is a revolutionary figure

Tribune News Service

Broadway review: ‘Birthday Candles’ with Debra Messing depicts agony of loss and change

NEW YORK — In “Three Tall Women,” the great playwright Edward Albee identified what he called the “360-degree view.” It happens, he said, in your 40s or 50s, when you’re old enough to understand the folly of youth and still young enough to see and feel the agonizing decline of…

Tribune News Service

Pamela Anderson makes Broadway debut in ‘Chicago’

NEW YORK — Pamela Anderson smiled and held a bouquet of roses after making her much-anticipated Broadway debut with Tuesday’s performance in “Chicago.”

Chicago Tribune

My worst moment: The time ‘Atlanta’ star Brian Tyree Henry heard ‘you suck’ mid-performance

“Atlanta” on FX is back for a third season, and in the intervening years since the previous season concluded in 2018, the careers of those working both in front of and behind the camera have expanded considerably, including that of Brian Tyree Henry, who plays Alfred, a rapper who goes…

1 … 57 58 59 60

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

MLB

7,388 stories

Major League Baseball

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.