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Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat will be the subject of a new Broadway-bound musical composed by Jon Batiste, bandleader and musical director of CBS’ The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. The project was announced today by producers Alan D. Marks and Barbara Marks, with Tony winner John Doyle set to direct. The development…

The Paper Mill Playhouse will host the world premiere of Unmasked, the musical celebrating the career of Andrew Lloyd Webber. The New Jersey theater said today it will open the 2018-2019 season with a limited run of the brand-new production starting September 27 and running through October 28, 2018. The news comes as…

He was nicknamed “Chinchilla” for the slash of white in his otherwise jet black mane and he was an impresario as enamored of his artists as he was of the art. Sergei Diaghilev dragged ballet out of the too-too tutu 19th-Century world immortalized on the canvases of Edouard Manet and into the 20th-Century defined by…

I’m sure I’m not alone in remembering my junior high school history class about Admiral Perry and the “opening” of Japan. We know that Perry and his ships arrived with a double mandate: Get the Imperial navy to stop killing the crews on China-bound vessels shipwrecked in neighboring seas, and, more important, invoke…

Jason Sudeikis has enough mischief in his eyes to make John Keating a credible non-conformist hero in Dead Poets Society. You’ve heard of this secret club of pubescent prep-school pishers, who meet in a cave near “the finest preparatory school in the United States,” according to its headmaster. That was the club and…

Producers this evening informed the cast of The Color Purple that the show, which won the 2016 Tony Award for best musical revival, will play its final performance on January 8 after 449 regular and 33 preview performances at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre. A North American tour of the production is set to go out in…

The former Saturday Night Live writer and cast member will play John Keating, the dramatic role originated by the late Robin Williams, in a stage adaptation this fall of The Dead Poets Society. Prized off-Broadway nonprofit Classic Stage Company will present Academy Award winner Tom Schulman’s adaptation of his 1989…

EXCLUSIVE: Everywhere you look today, some “disruptive” creative type is rolling out his or her “passion project,” and far be it from Broadway to elude the trend. Give a pass to Scottish director John Doyle, however. He’s been bringing Broadway passion projects marked by a distinctly disruptive artistic impulse…

Here is one of the great triumphal surprises in a Broadway season that has had its share of them: A revival of The Color Purple that lifts an already formidable musical into greatness just seven years after its initial run closed. Propelled by a pair of knockout performances from Jennifer Hudson and Cynthia Erivo…

John Doyle, a miniaturist whose pared-down revival of The Color Purple begins previews on Broadway in November following its lauded debut at London’s Menier Chocolate Factory, has inherited the ultimate miniaturist space, off-Broadway’s Classic Stage Company. The nonprofit group announced today that Brian Kulick, who…

Fresh off his staging duties for the Williamstown Theatre Festival’s production of The Visit, John Doyle will direct Malcolm Gets, Elizabeth A. Davis, Alma Cuervo, Claybourne Elder and Jane Pfitsch in an off-Broadway revival of Allegro. Doyle’s also designing the unconventional show’s sets. Previews for the Classic…