The Hard Problem, a new play by Arcadia playwright Tom Stoppard to be staged by his The Coast of Utopia director Jack O’Brien, will premiere next fall as a Lincoln Center Theater production.

The Stoppard play is one of two new Lincoln Center Theater productions announced today for the fall season. Also coming: Miranda …

It’s been called the perfect musical, and if it’s not first on most lists of best Broadway shows, it certainly ranks in the top five: Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe’s My Fair Lady is returning to Broadway in the spring, staged by Bartlett Sher (a Tony winner for South Pacific and nominee for The King and I) with…

Dominique Morisseau has been cutting a wide and spectacular path through the writers’ ranks, as executive story editor on Showtime’s Shameless and as the author of The Detroit Project, a trilogy of plays including Skeleton Crew, recently presented in a knockout production by the Atlantic Theatre Company. With Lincoln C…

EXCLUSIVE: I’m told that Steven Pasquale, who played Mark Fuhrman in FX’s The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story and soon will be recurring on HBO’s Divorce, will return to Broadway this fall as the lead in Ayad Akhtar’s new drama, Junk. Lincoln Center Theater is producing, by arrangement with The Araca…

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PREVIOUSLY: Sally Field and company just got some support from the tony Lincoln Center crowd. Producer Scott Rudin, who’s bringing Sam Gold’s celebrated revival of The Glass Menagerie to Broadway after the turn of the year, again has…

It was only a few seasons back that Rocky Balboa made his Broadway debut in a very expensive and not too terrible musical based on the movie about the Philly beefsteak with a mug’s heart. The show will be remembered for its hyperrealism: microphones in the boxing gloves made every punch land with a visceral crack as…

The life of a drama critic inevitably includes a confrontation with an angry playwright who insists that every character and situation in his or her very bad play is a 100-percent-guaranteed-true facsimile of real people and events in said playwright’s life. So it is with Shows For Days, Douglas Carter Beane’s…

UPDATE Tuesday morning, with a few more details throughout: Composer Dave Malloy and director Rachel Chavkin share an affinity for big themes and bold gestures, preferably on Russian themes. Their collaboration Natasha, Pierre And The Great Comet Of 1812 was a noisy whimsical meringue built around a sequence from War A…

The long and remarkable career of actress Elizabeth Wilson, who died on May 9, will be marked on June 29 at an event sponsored by one of her New York home bases, off-Broadway company Primary Stages. “A Celebration of Elizabeth Wilson,” a memorial tribute to the Tony Award winning actress and Theatre Hall of Fame…

EXCLUSIVE: Thanks to the success of its Tony-winning revival of The King And I — and the failure of The Visit — a hit London revival of A View From The Bridge will land on Broadway this fall, courtesy of a partnership between Lincoln Center Theater and Scott Rudin.

Belgian director Ivo van Hove’s acclaimed production…

We don’t have an American troupe comparable to the U.K.’s National Theatre and Royal Shakespeare Company to officially carry the dual burden of fostering new work while reinvestigating the classic repertory. But increasingly Lincoln Center Theatre acts like a serious candidate for the mantle. Its two smaller houses, th…

UPDATE, Friday night: Helen Hayes co-owner Jeffrey Tick told Deadline tonight that a closing on the sale of the theater is in the works. “With the help and oversight of Justice Joan Kenney, the parties are working together towards closing the sale,” Tick said. “An extension was given towards that end with compensation…