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A Brontosaurus and a Woolly Mammoth taking up residence among the mid-century modern trappings of a middle-class New Jersey household will now and forever make a theatrical impact – that, at least, hasn’t changed since playwright Thornton Wilder’s days – but so much else has, not least of all the ability of The Skin of…

Aldous Huxley, Cary Grant and Clare Boothe Luce – a grouping that might sound more like the set-up for a joke than the premise of a musical – were, in real life, proponents of lysergic acid diethylamide, what we’d now call early adopters. Though each of them tripped the light phantasmagorical during the 1950s, the…

The Skin of Our Teeth, Thornton Wilder's 1943 Pulitzer Prize-winning comedy-drama, will return to Broadway next spring in a Lincoln Center Theater production directed by Lileana Blain-Cruz. Blain-Cruz, the LCT’s resident director, will be making her Broadway debut with the production, which will begin previews…

Flying Over Sunset, Lincoln Center Theater’s James Lapine-Tom Kitt-Michael Korie musical interrupted by the pandemic, will return for preview performances in November, marking the nonprofit theater company’s reopening after the shutdown. Starring Harry Hadden-Paton, Carmen Cusack and Tony Yazbeck, the 1950s-set…

UPDATE, with Music Man confirmation Producers Scott Rudin, Barry Diller and David Geffen confirmed today that The Music Man Broadway revival starring Hugh Jackman and Sutton Foster has been postponed until next spring, making the musical the second Broadway postponement announced today. "We're obviously profoundly…

Bernard Gersten, a pioneering force in New York City’s nonprofit theater movement, died today at his home in Manhattan of pancreatic cancer. He was 97. His death was announced by daughter Jenny Gersten. “Lincoln Center Theater mourns our cherished Bernard Gersten who died this morning peacefully in his sleep at the…

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…

UPDATED 3:30 PM: Adds information on Lincoln Center Theater in final paragraph. 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…